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   by api 12y ago

   Being completely insulated from competition is a huge indirect subsidy. Same net effect.
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   by api 12y ago

   Little extrapolation seems necessary. It's also important to note that enforcing such a thing will require heavy government regulation of software production and distribution.
3. 14193.▲
   by api 12y ago

   Bell was a government enforced monopoly, so almost government. Definitely insulated from normal market forces.
4. 14194.▲
   by api 12y ago

   On strict economic terms, all nuclear research beyond perhaps medical applications was wasteful. Nuclear power is not competitive with coal, and there's still plenty of coal. Solar and large-scale wind generation research is also simil
5. 14195.▲
   by api 12y ago

   Yes, pressure can speed up government work. Typically only war or the threat of war does that, since fundamentally governments exist to monopolize force. As a result, all government culture is essentially military -- even the civilian gover
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   by api 12y ago

   "government is a slow moving, inefficient behemoth" It most certainly is, but that's not relevant. The important thing here is that so far only governments have had the capacity to make investments that are both of: - High
7. 14197.▲
   by api 12y ago

   Been posted before, but up voted anyway since there are too many who are ignorant of the valley's roots.
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   by api 12y ago

   Up: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ochackernews
9. 14199.▲
   by api 12y ago

   I've found a lot of this beyond just SEO and into the realm of almost anything that claims to help you with your business or with marketing. Seems to be a market that like you say is hard to quantify and draws a lot of questionable huc
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    Orange County, California Hacker News Discussion / Meetup Group(groups.google.com)

    1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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    Crude conspiracy theories could be right(eurekalert.org)

    1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
12. 14202.▲
    by api 12y ago

    Working on it.
13. 14203.▲
    by api 12y ago

    I've been following this for a while and really like it. Have yet to try an install but probably will once it's more mature. Dumb question: why not build on and leverage Docker? I'm sure you have an answer. I'm just curi
14. 14204.▲
    by api 12y ago

    What should I create? Meetup is workable but kind of annoying IMHO.
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    by api 12y ago

    I'd like to see one of these in Orange County. Who organizes them? I'd come to this one if I had time for the drive. Maybe HN should have regular meetups in every city?
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    by api 12y ago

    It is, but on a side note: If you actually had the technology to accelerate to a speed close to light, time dilation might actually allow you to make an intergalactic journey as long as you were okay with leaving behind your home forever...
17. 14207.▲
    by api 12y ago

    It seems like it might exclude a lot of the galaxy, the central part, from hosting long lived complex life. This would mean that complex life is more common along the outer rim, where we are. This in turn means that the median distance betw
18. 14208.▲
    by api 12y ago

    ... and does this add hops?
19. 14209.▲
    by api 12y ago

    I've got a question: Do you think telecoms should enjoy government-enforced monopolies? Are you in favor of abolishing those, opening up the spectrum, etc.? Do you think that has any chance of happening? If not, are you then in favor o
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    by api 12y ago

    NAT traversal is a security breach that became a de-facto standard and is part of the SIP, STUN, and IPSec (extended) standards among other RFCs. It exists because NAT itself is an abomination.
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    by api 12y ago

    They're also the generation whose reforms were followed by several decades of the most incredible economic and technological growth in the history of the human race. Everything they didn't wasn't perfect and it all didn'
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    by api 12y ago

    P2P doesn't necessarily mean cooperative relaying or swarm distribution like BitTorrent. I agree that those applications are mobile-unfriendly with current batteries and cell networks. It just means you are talking directly to your pee
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    The (not so) puzzling behavior of angel investors (2008) [pdf](angelcapitalassociation.org)

    1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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    by api 12y ago

    I keep hearing a categorical "you can't do P2P on mobile." I intend to fling myself at this problem like a drunk seagull soon, so I'll blog on it. I think it's possible, but with a number of special considerations a
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    by api 12y ago

    These are special circumstances.
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    by api 12y ago

    Primer I wrote a while back: https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=226 Skype has abandoned P2P, though I'm not sure why. One possibility is that MS now has middle boxes deployed at so many interchange and peering point
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    by api 12y ago

    I also forgot TCP through TCP tunnels, which causes strange timing and flow control behaviors due to never actually dropping packets on congestion and double-ACKing.
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    by api 12y ago

    I forgot about DNS munging shenanigans. Not only do some people selectively block DNS, but there are also cases where middle boxes and proxies pretend to be remote DNS servers but really aren't... or rewrite DNS traffic, insert fields,
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    by api 12y ago

    Nice. It'd be neat to include options to simulate other pathological conditions often encountered in the field like: - Multiple layers of NAT - overlapping un-synchronized timeouts are one thing ... but the REAL fun comes in when inter
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    by api 12y ago

    C# has the 'await' keyword, which is pretty clean.