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they can afford not to care. this doesn't mean it's not a good solution. it's no surprise the general population in one of the richest regions on Earth doesn't

• Scoundreller 4y ago
  It’s not a good solution when you spend a ton of money to force people to pay the averaged out market prices per time segment and they still don’t care. It’s like making me spend $$$ to measure and charge me for how much co2 I exhale. It’s technically correct: that co2 does contribute to global warming. But it’s going to cost more to meter it than I could possibly save in conservation through this newfound incentive.
  • pas 4y ago
    it depends on the capacity premium for example bandwidth used to be 95th percentile priced, but Netflix quickly run into problems because its peers did not want to upgrade linecards, switches, etc. (and as some of those peers were also in the media disturbution business they explicitly wanted to keep those ports maxed out) the point is that if the network provides a close to constant capacity, then of course it makes no sense to try to price on that. but with more and more variable supply it seems prudent to prepare the demand side too. in Norway currently electricity prices fluctuate like crazy, and the supplier sends an email each day about the prices for the next day (though I'm not sure how guaranteed those are, of course the current price is also online) and it varies regionally too