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Douglas Galbi
Personal blog · galbithink.orgeconomicspolitics
Douglas Galbi writes Galbi Think!, a personal blog at galbithink.org about economics and politics. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Douglas Galbi's blog for its data on advertising spending as a share of GDP, and for arguments about paying for online content. The comments cite the posts as sources, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
FCC Senior Economist Douglas Galbi's analysis of issues in communications policy such as bandwidth growth, interconnection, peering, switching costs, content economics, radio regulation (spectrum policy), and multimedia.
What Hacker News says?
>Are companies just going to spend less on ads in general? That's unlikely. Spending on advertising doesn't appear to change much as a share of GDP: https://www.galbithink.org/ad-spending.htm
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on “Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking”Submitted U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s (2000) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionConsider two schemes for payment of content. A: You must decide, for each piece of data or information you consume, whether and how much it is worth to you. I'll note that in this discussion, not only did you not pay to read a work, but you couldn't even be bothered to click a link to examine it. Which, actually, I applaud as a rational behavior: the odds of being rewarded with quality content by following an arbitr…
Comment linking /ad-spending.htm
on “Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web”
