I remember walking 5-6 miles home at 2AM in college a couple times. 2-3 Miles was more common, but was staying at a friend's place. Wouldn't want to do it today, but I have almost had to walk home 5 miles from dinner at a restaurant last year when there was some odd service interruption for the busses. Fortunately an Uber eventually came, as there is no sidewalk, little light, and in some spots just a very narrow shoulder before a cliff.

Because if POTS is a system of last resort for 1% of the population then it is going to cost >$150/month and provide essentially nothing. I'm advocating fiber (specifically PON) personally rather than POTS as it is practical to get to a similar level of reliability as long as the CPE have integrated batteries sufficient to make it work.

Cable cannot do that, and even a full cell site would struggle to match reliability.

If the Telcos are forced to maintain POTS it will be done like DSL-- fiber backhaul and an ONT serving one or more customers from a pedestal.

Personally I would stipulate fiber not just wired. The communication equipment needs at least a 24-hour backup, and that doesn't happen with cable amplifiers or microcell sites. At the home end, you need at least 500Wh backup for the customer premise equipment to do the same. Maybe the telco can demonstrate 99.999% based on actual utility data and backup provisions, but that should be the design threshold.

It is a scam, but the launch and Starlink portions aren't it. Launches can easily expand 10x, and Starlink has huge opportunities in backup service for residential and business, not to mention connected vehicles. Think of Starlink as an alternative to mobile phones.

The xAI data is prorated in for financial comparisons, but (IIRC) only 12 months prior to acquisition.

That is the sad reality of the IPO. It is solely to fund xAI for the next decade. The space business will eventually be spun off in a bailout after absorbing all the debt from the Twitter acquisition and AI burn.

Dominion is going to need to add nuclear capacity in the next 15-20 years and having a larger demand base and cash reserves makes that practical. Adding renewables doesn't have that scale requirement though. I just wonder how they will try to structure utility rates to pay for capacity commitments.

You could choose to correct for a number of things, but at some point when the military complex dominates the economy simple comparisons break down. Asymmetrical warfare tactics also leverage a GDP much better.

They want to wind down sales and not have to invest more money into EVs. The Lightning had been a serious contender for my next vehicle, once it switched to NACS, but now it is just abandonware.

Intel is improving for sure, as is AMD and Micron. Nvidia though is still just a rockstar on all levels. Happy to hold and aquire a "laggard" like Nvidia...

So drop it down in scale: if you get a home equity line of credit does that mean you should pay an asset tax on the value of your home? Sure, it is just for billionaires. Just like the Alternative Minimum Tax.

Something needs to be done with income inequality but I'm not sure this type of strategy will work as intended.

It doesn't matter if it is new or existing; if you need 200A of continuous load you have to install a 600A electrical service... and never load it over 200A. All the Span panel can do is work within your power envelope to leverage that excess capacity... but you can't avoid the 30-40% cap on sustained load vs service capacity.

Residential electrical utility connections are only sized based on 30-35% of the nameplate service size by the utility. Add an extra 100A to a "200A" service and you will be burning out infrastructure right and left,and likely a few homes too.

If the house has sufficient solar and battery it can work, but most jurisdictions it is not legal to have that much of either.

That's a really bad idea. The fact that loans aren't income is pretty critical for businesses and essentially that is what a wealthy individual is. Would you want mortgages to be taxed as income?

An asset tax makes sense to a degree, but the evasion risk/likelihood is so high that enforcing it is going to come down to goodwill.

There are limits to how effective fire proof designs are. If you have enough fuel then the temperature x time can make everything inside a home burn; likewise concrete explodes in high enough temperatures as the trapped water turns to high pressure steam. Fire resistant designs help reduce the spread of fire which buys time for suppression, evacuation, and other strategies to rob fuel, but it is not a panacea if you have enough fuel.