The ISP here gives you one when you sign up for fibre service.

There are lots of roads too.

My mother lives in a place that is probably more remote (as in distance to the nearest city > 100,000) than it's possible to get in the US outside of Alaska. Twenty years ago when they were paving the highway they also dug a trench and dropped fibre into it. The initial idea was to hook up schools and government buildings but a local started a company and just ran fibre to everyone's house, including the farmers'. They're cheaper and way more reliable than the only competitor (DSL) so pretty much everyone has 1 gig symmetric connections with the option for 2.5.

POTS and a modem should be enough for anyone. And none of that fancy 56k shit either, good old 14.4 kb/s.

With a radiator.

Data centres in space are a terrible idea because they come down after about five years. Maybe you don't care so much about your old video cards burning up, but your power station does too.

why is nobody stepping up to make more supply?

They arent'?

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Could you have said "I like my fairphone" without the put downs straight out of a highschool movie? Yes you could have.

The packaging isn't that difficult. Small bioreactors are a thing, and are generally easier to build than big ones. You can e-mail a sequence to a manufacturer and get a vial of lipid encapsulated mRNA right now for high hundreds or single digit thousands of dollars, depending on the length of the sequence.

We seem to be in a parallel to Rural Electrification now.

If someone lives five miles from the nearest connection, currently on 100A AC and POTS, is the limited budget better spent on running five miles of fiber or dropping off a satellite terminal?

They'll be going from either 3Mbps DSL to 300Mbps satellite or 800Mbps fiber.

If we had unlimited money I'd say fiber almost everywhere. But that isn't realistic.

The flip side is some of these rulings which ought to be applied to edge cases may well be applied to areas where FTTH is entirely reasonable and achievable.

Government almost always sucks at applying broad rules without subtlety at both the median and the far sigmas.

I live in an area where welfare broadband is offered for about $15/mo for about 60Mbps. Frankly I could live with that almost all the time. I do download some massive datasets every few months but my smoothed average is probably 2% of my max.

But those welfare programs exist because society has decided that some Internet is required for participation so there is some responsibility to provide.

The bigger risk is probably dual-use dangers. Ukraine has been using Starlink for terrorist attacks and while Musk has said he cut them off the Russian FM has warned that Russia will take out the Starlink constellation if it continues because apparently it is.

So we don't run fiber and then Starlink goes away, and then what?

There are also ice storms, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, etc. that can take out landines for months so having a few satellite terminals in an area would be more antifragile.

FCC is seemingly treating this as simple when it's complex.

Those sound pretty unnatural. Chemicals for sure. I recommend taint tanning.

Unfortunately, since it requires an individual design for a specific person, it likely is going to not benefit much from economies of scale

It's pretty easy to make a bit of RNA to a particular specification. You (actually you) can order some up on the Internet and they'll ship it to you. Generally it costs hundreds of dollars, not thousands. Something really long, like the RNA for the SARS CoV2 spike protein might be $2k or so. Those prices are falling pretty fast too.

Actually sequencing the tumour is in the same price ballpark, and also falling very quickly. You also have to translate between the tumour sequence and the RNA vaccine, but there are a fairly small number of possibilities so that's going to be a database lookup eventually, maybe with a bit of minor algorithmic tweaking.

Packaging it so it survives long enough to do something useful is a bit tricky and patented, but its the same for everyone.

The expensive part of making drugs is showing they work. The strategy with these individual treatments is analogous to the flu vaccine: you demonstrate in a trial that a process for making the treatment is effective and that process is approved.

Once its all off patent it could be quite cheap. Cheaper than getting a surgeon to cut out a sample in the first place.

> We have a massive shortage why is nobody stepping up to make more supply?

Look up some stuff instead of just commie ranting.

Apple is testing supply from an up-and-coming DRAM supplier in China. Hynix is working on converting old fabs into a smaller process to create more fast RAM. TSMC is building a fab in Arizona. Samsung is opening a fab in Texas next year.

> the big three can anytime they want drastically increase production within 6 months to a year

Tell me you've never been to a fab without telling me you've never been to a fab.

If they could double their capacity Altman would buy *that* too. At least presume that the greedy capitalists are greedy.

> Capitalism needs a referee and US dumbasses fired the ref.

How, precisely, did they accomplish this coup in China?

Also, why not move to China, Cuba, or North Korea? They have varying degrees of central planning that should take care of your needs. Nobody wants you to be unhappy.

Stop repeating this. It's just something someone made up and it's generally not true. You can make lots of money curing a disease. Insurance companies, both public and private, are quite capable of doing math and curative treatments are often priced based on the total cost of alternative management only treatments.

Reenlisting is tougher since you already got your GI Bill and VA Benefits and such.

On a recent talk show a military guy was saying that DoD was instrumental in nationalizing the student loans under Obama.

They knew infinite money for school would jack up the price of school for everybody but unaffordable college is what drives people to the GI Bill and their recruiting was dragging ass after the last time a President lied us into war in the Middle East over made-up claims of weapons of mass destruction (and then promised to leave Iraq and close Gitmo).

Say what you want about TikTok but the kids all know about the scam now. They didn't even bother trying to convince the country this time.

Have we had a story here about the record-short procurement process last month for the new Draft management software?

That's certainly an interesting way of saying that Democrats are more likely to engage often with things that make them angry.