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  1. I didn't say it would be EFFICIENT. I said it would be possible.

    Efficiency is for centralized dictatorships.

  2. $10 billion fee to start an ISP- regulation by a centralized government divorced from the locals
    an army of paperwork-clutching government employees trailing after the fiber crews

    These are regulations Deregulating eliminates fees and paperwork.

    Which leaves you with:
    " A large difficulty is negotiating rights of access, especially if one has to negotiate such rights with every individual landowner, and it's also just plain costly to lay lots of fiber optic cable" - Sell the landowner the fiber, along with a share in the ownership of the company and a contract for upkeep. Charge him yearly for connection to the aggregation of backbones and it's a done deal.

    Or it would be without the regulations that create the $10 billion fees and excessive irrational paperwork.

  3. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that why you use multiple upstream providers?

  4. Aren't 2/3rds of your issues directly related to excessive regulation from foreign governments?

  5. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of their current scummy tactics consist of bribing regulators to create regulations.

  6. Who needs telephone poles with Wimax?

  7. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So wouldn't the answer be to lower the barriers of entry with deregulation and decentralization?

  8. Wouldn't corporate greed also be the solution?

  9. So start a competing company.

  10. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    I still don't understand why the answer isn't to start a competing ISP

  11. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The specific problem was collusion between large sites and ISPs to give more priority to certain sites in the bandwidth stream.

    The answer seems to me to be obvious: If an ISP in your area is doing this, buy some bandwidth on the backbone and use it as an advertising point to grab their business.

  12. Because, of course, a 20-something H1b has a lot of life experience to offer to community college students while he's banging all the white chicks.

  13. Re:Quality Beats Diversity on To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's far less racist than Norway, Sweden and Denmark....who are all about hating other white people with blue eyes and blond hair.

    It's far less racist than South Korea, North Korea, and Japan- who are all about hating other Asian people.

  14. Re:Does diversity results in better code? on To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you prove this is diversity, and not just the result of a brilliant enough mind to free herself from the communists and come here?

  15. Re:It does seem there's a diversity problem in tec on To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I am amazed that this was written by a woman! Props to Marlene, and if I ever have an app I want an iOS version of, Polyglot will be asked to provide a bid.

  16. Yeah, but we're old WHITE guys, which diversity experts say shouldn't have jobs anymore.

    Diversity is just skin deep, you know.

    Couldn't possibly, say, hire these old white guys to teach at community colleges, now could we?

  17. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I'll do another search for that!

  18. Re:Indeed. "Nazi" is short for "National SOCIALIST on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    At which point I go to the Knotted Rope Pulley AND Gate method.
    https://hackaday.com/2014/05/30/using-pulleys-and-weights-to-explain-binary-logic-gates/

    Or are you under the impression that strings, wheels, and weights are rare?

    The modern global economy has, overall, destroyed more jobs than it has created over the years. That's why we need a welfare state under a global economy, where labor not in surplus in an isolated market.

  19. Re:Indeed. "Nazi" is short for "National SOCIALIST on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    Who said I wanted to keep up a MODERN society? The laws of physics don't change, perhaps if we weren't chained to the globalist narrative, we'd end up with devices that better fit the environment in which they are used, using locally sourced materials and parts. A farmer in Iowa doesn't need a Rubicon Jeep. A prius is pretty useless in a mountainous area with no roads. Iowa has more raw resources than I ever knew. http://www.miningartifacts.org/Iowa-Mines.html

  20. Re:Indeed. "Nazi" is short for "National SOCIALIST on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    International IP licensing for local manufacture. And yes, it's designed to. Economy of scale is the economic enemy of the family.

    And currency? Locally produced for local use, of course. Hopefully at the neighborhood level, with inflation replacing taxes.

    And of course it is counter to the goals of the EU; the EU is an anti-subsidiarity system.

  21. Re:Diminishing returns on Firms Team Up On Hybrid Electric Plane Technology (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Being able to replace a good part of the volume of the tank with fish hold space, once the tank is empty. A five foot deep tank would collapse to less than 6 inches.

  22. Re:Diminishing returns on Firms Team Up On Hybrid Electric Plane Technology (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you use Prius style gas tanks- double walled, with liquid silicone seal in between the walls and 1" thick rubber.

  23. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I meant, what if you can't even find the wallet file? Is there a backup anyplace in the transaction chain?

  24. Re:Incorrect subject on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    At this point, selling one coin a month would fund a very nice retirement.

  25. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought one for $4 back in the very beginning.

    I then proceeded to store the wallet on a device that died.

    I have ZERO idea how to recover from that, and it put me off the idea of cyber currency.