benlorenzetti

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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
The exact same argument is used by republicans when they want to do away with capital gains tax xor corporate tax. Or one of income, property, and sales taxes. The tax is gonna get collected, but whoever is the primary check writer can have
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Exactly, let the ISPs design their traffic and billing model. The market has effects. Now, you probably want the ISPs to be operated or regulated by your local government so that the marketplace they encourage is favorable to the citizens.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Actually this is a good thread of thought that I need to think about more. My first inclination is that an ISP is like the taxman. If and end user transacts with netflix, then a tax is collected by the entity that provided the facilitating
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
In my mind there is actually no contradiction here. Net neutrality is undeniably a way for the federal government to pressure ISPs when their opinions differ. Such as on information requests and wiretapping.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Furthermore I am not proposing that ISPs not be regulated. They should be to prevent abuse. I think cities and regional entities should be aggressively in this space, but not the FCC. Chattanooga TN is a good example.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
By high bandwidth users I am referring more to companies like Netflix or a bloated news site than to end users. It would be easier for everyone if ISP and Netflix negotiated ``oversize'' rates than having individual consumer throt
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Even if one were to assume that most politicians were corrupt, then still you vote for those who corruptly favor the policies you prefer. While I wish there were less money in politics, I do not agree with the premise that a moneyed cause
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I wish there were less money in politics and no one likes backdoor schmoozing. But I have more faith in our elected officials character, in general. I think most politicians aren't being bought, they are just accepting money from peopl
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
The majority of the bot posts were opposed to the change in rules. I posted my comments and it is not even possible to find them in the echo chamber without a priori knowing the number. If you actually scrolled through posts you would find
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Good analogy; I think I can work within it. It is entirely appropriate to limit the speed and size of large trucks (high bandwidth users) on roadways or charge them more. The ISPs need to be able to do this sort of economizing to help maint
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
These sort of things always bother me when I am on the other side. They are just for galvanizing those who already agree. This is the biggest problem in our political discourse, no one ever attempt to have a discussion that changes minds. I
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Well put! Taking author's basic proposition to its logical conclusion shows that faulting Scala for this is wrong. Scala has illuminated the author to a pedantic dissonance in academia: in this case, that true asymptotic analyses shoul
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Ah sorry camgunz I interpreted the counter example as claiming malloc() was a dependency. referencing the wrong subject!
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
You don't need a library to allocate memory in C. For example on Linux, use sbrk() system call to grow the heap, then start using it. But your larger point still stands.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Thanks for honest counter arguments! I agree with (1) from a long term perspective and think we should increase funding to green tech researchers. But I weigh political resistance to developing resources (ice breaking trade lanes, oil wealt
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Your absolutely correct, but I just want to point out that thermal efficiency of an AC unit will be greater than 100%. I.e. it can drive more heat from one reservoir of air to another than the electric electric energy required to do so.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I believe in climate change and I am proud of some of the successes of the EPA/other US policies have had in protecting the global commons (ozone, lead, NOx, etc). But following your point, ignoring this to focus on a "who gains&q
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by benlorenzetti 10y ago
The need for an inverter is another reason for using DC to collect power from multiple windmills. Rectify the power produced at each mill, combine it as DC, then chop it up to put it on the AC grid.
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by benlorenzetti 10y ago
I agree with you but wouldn't the first element from the right be a[-0], sort of an abuse-of-notation for a[N-0]?
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by benlorenzetti 10y ago
I agree with Dijkstra on using one-side open, one-side closed boundaries to denote a range of integers. (C.S. way) 0 <= a < N (Math way) 0 < b <= N As he says, both ways have the property that "upper bound - lower bound =