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by ucaetano 8y ago
> and they do great Yep, their value never changes, which means that if you invested your savings in them, you'd get no returns. Tell me, where do you invest your retirement savings?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure, but would you invest your retirement savings in one that doesn't?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Fundamental issue is the expectation that all public companies must keep growing and show profits quarter after quarter, year after year. This is obviously unsustainable. Hey, feel free to invest your retirement savings in a company th
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> they are actually paying $0 Nope, they have to pay transport to the peering point (or own it).
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by ucaetano 8y ago
You seem to think that technology equals "venture capital that shows up in the tech news", and you don't seem to know much about Switzerland as well. Why do you think IBM, Disney, Google all have massive research centers in S
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure (debatable, actually), and what's your point? Many countries have been running laps around other countries in many industries, what does it have to do with clusters?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> But there is nothing magical or special about Switzerland other than a concentration of interest. That is called clustering, and it is very, very hard to build and disrupt. It took Silicon Valley almost 100 years to build its own. Why
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> With IPv6, after registering through an app with a server, the server can just send a UDP packet to the open port? That's your problem, if the radio is off and you're using UDP, the message will simply be lost. You can leave
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Other posts answered most of your question, but there is still one point regarding IPv6. IPv6 doesn't solve any of this problem, because the problem isn't actually the connection, but the synchronization between all the apps using
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by ucaetano 8y ago
If you don't have a push provider mediating the many apps trying to get notifications, you end up in a tragedy of the commons scenario, where every single app will try to implement its own push service and will prioritize its own push
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Beginnings, Middles, and Ends [Why we must let US institutions fail to rebuild](strongtowns.org)
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> someone on HN would make such an overly broad, and with it, inaccurate statement You must be new here!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
I Facebook went out of business, people would instead message more on other messaging platforms, text people more, read news in other news platforms and so on. There are plenty of opportunities for all of those options. Consider, for exampl
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Monopoly is defined by choice and not by the definition of the market. No, monopoly absolutely depends on the definition of the market. If you define the market as "online human communication" Facebook doesn't have a mon
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Nope. But hey, I'm happy to change my opinion if you present data.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The issue with peering with Netflix is that Netflix only peers in certain locations, so you need to buy transport to the exchange where Netflix is present.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Facebook probably is a monopoly A monopoly of...? They key part of a "monopoly" claim is defining the market. Facebook has a monopoly communications? No. Does it have a monopoly on online communications? No. Does it have a mo
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Hi Josh! Do you buy any transit at all or rely solely on peering? Who do you peer with, and how easy has it been to find peers, due to the huge asymmetry in traffic? Do you have any CDN caches deployed (GGC, Netflix, etc.)?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Not too fast: http://www.ilovelotusnotes.net/
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I'm saying that OSM data is objectively better for the rural parts of the world I've been to. Which is a subjective factor. "X is objectively better for the categories that I subjectively selected". Mapping is a sub
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Second best? At least in my experience, OSM data is leaps and bounds better than Google Maps in every way possible, and it has been that way for a couple years now. I'm sure that, for whatever product in the world, you can find a
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure, but very different. Mapping requires real-world operations, such as driving cars and taking pictures around the entire world, and doing it again and again. This is far more cost-intensive, both in upfront as in maintenance, than the t
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Most likely, yes. But translation services are far easier to enter than mapping.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
This is competitive pressures at work, similarly to IBM and other's investment in Linux in the early 2000's as a way to place competitive pressure on MS/Windows. If you're not the leader in the field, and won't be a
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by ucaetano 8y ago
You do get the fact that a company with no growth but paying dividends will be worth (including the dividends you extracted) exactly what you paid for? It would be worse than buying a bond: you'll get the risk of equity with the return
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Even when a company becomes profitable, there's always pressure to make it even more profitable quarter after quarter. Would you keep your retirement funds in a company that doesn't grow?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
But they aren't. They are accountable to society through laws, regulations and taxation, and to their employees through labor laws.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines applies.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
There is no difference, other than that Apple tried to chase Google's and Facebook's ad-based business model wit iAds but failed miserably. The result was a shift towards privacy to try to drain the profits of those two companies.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> but I'm super curious where the demand from users to connect with businesses via WhatsApp is. <insert "I think the world is like the US" meme here> Almost everywhere in the world. In the German elections, you can m

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