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Platformonomics TGIF #4: April 28, 2023
New post format: a weekly rollup of links, comments on those links, activity updates and attempts at humor. The intention is quicker hits in addition to the less frequent big posts and more timely hammering on my favorite themes. Be sure to subscribe below and to the right to receive all my output via email.…
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A New Antitrust Doctrine
Tl;dr: Sorry but you’re not getting off that easily with this post. There are different schools of antitrust thought. Each has principles and priorities it seeks to translate into an actionable and consistent framework for enforcement and policymaking. But the inevitably messy collision of intellectual frameworks with the real world makes antitrust a highly subjective…
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Cloud Power Up
Tl;dr: The clouds should use their powers to help power the cloud. Atomically. CAPEX obsessives like myself have focused on the cloud’s vast agglomeration of compute, storage, and networking. But there is another, less appreciated infrastructure dimension: the cloud is in many ways as much about moving electrons as bits. Without a considerable and constant…