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by ctdonath 7y ago
Higher bandwidth brings us closer to obviating wired home internet.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The notion of free speech isn’t advocated to protect popular speech.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Making productivity easier decreases the value of that productivity. Their wealth & pay may increase, but not as a 1:1 ratio to productivity. Were that not the case, there would be no incentive for customers to select the new service.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I'd be happy to articulate the hard way to make a really good cup of coffee, starting with ordering green coffee beans and proceeding thru barista tools few are familiar with. (Might take a while to write.) Plenty of ways for the proce
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by ctdonath 7y ago
This is a good relevant question. Both are easily verified, impossible to duplicate, convenient value density, and (!) production correlates to increase of total world economic value. As such, the question is interesting: how much energy re
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Define “transaction”.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Diversity is good, remember? When did diversity instantiate as “if you don’t agree with X without qualifications, you’re Hitler”?
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by ctdonath 7y ago
roughly 85% of the population worldwide is already covered by 3G or 4G networks. Consider the reverse. As internet access becomes a staple service for modern living, one’s options for location are restricted to where internet is available
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Their cost though is limited range/coverage and very limited non-mobile data plans. I want 100Mbps 1TB/mo anywhere.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
How do current ground wired customers like their internet provider? On the whole, they don’t. What percentage of the world population has internet access of any kind? of land area? of anything over 1Mbps? Huge untapped markets there. I see
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Vs “quit leaving dirty socks under the coffee table.” That’s direct & natural.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Ah, the “absurd absolute” tell.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Agreed. And twitter better understand the dynamics of that, considering there’s a large fraction of users looking for a better platform to jump to.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I rely heavily on those I follow to retweet interesting tweets. I may not want to read everything lots of people say just to get the interesting bits. For Twitter to decide “you can follow directly, but you can’t spread what they say” is on
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The fact checkers are too often biased/liars/propagandists. I want to hear what someone has to say. As an adult I don’t need someone to translate a tweet for me, nor protect me from its contents. Most media is propaganda today; Tw
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I like my work. I'd rather eat a can of room temperature soup at my desk than interrupt a satisfyingly productive line of thought.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
They haven’t failed yet. Yet. At a billion or so users they’re still the go to venues. Having watched social media sites fail since BBS days, clearly a critical mass of users are looking for alternatives, with a mass exodus once enough sta
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by ctdonath 7y ago
"Just what I wanted! A 4-pack of grand pianos!"
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by ctdonath 7y ago
In Georgia I’ve seen more gasoline outages than electrical outages for over a decade.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Those accepting less than “six nines” are trading for some other features. I’ll take less uptime but only to eliminate dependency. We struggled to reach “six nines“ for a reason.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Read the rest of the sentence: “decommission equipment, gather up the power lines, and sell it all as scrap.”
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Maybe PG&E should just declare bankruptcy, decommission equipment, gather up the power lines, and sell it all as scrap. PG&E would no longer be an issue, and everyone would have an incentive to install home solar or other locally re
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Comment threads like this always amaze me by the number of socialist/communist advocates on a site devoted to full-on capitalism.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Hence this country being founded on a core of individual rights: everybody just let others be, quit bossing each other.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Because the government is democratically elected. Tyranny of the majority is a bad thing.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
the main function of the govt is to redistribute. Absolutely not. That's communism, which never does - and never can - turn out well. The USA was founded on the main function of gov't is to protect individual rights - that eac
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I'm fact driven. Democracy is, literally, a majority deciding what laws all must adhere to. They don't know/care about a minority's circumstances/needs/choices, yet impose their ill-informed will through the po
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by ctdonath 7y ago
No, the 2ndA reads as "DESPITE the existence of a well [gov't] regulated military, the people may nonetheless own military weapons". This written shortly after the author wrote (paraphrased) "despite having strong milita
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Exactly.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Why should the average American pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes? They shouldn't. All should pay $0 taxes. We expect adults be financially independent after a few decades. The gov't, with its ability to literally

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