Don't you have to roll trucks more frequently for copper though?

It looks like the OPEX for FTTH vs Copper broadband is actually quite a bit lower.

This has to do with better basic reliability of FTTH vs Copper, and possibly some energy and field equipment savings.

Anyone in the industry actually know?

So It sounds like if Comcast had invested more in FTTH upgrades (high CAPEX), they'd now be enjoying the lower OPEX that their competitors are theoretically enjoying.

Upgrading infrastructure to FTTH is high CAPEX, but there's usually federal money to help with that in the US, and, there are always very favorable tax and accounting rules for CAPEX spending.

It looks like Comcast's problem is that they are irrationally married to an outdated business model and outdated technology. If they get priced out of the market, "the system worked"

it could also be price anchoring. they could know the price is BS but they are anchoring something unrealistic now to help later.

if we spend the next 2 years thinking the next xbox is going to be $1800, when it launches for $999, some people will be overjoyed at the great deal they are getting.

but their concerns were ultimately proven correct, over and over.

there were significant LPEs in other OSes that were exploitable because of kernel lock bugs and race conditions.

and since the smp days, entire new classes of bug (eg info disclosure because of observable side effect bugs in cpus w parallel speculative execution) have also been invented as new processor architecture features have become common.

concurrency is still hard, 30 years later.

about the Synergy post?

No, not me!

Take absolutely any business.

Add "instant, real support by competent Americans"

Loudly proclaim that your customer service is based on this. Make it a credible promise.

Charge x% more than your competitors.

Congratulations: you have a small, lucrative share of the market cornered. You also have a Moat that is AI resistant.

I only ever contact "customer support" when the company has fucked up and I can accurately explain how and I cannot fix their problem my self.

But Increasingly companies have simply removed any mechanism by which you can contact a human with agency. You are subjected to chatbot humiliation loops until you give up. If they give you phone number, you are on hold, or hung up on, or transferred until you give up.

Latest example: For the last 24 hours, an Azure portal blade that my team uses has been completely non-functional, with a knockout-js error in the Azure portal code.

Their own AI-troubleshooting thing says there is no problem with Azure. [they shipped the org chart, again].

Because we don't have a paid support contract to go with our paid cloud shit, there is no way for me to tell Microsoft there is a problem with the service we buy from them. The AI says there's no problem. Without a paid support contract, there's no "plan B".

(Technically, I can also write a forum post, if I agree to getting data mined and spammed forever. During the signup process, I tried changing my country to Germany, and the automatic opt-in changed to manual opt-in, but the continue button was blocked until I "opted in")

The enshittification is preposterous, and there are a class of people out there who will pay more - sometimes MUCH more - to not be humiliated by incompetence.

Those customers are out there, but where are the companies who want them?

The gutter is filled with thousands of crowns.... waiting for the next king to simply pick one up.

>hurting brown people

This _probalby_ wont get through your confirmation bias filter, but if you look at who trump is giving _pardons_ to, i think the leading groups are:

> jews
> blacks

I don't think white Boomers (never mind white 2A supporters) even register.... with the possible exception of releasing some J6 prisoners.

A lot of the people you dislike, because of who they dislike, and who supported Trump, are pretty upset about all of the "pandering" Trump does to criminal blacks.

So if he's supposed to be a white supremacist president, the majority of white supremacists don't seem to agree.

Most people cannot actually see things from outside of their bias filters.

(ironically enough, Stephen Miller, the main mouthpeice of Trump's "racist" immigration policies, is Jewish... again, much to the consternation of many pro-white Trump supporters)

Obviously, the majority of ammosexual 2a supporters view what ANTIFA, BLM, and anti-ICE protesters are doing as much worse than what the Trump admin is doing.

It turns out that almost nobody is against authoritarian violence per-se. Everyone just wants it done to their enemies instead of themselves.

The number of people within FedGov who have heard of DeepSeek is small. The number who could tell you why it might be better than some other model at some specific task is much smaller.

