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Yumz-on US solar plant costs fall another 30 per cent in one year

Endangered species need to go extinct. We are committing a high level universal crime by intervening in life's natural hygiene process.

Yumz-on The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years

Assuming you are correct that utilities would not have done it freely, then those farms should not have been electrified. It would have sped of the consolidation and industrialization of farming by 100 years by forcing small farmers to either die or sell their land and move to the cities.

Yumz-on The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years

Did you think to walk into a Turkcell store and buy a SIM card + prepaid bandwidth? 6GB LTE + 500 minutes/texts is 50 lira (~$15)

Yumz-on The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years

I totally agree. That's why those people should be given two choices: A) move into urban areas or B) die.

Yumz-on The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years

Why is this a bad thing? I don't understand why you think every rural backwater needs to be subsidized to the tune of billions by the productive regions of the world. We should be looking to returning 95%+ of land to nature as we urbanize more and more.

I wish more companies and governments would do what the ISPs are doing. Why am I paying for post offices in rural America? Why am I paying to subsidize electricity transportation to rural America?

Yumz-on The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years

This is not uncommon here in Turkey. I end up using my iPhone as a modem via USB tethering often. Mobile internet is much faster in Turkey (100+ mbs for cheap) than the wired network. It only adds ~10ping and can handle anything.

I'm willing to bet this will be the norm worldwide when 5G rolls out. Here in Turkey we have '4.5G' which is a marketing term for the latest generation 4G infrastructure. We only got 4G last year here, so we have the latest hardware.