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by ucaetano 9y ago
> It seems like you're proposing taxing based on the price of the good, not the cost of the negative externalities. Wrong. I'm proposing that to have the same economic incentive on a luxury version of a certain good you need a
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> So you punish those who have/want one? Ouch, I wouldn't want to live in your world. No. Cars have negative externalities to society, so you tax them to account for those externalities. This is the same reason why governments
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by ucaetano 9y ago
I'd add another one: move away from the Bay Area, even if just for a year and even if still working in a technology company. Often, just stepping out of the bubble and checking out what the real world looks like will provide you with p
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by ucaetano 9y ago
You don't want cars overall to start with. And as wealth increases, the negative utility of a 1% increase in price of a certain good decreases for that buyer, requiring higher taxes to have the same disincentive than for lower income b
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> you want to encourage wealthy people to spend Not on cars.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Because expensive cars are luxury goods with negative externalities.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> you pay flat €50k in taxes if your car costs more than €50k. That would be the same as capping income tax: you pay a 20% rate up to $100k of taxes, after that, no incremental taxes. It's the opposite of progressive, actually taxin
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Anyway I'm convinced there's a solid rationale for not doing it, but I'm not sure what it is. That's usually my mindset. I mostly see companies as very rational actors, and assume that different options usually have
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Because not all users use the same services in the same way, so that would actually lead to a mass breakdown in the services. That's not how companies price services. Not by very, very, very far. There are many pricing strategies desig
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> That's an open question that Google could solve by providing said option. One dollar a month for the complete suite of google tools with no tracking or ads whatsoever? "No tracking" only, not "no ads". No ads w
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> If there was a single option that offered all of this at a reasonable price, you would see a lot of people moving to this. No, people would still go for the free product, killing the other option. If Google charges $1 per month for no
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> I don't understand the point of the blog post then. Why is it so upsetting, if you have the ability to turn it off? Because people like to complain. Especially when they're getting a free service (as in money).
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by ucaetano 9y ago
This isn't even your phone, this is your Google Account. Isn't even limited to Android. But yes, you should think of the consequences of signing up for a service that clearly states that it records your location history.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Wow, the author is surprised that when she/he shared her/his location with Google, Google actually got her/his location. If only Google made it ridiculously easy to disable this. Oh, wait, it does: https://support.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Exactly, unsurprisingly, people are surprised that when they decided to share their location with Google, Google actually gets their location. Shocking.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
If you're making <$100/year out of your videos (99% of the channels affected) it is highly unlikely that you were making new videos because of the money anyway. So only <1% of impacted channels might be materially affected.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Original Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
The patent isn't from Google, it's only listed on Google Patents. Original Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
None of those are a problem if you're talking about building a canal. From my previous experience, 80% to 90% of the cost of building a fiber network is construction, especially digging ditches, hanging poles, etc. Materials account fo
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by ucaetano 9y ago
The average doesn't really matter. The researchers are looking for "steps" in data streamed caused by changes in the video. If you're adding random levels noise it will drown the signal that the researchers are looking f
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Yes, far more flexible, but in some sense yes. The key difference between cloud and the traditional mainframe model is the decoupling between usage and the assets. Time sharing is buying a share of an asset. Reserved instances is pre-commit
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Why compress at all? Wouldn't just having a pixel perfect stream solve the same issue and give better quality video? Because compression reduces the amount of data that needs to be transmitted, reducing network and battery usage,
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by ucaetano 9y ago
"Time sharing" is different from "pay for usage". "Time sharing" is "pay X per month and use up to Y hours". "Pay per usage" is "pay X per hour of usage, no minimum requirements".
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Or and even easier way: just have the drone fill up the stream with random data so that the data stream never goes "quiet" when the image is mostly unchanged. No sacrificing video quality or freshness required.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Nice catchphrase, meaningless, but nice.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
They don't even sell music. They provide access to music for free, and charge you for access to that music without ads. Amazon's (the company) largest product is Amazon (the marketplace). Amazon (the marketplace) allows Amazon to
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Because it is a childish rant about someone being uselessly pedantic for the sake of being pedantic and confrontational. I guess that's too low even for HuffPost!
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by ucaetano 9y ago
This article sounds almost childish. Spotify (the app) is Spotify's (company) product. Music is the musician's product. Spotify's (the company) product (the app) is a music delivery system. People who have a Spotify (the app)
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> You win hacker news today Oh, thanks, although winning hacker news is quite irrelevant when you're a trillionaire. Now if you excuse me, I'll retire to my orbiting chateau, it's tea time at my geostationary orbital slot.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
As requested, my white paper: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0858/9696/products/122_102...

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