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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
It's more complicated than that.

- Many poles are owned by power companies, or telephone companies. You can absolutely get a JPA (joint pole attach) agreement with most of these companies in theory.

- In practice, your first problem is that most poles are horribly maintained. And if you are a new attachee, you will often find yourself having to share in the cost to make an already non-compliant pole compliant and with enough room for you to attach.

- If you are dealing with, say, Verizon poles and are trying to attach for a competing cell service, your make ready costs are oddly inflated, and they may go as far as expect you to split the cost 50/50 for a pole that is already out of spec.

- In many municipalities, the kickbacks of 'franchise agreements' cause a lot of inertia. This is mostly the case with CATV, the industry of 'how can we be minmax our monopoly'. Essentially, the cable provider pays the city X dollars per subscriber, gives them a couple public access channels, and in return gets exclusivity.

I used to do HFC design for Xfinity Fraudband, as well as fiber design/permitting for other CATV providers and cell carriers. Its a corrupt and abusive industry, the entire contractor/subcontractor system is made to shield the companies both from overall liability as well as prevent unionization.

Also, any of the SV folks speaking up about social injustice would have a heart attack in a week or two. Being in that climate for so long made me numb to a lot of injustice, and it took years to recover.

Comment · 5 years ago
We see some of this already on the inverse. FAANGs and their ilk frequently hire and keep talented developers with various forms of golden handcuffs. They could be doing much more to innovate, but the risk/reward vs being a code janitor making six figures is far safer.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not so sure. It almost looks like the wages going up is getting "priced in" by businesses.
Comment · 6 years ago
At least in the USA, most drive failures of early models (the ones that the swap trick worked on) were due to poor quality plastic carriages. Flipping the system upside down would help... for a time.
Comment · 6 years ago
Good leaders will help you and can recall instances where your knowledge helped.
Comment · 6 years ago
And, perhaps more importantly, they are using all of the monies to start getting their own foothold in other continents. IOW they are entering their own modern expansionist phase.
Comment · 6 years ago
Well, given the 'inspirations' that regime had, one shouldn't be surprised.
Comment · 6 years ago
My understanding of at least the Pfizer vaccine was that it primarily lowered the risk of developing COVID from a COV-19 infection. Also if I read it properly that means you could/would wond up in the asymptomatic spreader category.

IF all of that is true (and if i misunderstood, please correct me!) It would make the most sense to give it to higher risk individuals first.

Comment · 6 years ago
> While AirBnB has received a lot negative press for facilitating the letting of would-be residential property by large-scale professional landlords, the marketing from AirBnB's side has always favoured the "local guide, personal human experience" angle, an angle CouchSurfing has always tried to cover non-commercially.

Call me cynical, but "Advertise your product for a use that your core moneymaking market doesn't do" would be a good dark pattern to avoid scrutiny/regulation.

Comment · 6 years ago
A large number of Realtek products are some form of MIPS core (or at least used to be).
Comment · 6 years ago
Dating apps can't solve everything.

The upshot of this however is that, if you are being honest in your profile, these things are things that you want to do anyway.

If you still take the effort to talk to the person before going on a booked trip, it should be an experience you will enjoy.

Of course, things can go wrong. But part of any relationship is taking that risk.

I don't think this is a silver bullet, no, but I think it is a pretty good framework for people who are in a good place to find in a healthy relationship. I.e. comfortable and honest with themselves and looking for a partner to enrich their lives rather than just seeking 'a relationship' (i.e. trying to fill some other void in themselves).

Comment · 6 years ago
I'm not sure whether the smaller size is an asset or liability here. There's likely some tradeoffs for manufacturing tolerances and/or thermals. (physics people speak up?)
Comment · 6 years ago
Bears?
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah but the slope gets slippery fast...

Because in the past, some courts have ruled that ADTS systems are in violation even if their qualifying functions are unused.

Iow even id a dependent manually entered numbers, it would still be illegal to make the call.

And yes, this has made TCPA rulings a subject worthy of its own blog, the situation is such a mess.

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