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smachiz
·hace 10 meses·discuss
The article you cited does not agree with your assertions. It specifically tells you how and when to evaluate the use of an anonymous source.

If you don't ever use anonymous sources, many fewer people will talk to you. Being on the record about something that will get you fired, will get you fired - and then no one talks to journalists.

What separates actual ethical journalists from the rest is doing everything the article you cited suggests - validating information with alternative sources, understanding motives, etc.
smachiz
·hace 2 años·discuss
It's certainly niche, but NY-LON sees ~3 million non-connecting passengers a year.

If they can make it quiet enough to be supersonic over land, it's a lot more compelling. But even being supersonic for the atlantic crossing will shave hours off of most EU routes from NY.

I think the bigger problem is the time changes on a lot of routes make EU flights pretty efficient - you don't want the overnight flights to be shorter really (and I wish most were longer).
smachiz
·hace 2 años·discuss
maybe more so.
smachiz
·hace 4 años·discuss
Depends on the technology and where that limit is.

Increasing bandwidth to the cable head end or FTTN? Trivial.

Replacing DOCSIS 2 equipment with 3.2 equipment? More expensive.

Running actual FTTH? Hard, large upfront costs, but you have an asset with a 30+ year life span that’s cheaper to maintain than copper.
smachiz
·hace 4 años·discuss
Hah. That isn't really the issue.

Ballpark FMV for 1Mbps for a month is currently around $0.08/Mbps in the US at scale in carrier neutral datacenter.

If you watched a Netflix HD stream all month long, it would cost maybe $1.

But of course it doesn't actually cost Verizon or ATT or Cox that - Netflix almost assuredly *pays them* to carry that stream.

Blaming the users is a ridiculously bad take - the issue is that the ISP didn't invest in fixing their last mile, or is needlessly congested at their head end, and they could fix it for trivial amounts of money.
smachiz
·hace 5 años·discuss
None of those are OXMs and are the end customer. That is totally different than what your original assertion was.
smachiz
·hace 5 años·discuss
You haven't demonstrated that anyone /is/ entering into contracts with Intel.

Intel has done lots of things that it turns out people didn't want to do (with them).
smachiz
·hace 5 años·discuss
When you're thirsty, you buy from the person selling water. I don't think you'll find a lot of love lost between the OXMs and nvidia. I'm sure they would love more competitors in the space.

We have people licensing Arm and building interesting CPUs (Ampere).

I'm not sure that the NVIDIA acquisition would be good for the market or for Arm.