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by metaphor 3y ago
> Tbh using DOCSIS4.0 is probably a mistake and a dead end technology. Virgin Media in the UK said the cost of upgrading to 4.0 from their 3.1 network was only half that of actually laying full fibre to all their covered premises, so th
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How'd you figure? DOCSIS 4.0 spec[1] was first issued circa Aug 2019 and has undergone 6-10 revisions since. [1] https://www.cablelabs.com/specifications/search?currentPage=...
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by metaphor 3y ago
You quoted Smith Chapter X Part II, whose argument in context is that the pressure of competition quickly kills attempts at collusion, while surviving conspiracies are enabled by regulation. The paper contrasts commodities from all other
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by metaphor 3y ago
Stale dogma. Times change and Smith didn't live in the Information Age. See this paper[1] for a deeper perspective on relevant market dynamics. [1] https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/
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by metaphor 3y ago
> I always thought a round ringed TRS style plug like headphones use would have been great. No way to orient it incorrectly. Now consider the forward-looking bandwidth implications with that class of physical interconnect.
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s/a decade/two decades/
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The context of my remark was in response to how "money being printed left and right..." --> "...end up in the hands of regular people doing renovation or home builds?" Just because "lots of people not being able
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$2.50/box today relative to $2.00/box in 2019 represents +25% inflation...so nowhere near purported pre-COVID levels. CPI less food and energy[1] over the same period increased +17.3%...so currently priced worse than nominal infla
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by metaphor 3y ago
Were you asleep[1] the entire time? And that's just what Average Joe was pocketing. [1] https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/news/articles/update-three...
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> As that is reportedly going to cause a noticable increase in their future launch insurance costs. Interesting speculation...except there's this eyebrow raising P&E footnote buried in their 10-K filing[1; p. F-33]: >>
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$150,000...restated, 0.014% of cash and cash equivalents on balance sheet[1], or 0.004%/0.738% of 23Q2 revenue/profit[2], respectively. I really doubt $150k is anywhere near sufficient to cover just the FCC's administrative c
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> ...most company policies will try to block USB drives of any kind. Grand assertion. Where's your supporting cite? To be clear before goalposts are moved, the context is external optical media drives---a peripheral commonly iss
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by metaphor 3y ago
It blows my mind away that this remark is entirely oblivious to the consideration of physical media.
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> C'mon, that's not a big sample size for such sweeping conclusions. Sleuth the monthly Host Railroad Reports here[1], direct from the cow's mouth. The company sets an aspirational 900 minutes delay per 10k train miles t
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> But that's the point, with any somewhat rich country, the level of education is high enough, that a generalization on the benefits of reading which Voltaire is talking about, are not valid anymore, because we now have them, and a
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by metaphor 3y ago
The military doesn't need the class of nerd that couldn't spell OPSEC if there were just 5 letters in the alphabet.
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> Here is the official us government status about declassification of the document. > If the user was blocked please reinstate his account and his post, as the manual is FULLY UNCLASSIFIED. Bona fide clown. "FULLY UNCLASSIFIE
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> Why do you think that reading in general is good? Seriously? To quote Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary : >> You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indol
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by metaphor 3y ago
Disappointed that discussion has regressed into a naive "class war" narrative while no one is talking about the face value business implications of § 174 [1] now that the handout bankrolled by 2017 TCJA [2] is nerfed and tax code
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by metaphor 3y ago
Incidentally, appears to be only the second time it's been resubmitted in the month of September. The timing is thematically apt.
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> So the number is even closer to half now. Nope[1]. Local maxima at 42.5% circa 21Q4, but currently 38.3% and trending down since. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18ZDm
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Consider what "off peak hours" will even mean as California continues to push towards 100% ZEV adoption. Today, we know how LADWP commercial time-of-use[1] is windowed while fossil fuels remain the dominant energy source, but I ha
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Average electricity costs in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim locality[1] have increased +46.6% since 2019 (+10% nominal CAGR?! wild) and is currently +65.7% above the national average. Given this prevailing trend, I do wonder what percen
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Recommend revisiting Huntley's blog post for the insight that he so charitably and concisely conveys. As for derived enlightenment, the onus is entirely on you; I have no interest in bartering an appeal to conditional short-sightedness
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That you so readily conflate the editor itself as a terminal end rather than a cleverly disguised means to an end hiding in plain sight is what makes Microsoft's strategy so scary; they're so effective at steering even knowledgabl
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> VS Code is just that much better. The trouble here is that "better" comes at a cost that the community has yet to truly realize, and Microsoft is very good at playing the long, slow bleed game; if strategic fractures[1] com
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Maybe I'm just exhausted, but the abstract[1] alone was quite painful to parse. Was this paper auto-translated? [1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9441281
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by metaphor 3y ago
Have you caught anyone attempting to poison the well yet?
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Thought it was curious that this was released 4 days ago, but a spot check of the Firefox Add-Ons downstream[1] still reflects 1.51.0 updated on the same day (2023-07-19) as its GitHub release[2]. Then I saw: > Firefox: Review pending
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Indeed, I've found it to be quite accurate in my city when zoomed in enough to where the hex grid transitions to green/red dots on individual properties. In my neighborhood and adjacent communities within a roughly 5-mile radius,

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