testingonetwo34

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Comment · 2 months ago
So you have no idea why they banned you? None at all?
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Her optimism and creativity to overcome the disability and live her life is powerfully inspirational.

I wish I could apply that optimism to my perception of a societal shift away from disability accomodations and the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy... Enabling parents to foster unvaccinated children is a guarantee that we'll get a resurgence of this type of disease.

I recommend everyone educate themselves on our immune system: the book "Immune" (ISBN: 1529360684) introduces the vast complexity in a very approachable manner. Also the podcasts through MicrobeTV by Vincent Racaniello are excellent.

Comment · 6 months ago
Electrical resistivity at lower-crustal depths (35 km) beneath the contiguous U.S. The architecture of the nation is revealed at this depth with warm colors marking active extension beneath the western U.S. The cratonic building blocks are resistive (cool colors) and were joined throughout geologic time along linear conductive sutures beneath the central and eastern U.S.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Last month I submitted $15 million in fiber projects, this program will cover 75% of eligible expenses. All the projects I saw (as a consultant for various clients) started having positive cash flow around year 10.

The cost of building fiber networks is really high. In low density areas it can still be $50,000-$100,000 per mile. This high cost is in part due to the existing poles. Any entity who touches a pole has to bring it up to current NESC standards. The pole conformed when it was built 20 years ago but modern clearance and strength requirements mean these broadband projects often have to replace 50% or more of the old poles in rural America.

We've seen many large investment companies build fiber networks on their own dime in cities that only have coaxial cable, they're skipping BEAD funding because those rural areas would not break even with O&M cost. Also seen small WISPs that can't afford to conform to BEAD requirements and won't participate even though they expect some other large player to come through, build fiber to their customers and damage their business.

However LEO communications will never be able to compete with an optical network, especially if you live near large population that all see the same section of sky.

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Comment · 2 years ago
The wise man deliberately inhibits learning in order to not forget what he already knows?

Sounds unwise.

Comment · 6 years ago

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