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is even faster, but also missed the point.

Ads are not the only model for providing free rides. Other Sustainable models exist:

Peer balancining: producers earn free credits for consumption. This is how Internet backbone peering and Team Fortress 2 work.

Freemium, or light users are too cheap to meter, while heavy users pay. This powered Zynga's IPO and many prosumer niches like Photography and web analytics.

Open core with professional services for customization or support (a mix of Freemium and free software). Cloudera.

How is Facebook different from telephone service, or USPS, or an ISP, under your analysis?

(Sidenote: USPS actually is ad-supported by bulk mail, and "heavy users subsidized" by parcel post. First class letter postage is really a nominal fee to eliminate DOS and DDOS attacks. )

When I hear an odd conclusion with no evidence, I usually disregard the conclusion, not infer the existence of fascinating undetected evidence.

Of course Elon Musk built his own character around Tony Stark of the comics, so the development is circular.

Who wants to live in a world where the rules of life stipulate that only one person can meet the definition of success?

I recently last sentence is social democracy in a. nutshell.

SOPA gives all siezed domains to godaddy. It is corporate welfare for them.

Up next: red-octothorpe-free zones.

It also works with a as 7.

At the that scale, CPU and developer time are mostly orthogonal. If you need to crunch 1000x more numbers, you won't be able to program your way out of the problem. If your code is 1000x inefficient, it should be easy to optimize a bit. If you really need 1000 machines for just one hour, setup costs dwarf compute costs. If you need 1000 machines for a year, you will need someone to administer the work and wrangle the data.

What does your scale mean? Paying nearly nothing to get to -80 is a great deal compared to speculative painful expensive surgeries and drugs.

Would you accept a free blog, email, photo album, and realtime chat software, with Web and mobile cliens, hosted in the cloud?

OK.