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paulddraper on June 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Mi...

Exactly. Olive Garden is $10 for a pasta plate. I could have bought the ingredients for less than $2.

It takes times and skill to turn the ingredients into something useful.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are IaaS/PaaS, not ISPs.

mod on June 6, 2017 [–]

Want to disrupt the restaurant industry?

Sell food at cost!

/s

dbenhur on June 6, 2017 | [–]

Restaurants operate on pretty thin margins. You're confusing the cost of raw materials with the cost of prepared and served meals.

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