So yeah it is a lot easier to deploy infrastructure when the amount you have to deploy is 30X less.
No it isn't, you can't just simply put infrastructure anywhere in the UK at all, there is already existing infrastructure and private land in the way. When it isn't, we've got places like three houses on top of a mountain in Wales or Scotland.
Additionally, unlike the US, we deploy more infrastructure, what I mean by this is every 2nd street corner typically has a telephone cabinet where all the houses are linked to and it has a distribution point for more houses to be built in the area typically. Additionally, there will be a second cabinet next to it where the actual DSLAMs and other type of Internet providing equipment are hosted, rather than sticking it in an exchange, which is what the US does, leading to significant difficulties connecting new subscribers and bandwidth capacity problems.
In some cases, we don't even have the cabinets connected by wire, we have them connected through microwave dishes in hard to reach areas such as mountains.
We had a failure back in the 80s to do with darkfiber, where it didn't take off and was considered a failure. However, these days, a significant chunk of darkfiber is being used to connect exchanges to the cabinets and the exchanges themselves to other exchanges.
Massive amounts of money was poured into this infrastructure, massive amounts of complications was encountered by the fact that you have already pre-existing infrastructure that is in the way and limited legal rights on where you could even put installations. It would likely be cheaper in most states to deploy per customer because you wouldn't have to deal with complex tunneling systems, ancient infrastructure (buildings, roads, tunnels) that could crumble if touched in the wrong way (particularly in places like London), plus being spread out more gives you more growth options for the infrastructure etc. Having a longer fiber connection without all that non-sense is simply not as expensive.
Sure, but the UK is not in a good bargaining position.
The UK is in a better bargaining position because it is able to arrange it's own free trade deals with the rest of the world which it was not able to before. The UK can trade with anyone now with less restrictions, the EU won't trade, that won't stop the UK.
Why would you lock yourself out of interacting with foreigners?
Exactly, that's why the UK has to leave the EU. I mean, if Iceland can arrange free trade, free travel with many countries and they can do it quickly and effectively without even being a very notable country... But we can't because we're part of the EU, it's clear where we need to be. We can still negotiate free trade and free travel with the EU, much like some other countries have managed to without being EU members.
If the EU won't have free trade with the UK, at least the UK can now arrange free trade agreements with the rest of the world (which is still experiencing growth, unlike the EU), which wasn't possible inside the EU, so I don't think it's that bad. I can't imagine us having worse trade deals than Iceland and Iceland despite being a fairly small and insignificant country in the grand scheme of things manages to have some very nice deals. It's ridiculous to say that the UK wouldn't have more influence.
"The next entrepreneur who's 22 years old, graduating from a technical university in Germany may, instead of moving to London to do their Fintech startup, decide to go to Berlin instead. I think that's one of the biggest concerns I have about the trajectory of the London technical ecosystem."
Can we get stats on the last few years of 22 year old entrepreneurs from Germany that did a fintech startup in London?
Those who voted leave did so because they didn't want so many foreigners coming to Britain
No, I didn't vote that way for that reason, you dirty lying scum bag. I'm fedup of these xenophobic fantasies you people come up with whenever someone has a genuine issue with the EU (often not even related to immigration).
You know jack shit about low-level programming and optimization.
Oh, it shouldn't be an issue for you to prove it if you came to that conclusion.
Come back when you work on the hardware level
Hi, I've worked on the hardware level!
Only idiots that are actually worried about shit keep saying "Where u at?" like you're doing.
Nah, I'm not saying that. I just know that you're lying, hence "that's all it takes" leads to not a thing happening. Come on Khyber, you can do better than that.
Try again when you've successfully written your own Second Life clone to work on Cell Arch.
While you might be able to handle alpha sorting concurrently through bitonic sorting, you wouldn't be able to do it faster against even the faster core i7s five years ago... Advanced Vector Extensions on Intel processors trumps the short-vector SIMD, memory buses are larger, memory availability is larger on PC platforms... That's when we compare only a couple of optimizations you can do on Cell verses doing none or an alternative method on x86... Yeah, sorry, you're talking non-sense.
I have to admit, it's been years since I've been in a car that didn't have a fully integrated radio dashboard thing. I forgot those even existed. Do you think the grandparent has a swappable radio unit like you?
I'm bitter about the death of VGA. It is not being replaced by a reliable standard, but by a mess of DisplayPort, miniDisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, and USB-C. I still have a VGA laptop, and it still works everywhere I go. But in a few years I'll have to buy a laptop with the least non-standard port and carry with me a bunch of adaptors. Sigh.
Based off your description, won't you just need a single adapter to VGA at worst?
I don't have a USB-C cable, the local super market that sell all kinds of cables doesn't have USB-C, I have never seen a USB-C even in the wild before... Where exactly do you live again?
