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This seems like the sticky bit: Fifth, we want the broadband infrastructure to be a platform for innovation. Therefore, our proposal would allow broadband providers to offer additional, differentiate…

The general feeling is that creativity is hard, and even exponentially hard. When people try to do things creatively they feel like they aren't doing that much better than trying all possibilities and…

So roughly half a Library of Congress.

Related: Verizon has also moved to dismiss the story. "The NYT article regarding conversations between Google and Verizon is mistaken," the company said. "It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose.…

All of this will end up working out fine so long as money doesn't change hands in the process. It seems reasonable that someone will have to make a judgement call about whether a certain type of traff…

We have been talking to Verizon for a long time about trying to get an agreement on the definition of what net neutrality is. We’re trying to find solutions that bridge between the hardcore net neutr…

It sounded to me like they convinced Verizon _not_ to give preferential treatment. Specifically, Google and Verizon's agreement could prevent Verizon from offering some prioritization to the biggest …

I think you are mistaken on who capitulated. This story is a lot more informative: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/google_and... Specifically, Google and Verizon's agreement could…

Hope you don't mind, I submitted this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1577341

Not that this is really a defense of the product, but you should try it in chrome. You'll have a better experience.

I was talking about the same thing the parent was talking about. The page linked in this submission. Why are you talking in the past tense?

What browser are you using? Loads in less than a second for me. The interface doesn't seem any more complicated than a hackernews comment thread.

Really? I don't buy it. The game hosting is still peer to peer, the packets shouldn't have any need to leave the local network once the game is started. I'd have to see actual tests of people on the s…

Internet access is so universal now that this doesn't seem like much of an imposition to me. What are the other complaints?

This might be obvious to most people here, but what do you consider to be their user-hostile policies with starcraft 2?

I guess if one camp is clearly more popular than the other then it will win out all the time, instead of both winning out all the time.

I think this is actually a fundamental problem with not having downvotes. Tribalist things that would normally get half upvotes and half downvotes now just get upvotes. It's the same thing with the ip…

In this regard, Chicago trumps all. Chicago is to New York, as New York is to SF. Normalize this graph for population and you'll see what I mean: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/06/where_are_…

In theory I agree with you, but in practice I don't. For most of the people I've seen delay college, they only life experience they gain in the meantime is in waiting tables. (Which they usually alrea…

>She was clueless. Unrelated to his tears, he was spending 40k/year on her mindlessly and passively attending random classes. How insane is that? Very insane and totally unnecessary. She could hav…

One thing I'm always struck by whenever this comes up is how much people underestimate our collective capacity for indolence. As much as I hated uninspired busywork in highschool, and did as little of…

>Does anyone in America have the same thought, or are your institutions of higher-learning pretty much satisfactory? Frankly, I think our colleges are pretty much great. We have enough supply that…

At my highschool the valedictorian speech had to be approved by the principal in advance. I wonder if he ever would have let something like this by.

How would you summarize the state of current research on it? What looks promising? What makes it difficult?

My dad died of Glioblastoma when I was a teenager. He first noticed it as a sudden worsening of vision, followed by a breakdown of spatial relationships. My mom's boyfriend's best friend died of it to…

How do you solve global problems like climate change with a local government? It seems to me that whenever there is a tragedy of the commons, the more independent actors there are in the negotiations,…