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1,185karma·125submissions·January 8, 2015
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There are other ways to discriminate, but not many have been actually tried to my knowledge. One place where I worked studied a model with peak-load throttling. If you're trying to stream 4K vide…
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I previously worked in engineering at ISPs. There are two points to make: (1) Monthly data caps do not help manage congestion, at least not directly. However, non-engineers have a lot of trouble under…
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Right on. If we as a society want to help those whose skills don't command a high monetary value in the market, we should pay for that help as a society (through taxes)!
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The Economist describes the incident here: http://www.economist.com/node/149797
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Clever! It reminds me of another story of broadcasting information such that only interested parties will receive it. In 1997, during an auction of wireless spectrum by the FCC, some of the participan…