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"Since US's population is substantially larger than that of UK or Japan, maybe you should expand "elite" to more than just the top 4" - Q dub

"My cousin's girlfriend's brother's aunt's daughter's birthday is coming up and I'd love to get her a Playbook." - Q dub

"I really like that Steve Gillmor posts under his real name. It helps me skip over his articles faster." - Q dub

"Same thing was said when Apple removed the floppy drive in the G3 days. And that before USB thumb drives were prevalent. People thought they were crazy; turns out they were just about a year ahead of everyone else." - Q dub

"This is not about progressives in SF, it's about funding the generous benefits to city workers who are so politically entrenched they can drive a city to make irrational decisions such as this." - Q dub

"Come to think of it, Paul does resemble Tucker Max a little bit." - Q dub

"Bing is not only copying link-text<>url relevance by observing user clicks, but also search-query<>url relevance. It's plagiarism, plain and simple." - Q dub

"I'll trade you some tater tots for that." - Q dub

"Trade unions protect about 16M people, out of a population of 300M. Hurting unions is hardly enough to explain middle class decline, let alone the fact that unions protect their members at the expense of outsiders. I see the middle class being robbed from 3 different directions: 1) Post-Glass-Steagall Wall St. 2) Public sector unions and 3) US's non-response to Chinese protectionism" - Q dub

"The fact that your personal data is public isn't a valid moral excuse for this kind of commercial use. Say you're a musician who uploads mp3s free for your fans to enjoy. That wouldn't grant iTunes of Spotify rights to include your tracks in their libraries. That's because usually, you have some sort of licensing restrictions that goes along with your music. Same is true for software that can discriminate "Free for students, but we charge $100 for commercial use." Essentially, when you give things away, you still have the right to discriminate by its use case. The problem is that consumers obviously do not think about "licensing restrictions" every time they reveal bits and pieces of themselves, but when all the data comes together in a powerful product like Spokeo, most people quite obviously react by saying "I obviously would not have 'licensed' my information for this type of use case!"" - Q dub

"Google delivers the largest quantity of video online via YouTube. Should the dominate video codec ever move to monetize it's popularity, as H.264 might, this would be disastrous. This is an insurance policy against such an outcome." - Q dub

"I'm surprised no one has looked at that chart and immediately thought of Gramm–Leach–Bliley (repeal of Glass Steagall) in 1999 which completely changed the rules of the game." - Q dub

"I'm surprised no one has looked at that chart and immediately thought of Gramm–Leach–Bliley (repeal of Glass Steagall) in 1999 which completely changed the rules of the game." - Q dub

"Maybe there isn't a strong technical distinction between CDN and backbone traffic, but there certain is a clear business model distinction: Backbones have peering agreements because they *tend* to be symmetrical, with same amount of traffic flowing in both directions. A CDN is unidirectional; basically as L3 grows it's CDN business it will just dump more and more onto other backbones unless those backbones enter the CDN business as well. So I kind of hear Comcast's point that L3 is simply abusing the definition of backbone peering agreements by blending their CDN traffic into their backbone traffic." - Q dub

"Maybe there isn't a strong technical distinction between CDN and backbone traffic, but there certain is a clear business model distinction: Backbones have pairing agreements because they *tend* to be symmetrical, with same amount of traffic flowing in both directions. A CDN is unidirectional; basically as L3 grows it's CDN business it will just dump more and more onto other backbones unless those backbones enter the CDN business as well. So I kind of hear Comcast's point that L3 is simply abusing the definition of backbone pairing agreements by blending their CDN traffic into their backbone traffic." - Q dub

"Remember this? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... "Applications that are pieced together" did not happen. Instead, if there exists ANY asymmetry of size or leverage of adjacent applications, the stronger side would almost always prefer to conquer rather than integrate. This is especially clear in location with Yelp & Facebook moving against foursquare, with Google moving against Yelp, and in some sense Facebook against Google (since in social/communications Facebook has greater leverage)." - Q dub

"Remember this? http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... "Applications that are pieced together" did not happen. Instead, if there exists ANY asymmetry of size or leverage of adjacent applications, the stronger side would almost always prefer to conquer rather than integrate. This is especially clear in location with Yelp & Facebook moving against foursquare, with Google moving against Yelp, and in some sense Facebook against Google (since in social/communications Facebook has greater leverage)." - Q dub

"I'm confused about your definition of "federated". To me, "federated" means it works the way email does: Each user's experience may be hosted by a different provider. APIs provide read/write access to data, but ultimately a single entity such as Facebook or Twitter hosts and controls the central experience." - Q dub

