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by ufocia 3y ago
You're right the BRI was actually 144k, 2x64k B channels and 1x16k D channel. 112k was available on misconfigured hardware and gimped bit-robbing lines where some of the bits on the B channels were used for signaling in lieu of a D cha
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by ufocia 3y ago
It Still Does Nothing
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by ufocia 3y ago
Channel bonded BRI was great at 128k and beat 56k connections handily.
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by ufocia 3y ago
Interesting. v.34 ratified in 1994 supported 33.6 kbit/s. In at least some areas POTS calls to local prefixes were unmetered. ISDN BRI had similar, if not identical, tariff.
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by ufocia 3y ago
I read the post to mean that Teslas are expensive crap.
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by ufocia 3y ago
Also, many people in the US (overwhelmingly in the Northeast) heat their houses with heating oil and thus already store roughly 300 gallons (or 1000 liters) or so of this diesel compatible substance in their abodes.
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by ufocia 3y ago
"When there are high temperatures in the landfill gas, that can melt or deform some of the landfill gas collection system components," PVC which was used for the gas collection system systems at ~200F, hardly a high temperature. M
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by ufocia 3y ago
Not an ad hominem attack or a microaggression, but hopefully constructive criticism. Your use of the "them" pronoun makes the post confusing. Does it refer to "they," presumably the doctors, the employer (job), the insur
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by ufocia 3y ago
... and a patient advocate.
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by ufocia 3y ago
America is not ultra-capitalist. American capitalism is hobbled by regulatory capture. Here and there it manages to briefly escape, e.g. Uber and Lyft, only to be recaptured again by redesigned regulation/enforcement to preserve, among
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by ufocia 3y ago
That also involves insurance companies. I wonder how many of them have "exposure" on both sides of the medical business. So long as they can raise premiums/limit coverage they can seek rents. US medicine needs first and forem
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by ufocia 3y ago
Why do we assume that healthcare is a scarce resource? Sure, maybe some diagnostic/treatment equipment is not available everywhere, but the labor/cost issue seems to be created by regulatory capture, i.e. self-imposed barriers to