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No it isn't, you can't just simply put infrastructure anywhere in the UK at all, there is already existing infrastructure and private land in the way. When it isn't, we've got places like three houses on top of a mountain in Wales or Scotland.
Additionally, unlike the US, we deploy more infrastructure, what I mean by this is every 2nd street corner typically has a telephone cabinet where all the houses are linked to and it has a distribution point for more houses to be built in the area typically. Additionally, there will be a second cabinet next to it where the actual DSLAMs and other type of Internet providing equipment are hosted, rather than sticking it in an exchange, which is what the US does, leading to significant difficulties connecting new subscribers and bandwidth capacity problems.
In some cases, we don't even have the cabinets connected by wire, we have them connected through microwave dishes in hard to reach areas such as mountains.
We had a failure back in the 80s to do with darkfiber, where it didn't take off and was considered a failure. However, these days, a significant chunk of darkfiber is being used to connect exchanges to the cabinets and the exchanges themselves to other exchanges.
Massive amounts of money was poured into this infrastructure, massive amounts of complications was encountered by the fact that you have already pre-existing infrastructure that is in the way and limited legal rights on where you could even put installations. It would likely be cheaper in most states to deploy per customer because you wouldn't have to deal with complex tunneling systems, ancient infrastructure (buildings, roads, tunnels) that could crumble if touched in the wrong way (particularly in places like London), plus being spread out more gives you more growth options for the infrastructure etc. Having a longer fiber connection without all that non-sense is simply not as expensive.
I don't even know anyone who has 3g/4g as their home Internet connection and I live in the UK.
At home I have two Internet connections. 100MBps VDSL2 connection provided by BT and a 200MBps FTTH cable connection from Virgin Media.
The UK is in a better bargaining position because it is able to arrange it's own free trade deals with the rest of the world which it was not able to before. The UK can trade with anyone now with less restrictions, the EU won't trade, that won't stop the UK.
Exactly, that's why the UK has to leave the EU. I mean, if Iceland can arrange free trade, free travel with many countries and they can do it quickly and effectively without even being a very notable country... But we can't because we're part of the EU, it's clear where we need to be. We can still negotiate free trade and free travel with the EU, much like some other countries have managed to without being EU members.
Due to how VAT works, that's not been a loop hole in the EU for import taxes.
That's nice, dear.
Which is the only ones I am aware of that required treaty changes. All the over power changes didn't require treaty changes and couldn't be vetoed.
Not really, only a few that required treaty changes and there were not many of those.
If the EU won't have free trade with the UK, at least the UK can now arrange free trade agreements with the rest of the world (which is still experiencing growth, unlike the EU), which wasn't possible inside the EU, so I don't think it's that bad. I can't imagine us having worse trade deals than Iceland and Iceland despite being a fairly small and insignificant country in the grand scheme of things manages to have some very nice deals. It's ridiculous to say that the UK wouldn't have more influence.
I genuinely believe it was a stupid literary device and an emotive argument, especially when we're talking fintech.
Can we get stats on the last few years of 22 year old entrepreneurs from Germany that did a fintech startup in London?
No, I didn't vote that way for that reason, you dirty lying scum bag. I'm fedup of these xenophobic fantasies you people come up with whenever someone has a genuine issue with the EU (often not even related to immigration).
You're a dirty scummy liar. My vote was not based on that.
Wrong. You failed to give the actual reason behind my vote, you dirty liar.
They'd both be screwed, nobody can afford to live in London.
Oh, it shouldn't be an issue for you to prove it if you came to that conclusion.
Hi, I've worked on the hardware level!
Nah, I'm not saying that. I just know that you're lying, hence "that's all it takes" leads to not a thing happening. Come on Khyber, you can do better than that.
While you might be able to handle alpha sorting concurrently through bitonic sorting, you wouldn't be able to do it faster against even the faster core i7s five years ago... Advanced Vector Extensions on Intel processors trumps the short-vector SIMD, memory buses are larger, memory availability is larger on PC platforms... That's when we compare only a couple of optimizations you can do on Cell verses doing none or an alternative method on x86... Yeah, sorry, you're talking non-sense.
Call your "TempDog", Khyber. That's all it takes!
I ran Windows 95 on an earlier model using qemu?
I have to admit, it's been years since I've been in a car that didn't have a fully integrated radio dashboard thing. I forgot those even existed. Do you think the grandparent has a swappable radio unit like you?
Based off your description, won't you just need a single adapter to VGA at worst?
I don't have a USB-C cable, the local super market that sell all kinds of cables doesn't have USB-C, I have never seen a USB-C even in the wild before... Where exactly do you live again?
Now replace your home button.
You can run the Google Authenticator app instead of SMS.
Use your tablet!
You have to unlock the phone first...