Longmont is a bit of an unusual example (I live there too) because the city already operates an electricity utility as a quasi-governmental business.
The fiber is built out and run by Longmont Power & Communications, and so the current design makes it hard for the city to secretly bail out the broadband service if it's failing. Certainly they could push up electric rates to cover it, and I believe the city is guaranteeing the $40M bond issue that funded the construction but I don't think they have an opportunity to dump millions into it without some form of public approval.
It's also probably instrumental in driving up property prices, certainly I know it was a major factor in us deciding to move to Longmont. That's perhaps not great for everyone in town, but it's nice for homeowners.
Fort Collins is also in a very similar position because they also operate their own electricity company so they already have poles, vaults and rights of way. Also interestingly both utilities are a part of the Platte River Power Authority who started this whole thing by running fiber to all their substations and generating facilities, so I expect that Fort Collins and Longmont will be directly peered.
I also assume that'll end up creating a municipal backbone along the northern front range, which will benefit smaller cities and also help give some protection against net neutrality issues.
Layer3 push their service a lot in my area (as we have muni fiber), and they do seem like a cable company replacement.
They've got a high monthly cost, require that you use their boxes, and won't sell a plan that doesn't include a bunch of channels I dont want.
In short, they've taken everything we dislike about the cable model and brought it into the internet age. Still it seems unreasonably popular with people my parents age, gives them the trendy feeling of cord-cutting, getting their tv over fiber and not actually losing any of the comcast experience.
Surely ones a futures market stabilizes some that should improve things there. Bitcoin payment processors will be able to use futures contracts to help create a payment that's less volatile.
That's was my first thought too. I'm surprised by how many rental properties seem to never change their wifi password. Seems like it'd far easier for a past guest to set up something like that and far safer than doing it in a place you own
Anecdotally i've seen both, some are very well socialized and others not so much. I think many homeschool parents are hyper conscious about this and compensate with other socialization.
I just cant imagine how you keep up with curriculum. I look at the stuff i did in high school and i'm still rather surprised at how much you can learn at 16/17 - I knew way more math then than I do now. I'm sure i could get back to a place where i could understand differential equations myself, but that assumes my child wants to pursue similar specialties to me. The few parents I know who home school have advanced degrees themselves and do fine by their kids academically, but they've also seemingly molded their kids very much in their own image (or perhaps they were naturally like that, it's hard to say).
I totally agree with you. It's not something I'd like to see happen because the repercussions are too broad.
Arguably we opened that can of worms a bit with the Bush v Gore judgement. We've shown the court can intervene in a very narrow sense, but realistically i think it's far to late for any kind of challenge to be in the national interest.
I'm curious what will end up happening if it's shown that Russia rigged the election but the president was too distracted to even really be aware it was done in his favor. He's clearly not a "details" person and it'd be easier (for the russians) to keep him in the dark than to actually make him complicit.
I suppose if something really damning came out, like the russians actually tampering in a provable way with our vote totals, then clinton could appeal to the supreme court to overturn the election result.
It's probably hypothetically possible but I can't see any real route to all that falling into place perfectly.
I've always wondered if you could somehow structure some kind of super-short-term set of futures contracts that would roughly approximate a roulette wheel. Instead of placing a bet you'd simply buy a futures contract that would either pay out handsomely or return absolutely nothing a few minutes later.
Add some pretty animations to show which contract was successful and the whole thing could look like a roulette wheel while you are really just trading some kind of derivative.
I think Amazon's play here is really smart. We too have HBO through that route when we probably wouldn't bother with it otherwise. Being able to add a streaming service for a few months without any billing or device hassles is pretty huge.
Sure, but you can survive that for a short period of time likely. If i can survive a minute or two at 115 and have no ill effects.
The BBC quotes some Finnish Sauna Society person saying that even up to 160C is "enjoyable" for some individuals, although i'm fairly skeptical of that claim
No, i have genuinely been in a sauna around that temperature. That's certainly on the hot side and it hurt to take deep breaths but it's far from lethal.
I've routinely been in saunas around 100C and find that quite pleasant as long as i can get out and take a cold shower or jump in a lake.
Still i wouldn't want the outside to be that hot, that'd be very very unpleasant.
Well sure, but we have one at work (since we can see 15 minute billing) and i have friends who are on a pilot smart grid and have varied rates and a meter that can cope with it at home.
If someone is going to the expense to add solar panels and batteries to their home, paying to have their meter switched out is a no-brainer. In fact some old meters already need switched when you get solar because they apparently don't run backwards properly.
I live in a town that's made the decision to not artificially sweeten the pot for getting rooftop solar (but they do have a pretty attractive 100% renewable grid price). Despite having had solar on my last house, I generally support their decision since it's unreasonable for non-solar rate payers to make up the costs of maintaining the grid.
The problem I see is that i'm now not looking at the breakeven on getting 80% of my power from solar, but the breakeven on getting 100% of my power on solar. Batteries are still way too expensive for that to happen, but battery prices are definitely falling and when the do we're going to see more affluent households leaving the grid altogether. And of course when people start doing that, rates will have to rise and that'll make it cost-effective for even more people to leave. That will end up fucking over those who really can't afford to leave.
