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Cthulhu 2008 - Why Vote for the Lesser Evil?
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I so hate politics these days. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
That is so cool! I just ordered one. I refuse to vote Democrat, and I can't stand McCain. - Joey Gibson
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“Just noticed that FriendFeed now handles the "via [Product]" nicely. When did that happen? I must be getting too much work done today and not enough FriendFeeding”
April 23 at 12:48 pm - Link
Bret put that feature in on Saturday. He sent me out my via code this morning / last night. - engtech
So how does one use it? Is it documented somewhere? - Benjamin Golub
Sorry, I sent the announcement to the wrong Google Group by accident. Just emailed out here: http://groups.google.com/group... - Bret Taylor
Very nice; It's already making things look a lot nicer/cleaner - Benjamin Golub
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mibbit has helped me include less tech-saavy people on many a projects - Jake Russo
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haha awesome! - Jake Russo
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i certainly hope that friendfeed does implement that list of suggestions- would give even more reason to love friendfeed. - Nathan Eckenrode
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I'm a big Twitter-skeptic, but I felt that this was an excellent, thoughtful overview. - Adam Lasnik
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Yay! I love it! - Voyagerfan5761
The stats are great! Do you also take clicks into account when calculating if someone is interesting? - Jess Lee
Can't javascript do that? On every click send a request to record that it was clicked? - Benjamin Golub
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“Why is bandwidth not getting cheaper? Best price 8 years ago: $10/mbps (cogent). Best price now: $10/mbps (cogent)”
February 15 at 11:30 am - Link
But compression has gotten better, so each mb holds more stuff. - Jim Norris
On the other hand, stuff has gotten so much bigger. I remember when videos were something you watched on the teevee. - Kevin Fox
Kevin... I don't follow. What is this "teevee" you speak of? Was that before the Internet was invented? - Louis Gray
It's like YouTube, but with less guys getting kicked in the nads. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Mark, I made this for you: http://flickr.com/photos/perso... - Kevin Fox
The real question is why am I paying $100/mo for 6mbps and a static IP at home! (Speakeasy.net) - Steve Lacy
And I bet if you actually maxed your Speakeasy pipe you'd be hearing from them within a couple days. Your monthly cap is probably about 10-20gigs right? As opposed to the 1.88 terabytes (each way) you'd transfer if you maxed it out 24/7. - Kevin Fox
Bandwidth did get cheaper, but with paper money in a free fall it's hard to notice. According to your stats, 8 years ago 1 mbps cost 1 gram of gold (~$9-$10). Today one gram of gold would get you 3 mbps ($29 today) - Aviv
I feel like precious metals are too volatile to use reliably as indicators of inflation. A lot of their price movement comes from things other than their fundamental usefulness. Say someone finds a way to cheaply harvest gold from seawater and it drops to 1% of the current price. Does bandwidth then suddenly get 100X more expensive in inflation-adjusted terms? - Sanjeev Singh
That's exactly the point - their value extends beyond their fundamental usefulness to industry. If usefulness was the only indicator, a dollar would have the value of a paper napkin. Precious metals have a reputation for being volatile (which I disagree), but if anything I think nowadays they are far less volatile than most stock markets, real estate market, or even my local Starbucks' daily traffic. - Aviv
aviv, I don't think paper money is a good indicator of inflation either (if the fed decided to increase the supply of money 100X causing huge inflation, that has no "real" effect on bandwidth prices either). However, something like (basket of real goods, e.g. Big Macs) / mbps correlates with dollars much better than gold over the time period in question (last 8 years), hence my comment about volatility. - Sanjeev Singh
@Sanjeev: I just realized you edited your volatility comment. Gold has kept its reputation as the ultimate store of value in part because of the unlikelihood of that happening. To use the same logic, what if a rogue Federal Reserve employee decided to pull an allnighter and print more bills? At the end of the day, if either were to happen we would have far more troubles than the price of cogent bandwidth. I normally enjoy debating precious metals for hours and hours... but find it quite ineffective when done over FF's comment system :) By the way, have you read this - http://www.house.gov/paul/cong... - Aviv
@Sanjeev: you wouldn't be asking the bandwidth question in the first place if indeed goods correlated effectively and efficiently with dollars or other paper money. - Aviv
Not to fan the flames, but can't the price of commodity items fluctuate in relation to the price of other commodity items? It seems to me, especially when talking about high-tech commodities and services, that supply and demand and efficiencies of scale far surpass currency fluctuations. If Cogent is charging the same amount as they did 8 years ago, then the answer lies in profit margins and anti-competitive markets, not the currency the price is pegged to. - Kevin Fox
Friends are as good as gold. - Jim Norris
about $4.4/mbps here in Norway, unfortunately not symmetric (20m down, 1m up) - Amund Tveit
Need more competition. - Jason Kaneshiro
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