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by bumholio 8y ago
Yup, that's precisely the idea. The grandparent was concerned that this masked price increase (for Hulu or for NYT) is a breach of net neutrality.
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by bumholio 8y ago
I think the intent behind net neutrality is not to prevent bundling but technical discrimination. Your ISP can bundle free Hulu with your data plan, as long as you can also get Netflix and Youtube at the same quality with no bandwidth thro
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by bumholio 8y ago
Humans are the most adaptable invasive species. The whole ocean can turn to jelly mush before we care. We will say "oh dear", switch our fast food order to fried chicken instead of fish and carry on as usual.
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by bumholio 8y ago
> 'doing something about it' on a personal level means sacrificing luxuries But that's just not true, that's the line of the denialists. Doing something about it means reducing the carbon output by taxing those who pr
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by bumholio 8y ago
There seems to be a natural opportunity for ISPs in a certain country to pay to have all their customers unblocked by major publications relevant to that public - and have a certain fraction of the customer bill disbursed depending on onlin
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by bumholio 8y ago
> Car-owning households in NYC are significantly richer than zero-car households. I have no doubt that's true, as in most other places on the planet. The thing is, you are making an absolute argument: those who drive in NY are riche
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by bumholio 8y ago
> the more one drives inside NYC city limits, the richer one is. Why would you say that? A rich person would not spend hours every day commuting though rush hour traffic, or spend most of their day inside their work vehicle. They would b
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by bumholio 8y ago
>Or just a new proportional-to-income "driving tax" in addition to state, county, and city taxes? The difference is that you can avoid the driving tax by not driving; unlike the city tax that can only be avoided by not getting
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's regressive amongst those who drive, that's the point. By definition, that category is more oriented towards middle class, upper middle class; the poor don't pay the tax because they can't afford city driving in gene
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by bumholio 8y ago
> It also pretty obviously favors the rich, which is not a big vote-getter. In many ways, a congested city works like a income-adjusted congestion tax, where you pay with your time. Since the time of rich people is more valuable, the bur
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by bumholio 8y ago
> The price of a taxi medallion, which is required to operate a taxi in New York, has plunged from more than $1 million to less than $200,000. Clearly, a cap on ride hailing licenses can only mean that the already licensed drivers stand
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by bumholio 8y ago
So were Saddam and Gaddafi. Their elimination directly led to tens of thousands of preventable civilian deaths and ongoing civil wars. Again, a simplistic world view can lead to trying to solve the wrong problem. Venezuela is still at the &
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by bumholio 8y ago
The proliferation of popups and overlays is the modern scourge of the Web, especially on the desktop. It makes life very hard for those browsing in anonymous mode by default. We need a combined Decrap extension that kills all this crap an
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by bumholio 8y ago
That's just plain old management stupidity; it would manifest the exact same way regardless of the actual content of the regulation, as long as it's in the news.
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by bumholio 8y ago
That's nitpicking on language, in context I am clearly referring to the monetary value of the respective market share. That can be calculated even for a zero revenue company, unless the plan all along was to operate Instapaper as a non
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by bumholio 8y ago
> if people like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin were removed from power earlier It's a bit ironic that you criticize the predictive power of my examples, then go full time machine to kill known mass murderers before they had the chance to
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How can NASA return to the Moon? By making everything reusable, chief says(arstechnica.com)
1 points by bumholio 8y ago|0 comments
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Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid(bloomberg.com)
537 points by bumholio 8y ago|407 comments
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by bumholio 8y ago
This generalized hate towards change is typically a symptom of age, not technology. It happens to the best of us.
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by bumholio 8y ago
Possibly one of the worst cases of irrational GDPR fear. The fines would have been significantly lower than the (irreversible?) loss of European market share.
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by bumholio 8y ago
Extrajudicial killings and assassination attempts rarely help democracy. Quite the contrary they are the perfect environment for strongmen to grab and consolidate power. Look at the Erdogan coup, the burning of the Reichstag, the Arab revol
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by bumholio 8y ago
Bypass Paywalls is the extension you are looking for. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
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by bumholio 8y ago
I believe the "Cretaceous Greenhouse" would make quite a good movie, considering the massive inland seas that formed during the period over the continental shelf. The majority of people on Earth would have to move house to higher
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by bumholio 8y ago
The homeostasis might work in a limited range under which the biological world evolved in the recent past. Exceeding that range could quickly turn to a runaway geological event of rapid climate change, a state transition in a complex and un
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by bumholio 8y ago
Considering that's more than a cab costs in some European countries, driver included, I would say we aren't talking about commodity tech, but a highly profitable initial phase.
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by bumholio 8y ago
> putting 200k miles on a car over eight years costs less (both per-mile and per-unit-time) than putting 200k on in two years The per mile part sounds like a personal speculation. (Per unit of time is obvious and irrelevant here) Quite t
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by bumholio 8y ago
If the technology becomes commoditized, the cost reduction would be massive. A $30000 vehicle can drive 200K miles for the price of fuel and occasional cleaning. That's in the 30 - 50 cent/mile area, almost a full order of magnit
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by bumholio 8y ago
The replacements were technically and economically inferior. Just like carbon neutral sources of energy. And the phase-out stimulated research for viable substitutes. It's a vicious/virtuous circle, we aren't hostages of an i
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by bumholio 8y ago
I think a much more practical avenue is to chill the building using the absorbtion solar cycle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator When the sun is directly overhead you get maximum solar power and
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by bumholio 8y ago
Or we can simply ignore the vocal minority that demands temperatures below 78F/25C, and thus maximize subjective comfort. They are fucked anyway, they need to visit the outside world to get to work.

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