I think switching the pricing for electricity to better reflect the true costs makes the most sense. Make the monthly charge representative of the costs of infrastructure and then change the usage charge to vary through the day to track the price of wholesale power. Then more affluent households will be more inclined to play into that (for their own gain) rather than take their ball and go home. If i could discharge powerwalls into the grid when the wholesale rate is 50c/kWh then everyone wins.
Sizes don't need to be additive, but i'm speaking to your point about the "Lumber Standard Inch" measurement. You can't really use that unless the difference between a "2-by" and a "4-by" is the same as the difference between a "4-by" and a "6-by"
I did some work on a place I had that was built sometime in the 60s, and in redoing bits of floor I found that the plywood that was used previously was a true 1/2" but when I went to HD to buy half-inch ply, it wound up being more like 27/64ths or something like that.
Yeah I've seen a lot of people dismissing this but I think it's generally a pretty good idea. There are obvious issues with pay and insurance but i suspect many walmart employees will be happy to make their commute home be payable. Walmart will have to suitably figure out insurance because personal injury lawyers will jump at the chance to list them as a defendant when traffic incidents happen, they've got much more incentive to get that right than the local pizza franchise.
Their real strength in ecommerce should be that they have a massive presence in nearly every locality in the country, yet you can order something off their website and it'll ship with UPS 2-day from the other side of the country (despite sitting on a shelf 3 miles away from me). Their giant store footprint is really their singular advantage over Amazon, of course they should play to it.
I no longer have an IPv6 capable ISP to test with, but when I was on comcast I was impressed that I could ssh directly into a machine running at home behind my router. There are almost certainly people who've enabled ipv6 without realizing that.
However comcast were issuing a/64 to every user, so that gave me 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses for my house. Good luck getting nmap to find open samba servers in that kind of an address space.
Right, but consider how many samba machines are on small business networks. If a piece of malware gets onto any windows machine or phone attached to your network, it can potentially execute this exploit against your fileserver.
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Longmont is a bit of an unusual example (I live there too) because the city already operates an electricity utility as a quasi-governmental business.
The fiber is built out and run by Longmont Power & Communications, and so the current design makes it hard for the city to secretly bail out the broadband service if it's failing. Certainly they could push up electric rates to cover it, and I believe the city is guaranteeing the $40M bond issue that funded the construction but I don't think they have an opportunity to dump millions into it without some form of public approval.
It's also probably instrumental in driving up property prices, certainly I know it was a major factor in us deciding to move to Longmont. That's perhaps not great for everyone in town, but it's nice for homeowners.
Fort Collins is also in a very similar position because they also operate their own electricity company so they already have poles, vaults and rights of way. Also interestingly both utilities are a part of the Platte River Power Authority who started this whole thing by running fiber to all their substations and generating facilities, so I expect that Fort Collins and Longmont will be directly peered.
I also assume that'll end up creating a municipal backbone along the northern front range, which will benefit smaller cities and also help give some protection against net neutrality issues.
Layer3 push their service a lot in my area (as we have muni fiber), and they do seem like a cable company replacement.
They've got a high monthly cost, require that you use their boxes, and won't sell a plan that doesn't include a bunch of channels I dont want.
In short, they've taken everything we dislike about the cable model and brought it into the internet age. Still it seems unreasonably popular with people my parents age, gives them the trendy feeling of cord-cutting, getting their tv over fiber and not actually losing any of the comcast experience.
Surely ones a futures market stabilizes some that should improve things there. Bitcoin payment processors will be able to use futures contracts to help create a payment that's less volatile.
That's was my first thought too. I'm surprised by how many rental properties seem to never change their wifi password. Seems like it'd far easier for a past guest to set up something like that and far safer than doing it in a place you own
Anecdotally i've seen both, some are very well socialized and others not so much. I think many homeschool parents are hyper conscious about this and compensate with other socialization.
I just cant imagine how you keep up with curriculum. I look at the stuff i did in high school and i'm still rather surprised at how much you can learn at 16/17 - I knew way more math then than I do now. I'm sure i could get back to a place where i could understand differential equations myself, but that assumes my child wants to pursue similar specialties to me. The few parents I know who home school have advanced degrees themselves and do fine by their kids academically, but they've also seemingly molded their kids very much in their own image (or perhaps they were naturally like that, it's hard to say).
I totally agree with you. It's not something I'd like to see happen because the repercussions are too broad.
Arguably we opened that can of worms a bit with the Bush v Gore judgement. We've shown the court can intervene in a very narrow sense, but realistically i think it's far to late for any kind of challenge to be in the national interest.
I'm curious what will end up happening if it's shown that Russia rigged the election but the president was too distracted to even really be aware it was done in his favor. He's clearly not a "details" person and it'd be easier (for the russians) to keep him in the dark than to actually make him complicit.
