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by scholia 11y ago
He says: over the course of the century that followed, a few progressively simpler forms of it were found and But in the context of George Boole, one can say that it’s a minimal version of his big idea Since this is an aside, he doesn&#
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by scholia 11y ago
I'm reminded of the famous "discovery" that it costs $10 (or whatever) for a secretary to send a letter. Actually, the secretary costs $10 whether she sends a letter or not ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Yes, volumes are predictable, and no, it's still not really meaningful to talk about the cost of delivering a single item. You have to switch to network thinking -- and I'm sure there's plenty of C19th analysis to support i
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by scholia 11y ago
> The number of trucks or airplanes you need to run on any given day depends on how much traffic you carry. That might be how a delivery service works, but it's not how the post office works in almost all the countries in the worl
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by scholia 11y ago
That's the wrong way to think about it! You need to think about the system not the individual transactions ;-) Do you pay more for web pages from China than you do from the USA because they travel further? Why not? The problem is tha
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by scholia 11y ago
Good piece. Thanks for the link.
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by scholia 11y ago
> Ships, airplanes, trucks, and postal workers have substantial ongoing costs. Yes, those are the network costs, ie the cost of supporting the collection-and-delivery network. They're assumed to be (more or less) constant, regardl
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by scholia 11y ago
The postal service is a networked delivery service, just like the Internet. The difference is that the data packets are physical envelopes. Now, the cost of running the postal service is the cost of supporting the whole network of delivery
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by scholia 11y ago
Yes. In the horizontal industry organization, products ran across brands, or across different stacks. So, MS DOS and Windows ran on IBM, DEC, Compaq and many other PCs. Competition was between Microsoft and IBM etc (OS), Intel vs AMD, WD vs
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by scholia 11y ago
> In this case MS is the manufacturer Or, more likely, Microsoft provided the OEM with one of the many components used in the product. Microsoft, of course, has no control over what the OEM does with it, and doesn't know unless it
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by scholia 11y ago
Did you buy the product from Microsoft?
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by scholia 11y ago
In the previous generation of competition, the industry structure changed from vertical (IBM, DEC, Wang etc) to horizontal (Microsoft, Intel, Cisco etc). The new generation of competition is between ecosystems. These are both horizontal and
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by scholia 11y ago
And IBM was dominant for at least 50 years ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
You can also add MHTML support to Firefox and probably Chrome...
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by scholia 11y ago
> Simple supply and demand dynamics are not at work here. It depends on your definition of "simple". I certainly don't think it's possible to relate prices directly to shortage of supply, because things are not that
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by scholia 11y ago
It makes sense to buy a house because, over the long term, the value of houses goes up while the value of money goes down. Even better, the real cost of mortgage payments keeps going down (thanks to inflation) while the real cost of rents k
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by scholia 11y ago
They're converting stuff to Windows Runtime. There's a lot of it. It will take a while....
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by scholia 11y ago
Even $1 would remove a lot of harassment because a lot of people would be less abusive if thought it would be easier to find them and hold them legally responsible for their comments.
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by scholia 11y ago
To quote myself from earlier... The IE6 era (2001 to 2005 or 2006) was a period of great creativity, and it was when a lot of dominant web properties became established. Examples include Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Second Life, The Pirate Bay, MyS
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by scholia 11y ago
"White-collar workers check their inboxes an average of 77 times a day, according to research by Gloria Mark, an informatics professor at the University of California, Irvine. (If that sounds low to you, she found some workers check e
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by scholia 11y ago
> Microsoft were kind of correct in the "browser choice" lawsuit that they'd used the browser as an OS component, and everyone else was correct that this was kind of a bad idea. Unfortunately, Microsoft signed a consent
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by scholia 11y ago
So how does Amazon make money from Alexa running on non-Amazon devices? (Not obvious to me, sorry.)
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by scholia 11y ago
Er... you realize that The Big Bang Theory is a sitcom, ie a comedy show?
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by scholia 11y ago
I was one of the earliest users, and if you could construct good Boolean searches, you could get good results. The thing about Google was that dumb searches worked very well.
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by scholia 11y ago
> The prominence of the stream... All I need to do is to scroll Quite a lot of the web has also been converted into streams, thanks to infinite scrolling web pages. Many Google links no longer point to information, they point to inform
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by scholia 11y ago
> The larger image previews displayed when clicking a specific image result are actually hotlinked from the original source So the website pays the cost without getting the benefit of a visit?
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by scholia 11y ago
There are also extensions with names like "Google search link fix"..... Also uses JavaScript so you can't turn that off.
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by scholia 11y ago
Actually, AltaVista was a good search engine, if you knew how to use it. What Google did was deskill search, so that you got good (or sometimes better) results from very simple queries, rather than complex search strings.
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by scholia 11y ago
> It ends up blocking many anti-GG people who are following those accounts because they want to know what their opponents are up to. Sad to hear that some Twitter users are not making the best use of its features. It's very easy t
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by scholia 11y ago
She has, like a lot of women, been harassed by GamerGate. They actually sent a police SWAT team to break down her door (which they didn't). http://blog.randi.io/2015/04/03/swated/ She's been vi

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