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"The Large Hadron Collider is not a physics experiment, it's a Government lobbying entity" Hate it or love it, the advertising supported business model of the

"The Large Hadron Collider is not a physics experiment, it's a Government lobbying entity" Hate it or love it, the advertising supported business model of the Internet has transformed the lives of a large chunk of humanity beyond any belief. I come from a very poor background in a country many would consider backward and yet, i had access to the wonders of human knowledge at the tips of my fingers while growing up. The generation before me were not so lucky and its incredibly sad to contrast these fortunes.

elashri 4y ago
Except it is more of an international entity to be considered a governmental. Also you probably mean CERN (the organization). I don't understand the analogy, I'm sure that CERN carries some lobbying activities but that is probably for funding purposes to carry out the scientific activities. That is different from what we are talking about here
- DisjointedHunt 4y ago
  The analogy is that one is a monetization model and the other is the composition of the core business. In the former, the business is solving software engineering problems that very few dare to take on and the monetization model is online advertising. Also, CERN in this analogy would be Alphabet.
  - elashri 4y ago
    > The analogy is that one is a monetization model and the other is the composition of the core business. I still cannot get the analogy. > Also, CERN in this analogy would be Alphabet. LHC is an experiment (Almost dozen to be accurate) [1] and could be an analogy for the Google search engine as a product (or Gmail or other google products). CERN is still the organization which organize and have several other divisions like computing and engineering that serve LHC and a couple of smaller experiments. I don't think there is Alphabet analogy for LHC (maybe EU in this case but also US and a couple of other countries) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Large_Hadron_Collider_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Large_Hadron_Collider_...

elashri 4y ago

Except it is more of an international entity to be considered a governmental. Also you probably mean CERN (the organization). I don't understand the analogy, I'm sure that CERN carries some lobbying activities but that is probably for funding purposes to carry out the scientific activities. That is different from what we are talking about here

DisjointedHunt 4y ago
The analogy is that one is a monetization model and the other is the composition of the core business. In the former, the business is solving software engineering problems that very few dare to take on and the monetization model is online advertising. Also, CERN in this analogy would be Alphabet.
- elashri 4y ago
  > The analogy is that one is a monetization model and the other is the composition of the core business. I still cannot get the analogy. > Also, CERN in this analogy would be Alphabet. LHC is an experiment (Almost dozen to be accurate) [1] and could be an analogy for the Google search engine as a product (or Gmail or other google products). CERN is still the organization which organize and have several other divisions like computing and engineering that serve LHC and a couple of smaller experiments. I don't think there is Alphabet analogy for LHC (maybe EU in this case but also US and a couple of other countries) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Large_Hadron_Collider_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Large_Hadron_Collider_...