I've read comments suggesting this might be "pickable" though other means but the principle here is pretty interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I suppose if something really damning came out, like the russians actually tampering in a provable way with our vote totals, then clinton could appeal to the supreme court to overturn the election result.
It's probably hypothetically possible but I can't see any real route to all that falling into place perfectly.
I've always wondered if you could somehow structure some kind of super-short-term set of futures contracts that would roughly approximate a roulette wheel. Instead of placing a bet you'd simply buy a futures contract that would either pay out handsomely or return absolutely nothing a few minutes later.
Add some pretty animations to show which contract was successful and the whole thing could look like a roulette wheel while you are really just trading some kind of derivative.
It'd be great if you could let google know which paywalled sites you subscribe to so that those still appear but others choose not to.
I think Amazon's play here is really smart. We too have HBO through that route when we probably wouldn't bother with it otherwise. Being able to add a streaming service for a few months without any billing or device hassles is pretty huge.
Sure, but you can survive that for a short period of time likely. If i can survive a minute or two at 115 and have no ill effects.
The BBC quotes some Finnish Sauna Society person saying that even up to 160C is "enjoyable" for some individuals, although i'm fairly skeptical of that claim
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
I'm not sure why i'm even bothering to respond.
It's right there on Wikpedia that Finnish sauna temperatures sometimes exceed 110C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No, i have genuinely been in a sauna around that temperature. That's certainly on the hot side and it hurt to take deep breaths but it's far from lethal.
I've routinely been in saunas around 100C and find that quite pleasant as long as i can get out and take a cold shower or jump in a lake.
Still i wouldn't want the outside to be that hot, that'd be very very unpleasant.
Well sure, but we have one at work (since we can see 15 minute billing) and i have friends who are on a pilot smart grid and have varied rates and a meter that can cope with it at home.
If someone is going to the expense to add solar panels and batteries to their home, paying to have their meter switched out is a no-brainer. In fact some old meters already need switched when you get solar because they apparently don't run backwards properly.
I've never been above about 115C and that was pretty brutal even for a couple of minutes
I live in a town that's made the decision to not artificially sweeten the pot for getting rooftop solar (but they do have a pretty attractive 100% renewable grid price). Despite having had solar on my last house, I generally support their decision since it's unreasonable for non-solar rate payers to make up the costs of maintaining the grid.
The problem I see is that i'm now not looking at the breakeven on getting 80% of my power from solar, but the breakeven on getting 100% of my power on solar. Batteries are still way too expensive for that to happen, but battery prices are definitely falling and when the do we're going to see more affluent households leaving the grid altogether. And of course when people start doing that, rates will have to rise and that'll make it cost-effective for even more people to leave. That will end up fucking over those who really can't afford to leave.
I think switching the pricing for electricity to better reflect the true costs makes the most sense. Make the monthly charge representative of the costs of infrastructure and then change the usage charge to vary through the day to track the price of wholesale power. Then more affluent households will be more inclined to play into that (for their own gain) rather than take their ball and go home. If i could discharge powerwalls into the grid when the wholesale rate is 50c/kWh then everyone wins.
Sizes don't need to be additive, but i'm speaking to your point about the "Lumber Standard Inch" measurement. You can't really use that unless the difference between a "2-by" and a "4-by" is the same as the difference between a "4-by" and a "6-by"
It doesn't work as an implied unit. Otherwise you could glue a pair of 2x4s and make a 4x4 - which obviously doesn't work.
Metric is the solution :D
I did some work on a place I had that was built sometime in the 60s, and in redoing bits of floor I found that the plywood that was used previously was a true 1/2" but when I went to HD to buy half-inch ply, it wound up being more like 27/64ths or something like that.
Enough of a difference to be annoying.
Yeah I've seen a lot of people dismissing this but I think it's generally a pretty good idea. There are obvious issues with pay and insurance but i suspect many walmart employees will be happy to make their commute home be payable. Walmart will have to suitably figure out insurance because personal injury lawyers will jump at the chance to list them as a defendant when traffic incidents happen, they've got much more incentive to get that right than the local pizza franchise.
Their real strength in ecommerce should be that they have a massive presence in nearly every locality in the country, yet you can order something off their website and it'll ship with UPS 2-day from the other side of the country (despite sitting on a shelf 3 miles away from me). Their giant store footprint is really their singular advantage over Amazon, of course they should play to it.
In theory it tops out at 950Mbit/s up, but it's incredibly hard to find any single service that can handle those speeds.
To be fair, TMobile do pretty well at 2 and do a decent job of 3 (though without end user control).
I'm not sure 1 is within their domain.
Maybe.
I no longer have an IPv6 capable ISP to test with, but when I was on comcast I was impressed that I could ssh directly into a machine running at home behind my router. There are almost certainly people who've enabled ipv6 without realizing that.
However comcast were issuing a /64 to every user, so that gave me 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses for my house. Good luck getting nmap to find open samba servers in that kind of an address space.
Right, but consider how many samba machines are on small business networks. If a piece of malware gets onto any windows machine or phone attached to your network, it can potentially execute this exploit against your fileserver.