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by rbranson 16y ago
I'm not sure which city are you talking about, because there isn't any land left in NY to buy up and build on. If you are talking about dozing and rebuilding, well, there's not much incentive to do this anyway, since existing investments ar
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by rbranson 16y ago
There are a few problems applying pure supply/demand theory onto the problem of available space in NYC. There are some heavy external costs involved: moving expense, employment churn, desirable local culture. People aren't going to leave NY
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yes, those people are bad too, but it's not a dichotomy. People tend to overvalue their non-portable organization-specific skills.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Oh please. Apparently our memories are very short. Foursquare raised $20 million with 27 employees? Big deal. Pets.com got $300 million. Webvan raised $1.2 _BILLION_ dollars. Remember when everyone was GOING PUBLIC without even making as mu
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by rbranson 16y ago
A gigabit ethernet switch port in even the most expensive scenario I can think of would be about $1000. In 1996 it was all FDDI and HSSI ports, which were an order of magnitude more expensive than GigE equipment is these days. There is very
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by rbranson 16y ago
I've ran into a few people out of work who were "in IT." They are almost always some kind of one-trick pony who has spent the last 20 years writing SQL for Crystal Reports or administering Novell servers or maintaining VB 6.0 applications.
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by rbranson 16y ago
It's not "free" though. It's just a switch port to Comcast. It costs Comcast almost nothing. They still have to deliver the content anyway. At the tier 1 level, the Internet has always worked as a "you pay the cost for transferring packets
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by rbranson 16y ago
It costs them both money though. I doubt L3 gets a significantly better price on switch gear than Comcast does. Let's be serious though... peering itself is dirt ass cheap. Comcast's attitude should be to deliver the best experience to thei
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by rbranson 16y ago
This guy is spot on. He actually understands the history and architecture of the Internet, as well as the business and technical reasons for peering. To summarize his post: Comcast has essential grown to the point where they can demand paym
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by rbranson 16y ago
The credit card companies will charge you a fee to use credit cards as an authentication mechanism and using prepaid gift cards can get around this. You can buy prepaid cards in bulk. Other authentication schemes are too expensive. Even if
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by rbranson 16y ago
but... Rails doesn't scale.
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by rbranson 16y ago
People have been trying this since the beginning of DNS, especially back in the 90s when domain names were expensive.
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by rbranson 16y ago
The purpose of charging fees to own a domain is to ensure that they are allocated optimally. Sure, fees are a crude way to achieve this, but they are also a relatively inexpensive and they generally work. If domains were free, squatters wou
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by rbranson 16y ago
Right, which is why the myriad other VPN solutions are a better deal.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yes! This! Let's be reasonable adults about this: node.js and V8 are very new projects that are really impressive given their age. OTP is an incredibly mature and proven platform. EDIT: If you're interested to really see what node.js's main
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by rbranson 16y ago
Oh please. How else can you explain that despite being 12% of the US population, only one out of the 403 US billionaires is black? That's more than a small advantage, it's practically a requirement. I'm not saying they didn't try hard or th
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by rbranson 16y ago
It's only a race issue because it started out that way. Nobody is turning it into anything that it wasn't already. The whole "turning everything into a race issue" is a copout used by those who'd rather forget the past and justify their ign
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by rbranson 16y ago
I agree with you. Edited my comment above to reflect my full opinion.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Care to explain? Clearly there is a correlation here. Do you believe it's just coincidence that there is one non-white person and one non-male in the entire group?
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by rbranson 16y ago
They started as white guys, besides Oprah of course. EDIT: Perhaps I should have been clearer. Given the average age, they were significantly advantaged by the color of their skin and patriarchal state of society, so they didn't start with
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by rbranson 16y ago
I'm not advocating the vegan or vegetarian position, I'm simply advocating transparency to the point where people are confronted with reality enough that they are making a fully informed decision. I am a meat eater.
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by rbranson 16y ago
They can't, which why this article is bullshit. Settlement-free peering agreements exist because they are mutually beneficial, not to directly generate revenue. Both benefit from cost savings and Level3 can deliver better service quality, w
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by rbranson 16y ago
So let me get this right: what you're asserting is that it's necessary for government officials to protect us by concealing or spinning information so it's only presented to us in the best light, for our own good? Imagine if, for a second,
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by rbranson 16y ago
It sounds like the biggest impact WikiLeaks has had is to help INCREASE our homeland security by exposing these gaping security holes in the defense information networks. The information leaked to WikiLeaks is pedestrian compared to what CO
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by rbranson 16y ago
erm... there's more issues than just the sea level rise. If it was that simple, we'd already have a plan. The overwhelming parts are the widespread destruction and depletion of usable farmland, ocean acidification & oxygen depletion, wa
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by rbranson 16y ago
Sounds like he needs a visit from the /b/ hivemind.
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by rbranson 16y ago
It seems like you didn't quite apply the idea of "step outside of your comfort zone" correctly. It's about little steps, and repeated trying of things until you get it right. It means stop being so worried about what other people think and
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by rbranson 16y ago
IMHO, JSON schema goes against the spirit of JSON. Why not just use XML if you need these types of features? XML already has mature schema tooling.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yes, yet again, BSD is better, but none of the reasons given here are good enough to be "the guy who wanted to put BSD on the servers."
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by rbranson 16y ago
I tend to agree with you, but I think it's a little more nuanced. Widespread copyright infringement causes those who would otherwise purchase to not purchase, which DOES deprive the copyright owner of money. There's no reason to believe all

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