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by nbhuik 8y ago
Neither Tavis Ormandy nor Google have a good track record when it comes to pragmatic security. Google's business model is incompatible with proper security. Chances are that you know Tavis from him being arrogant on project zero so eve
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by nbhuik 8y ago
> Behind a very thin veil of social liberalism, we are in fact living in a profoundly conservative and conventional era. Maybe. Or it might be that social liberalism, at least in its current form, isn't that nice. Social liberalism
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by nbhuik 8y ago
A lot of people don't use the Internet that much. $50-$100 is expensive for receiving e-mail, looking at news and some videos. Fiber deployment might very well stall in a lot of countries because of this.
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by nbhuik 8y ago
As far as I know most of those are already happening today.
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by nbhuik 8y ago
You can have whatever opinion you want on what the Internet should be, just like I can. But the Internet today is different networks settings their own policy. Google can say "connect to us and we won't charge you for YouTube traf
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by nbhuik 8y ago
The article is about mobile carriers, not wisps. There is no point carrying on this "conversation".
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by nbhuik 8y ago
It just doesn't make any sense. It is like saying that UPS should deliver to everywhere on earth in one day for the same price, despite large differences in cost between local delivery and e.g. air freight to a war zone. The Internet i
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by nbhuik 8y ago
Not with wireless. That depends on geography, interference, temporary usage peaks etc. Much more variable, limited and costly than a "static" line.
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by nbhuik 8y ago
Yes, it isn't particularly hard to figure out why they are throttling. Video services especially will take up all the bandwidth when they can and then annoy people when it inevitably gets downgraded again. For most people "speed&q
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by nbhuik 8y ago
Your scenario isn't particularly outlandish. That is how a lot of economy services work. And also why you can usually get other deliveries while many other packages, e.g. from China, are waiting to be processed. Not that deliveries are
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by nbhuik 8y ago
That is just how the Internet works. Everyone is selling and buying access to networks. Whether directly or in the form of agreements. And most people are of course trying to get more for less. One could certainly wish that things would be
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by nbhuik 8y ago
This is obviously a long discussion, but in summary the world is changing and if one wants to have a say in that new world one can't pretend that it isn't happening. China is working on all fronts while the west is coming up with
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by nbhuik 8y ago
This is a very generic article. I would say made up even. China has a ton of problems. Unfortunately most Hong Kong based analysts spend more time partying in Hong Kong than in southern China. If the west wants to have a long term chance ag
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by nbhuik 8y ago
Not to be all "the market will sort things out", but in general if there is incentive to serve traffic there is at least a lot more potential to fix these things. If you lose potential revenue by congestion, you want to invest in
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by nbhuik 8y ago
If you are getting paid to deliver traffic to consumers then you would have a lot of incentive to not have congestion, since that would be losing potential revenue. That would if not solve at least improve the last mile issue.
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by nbhuik 8y ago
Not sure what you are saying since the whole issue is about who is going to pay. In the west you are paying $40-$80 as a consumer while a lot of companies make money. In Asia it is common that high speed Internet access itself is cheap, but