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by idlewords 3891 days ago
I don't follow your first point. For most web things (where there's zero marginal cost) profitability has nothing to do with scaling.
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I thought the parent's first point made lots of sense and I don't really follow your point. Marginal cost for web services isn't literally zero, it is just close enough to zero that real businesses with revenue can treat it as if it is zero. But that doesn't mean that it is at all cheap in the usual sense to run a popular web service.