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Comment Re:postal letter drop (Score 1) 78

What we should do is cut Saturday delivery, put up prices on businesses sending Local postal customer flyers that are not targeted and just the physical equivalent of spam. Then over time reduce the USPS costs and look at other revenue streams. Honestly I'd pay an annual fee to have no local postal customer letters delivered. If you look into how little these business pay to get inserted into everyone's mail it's actually very small. The citizens are the ones paying crazy postal costs to subsidise the businesses low rates. Companies like spectrum who spam paper (or in this case plastic) advertising need to go under. I left spectrum (only choice at the time) for google fiber on July 15, since then I've got weekly plastic advertising trying to get me back. People don't want this. Give people a choice on what goes into their letterbox. Personally I've used all the techniques seen on Reddit to reduce my postal mail. I now only get one or two items a week, have informed digest (which is awesome) and only clear the box weekly unless something important is coming in.

Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 1) 475

What could be done is conversion to a new instruction set, while using the invalid instruction interrupt to emulate legacy instructions. This would be a good way to those extra instructions out of the core. While software is not as efficient, and would be very slow, it would allow the progression over to the new instruction set very easily. Windows has the ability to have drivers for the CPU, so this could simply be built into there. Linux could be recompiled - which fixes a lot of the problems. Clearly running 16bit segmented code would be very tricky, and would run abysmally slow, but it would still run, until updates were available.

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