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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yep, the hidden fact of student loans is that the ones struggling to pay it off most often aren't the ones with $100k+ in student loans. Those usually graduated from a mid to top tier school with a marketable degree, and won't hav
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by ucaetano 8y ago
A company decides to do business in China knowing that it means handing over all data on Chinese users to the Chinese government. This company is: 1) Apple? 2) Google (project Dragonfly)?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
And with compensation too. Barter is compensation.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Apple proves that does not have to be the case. By handing over all iCloud data of Chinese users to the Chinese government? You surely must be jesting!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Are you asking how can you influence law making in a country that you're not a citizen of?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yes: sell it. Or dilute it. The solution to pollution is dilution.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Privatization of natural monopolies cannot work, period. Why anyone would think otherwise is beyond comprehension. Reality begs to differ.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No, I'm not talking about T&D redundancy, I'm talking about competition and game theory. Once you have a distribution network or a transmission line in place, nobody will build a second one. It doesn't make any economic s
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yeah, because someone would build a second distribution line next to an existing one. Can you imagine ever house with 10 wire pairs coming in from the street, one from each utility? Competition on distribution or transmission is simply not
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by ucaetano 8y ago
While it might work with distribution networks, it would be much harder for transmission networks. It would be essentially building a pipeline to transport electricity.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The paper isn't about cars.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The model isn't about cars, used or otherwise.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
That might also be a USGS reference marker, used for topographic surveys.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Not when you want this: > authentically free markets Heavily regulating land markets is as far away from a free market as you can be.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> The American Conservative > We want a federal government that restrains itself from intrusive forays into the lives and businesses > Unfortunately, these well-intentioned dragons at the thresholds of the City of London have been
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Exactly, they probably don't have a license for ad-based audio streaming, only subscription-based.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> For example, I can't cast YouTube to it, because it doesn't support video. But what if want everyone in the room to hear what I'm playing and the video is irrelevant? I'd imagine that's for the same reason why
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by ucaetano 8y ago
I'd imagine not enough owners of those old stereos cared enough to buy the product and keep it viable over the past 3 and a half years.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Likewise.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No, willingly entering and operating in a country where you know you will have to compromise on privacy is putting profits ahead of privacy. Take the Google/China situation. If Google entered China and handed over all info on Chinese u
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yes, and faced with the option of making money in China and eliminating any and all user privacy, or not making money in China, Apple chose the former.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> In other words, we had to ask and get a small statement because being open, upfront, honest, etc is not their approach. You don't seem to understand how the press works. When you write an article about a company (or a public figur
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Oh, Apple does when it is required to make money, like in China. They handed over all iCloud data to the government. Companies are companies, they don't "care" about privacy, or anything at all. Google, Apple, Facebook, they&
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure it is. If you had a museum with a single painting, and you charged $10 for the entry, would you rather have a Van Gogh or a 3rd grader painting? Which one do you think people will be willing to pay for? And if you had a museum with two
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Indeed, but artists are not the source of revenue, users are. There could be a billion small artists, if nobody (or almost nobody) listens to them, they are irrelevant.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure, and putting up a sign in front of your store is advertising. Advertising is communication, you might not like it, but it is communication. It is product and price discovery.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Because the value of each of her streams is larger than the value of a single stream of another artist. It isn't the total $, it is the $/stream. Would you pay the same to see a Van Gogh painting that you'd pay to see your lo
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure, but you're one in many millions, the vast majority of users have the exact opposite behavior.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The problem is that not all songs are equal. People don't care about all artists equally, and therefore the "value" of a stream is different if you're listening to a song from, say, Taylor Swift, compared to a song from
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Advertising enables product discovery, price discovery, and so on. That should be enough to answer your question. Putting up a sign in front of your shop saying "New Mousetrap - Improved Design" is advertising. If you make a bette

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