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by NoPiece 12y ago
It's hard to get except in the exact situation the original article is talking about. They will give you FIOS pots when they are just trying to get rid of copper. They stopped rolling out fiber because they needed to improve adoption i
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Except that Verizon's phone service over fiber is priced and regulated in exactly the same way as their copper service. It is still effectively the same landline service. Forcing Verizon to maintain copper means slower rollout of fiber
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Wouldn't make more sense to push employers to move jobs to existing urban areas (Oakland, San Jose, and San Francisco) instead of trying to build more transit to suburbs, and creating even more urban sprawl?
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by NoPiece 12y ago
If you are talking about an urban boulevard, then I agree. Engineer the street to lower speeds, and increase safety because there are pragmatic options (roundabouts, speed bumps, more signals and stop signs. But if you are talking about int
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I really like this cheatsheet, it is very inspiring actually. You should consider doing a version written for elementary school aged kids. You need to get buy in while they are still young!
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Laws may vary state to state, but in California, municipal utilities can and do lobby, and also have set up a statewide group to lobby on their behalf. http://cmua.org/ Fully staffed, CMUA has an impressive roster of profe
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by NoPiece 12y ago
China? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_China Or how about this paper on the role of abortion in population control http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3709011 No nation desirous of reduci
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I agree with your point, bringing up Apple is irrelevant. But Halo did end being released on both PC and Mac. http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Mac/dp/B00006IQTH
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by NoPiece 12y ago
The downing of KAL 007 was one of a series of events in 1983 that very nearly caused a nuclear war. It is fascinating and scary reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
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by NoPiece 12y ago
If they would read the history, learn the arguments they dismiss reflexively as idiotic, gather even a modicum of context before pontificating, who knows what might happen? This is the main point of the article, and a fair one.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Yes of course, like I've said, the number is overstated, but by how much? How many people in the country live in apartments like you describe? 2%? 5%? 10%? It still doesn't make much of a dent into 97%
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by NoPiece 12y ago
You are right, what the report says is that 97% of people live in census tract where there are two broadband providers. What percent have access to the two is unknown, but absent any evidence to the contrary, and given the relatively small
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Yes it seems possible that they could be overestimating, but it is the most thorough report I have seen. And if their sample set is large enough, they should have accounted for it. Do you have any actual data that shows different numbers?
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by NoPiece 12y ago
This is not the case for the “last mile”. Consumers often can only buy Internet access from a single provider; there is no choice. This is often asserted, but not true. According to the FCC, 97% of consumers have access to at least 2 bro
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by NoPiece 12y ago
You say McDonalds overheated the coffee, but the wiki page you linked to says that is a normal temperature, McDonalds still brews in that range, and Starbucks brews in that range. Since Liebeck, McDonald's has not reduced the service
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by NoPiece 12y ago
That number is only so high because it is discussing 10mbps or higher, so it excludes a big chunk of DSL providers as options. If you lower to 6mbps the numbers stay the same (sadly), but if you lower to 3mbps, 97% have access to 2 or more
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by NoPiece 12y ago
These underage sex slaves were pimped on myredbook: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/south-san-francisco...
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by NoPiece 12y ago
The median house price in the US (Jan 2014) was $188k, so it doesn't make sense to say 157k is targeted at the top 10%. The average SS benefit check for a retired worker is 1,298.40. A spouse would add another 652.57. And they'd h
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Here is a house there for $157,900, so it is not like they are being exclusive by pricing people out. http://www.thevillages.com/HomeFinder/Results/detail/L15.510... The average person could probably cover th
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by NoPiece 12y ago
There is a lot more of the US the I can fly over than drive through.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
But you should also consider where it is OK for delivery trucks to crash, and whether a drone crash or truck crash is more likely to cause damage or injury.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
My rebuttal would be that the oligopolies exist in heavily regulated areas (health, banking, telecom), and that isn't a coincidence. You don't need a big government to protect yourself from multinationals, you need a non corrupt g
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by NoPiece 12y ago
A smaller government wouldn't have a $52.6 billion budget for the NSA & CIA to data mine. A drug company can only charge a $1000 for a pill because the government is blocking competition by granting patents. Effectively creating a
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Welcome to the age of thousand dollar a pill medicine. Every communication, location, every purchase, every mouse click or swipe duly tracked, recorded, and data mined. You are exactly describing the world today, as provided by our big go
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I support this in principle, but I would bet a good portion of the buffering that happens for Verizon customers is due to issues with their own wifi network.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I have a Ubee cable modem from Comcast that doesn't have wifi, and I think had an Arris before that that also didn't have wifi.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
Growth is only one of hundreds of factors that affect poverty. Looking at only one factor without considering others is misleading. Poverty rates have been steady in the face of the disintegration of the family unit - perhaps growth is what
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by NoPiece 12y ago
You are right they don't necessarily compare well to Minecraft as systemic games. But they have procedurally generated worlds, and rival the best AAA games in terms of amount of gameplay they offer, and at a fraction of the price. I ha
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by NoPiece 12y ago
It is not the rule, but neither is it an outlier. From the last several years I'd also point to indie games like Terraria, Starbound, Kerbal Space Program, The Binding of Isaac, Torchlight, FTL, and Spelunky.
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by NoPiece 12y ago
I agree that the incarceration rate (drug war) and cultural acceptance have been major factors. The data doesn't support that slavery, racism, housing discrimination were causes. When those terrible things were in full effect, the out

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