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>How about the guy whose hands were cut off when he tried to smuggle fuel across the border that wasn't closed? What? I've never been anywhere near the Nepali border, but have spen…

Yes, they 'can' soak up $1T of liquidity the way I 'can' lock myself into my house and set it on fire. Common sense suggests they will never actually do so.

>This is what government's services gets you Why are you assuming that the only alternative to walled garden internet connectivity is government services?

Any aspirational luxury good does that to an extent. I suppose it's all about how people see you and treat you when you wear expensive clothes and Breitlings.

But there already is legislation in place to deal with problem 2. Antitrust law exists and has been successfully used in the past. If the political will is created it could be used…

The average Joe on the street never directly interacted with nor was directly affected by Dennis Ritchie's work. Since the greater population had never heard of him, they weren't g…

I think you are completely misunderstanding the purpose of Wikipedia Zero if those are the use cases you're showing me. It is not meant for people to get information about movies a…

But my contention is that Wikipedia should be regarded as fundamentally different from Microsoft or Google. They are not trying to compete with other encyclopedias. Why would they?…

>No, Because it closes out competition to newer, better information. But that would only make sense if Wikipedia created some sort of insurmountable barrier for newer, better infor…

What other system would you propose that would ensure that articles are as uniformly objective and factual as possible? It's all right to claim that anyone should be allowed to edi…

Is that such a bad thing really? Wikipedia already has a terrible reputation in research and academics, most people simply refuse to accept any information off it because "anyone c…