arecibodrake

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by arecibodrake 15y ago
I am surprised that neither of you have befallen downvotes as I had when I explained similar things.
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Would you give up the Internet for 1 million dollars?(youtu.be)
1 points by arecibodrake 15y ago|1 comments
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
Ah yes! -2! Let's outpace reddit down the website memory hole! I mean really people, this is basic economics.
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
I love the down-votes - this site is becoming more like reddit every day. I love the response too. Thanks. Rather mature and dignified.
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
The article argues that good situations resulted from government action. The reality is that while these situations are viewed as good, they are not neccessarily the best. Only when individuals are able to voluntarily interact in the mark
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
Government getting the hell out of the way of people voluntarily interacting the marketplace is the best situation. For example: cable easements. Get rid of them. Get rid of all easements. Without them, you would have a variety of option
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
Monopolies only exist in two situations: 1. They supply the market demand perfectly. 2. Government forces them into that position directly or indirectly. There are no exceptions.
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
You mean the governments that constrain through force the market so that only a few monopolistic entities are present?
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
The only reason we don't have most metropolitan areas with gigabit fiber to the door is almost entirely teleco/cable easements. The day you stop government from mandating one company per area or delimiting it to a small few monopolistic ent
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
I doubt any of us could accurately predict, understand, fully appreciate that which is RMS The Great. I mean, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76pHIYx3ik .
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
Oh, I don't think he was saying that wasn't the case. I believe what he meant (perhaps I am projecting here) that because it continues to exist, and exist successfully, the idea of free software wins. The mere continued existence of free s
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
I am right there with you. Sometimes I need an energy drink to make one part of my brain catch up with the other, or it's a beer or two. Frankly, I would have never finished college were it not for a strange mix of kidney-liver assaulting
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
You might be surprised at how hard a sell web presence is in some areas... sigh
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
It is quite unfortunate that NASA is entirely ignoring a SpaceX / Bigelow solution.
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
One step forward, fifty thousand steps back?
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
I wonder what could have been on it that would be so interesting to the heat?
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by arecibodrake 15y ago
Does anyone have any insight as to how they justify 2.5 million dollars per year in operating expenses?
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by arecibodrake 16y ago
It's "The End of History" all over again. It would seem that this post merely demonstrated the necessity of the IT department managing resources. (There are some good comments on that page, so I won't bother to repeat what they said.)