"I'm confused about your definition of "federated". To me, "federated" means it works the way email does: Each user's experience may be hosted by a different provider. APIs provide read/write access to data, but ultimately a single entity such as Facebook or Twitter hosts and controls the central experience." - Q dub

"What disappoints me most is the very obvious fallacy spouted around by the NVCA: That higher taxes on venture capital will curb innovation. How can a tax on the investors' personal compensation affect innovation?! Carry vs Income taxation will not change the allocation of capital amongst asset classes, let alone influence the level of entrepreneurial activity!" - Q dub

"What disappoints me most is the very obvious fallacy spouted around by the NVCA: That higher taxes on venture capital will curb innovation. How can a tax on the investors' personal compensation affect innovation?! Carry vs Income taxation will not change the allocation of capital amongst asset classes, let alone influence the level of entrepreneurial activity!" - Q dub

"What disappoints me most is the very obvious fallacy spouted around by the NVCA: That higher taxes on venture capital will curb innovation. How can a tax on the investors' personal compensation affect innovation?! Carry vs Income taxation will not change the allocation of capital amongst asset classes, let alone influence the level of entrepreneurial activity!" - Q dub

"Content farming is a risk to Google because the distinction between top quality and mass-produced, mass-linked content can be entirely opaque to Page Rank. Its especially true when the content is farmed by players with substantial distribution muscle themselves such as Aol and Demand Media. I happen to find a lot of quality content via the Facebook stream, which is unfortunately off-limits for Google." - Q dub

"The WinTel model of monolithic software + fragmented hardware isn't the only way to win. After watching the the kind of progress HTC has made since Android, Google must wondering: Why do I need all these different hardware partners when I just need one really good one? After all, Apple is killing it with essentially one model of hardware." - Q dub

"While a 5 mbps HD stream is only 1/3 of your 15 mbps Verizon connection, ALL residential broadband resources are provisioned on the basis that only a few connections are active simultaneously. What broadband providers want to protect is their ability to over-provision at the multiples they've always enjoyed. Even 30x over-provisioning is not uncommon! This has little to do with net neutrality, but I wanted to point out that bandwidth scarcity is in fact a problem if you factor over-provisioning into your back-of-the envelope math. The part where I'm a bit fuzzy about is VOIP: while 100kbps is not bad, 100kbps perfectly QOS'd may be harder than you think. I don't know the math here, so many another expert can comment =)" - Q dub

"While a 5 mbps HD stream is only 1/3 of your 15 mbps Verizon connection, ALL residential broadband resources are provisioned on the basis that only a few connections are active simultaneously. What broadband providers want to protect is their ability to over-provision at the multiples they've always enjoyed. Even 30x over-provisioning is not uncommon! This has little to do with net neutrality, but I wanted to point out that bandwidth scarcity is in fact a problem if you factor over-provisioning into your back-of-the envelope math. The part where I'm a bit fuzzy about is VOIP: while 100kbps is not bad, 100kbps perfectly QOS'd may be harder than you think. I don't know the math here, so many another expert can comment =)" - Q dub

"While a 5 mbps HD stream is only 1/3 of your 15 mbps Verizon connection, ALL residential broadband resources are provisioned on the basis that only a few connections are active simultaneously. What broadband providers want to protect is their ability to over-provision at the multiples they've always enjoyed. Even 30x over-provisioning is not uncommon! This has little to do with net neutrality, but I wanted to point out that bandwidth scarcity is in fact a problem if you factor over-provisioning into your back-of-the envelope math. The part where I'm a bit fuzzy about is VOIP: while 100kbps is not bad, 100kbps perfectly QOS'd may be harder than you think. I don't know the math here, so many another expert can comment =)" - Q dub

"On the super soldier point: Oddly, I felt the ODST play still very similarly to the Chief. Besides the loss of regenerating health, you're still able to eat up roughly equal amounts of damage, face against equally numerous Covenant foes in equally open and direct confrontations. I was hoping for a stealthier style of play =\" - Q dub

"On the super soldier point: Oddly, I felt the ODST play still very similarly to the Chief. Besides the loss of regenerating health, you're still able to eat up roughly equal amounts of damage, face against equally numerous Covenant foes in equally open and direct confrontations. I was hoping for a stealthier style of play =\" - Q dub

"On the super soldier point: Oddly, I felt the ODST play still very similarly to the Chief. Besides the loss of regenerating health, you're still able to eat up roughly equal amounts of damage, face against equally numerous Covenant foes in equally open and direct confrontations. I was hoping for a stealthier style of play =\" - Q dub