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Antibiotic resistant MRSA kills thousands of people a year in the US. The idea that he went to the hospital with pneumonia and then contracted antibiotic resistant MRSA from the hospital environment is very plausible.

Most of Comcast’s internet is exchanged through transit-free peering agreements, so only about 1% of Comcast’s outbound traffic requires them to pay for IP transit. And that traffic is mainly overseas, so Comcast is effectively a Tier 1 network in the US. Which means their customers’ outbound traffic doesn’t cost them anything.

For most last-mile ISPs, peering isn’t a revenue source. Small ISPs have to pay for peering and IP transit, and large ISPs have transit-free peering agreements with most, if not all, of the internet.

However, large ISPs that enjoy regional monopolies can refuse to upgrade connections with peered networks in an attempt to force the content providers sending traffic over the peered network to instead peer directly with the ISP.

This tactic is really only feasible for ISPs who have captive customers that are unable to switch to another ISP, as the negotiation process requires the ISP to allow the service it is providing to its actual customers to degrade to such an extent that the content provider is forced to peer directly with the ISP.

US Internet (private fiber ISP in the Twin Cities) is an anomaly, not the norm. Minneapolis is incredibly lucky to have a local, private ISP that offers fiber to the home at up to 10 gigabit/s. The only other ISPs in the US that I know offer similar services are either municipal ISPs, co-ops, or Google Fiber.

MDMA was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck. Merck and US Army did several animal trials in the 1950s, but by the end of the decade MDMA was shelved and thought to have no therapeutic benefit. It wasn’t until Sasha Shulgin rediscovered it in 1976 that its therapeutic benefits were discovered, at which point therapists and psychiatrists began quietly using it for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. In July 1984 the DEA proposed making MDMA a Schedule I controlled substances, which led to outcry from practitioners who requested the DEA hold hearings to provide testimony on MDMA’s therapeutic benefits. While these hearings were ongoing, the DEA used its emergency scheduling authority in May of 1985 to place MDMA in Schedule I.

Animal efficacy and human safety trials of MDMA began in the late 1980s, and the first FDA-approved, placebo controlled, double blind phase I study was published in 1996.

The American version of the BBC: PBS

If someone is already in the middle of no where, 2.4 GHz congestion isn’t a problem for them.

I’m always for more unlicensed spectrum.

But I strongly disagree with your distaste for the FCC’s reverse auctions of spectrum. Wireless Spectrum is a limited public resource and an auction is a much better way to allocate it than to have those same companies instead hire lobbyists to try to convince the FCC to allocate that spectrum to them.

Finally, somewhere that is covering the issues I care about but that the mainstream media refuses to cover.

From an SLA uptime perspective, it’s also worth considering that you don’t have a whole team working to fix your self-hosted Gitlab server when it goes down. So one outage overnight of your self-hosted server could be more downtime than more frequent, shorter GitHub outages.

> “It’s just like building on top of AWS or GCP.”

If you applied your logic to the use of cloud services then companies like Vercel shouldn’t call themselves a hosting provider because they use AWS. “It’s just a UI that calls the AWS API”

This is AI research, not product development. The project’s goal was to apply deep reinforcement learning to a complex and varied real world task. Google has no desire to sell trash sorting robots.