ucaetano

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by ucaetano 7y ago
It isn't just "can't put them out", grain dust is explosive. Grain elevators are time bombs.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Wow, that's a surprisingly fair and neutral write up, really good work!
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Exactly! Free market != laissez faire. But a market where exorbitant costs of regulation drive up the minimum efficient scale to the point that no new entrants are possible is also not a free market.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Nope. It doesn't in any way. A free market is one where prices are set based on supply and demand without restrictions on competition due to monopolistic powers, market reserve regulations, etc. There are always limits to competition,
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by ucaetano 7y ago
> Strong competition would mean dozens to hundreds of sustainable entrants. Absolutely not, there is such a thing as minimum efficient scale. Some markets might only have room for 2 or 3 companies to operate efficiently.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Essentially, the flying buttresses are designed to hold the weight of the roof pushing outside. Without that weight, there isn't much to prevent the walls from caving in.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
> As far as I understand, it's back to being desert everywhere today. Not entirely. The once massive Mesopotamian Marshes (which were largely drained by Saddam to destroy the local Shia population) have been partially restored, from
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by ucaetano 7y ago
You can address that by using Gini index x median income. The result is the same: the US continues to be an outlier with significantly higher inequality than most developed countries.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Another way to look at it is median income x Gini index. Essentially, higher-income countries tend to have lower inequality, but the US is an exception, with significantly higher inequality than other developed countries.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
A nitpick: wanderlust doesn't mean in English what it means in German. While in German it still means "a desire to hike", in English it is usually associated with travel, a meaning that in German is closer to Fernweh (far-sic
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by ucaetano 7y ago
"open source the data" What data? User's data? Algorithms? There's little value in FB's algorithms, the value is simply in its usage by users, content creators and advertisers. Without those, FB is worthless.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
"The company needs to meet a 30 percent local sourcing rule to be able to open its own stores in the country." It is just the result of protectionism.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
You are getting a cut of it, in the form of the voluntary usage of a free service. That's voluntary barter, you're trading your data for usage of a service and is perfectly fine. If your point is "I want my cut in money"
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Oh, if you could afford a computer, even an used one, in the 90's you were definitely part of a global elite. Heck, in 2000, just under 30% of the global population had access to properly built sanitation services. And about 28% of the
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Oh, it does. Only 5% of the global population had access to the internet in 2000. If that doesn't qualify it as a product only available to the elites, I don't know what will...
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by ucaetano 7y ago
> EU ruled on it. You are wrong. Oh, you mean that if politicians pass a law saying the sky is red, then it stops being blue? Seriously, if the EU "rules" that gravity doesn't exist, then it suddenly stops existing? Don&#x
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Which is like saying that Subaru is dominant in the market for new cars sold at Subaru dealerships. That completely ignores the fact that there is intense competition for developers and users between Android and iOS, and renders the point m
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by ucaetano 7y ago
You didn't, you just hand-waved and threw some claims around without any data to back it up, and you didn't address the key issue: you don't have access to datacenters, only to POPs.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
> while AMP was supposedly "open", Google teams such as Gmail and Search would implement it however they wanted, and that no open governance would impact them at all And that's exactly how any open standard works, isn&#x27
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by ucaetano 7y ago
> We are measuring significant latency reductions for real players to google data centers right now. Again, you only have visibility to the POPs, so you're only seeing improvements on the path to the POP. For example: there is no Go
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Very poor where? In the US? The "very poor" in the US are rich in most of the developing world.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
No, you're measuring improvement to the POP where you peer with Google. Unless you're telling me that Google is giving you access to its private networks all the way to the datacenters, which I'd find hard to believe. Between
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by ucaetano 7y ago
> The implication of “Consumers are far better now than they were” is that they are better, because of the App Store. This is false, completely illogical, and a straw man argument (as no one suggest users of tech have it worse in 2019 th
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Sure, someone else might have done it, but that's irrelevant. It doesn't matter if it was Google or Apple, or someone else. What matters is only the impact to the consumer, and the consumer is far, far better off than in 2005.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
You also don't seem to understand economics. It isn't plain and simple, things are far more complex than that. And if you read the EU decision, you'll notice that they're assuming that Android doesn't compete with i
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by ucaetano 7y ago
> rich and poor You seem to have a mental image of the internet that doesn't correspond to reality. Poor didn't have access, they couldn't afford a computer, much less an internet plan. Step out of the Hacker News bubble f
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Yeah, I don't think that taking policy advice from movie quotes is a good idea...
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by ucaetano 7y ago
Not to the datacenters, just to the POPs or edge nodes, after that, it is all private networks. And, afaik, the distance to the closest pop or edge node is a small share of the total distance to the datacenters.
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by ucaetano 7y ago
It is irrelevant. Running Android apps is no longer tied to AOSP. Chromebooks run Android apps. There is an app ecosystem composed of Google Mobile Services and the Play store, today it runs on Android and on ChromeOS, and it seems that it
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by ucaetano 7y ago
You can do all of that, just download the apk. What you seem to want is that app stores should be forced to accept any apps? The rest is just saudosistic nostalgia. There wasn't mass access to the internet, you're just missing the

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