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by mundo 9y ago
You could be right, but it isn't that far-fetched. Consider: * A lot of users would be in the pennies-per-month level, charged by standard Amazon usage prices * Owning your own data is a big deal - it's not uncommon for people to
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by mundo 9y ago
I'm familiar with Urbit, and intrigued by it, and a big company deciding to try a project inside it is inarguably the best thing that could happen to Urbit; but I'm not very bullish on that happening, for a variety of reasons.
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by mundo 9y ago
There is a chicken-and-egg thing too - it's not normal for Joe Internetuser to have a $5/mo cloud server in addition to his Netflix/Hulu/etc because there is no easy-to-use-for-regular-people software to run on one, and
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by mundo 9y ago
You're implicitly assuming that Amazon does a bad job of implementing the front end. If the goal is to get even a tenth of FB users to be paying EC2 customers, they can probably spare a couple of UX developers to give it a easy-as-a-i
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by mundo 9y ago
Here's a thought I've been turning over for a little while now. It occurs to me that all extant social media apps have, at a high level, exactly the same requirements: 1. Allow users to upload some data to cloud storage 2. Make th
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by mundo 9y ago
> who's gonna switch to this? Scott Alexander put it very well, in describing the right-leaning Reddit clone voat.co, and its influx of new users after Reddit purged some subs: "The moral of the story is: if you’re against witc
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by mundo 9y ago
I get where you're coming from, I just don't think it's very relevant to solar power or energy subsidies. The rich were getting richer and the poor were getting screwed a long time before solar power was invented; I don&#x27
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by mundo 9y ago
I applaud you for trying to think through this stuff, but minus all the ranting it sounds like what you're basically saying is that there are a bunch of ways we could be (but aren't) spending government money to reduce energy use
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by mundo 9y ago
Or here's another way to look at it: What's the whole point of having a solar power incentive? To get more solar power. Now suppose we changed the law governing solar power incentives to exclude rich people (or tall people, or r
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by mundo 9y ago
The tautology is in only looking at the subset of spending that's done through incentives, and then complaining that it disproportionately goes to people buying expensive stuff. That's what incentive means in this context: incent
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by mundo 9y ago
This is tautological; the reason poor people don't get a lot of tax breaks is because they don't pay a lot of taxes. The government does spend a lot of money helping poor people, but not via tax credits.
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by mundo 9y ago
Because "flowers" (the dense little resin-covered nuggets you buy when you buy pot) are a small part of the pot plant. The rest of it contains some THC, but is not suitable for selling to smokers. If it weren't used to make
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by mundo 9y ago
> people also enjoy pre-rolled joints, edibles or concentrates which are more expensive. This is not true, concentrates like THC oil (the marijuana equivalent of e-cigarettes, basically) are by far the least expensive way to use marijuan
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by mundo 9y ago
It's 2037. A substantial chunk of 20-year-old Google user data got into the wild via (sale / theft / government regulation / who knows? A lot can happen in two decades). Some enterprising startup fed that data into a si
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by mundo 9y ago
$99/month Family Freedom package: - 200GB "Streaming Gigs" for up to four authorized devices - 100GB "Gaming Gigs" (with Super-Ping technology!) - 25GB "Other" - Unlimited email
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by mundo 10y ago
Thank you, I enabled [dead] and I too am baffled at why useful responses are getting killed. edit- they got unkilled.
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by mundo 10y ago
Can you (or someone) clarify the difference between Patchwork and SSB? Does SSB handle the networking and discovery and encryption and whatnot, and Patchwork just acts as front-end for displaying diaries, connecting to pubs, posting and so
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by mundo 10y ago
Item 1 also applies to people trying to communicate in post-disaster scenarios (e.g. earthquakes). I know some people who work in that area, and every time one of them finds out I work in software their first question is about mesh networki
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by mundo 10y ago
So, if I post a GB worth of diary entries, who ends up caching it by default? Just my followers? People I follow? Pubs I connect to?
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by mundo 10y ago
It looks like SSB is crying out for Keybase integration. Any plans for being able to add a SSB identity to my Keybase account?
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by mundo 10y ago
Did they promise not to analyze my browser history to figure out what kind of consumer I am, how much money I have, whether I have kids, etc, and then rent access to that information through a targeted ad delivery service? Gonna guess no.
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by mundo 10y ago
I didn't say that privacy and pollution were similar in any way except that the line of reasoning presented in the article would apply to regulations policing both of them (and many others, and is hence over-broad).
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by mundo 10y ago
I didn't say pollution and privacy were identical, or even similar. My whole point was that the fact that the author's argument would apply to almost any type of regulation is proof that it's over-broad.
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by mundo 10y ago
Every time I hear someone argue for the efficiencies of privatization, I think of my water utility emulating mobile carriers and billing me for "Anytime gallons" and "Nighttime gallons" and "Weekend gallons".
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by mundo 10y ago
We're not really disagreeing much. I think that VPNs are a fine and effective solution for the problem "I want to keep my data private and I'm willing to pay for it" but not for the problem "I think corporations se
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by mundo 10y ago
You can't see a downside to living in a world in which you personally have protected your privacy, but society generally has given up on it?
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by mundo 10y ago
Pollution and privacy are just two examples of cases where we use regulatory laws to curb the natural tendency of for-profit corporations successfully. That the regulations are implemented differently isn't very relevant; they're
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by mundo 10y ago
That was most certainly not the author's main point; he only mentioned it briefly, and he didn't mention a way to fight monopolies. To be sure, when the "Make Network Monopolies Not Exist Somehow Act of 20xx" is up fo
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by mundo 10y ago
Well allow me to retort. This article is saying, basically, that the tendency of ISPs to try to monetize user data is a natural consequence of capitalism, and trying to curb that tendency with legislation is ineffectual compared to the rea
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by mundo 10y ago
All of these details sound plausible, but as whole this (the assertion that the profit made by HFT comes primarily at the expense of other market makers) smells wrong. If that assertion were true, it would seem to imply that market-making

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