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by nordify 10y ago
What a bunch of BS. Not a single operator is going to delay rolling out 5G or decline to invest in 5G due to network neutrality. Furthermore none of the given use cases are require general Internet access. I don't care what they do wit
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by nordify 10y ago
For ADSL you define classes. Then for each class (i.e. line speed that you sync at) you offer speed guarantees.
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by nordify 10y ago
They can offer guarantees for on-net traffic and for traffic to Internet Exchanges. Obviously nobody can offer any guarantees for off-net traffic.
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by nordify 10y ago
Even if we go as far as to say that the models are similar, the implementation differs hugely. Especially with regards to telecoms.
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by nordify 10y ago
This is roughly how it works in Finland, although the maximum speed can be advertised. It works fairly well. The real kicker is that the regulator has actually defined acceptable minimum speeds. Minimum speeds can be stated either as an ave
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by nordify 10y ago
I think you are projecting. The original discussion was about alternatives to three strikes (which explicitly both of us oppose). Notice the lack of value judgement of rehabilitation vs. punishment. Secondly we were discussing the concept o
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by nordify 10y ago
Because society only works when there are some values or rules shared by the people. Society only obeys the rule of law as long as there is some consensus that the law is fair and just. Basic fairness demands that breaking a rule should res
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by nordify 10y ago
It costs society far more to imprison him for life. If we are optimizing for cost to society then it should be possible to find at least one other local minimum between the loss to society of a $5 petty theft and life imprisonment.
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by nordify 10y ago
Throwing the person into prison for life is obviously the wrong solution, it is not proportional to the crimes committed and it's a net negative for society. Put the person on supervised release, put an ancle monitor on the person and
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by nordify 10y ago
Well, the $300 or so in universal student grants each month help with the beer.
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by nordify 10y ago
There is one benefit of incorporating in Estonia: 0% corporate tax on undistributed earnings.
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by nordify 10y ago
Until the Estonian e-resident can open a bank account remotely (likely later this year when the new law goes into effect), the residency is mostly an interesting curiosity, not much more.
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by nordify 10y ago
Actually, Estonia just passed a law which will allow remote bank account opening for all e-residents.
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I'm an American living in Sweden. Here's why I came to embrace the higher taxes(msn.com)
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by nordify 11y ago
> I would love to see the numbers on this. 9.6 kbps is about 3GB per month. That's between $44 (Finland) and $360 (US) in retail prices per year. It adds up to a lot, approximately $880 million to $7.2 billion per million users over
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by nordify 11y ago
There's been a lot written on peering. Dr. Peering has a lot on his website, perhaps not so much regarding latency but lots and lots on peering in general. Googling for publications will also get you a lot of interesting stuff.
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by nordify 11y ago
Somebody still has to pay for it. If it's the cellphone companies then in the end the payers will be the taxpayers (through subsidies or lower spectrum license fee receipts as the cellphone companies factor in the costs of the free ser
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by nordify 11y ago
I almost choked on my coffee before I understood this was written in jest :) Well done! More seriously one historic contributing factor was probably that Finland had small, local monopolies that provided services locally and each had both l
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by nordify 11y ago
The hotspots themselves won't do you much good. You'll need backhaul to connect them to the Internet and pay somebody to service and operate them. Then you'll need power for each and every device. All this costs money. Who pa
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by nordify 11y ago
Depends on the provider. 100/10M is a common product, but some offer 100/100M. EDIT: Half of the dwellings have cable where you can get 350/20M for 45 euros per month. Fiber/FTTB is all over the map, but typical max spe
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by nordify 11y ago
> What's the speed like going out of the country? Full line rate round the clock. > Where are the big peering points? The main local IX is FICIX. The main Swedish IX Netnod in Stockholm is 8 ms away. Netnod is the 10th largest IX
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by nordify 11y ago
> Internet access (and not just HTTP) in Finland (?) is free. Internet access in Finland is not free. However, everybody in Finland is entitled to Internet service, i.e. each area has a designated universal service provider who is respon
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by nordify 11y ago
I want to replace peaker plants with storage. Somehow I don't think the economics work out. Do you disagree? Even if we rebuild the whole continental US power grid (that's a lot more than $50 billion) to cope with the demands of u
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by nordify 11y ago
> The main advantage is that energy storage today is more efficient, with new technologies coming out. But not cheaper or anywhere close to the scale of pumped hydro? Hydro requires favorable geography and/or rebuilding the grid to
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by nordify 11y ago
Your storage system must be able to store enough energy to cover the cumulative output of the peaker plant in order for it to be able to replace the peaker plant. That's a lot of storage. And you need to have enough overgeneration to b
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by nordify 11y ago
So, can we build enough hydro to make a difference and how much will it cost to beef up the grid to handle all the power going into and out of pumped hydro?
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by nordify 11y ago
> Batteries are becoming cost-competitive as well. Can you quantify that? As far as I can tell the Powerwall is about as cost-competitive as battery storage gets and that's still far more expensive than just using grid power.
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by nordify 11y ago
So, even in a prefect world, it all comes down to whether it's cheaper/better to overgenerate and store or to run peaker plants? It seems storage has a long way to go as long as gas peaker plants are around 7c/kWh.
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by nordify 11y ago
Hydro only works if you have geography on your side. Flywheels don't have the capacity to do utility scale demand shifting. So, excluding hydro, am I right in that the economics of energy storage do not work (yet)?
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by nordify 11y ago
For the sake of the argument, let's accept the premise that variable demand requires variable pricing. Is there a technical reason price differentials have to be so large in California? In an efficient market, even with variable prices

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