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Ask HN: What if bandwidth weren't an issue?
7 points by jeffool 15y ago|3 comments
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by jeffool 15y ago
Now i can't help but wonder, would it be wise for the government (likely local) to lay pipe and license room in it to ISPs? Much of it could even be done when working on sewers and roads, I'd imagine. (Cue complaints of government interferi
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by jeffool 15y ago
My favorite article on this topic, by Robert X. Cringely in 2007, on the Telecommunications Act of 1996: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026... "The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen."
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by jeffool 15y ago
For the value I get out of it, I certainly wouldn't complain... But if YC isn't worried about the cost of running this site, I definitely am not.
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by jeffool 15y ago
Potentially silly question: Why did we dig ditches and bury cable? Why didn't we dig ditches and bury pipes that you can snake cable out of and into as needed? This makes our Internet seem less like a problem of feasibility, and more like a
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by jeffool 15y ago
A couple of recent quotes of his: "I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection." http://www.rit
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by jeffool 15y ago
Couldn't a website provide links to all those things? Without having to pull a camera out of your pocket? I guess you could take time to snap a picture that means nothing to the human eye, I'd rather just tap it in or write it down. At leas
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by jeffool 15y ago
Meaning we should use that thread for suggestions, or is there an answer somewhere in that giant mess?
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by jeffool 15y ago
Well, consider me educated! Thanks!
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by jeffool 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this be a sign of inflation if food prices were going up here, but not in non-dollar places? Food prices are going up universally. It's not a matter of shopping for groceries, it's knowing how much othe
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by jeffool 15y ago
Actually, I think they solved it; clumps of eggs.
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by jeffool 15y ago
With audiobooks (and speeches/lectures) I mostly listen when going to sleep. Then the next night I go back to the last part I remember and start back, usually recognizing a few more minutes as it plays, then reaching new material, and event
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MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan's rant on money's corrupting effect on Congress(youtube.com)
6 points by jeffool 15y ago|2 comments
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by jeffool 15y ago
No way, you tell them you're attacking on Thursday night/Friday morning at midnight. Then do a headfake, a completely impotent showing, but keep at it for at least three hours. Then let it fall apart as users drift off. Then, around eight a
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by jeffool 15y ago
I've wondered that too. One of my favorite I assume was plotted by the film maker, though I've done no research on it, as an insane amount of well-timed events happened. If you're remotely interested in things like this, you owe it to yours
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by jeffool 15y ago
I think my biggest lament will be dying before we get off this rock and/or contact other intelligent life. But I think we're very far off from that.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I will say this: The second line (points, author, time, flag, discuss) being the same size as the title link (just grey) and better spaced would be awesome. Especially those times (often) when I find myself checking HN on my phone. Tapping
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by jeffool 15y ago
"For Hire" suggests that you are an illustrator and offering to do "that" for anyone who will hire you. Maybe you should remove this, and re-up it with a "Wanted" tag instead?
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by jeffool 15y ago
Scrolls appears to be more like a fantasy card game than an epic fantasy RPG-FPS. I really don't see there being much confusion.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I don't disagree with you. In fact, I largely after with you... That type of society is sustainable. The question is, however, how we get from our current system to that one. It does not look like it will happen naturally. Instead it looks
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by jeffool 15y ago
I have that exact problem; finding new music. Pandora doesn't dig deep, oddly. That said, I just can't imagine people paying for music. Is it possible you could convince bands that the promotion is good for them, and to give the music for f
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by jeffool 15y ago
I, completely pulling this from thin air, would say no. When the inevitable error happens in a network setting, one error could effect every car that shared a given property (say, every car on the same road.) Or it could send a semi down a
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by jeffool 15y ago
Ahhh, thanks to both of you!
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by jeffool 15y ago
Hate to ask, but is there a way to make a note of a thread for later, aside from making a comment in it? Yes, that is what I'm doing here. On my phone right now.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'm not sure if whichsituation is "the norm", but my area (southwest Georgia) and many surrounding communities only have one cable choice. In some of them there is a public option as well, but not many.
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by jeffool 15y ago
Honestly I've got no problem with what you did. I'm just saying that they probably covered themselves in the legalese. For instance, my cable company recently shut off my Internet due to excessive DMCA complaints. They told me they had a "f
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by jeffool 15y ago
The developer didn't steal anything. At most, Apple did. But there's probably wording in the agreement about services for payment and Apple taking the payment. Their reasoning likely being he took the service, so they took the money. Legal?
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by jeffool 15y ago
Sure, I just mean to say that a person calling the urgent line because someone may have accidentally pocketed a key and the homeowner is concerned, is reasonable. That should be investigated. But the guy calling with a police report on his
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by jeffool 15y ago
Purely pulling this out of my ass, but I'm hoping whoever took his initial call(s) just severely misunderstood the situation. Maybe people have had trashy guests or items broken and became irate over them, and that's what this person though
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by jeffool 15y ago
I love the idea of a home server far more than I do using typical "end-point" electronics... But one thing I'd love to see a hardware manufacturer make is a wifi monitor that functionally doubles as a tablet. Just a light, wifi, touchscreen

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