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by abrenzel 16y ago
Groupon was silly not to accept Google's $6bn offer. The profit margin that justified that valuation is sure to drop over time, as their business model is easily replicable. Does that mean Groupon or that business model is going to go awa
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by abrenzel 16y ago
It may be more of an aesthetic preference, but the pricing signal makes more sense to me on a per-service basis than it does on a tiered internet service basis. Tiered bandwidth plans are inexact - should I buy the 250 MB plan or the 5 GB
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Well you're right in a sense that Netflix probably pays the appropriate amount purely for what's outbound from their servers, but that last cost does count and the cost will be borne by someone - either by what Netflix pays the ISP for it
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by abrenzel 16y ago
I upvoted you, thanks for the correction. I'm a little embarrassed I wrote that. Maybe I should drink my coffee first...
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by abrenzel 16y ago
I agree that net neutrality, as the FCC is currently trying to impose it anyway, isn't a good idea. On the other hand, I disagree that some things the major ISPs have done is a simple result of lack of competition. Of course, the ISP marke
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Yeah as soon as I wrote that I realized the fallacy in the first paragraph...oops!
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by abrenzel 16y ago
--~$250 a month is still an insane price for a single person. I live in Illinois of all places and have decent HMO coverage for less than $100. Granted, I am not currently in a start up, but in a business of about 15 employees. Various c
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Spot on. The whole "Fraudclosure" thing is a bit of a red herring. Yes, banks should be made to pay for their negligence in complying with basic mortgage laws, but does their negligence change the fact that the occupants of those homes hav
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Anger is certainly an appropriate reaction in circumstances like this, but I find articles like this really gloss over the nature of the shared responsibility for what happened. Yes, banks and governments (including the US! - we just haven'
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Maybe the best thing to do is to try and sequence your "pushing" and "pulling." I actually graduated with a Political Science degree in 2009. I came to my first job not knowing a lick of programming, and the job didn't require it anyway.
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Stuxnet: Could Cyber Superweapon Be Turned on U.S.?(abcnews.go.com)
2 points by abrenzel 16y ago|0 comments
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by abrenzel 16y ago
The US certainly pays out fewer of the sort of benefits we would call "welfare" (unemployment, food stamps, EITCs, etc.) than most nations in the Western world. Our pension systems are as generous as anyone's though, particularly Medicare.
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Thanks for supplying those numbers harryh!
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by abrenzel 16y ago
These things often take longer to unwind themselves than you'd expect. Still, the CBO projections are pretty clear, and we now know that Social Security is officially in deficit this year. Medicare has been so for a long time. In truth,
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Maybe not this year, but according to the CBO Social Security enters a deficit this year (originally projected to be 2016). And in any case, cutting discretionary and defense spending to 0 is an unobtainable watermark, as is taxing the ric
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Having Python be accessible on mobile devices would be a boon for development, I think. I'm sure I'm not the only one who isn't all that enamored with Java or Objective-C for mobile development...
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Scott Adams, like the politicians in Washington DC, is living in a dream world. Cut all discretionary and defense spending to 0, and we would still be running a deficit due to entitlements. Tax "the rich" at 100%, and we would still be run
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by abrenzel 16y ago
Great article. I actually think this could be a severe risk to Apple. The trend in any competitive market is for margins to converge towards 0. In particular, iOS is already facing competition from Android, and RIMM isn't exactly going t
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by abrenzel 16y ago
As a man named William Shatner once said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." Or was that Shakespeare? The same is true for good programs, I think. When we see problems like this, it's right to ask questions about what the language design encou