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This is like saying that if you don't like the planet Earth, find yourself a planet suitable to terraform, go there terraform it, populate it the way you like a

by mrtksn 3y ago

This is like saying that if you don't like the planet Earth, find yourself a planet suitable to terraform, go there terraform it, populate it the way you like and live there. Sure, you can do that but you can also solve the problem at hand. Ownership, money, property etc. are all constructs based on a social contract, Sundar Pichai by himself can't have control on more than a suitcase and a vehicle maybe - he can control Alphabet only because as a society we decided to operate in a certain way and sounds he makes and finger movements he does end up steering giant network of people who interact with other networks of people who happen to have control over some machinery. This means, if the social contract isn't working out we can change that social contract to suits our needs better. One change can be about how computers that transmit videos over TCP/IP should operate.

oarsinsync 3y ago
Symmetric fibre internet exists in many European countries, and is readily available to a large bulk of citizens in those countries already. I pay $25pm for 500Mbps symmetric today. I can’t fly to another planet and terraform it. I can (and do) host my own video streams however.
- mrtksn 3y ago
  It's not about the tech. Plenty of people could have built Twitter from scratch, but Musk had to pay over $40B to have Twitter and no one came around to offer him to build a Twitter for $39B.
  - lotsofpulp 3y ago
    >but Musk had to pay over $40B to have Twitter and no one came around to offer him to build a Twitter for $39B. As far as I understand, musk offered $40B for Twitter, unprompted. Is there any evidence that he put out offers to build an alternative for $39B? Because I feel like it would have been taken up given the widespread belief that he was overpaying, and even Musk believed that since he tried to back out.
lotsofpulp 3y ago
> This is like saying that if you don't like the planet Earth, find yourself a planet suitable to terraform, go there terraform it, populate it the way you like and live there. Not at all like that because building a video hosting service is a relatively trivial task, with the only limitation being money. Which the US government has more of than Google. > Sure, you can do that but you can also solve the problem at hand. I would rather the government provide the video hosting as a utility rather than commandeer Google’s computers.

by mrtksn 3y ago

oarsinsync 3y ago

Symmetric fibre internet exists in many European countries, and is readily available to a large bulk of citizens in those countries already. I pay $25pm for 500Mbps symmetric today. I can’t fly to another planet and terraform it. I can (and do) host my own video streams however.

mrtksn 3y ago
It's not about the tech. Plenty of people could have built Twitter from scratch, but Musk had to pay over $40B to have Twitter and no one came around to offer him to build a Twitter for $39B.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  >but Musk had to pay over $40B to have Twitter and no one came around to offer him to build a Twitter for $39B. As far as I understand, musk offered $40B for Twitter, unprompted. Is there any evidence that he put out offers to build an alternative for $39B? Because I feel like it would have been taken up given the widespread belief that he was overpaying, and even Musk believed that since he tried to back out.

lotsofpulp 3y ago

> This is like saying that if you don't like the planet Earth, find yourself a planet suitable to terraform, go there terraform it, populate it the way you like and live there. Not at all like that because building a video hosting service is a relatively trivial task, with the only limitation being money. Which the US government has more of than Google. > Sure, you can do that but you can also solve the problem at hand. I would rather the government provide the video hosting as a utility rather than commandeer Google’s computers.