Here is a helpful hint for google's algorithm to determine if the click was accidental:
If I clicked it, it was accidental.
If I did not click it, that was intentional.
The only time I ever click on an ad is when I got suckered in by a deceitful company trying to appear to be a legitimate news article. For example, I got suckered in by "New Law has Insurance Customers Fuming" headline...once. A company that has to fool people into clicking on it's links does not deserve to be in business and should have their IP blacklisted so that no one else will ever accidentally visit their site.

I got the impression from the (sketchy) article that repeater AMPLIFIERS were still needed but repeater REGENERATORS were not.

Then again - another part of the article makes it look like an additional result was that they could boost this less-subject-to-degradation-by-nonlinear-distortions signal at the start until the fibre itself was acting non-linearly, in order to get a signal strong enough to survive a much longer hop.

So it's not clear to me whether the distance was achieved by:
  - long hops enabled by strong signals, and NO amplifiers
  - longer propagation without regenaration using JUST amplifers
  - a combination of the two: Both getting long total length without regeneration AND being able to use stronger signals and thus use larger space between the amplifier-type repeaters.

Since the diameter of the earth is 7 926.3352 miles, this could conceivably remove any need for repeaters.

I got the impression from the (sketchy) article that repeater AMPLIFIERS were still needed but repeater REGENERATORS were not.

I.e. you still needed to boost the strength of the signal to make up for the losses. But the progressive degradation of the quality of the signal - with data from different frequency bands bleeding into other bands (especially in the amplifiers themselves) due to nonlinear "mixing" processes - had been headed off, by synchronizing the frequencies of all the carriers to exact multiples of a common basic difference-between-the-carriers frequency.

This apparently sets up a situation where the distortion products of each carrier's interaction with nonlinear processes cancel out with respect to trying to recover the signals on another carrier - much the way the modulation products do in OFDM modulation schemes. In OFDM it allows you to make essentially total use of the bandwidth. In this system it lets you use simple, cheap, amplifiers to get your signal boost, rather than ending the fibre before things get too intertwingled, demodulating all the signals back to data streams and recovered clocking, then generating a fresh set of modulated light streams for the next hop - MUCH more expensive and power hungry.

They don't want or need to outlaw Uber. Uber is already illegal. All the taxis want is for the competition to have obey the same laws, which legally they do. In practice, Uber chooses not to obey the law.

In other words, it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, and none seem to be around during duck season. Sure seems like what we have here is duck.

They won't, for the simple reason that this 100% likelihood has 0% chance of happening.

... government regulators couldn't possibly find financial irregularities by grabbing you documents from the cloud service provider, ...

The courts said you have no expectation of privacy one you put your data in the hands of a third party. Great! Let's convince all those "evil corporations" to store all their data in the cloud. Then the government can go after them any time they want. B-b

They are not taxing people who don't have healthcare. They are taxing people who don't have insurance. There is a difference. Making people pay for insurance does not guarantee healthcare. It guarantees that the insurance company gets paid. After paying for insurance, people may not be able to afford to go to the doctor.

Well, that explains why I am not getting any assistance with Healthcare. I keep seeing commercials touting how "Most people receive assistance with their premium", lies fed to us by the Federal government. When I lost my job, I was expecting that I might get some subsidy to help with my healthcare payments, but no, they healthcare portal said I do not qualify for anything, not even tax credit. I still have to pay my full healthcare premium, plus pay my taxes so that other people can enjoy not having to pay their premiums.

That's nothing, mine went from under $200 a month for a Major Medical Policy to over $950 for the same policy. I then got a new policy on the exchange, the cheapest one possible was about $350 a month, more than double my previous premium, and it doesn't cover my kids, and the deductibles are higher.

How is 3D printing a revolutionary approach to car manufacturing? It is not like they are actually going to use 3D printing to print the cars when they produce them in bulk. If they do, then it truly will be a supercar, because it will cost many times more than traditional manufacturing methods with less strength of materials and quality.

You can't compare having a natural desire to do or not do programming to a state of being rich or poor. The poor don't WANT to be poor. However, people who have no desire to do programming do not WANT to have a desire to do programming.

Nope, your freedom of speech is not dependent upon any particular means of expression. You can stand on the street corner and express your views, but nobody is required to buy you a megaphone, or internet access, or Reuters.

This. Why don't we spend money encouraging people who want to learn a particular trade to learn the trade, rather than spend money on people who are not interested in a trade to learn the trade?
I'm sorry if it is offensive to some people, but women and men are different. I'm all in favor of giving money to women who WANT to be in CS (not to the exclusion of men, though. That would be discriminatory).

They could do one or the other, but not both. The country of their ancestors, for the last 10 or so generations is the United States.