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by malchow 12y ago
Netflix didn't buy transit from Comcast; they paid Comcast some large fee to upgrade links to one or more transit providers that Comcast would in the ordinary and traditional course of business done itself, so as to continue delivering
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by malchow 12y ago
Shmerl, love to learn more about what you mean by this. Do you mean a rule that a network could not sell to consumers both TV and internet access and phone?
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by malchow 12y ago
"it is actually the responsibility of browsers to somewhat govern what standards do or do not move forward" An underappreciated point. Browser developers incl. Apple also have a responsibility to recognize that it's a mobile
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by malchow 12y ago
I am the cofounder of a company that serves as an alternative to AdSense. Get in touch with me: joe@publir.com.
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by malchow 12y ago
"5 years from now after the cost for storage is infinite and free" Stuff like this strikes me as a bit sclerotic and shortsighted. Sort of the techno-utopian flip side of the Malthusians of the 70s[1] arguing that food will run ou
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by malchow 12y ago
The fact that different municipalities, cities, and states have different laws are not, as NYer suggests, evidence that 'modernity' has not come to these places. Part of the glory and endurance of the United States is its dual rep
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by malchow 12y ago
And people looking for their first job. We should be upfront about it: controlling prices, including the price of labor, is cruel.
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by malchow 12y ago
Hm. Maybe taxing and benefits assignation by democracy do not work, either.
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by malchow 12y ago
What is with the "joining" euphemism? ("Revolution Analytics is joining Microsoft," as the blog post puts it.) Is there some sort of growing unclean perception when a company is acquired? More often than not, these acqui
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Google to Sell Wireless Service(wsj.com)
20 points by malchow 12y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 12y ago
Love this. Viva Ron Conway!
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by malchow 12y ago
Finally someone caught on to this problem. 140 years ago my great-grandfather dug a palladium mine anticipating exactly these problems with internal disk drive components causing imperfections in audio playback. The steers grazing the grass
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Blocking receptor in brain’s immune cells counters Alzheimer’s in mice(med.stanford.edu)
1 points by malchow 12y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 12y ago
I just want to point out how genius this is. Comcast, I suspect, spends 99% of its time thinking about psychology and pricing. They know that they want to continue to get about $150/mo from every American family. All they are doing is
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by malchow 12y ago
You're wrong. The Internet isn't a human right, and even if it is, government shouldn't provide it. You wouldn't like government internet if you lived under, say, the Cuban government. Nor can you trust your government f
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by malchow 12y ago
Amen. This will make the issue more political, even though Rs and more Friedman-minded Ds should be behind net neutrality. Now Rs will be driven toward the other side.
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by malchow 12y ago
How long can Apple maintain this somewhat fictional dichotomy? 30% App Store / 2% Apple Pay. It's a HUGE delta.
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by malchow 12y ago
"There's a lot more depth in US equities markets than you think." That's a keeper! Liquidity is a high-velocity component to markets. There's more depth that the sub-OP credits the market with at the present instant
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by malchow 12y ago
The question is: would you be comfortable being treated in India if India had 19th century medical equipment and a 19th century medical practicum? Because that, effectively, is what you are condemning your great grandchildren to.
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by malchow 12y ago
Looks like iOS devices are being sent to a different stream. Viewing is perfect so far on my iPhone.
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by malchow 12y ago
Does anyone know whose network is delivering the streams? Is it Akamai?
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by malchow 12y ago
I liked this line, from Comcast's filing with the N.Y. regulator: "Exceeding the cap could subject a household to alterations to its Internet access." Pray that they don't alter it any further.
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by malchow 12y ago
But what if it is news broken by WSJ proprietary investigation? Should there really be a rule on HN that dampens original reporting?
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Ask HN: Why don't you pay for a news website subscription?
6 points by malchow 12y ago|7 comments
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by malchow 12y ago
It could be that the US's high-risk/high-reward/failure-positive ethic means that elastic transportation routings are more economically valuable than fixed-segment trains. A train is 10% better than a jet from SF to LA. A tra
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by malchow 12y ago
Question: What do you think "government benefits" are? As in, in what do they consist? What is their form? Of what stuff are they? Are they corporeal or spiritual? If corporeal, whence did they come? Who created them? Are they ext
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by malchow 12y ago
1. Automate thing x. 2. Wail and fret for 50 years. 3. Take it for granted for next ∞ years.
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by malchow 12y ago
The data in the Wikipedia article you cite can also be sorted by road fatalities by 1 billion vehicle/kms. This accounts for variance in population, auto ownership, and amount of driving. Country and traffic fatalities per 1b veh&#
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Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?(priceonomics.com)
293 points by malchow 12y ago|207 comments
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by malchow 12y ago
"I can't believe [average speed camera systems are] not implanted at least in all interstate freeways." Possibly because a civil society, favoring the preservation of a measure of basic autonomy, does not implement every me

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