amarv1n

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Obama vs. his FCC Chairman (on net neutrality)(slate.com)
1 points by amarv1n 12y ago|0 comments
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Finding Confidence in Crowds: Y Combinator’s Female Founders Conference(blog.silicalabs.com)
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The Net Neutrality Loss Is as Bad as the SOPA Bill(slate.com)
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by amarv1n 13y ago
how would you envision that working? that'd be interesting.
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by amarv1n 13y ago
doesn't the blog post explain why? the tool doesn't aim for inbox zero (seen as unrealistic) and the decay-equation doesn't answer for zero because it's an exponential.
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by amarv1n 13y ago
There's a lot I disagree with in Declan's comment. We disagree on what Congress gave the FCC authority to do. The 1996 Telecom Act clearly classified DSL and dial-up as something called a "telecommunications service" whi
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by amarv1n 13y ago
property law is definitely a form of regulation. go to a country without regulation, like afghanistan, and you'll see no property law :) there's an entire semester in law school on the intricacies of property law, including fee si
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by amarv1n 13y ago
From what I understand, ISPs might be able to win the cat and mouse game, and uncover at least the type of traffic, whether p2p, streaming video etc. Not sure where the cat and mouse are with today's technology.
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by amarv1n 13y ago
yeah, we're still waiting for the ruling. the only other thing that happened is that the current FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler made a comment that suggested he opposed net neutrality--arguing that Netflix should be allowed to pay carriers f
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by amarv1n 13y ago
it's from nov.
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by amarv1n 13y ago
We regulate car safety even though there is some competition among car companies. If competition did not lead to net neutrality, then we should still mandate it. Also, it's true, as others have noted, that competition among ISPs won&#x
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by amarv1n 13y ago
The case centered on the question of whether those companies would have to pay twice--once to buy bandwidth from their own ISP and then again to get through a toll to the end user, paying originating ISP then the terminating one.
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by amarv1n 13y ago
They all face the same problem: a captured FCC. I agree on opening up spectrum (spread the gospel!) and wish we could adopt policies against the duopoly like open access to the wires. Yochai Benkler has written on both if you're intere
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by amarv1n 13y ago
Bhewes may be right--but ESPN is special. Most companies, including YC companies, would have to pay. Only the very very few could charge the carriers.