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$1/GB, or that 1080p YouTube video costs you more than showers for a week or the electricity to run AC for a day on the insanely hot scale. Meanwhile, traffic h
by revelation 12y ago
$1/GB, or that 1080p YouTube video costs you more than showers for a week or the electricity to run AC for a day on the insanely hot scale. Meanwhile, traffic has basically no variable costs.
Let's hope they don't regulate ISPs, we don't want to slow the pace of innovation and incredible value generation here.
- baddox 12y agoI agree that the pricing is high, but your comparison to showers or electricity isn't really apt, unless you're going so far as to invoke the paradox of value.
- barsonme 12y agoIs the internet diamonds and the other utilities water...? If you compare the standard usage of water for bathing and electricity for whatever to the standard usage of the internet, the internet will (according to revelation) be more expensive. I'd say that, to some degree, you couldn't even claim the paradox of value because the internet is becoming such an integral part of our lives. We use it to pay taxes, work our 9-5 jobs, medical advice, etc. Kind of like how technically we don't need natural gas or electricity -- we could just use wood-burning fireplaces. But at what point does that become so excessive that we view it like water as opposed to diamonds? Anyway, I'm getting off track here, but I think revelation's example is pretty decent depending on which angle you take.