The number who could want to use deepseek for a valid reason is vanishingly small.

One thing that should be abundantly clear is that the Trump admin doesn't control everything in the executive branch. There is still significant employee resistance to Trump and anything construed as a trump edict or trump agenda.

There's no evidence the administration is afraid of smart people.

There is substantial evidence that people within the executive branch have attempted to undermine or simply ignore Trump's directives.

Banning use of Chinese AI in fedgov makes sense to me; similar to banning use of certain chinese cellphones for fedgov use. Doesn't matter if they are better. What matters is the high liklihood of foreign systems being used in espionage.

It may be that the "ban" isn't prima-facie about limiting the use of deepseek, but, announcing a policy and then firing-for-cause people who choose to violate it.

They didn't support SMP for a long time either.

OpenBSD tends to lag behind most OSes in "workstation quality of life" features, whereas they tend to be world-leading on unambiguous specs, and code correctness. (And man pages, IMO)

Their excellent security reputation is well deserved, and is downstream of their priorities... which I would describe as "skeptical of shiny new things with ambiguous semantics"

I viewed a YouTube about how Mafia control of the Las Vegas casinos ended by the 1980s on account of Department of Justice going after them for "skimming" income from the counting room to avoid taxes.

Apart from cheating the government, meaning you and me out of lawfully imposed tax revenue, along with the services we the people derive from it, and the odd murder here and there to maintain organizational discipline, Mafia Las Vegas was the Golden Age of the $1 buffet lunch. Sure it was a loss leader that you would drain your bank account at the gaming tables, but whether through illegal of legal gambling, the Mafia offered much better odds than the government in the form of state lotteries.

Sure, from the images, The Strip of the late 1970s was cheesy schlock, but private equity has sunk billions into schlock with high production values. And how they (the current owners) fleece you with a 50 dollars for parking, 40 dollars per night resort fee, mandatory 20% (or more) tipping and on an on. If you had no interest in gambling or set a strict budget on how much you were going to blow, Las Vegas used to be a budget destination, but not anymore!

in Back to School, explaining to a Business School professor tha palms you need to grease came to mind.

who gives it one star in their review on account for the catastrophic meltdown at an urban site.

I would feel better if these modular nuclear reactors were shipped from an Amazon warehouse and hence eligible for the over $35 dollars free shipping.

If they are sourced from an Amazon Partner, I bet they arrive with a cracked reactor core and a leaking pressure vessel?

1) Does anyone really think this will happen? I would put as much faith in this as I do Trump's $5000 checks in the GOP wins the midterms.
2) Does anyone really think he is going to give away his personal shares? Most likely, if it happens, they would issue 73 millions additional shares (or less as he will find some way to send them to only certain people), thus devalueing not only these new shares, but all the shares.
3) Even if he did give his own shares, that is still a time amount of his wealth. Does anyone really think he would ever even notice this change in wealth? This just shows how incredibly out of touch the uber rich are with regular people. This is about 1% of his net worth. He could give away 50% and it would never be noticed. But because it is a big number, people think this is rich people doing good when it is them doing the minimum for good press.

Have you ever worked for a US defense contractor?

For some of the roles at those companies, you need a SECRET (or higher) national security clearance.

So the "private company" thing is a bit of a false distinction because of how much classified/top-secret national security material is developed and held by "private" corporations in the US.

For example, the coatings and techniques for applying them to US stealth aircraft are secrets developed and/or held by US private companies.

Employees at those companies who attempt to exfiltrate secrets to foreign governments are absolutely committing espionage against the United States, and should be considered for execution.

Frontier AI work is becoming a matter of national security. It is _possible_ that secrets exfiltrated from OpenAI could be implicated in foreign espionage, and the death penalty might be appropriate. I don't know the specifics of what was leaked or to whom or for what reasons. My strong suspicion is that secrets were leaked to a party acting on behalf of a foreign government.