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> Niche but no small business, commodity with over $400M USD annual revenue, the industry together that is easily $2B+.

This feels so small in 2026.


It feels small to some people in 2026, depending on the business type and the field. Most businesses are small businesses, though. It actually approaches 100%. This is under the SBA's definition as of not long ago. There are limits on earnings, number of employees, or both for what can even be considered a "small business" that vary by industry. They are as low as $9 million revenue or 100 employees, although some industries have much higher ceilings. https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/Table%20o...

The average annual revenue of a small business in the US in 2026 is around $1.2 million. The average headcount is about 11 people. About 46% of employees in the US are employed by small businesses. In 2024, about 64% of new jobs were created by small businesses. About 61% of new jobs from 1991 to 2025 were created in small businesses.

https://entrepreneurshq.com/small-business-statistics/

https://www.forafinancial.com/blog/small-business/average-sm...

https://www.venasolutions.com/blog/small-business-revenue-st...


As a small business owner, aware of all of this.

That said:

> It feels small to some people in 2026, depending on the business type and the field

$2Bn was stated as the size of an entire industry, which is weird when you work at companies that do more than that a fiscal quarter.


Well, commodities are commodities, and it was said it was a niche market. The company itself seems pretty big to me, relatively. $400m in a market of about $2b means they fill a pretty substantial part of the available market.

Impulse control?

Sunblock is supposed to reflect UVA/UVB, but doesn't do much for infrared or visible light, which is why your skin gets warmer.

(Edited, fixed)


Sunblock is not supposed to reflect heat (infrared). It's supposed to reflect UV. Different spectrum. Kind of the whole thing the OP was about. I have no idea if sunblock also reflects infrared though, incidentally.

https://care360.basf.com/emea/en/industries/personal-care/co...


Sunblock mostly absorbs UV (and turns it into heat). Some reflection occurs but it's mostly absorption.

After looking into this even more, there are two types:

Mineral - Reflects

Chemical - Absorbs


I thought so too but it's not the case. Even the mineral sunscreens mostly absorb.

https://cen.acs.org/business/consumer-products/What-in-sunsc...


Video with a UV camera is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9tEEDpeJoo

Black means absorbed, of course.


And, omg, you can buy an active version on amazon, for this exact purpose: sunblock coverage check!

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=uv+mirror+for+sunscreen+test


> However, I think geopolitics has also become a factor

The world powers have only said things like "bigger and more important than the Manhattan project”.

So what gives you that idea?


He's rich and connected, of course not.

The one that pulls the trigger is often not the one doing any targeting, especially on a strategic strike weapon like a tomahawk. They are receiving a target data package with preprogrammed instructions. Their role is far more... mechanical. They're not seeing the targets at all.

one could say these people aren't pulling the trigger, they are part of the trigger, pulled by higher-ups

Combination of: hardware, model, harness, tool-use by the model.

> As a counter example, a couple days ago I was to install DaVinci Resolve on a new windows installation, so I searched "davinci resolve." Since I was used to having adblocker, I just clicked the top result, which is titled "DaVinci Resolve" but actually takes you to some awful shady thing like wondershare or softonic/uptodown, I forgot.

I just tried this query on chrome / android.

This is the first link on the page at the very top:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

(The product page)

The next site listed was Wikipedia.

I don't have any adblockers. I am in the US.

When people tell me this stuff about their Google searches it drives me insane, I want to know why our experiences are so different. It is regional? Is it OS, is it browser, is it something else? I want to know!


You know your search results are personalized right? If I google something and my girlfriend googles the same thing, on the same network, we get different results.

>You know your search results are personalized right?

Of course.

But these results don't seem to change on a degoogled chromium on desktop, with no google account login personalization, no account logged in, in incognito, using: Ublock origin lite, User Agent / OS Randomizer, Privacy Badger, and using a VPN to other locales.

That's why I want to know, I've been curious about this for years, and nothing I've looked at seems conclusive.

My biggest guess is country or native language, but it's been hard to pin down. I think that may be the biggest factor (with local laws contributing maybe to how search results get displayed).

I'm curious! I want to know the driver behind the bad experiences people are having with it. (I've been using it literally since it was released.)


Error proxying request to container: There are more than 4096 concurrent connections inbound to the container, surpassing the limit

Do you

A) remove container, use raw process

B) 4096 concurrent connections is plenty, start dropping them and filtering more aggressively

C) Slap that cloudflare thingy and call it a day (same error rate, but users get told they are robots so it's their fault)

D) Just restart the server, the problem is no longer there, anyways


Dunno how this page is implemented, but the only thing that can't be trivially infinitely scaled is the streaming; the correct solution is probably to farm that out to a service. LiveKit or something fatter. 4096 connections is not necessarily enough for a livestream of anything.

The correct answer is E, you run more containers

This is not at all what I was hoping for. Expected a lot more Unicron.

Definitely more than meets the eye

The page diagram looks like Cybertron

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