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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by csmpltn on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:53AM (#29025487)
> "It costs roughly 0.0015 USD per hour video in 480p/VP9 hosted with BunnyCDN. The cost is manageable."

   while True:
      downloadVideoFromDW2A();
Good luck managing this.
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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by account42 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:58AM (#29025543)
How is that inherently harder to manage than

   while True:
      downloadIndexHtmlFromCSMPLTN();
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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by BiteCode_dev on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:14AM (#29025687)
bandwith
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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by csmpltn on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:27AM (#29025851)
> "bandwith"

Leave it to HackerNews to downvote the only sensible answer in this thread, rooted in a simple technical understanding of how distributed caching works.

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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by innocenat on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:09AM (#29026306)
It's probably not downvoted because it's wrong, but it's because it doesn't help anyone who don't have "simple technical understanding of how distributed caching works."
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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by thewakalix on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:49AM (#29027469)
Down With the Bandness
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