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by jasonwatkinspdx 4932 days ago
He is dead wrong on his comment about how there are no incentives on the supply side to reduce bandwidth consumption.

Everyone pays for transit and it is a major cost for any website operator other than something nearly pure text like hacker-news. Even the Tier 1 networks pay each-other transit fees based on ongoing negotiation.

It seems it's very difficult to maintain awareness of where your knowledge is accurate and where it isn't the more success you accumulate as a more passive desiccation maker than in the trenches problem solver.