jahabrewer

Exponential's a helluva curve

Wasn't Bell Labs a result of ATT's natural, sanctioned monopoly?

Yeah that's the vibe I got. More accurate headline: "ATT has been beneficiary of government action. ATT says it won't build new fiber to some dsl customers."

GP probably means the 2010s, during which the board milked the company instead of investing.

This doesn't smell quite right. For me, it wasn't uncommon to run in to NRE majors at college 15 years ago.

(now maybe they all work at NRC, I'll give you that)

The slide I see says _revenue_. I think you have to consider cost of revenue too, and these EU fines affect that.

So if the EU goes to fines being "% of worldwide turnover"... do the math

And when you need to raise capital? Tough sell.

and the energy investment is so drastically lower that my brain can afford to finance the pre-revenue charges of rinsing, cutting the ends, and pulling off a paper towel, so I eat way more of them.

You're saying meta had ~$14 billion in revenue in 2023? I think you're missing a zero...

Ben Thompson and the Air Current guy are two that come to mind

I'm a credit union member and... idk I've become disillusioned. Their products and rates are consistently worse than national banks. I won't feel like I'm sharing in anything. The execs seem to get good comp though.

Another way to think about this is in terms of how many marginal customers you get from being able to accept payments over the Web. 4% starts sounding less bad

> You can’t make a living posting stuff online on your own private website.

There are many counterexamples to this.

Please let this be from a GT ~grad~ escapee

Important clarification from reading tfa for a second: image _editing_. I can't believe Apple would sully their image with actual generation.

my toaster doesn't have a blu-ray drive either

... you can still buy most stuff outright? Blu-ray exists?

I'm no expert, but I think more than these things go into it (and I suspect way more than a 2x IPC bump, but that's guesswork). Also more cache and I'm sure more and faster memory.

Isn't it wild how little cultural attention is paid to supermarket tracking?

> Get off the major cloud providers that charge insane egress fees.

And run their own DCs? Cool, they'll just need a lot of upfront capital aaaaaand they're back in the "need money" boat. Except more so.

Can't wait to hear why Google should host unfathomable gobs of video for free in perpetuity.

You're right--I don't read a specific "here's the onerous parts of Title II" bit in that article. I think his argument is that:

1. The problems that supporters say net neutrality would fix are fictitious (the tweet), already handled (Comcast and bittorrent traffic), or not necessarily addressed by net neutrality (zero rating)

2. Title II classification entails much more regulation than net neutrality

3. Therefore applying Title II to ISPs will raise the barrier to entry for new entrants and not address the supposed harms

> at some point somebody fell for a fake tweet?

Not just "somebody"--the guy who coined the term "net neutrality" and advises the government.

Feel pretty jaded about this after reading Ben Thompson on Title II: https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/

Sidebar: I was 1000% pro-Title II last time this came up in 2015 and went through https://www.battleforthenet.com/ , I think to email my legislators.

Fortunately, I used a tagged/aliased email address. That address has apparently gotten into the Democrats' "never lose this email" bin. I regularly get emails from politicians I absolutely never wanted to hear from, all to that email. I try to unsubscribe, but they won't let me go.

Really? Sure Marvel's in a bit of a hole, but Filoni and live-action Star Wars has turned me back into a fan.

(that's the joke)

> I told it I wanted to learn about ethnic minorities’ right to political self-determination

>

> [ERNIE:] [...] Xinjiang is an ethnic autonomous area mainly inhibited by the Uyghur people.

Typo or Freudian slip?

I'd LOVE if there was a way to select the first Firefox Suggest result immediately instead of having to wade through search suggestions with down arrow. I _think_ Chrome has this?

> ... I still don't understand the exception Apple purportedly gets from its tracking rules.

As Ben Thompson has been shouting, it's because Apple has a very convenient definition of "tracking".

This would be for a ship that stays in space, right? (as in, not using an NTR from ground to orbit)

I have a 27" 2k monitor and macOS is tiiiiiiiny on it at native resolution. I use the product this website makes and love it.