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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Free Basics argument doesn't address co... by gone35 on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:03AM (#10816886)
Why not give market solutions a chance?

Because "market solutions" demonstrably fail in the presence of externalities, esp. for public goods.

Besides market equilibria are provably intractable in the general case anyway... (Unless P = NP, that is).

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Free Basics argument doesn't address co... by icebraining on Thursday December 31, 2015 @06:14AM (#10817171)
Please be specific - which externalities do you see as arising from this model?
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