Re: April first
But rather overkill. Do we really need something like this in the HTML spec?
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"If a third party can fuck up enough business relationships to close down a company, that company is doing something fundamentally wrong."
Or the customers are fundamentally wrong, and if you lack a choice in the matter, you take what you're given, only they were more interested in leeching. Trust me, it's like trying to stay afloat in a Section 8 neighborhood.
If the issues are solved, why are Teslas still crashing when they should be employing ten-year-old tech and be smart enough to avoid obstacles a human eye can and would be able to detect well ahead of time? Can this ten-year-old tech be able to tell between stuff it can drive through and stuff it should avoid...even when they look the same (like an old woman versus a carjacker)?
Let's see them work their around Metro Manila during afternoon rush. Put it this way, it's SO crowded that most roads become parking lots, SO unruly that it's considered necessary to ghost drive to get anywhere, and SO overpopulated that not even the commuter rail way provides enough relief (stations routinely have lines going all the way back to the street).
Data plan is a sunk cost because it was obtained for other reasons (say it's a listed business expense). And more plans have no data caps in order to keep customers. Sunk costs and no data caps takes out the two chief concerns. A "no need to listen again" takes out the main reason for downloading.
Thing is, a place like Newark, New Jersey may be a better place to resettle than elsewhere in New York State (and it's still easy to go back to New York if necessary). Furthermore, threatening to move out of the state would deprive the state of lucrative corporate taxes, meaning Albany can get involved to rein in the Big Apple.
The main reason Facebook works versus a P2P system a la BitTorrent is that it opens the network to users with no fixed points of contact (eg. their only useable device is a cell phone whose IP--let alone contactability--cannot be guaranteed). A client/server approach is the only one that works here, and for a client/server system to work, the server must be consistent and reliable.
I frankly don't see how that problem can be solved. It's like the First Contact problem (Alice and Bob trying to prove themselves to each other without anything, even a Trent, in common between them). Basically, if you can't trust your environment, you can't trust your work in it, period. Meaning all the bad guys need to win is to install a perpetual paranoia.
I'll believe it when an outside agency (as in outside the country) endorses the results independently. Even better, I'll believe it when an organization like MADD endorses it (as an endorsement from an opponent is the best form of endorsement there is).