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Ma Bell made some great innovations here and started a lot of the computers tech, after it was destroyed the baby bells combined again, Cingular has exclusive r
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Ma Bell made some great innovations here and started a lot of the computers tech, after it was destroyed the baby bells combined again, Cingular has exclusive rights to iPhone at a time.
Nvidia is reasltically already a monopoly with CUDA. They don’t need to innovate and they force universities to use their more expensive GPUs.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> Cingular has exclusive rights to iPhone at a time But not the other baby bells, which is the point. Also, Apple went to Cingular after being rebuffed by Verizon. (Apple wanted no crapware. Verizon said no.) Competition working.
- romwell 5y agoIs your point that monopolies aren't bad, or that anti-monopoly laws are useless? Because both of these are provably false. As is that nVidia is already a monopoly.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoNatural monopolies aren’t bad, don’t last long and they fall when it’s leapfrogged, like Kodak when digital came. The USPS is an unnatural monopoly which stifles any carrier and serves mostly to distribute spam. Anti monopoly laws are useless, x86-64 is a duopoly, and any monopoly laws aren’t able to stop Amazon and their vertical intergration, because the argument is that eBay and other sites exist. Network oligarchs collaborate to fix prices.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"Natural monopolies aren’t bad, don’t last long and they fall when it’s leapfrogged" Natural monopolies are things like electric power grid and water supply and train and roads, they last forever precisely because they are natural and they were never leapfrogged in history. 'Natural" part stands for nessesary inveatment in infrastructure being redundant and causing zero-sum game. Kodak wasn't much of a monopoly and certainly wasn't a natural one Read up on how antitrust actually works, your assesment of USPS is equally inaccurate
- GhettoComputers 5y agoYou listed infrastructure, I’m referring to examples such as standard oil, which sold oil the cheapest.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThat's not a natural monopoly
- d110af5ccf 5y ago> The USPS is an unnatural monopoly which stifles any carrier The USPS is required to deliver to everyone, even when it doesn't make monetary sense to do so. They are an important piece of US infrastructure. They are also incredibly constrained by legislation. They aren't allowed to just raise prices as needed.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoNo it’s not. You can do it digitally for official documents, and they mostly deliver spam, and the cost is in your taxes. I’d rather not have them.
- freemint 5y agoThere are places where it delivers where there is no internet.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoAt what cost? What benefit is sending non refusable spam to the ends of the US to anyone besides spammers? You don’t accept spam email do you? Would you support it if it physically existed and your taxes paid for it, including costly methods like sending it to the middle of nowhere?
- freemint 5y agoIf governments primary means of working is paper paper must be able to be delivered to every household.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoIt isn’t delivered to every household.
- romwell 5y agoWell we kinda want some people to live in the middle of nowhere, because we want to eat and somewhere isn't where farmland is, apparently. Also we kinda want to keep territories like Alaska inhabited because geopolitics. And we kinda want the people living in those places to be able to get their official government documents (driver licenses, court notices, etc). Then there's this idea of voting by mail, which isn't something that should be a privilege, but that's too complex for our discussion. To translate one of the reasons for USPS into words you may understand: you know how two-factor authentication requires that second factor? The USPS provides a means for the gov to get that second factor into the hands of the people. A third party would be a man-in-the-middle. So consiser USPS a part of the government's 2FA infrastructure and messaging system with SLA and proof of delivery. That, unlike your company's authentication infrastructure, happens to pay for itself.
- tomnipotent 5y ago> They don’t need to innovate They're constantly innovating, and have monthly software releases. Don't blame NVIDIA because AMD can't offer a solid enterprise offering that is attractive to customers.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThey don’t need to for CUDA. I didn’t say they didn’t. I’d love more open ARM devices like Jetson.