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This makes me wonder why Netflix doesn’t go into the ISP business. As long as they’re behind ISP’s they’re going to have an awful negotiating position. Educating consumers can only go so far, especially when most consumers can’t just switch to an ISP that doesn’t throttle their traffic.
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Actually, I think that’s what they are doing. They’re moving into the transit business, but since they aren’t a very useful bidirectional peer, they have to pay.
Consider. Netflix currently (or not long ago) delivers data to Comcast via Big Pipes, Inc. Big Pipes has an agreement with Comcast where they have two ports plugged into Comcast’s switch. All of Netflix’s traffic has to go through those two ports, and is hence “throttled”. Akamai, on the other hand, has an agreement where they have ten ports in Comcast’s switch. Netflix could use Akamai to deliver their traffic, but Akamai costs more.
Netflix has now decided to cut the middle man Big Pipes out of the picture completely. Funny that they don’t mention the cost savings from not paying for middle man transit.
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True but there is a big jump from serving the data to owning the infrastructure that serves it. Also the main problem of lack of competition in the ISP space is due to urge high barriers of entry - cost and huge amounts of red tape for new comers.
That is of course assuming they are not leasing the lines from Comcast or any of the other big players. If they were to do that by would still be dependant on the big players who could up their (yearly?) lease as a form of toll.
I think what really needs to happen is the US government needs to come in and split up the companies into smaller ones under grounds of anti-competitive behaviour, like they did with Bell Telephone back in the 20th century.
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I still don’t think that moderation solves the quality of comments problem. Rather it just reinforces a particular opinion that is reiterated by most popular users.
Tox: A New Direction https://blog.libtoxcore.so/193/tox-a-new-direction
New website design is here! http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6586
Now with V8 JavaScript I think everyone should switch from C to JS even if you are programming for embbeded devices. Obviously V8 JS is so fast you’ll never notice the difference! /Scarcasm
In all serious knew I think they are poking fun at a very real mistake some devs make when they make silly decisions due to their attachement/love of a particular framework or language that is ill suited for the purpose, e.g. using NodeJS for static file hosting or blog rolling.
A good programmer once told me that you should use the framework and languages are just tools, and you should only use the right tool for the right job.