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$150,000...restated, 0.014% of cash and cash equivalents on balance sheet[1], or 0.004%/0.738% of 23Q2 revenue/profit[2], respectively.

I really doubt $150k is anywhere near sufficient to cover just the FCC's administrative costs on this one case alone. Megacaps are laughing all the way to the bank if this is all they're demanding a barely midcap company dish out, so to speak.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001082/000155837023...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001082/000155837023...

> ...most company policies will try to block USB drives of any kind.

Grand assertion. Where's your supporting cite? To be clear before goalposts are moved, the context is external optical media drives---a peripheral commonly issued along side laptops without one---not USB mass storage devices.

It blows my mind away that this remark is entirely oblivious to the consideration of physical media.

> C'mon, that's not a big sample size for such sweeping conclusions.

Sleuth the monthly Host Railroad Reports here[1], direct from the cow's mouth. The company sets an aspirational 900 minutes delay per 10k train miles target metric and their monthly reports are lit up in breach like a Christmas tree year round across the country.

[1] https://www.amtrak.com/about-amtrak/reports-documents.html

> But that's the point, with any somewhat rich country, the level of education is high enough, that a generalization on the benefits of reading which Voltaire is talking about, are not valid anymore, because we now have them, and are on the point of moving on. And this is especially valid for the young generations.

> Reading today is not anymore the great awesome enlightenment it was in the past.

I can't roll my eyes far enough to express the magnitude of unabashed, pubescent hubris underlying this perspective.

The military doesn't need the class of nerd that couldn't spell OPSEC if there were just 5 letters in the alphabet.

> Here is the official us government status about declassification of the document.

> If the user was blocked please reinstate his account and his post, as the manual is FULLY UNCLASSIFIED.

Bona fide clown. "FULLY UNCLASSIFIED" doesn't mean shit[1].

[1] https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/do...

> Why do you think that reading in general is good?

Seriously? To quote Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary:

>> You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Disappointed that discussion has regressed into a naive "class war" narrative while no one is talking about the face value business implications of § 174 [1] now that the handout bankrolled by 2017 TCJA [2] is nerfed and tax code no longer permits outright expensing of software development.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-26/chapter-I/subchapter-A...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

Incidentally, appears to be only the second time it's been resubmitted in the month of September. The timing is thematically apt.

> So the number is even closer to half now.

Nope[1]. Local maxima at 42.5% circa 21Q4, but currently 38.3% and trending down since.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18ZDm

Consider what "off peak hours" will even mean as California continues to push towards 100% ZEV adoption.

Today, we know how LADWP commercial time-of-use[1] is windowed while fossil fuels remain the dominant energy source, but I have yet to encounter an argument supporting a thesis that these windows will immutably hold (or shift favorably) in the near future, let alone throughout the expected lifecycle of these buses; mean reversion is far more likely, rendering an "off peak hours" operations efficiency strategy moot.

As a selling point to the public, the article claims the investment will:

> ...save the district $2 million on bus maintenance and fuel costs annually.

I'd be interested in sanity checking which sphincter and under what assumptions they pulled that number out of. The going concern in my mind is this +10% CAGR trend in the average cost of electricity for the locality as evident in BLS data previously cited. If that trend continues unchecked, electricity is projected to cost +33% more in 2026 relative to today when the fleet of buses reach full operational capability, and over 3x more by 2035 when the state is postured to be at 100% new ZEV sales.

To be sure, I'm not trying to assert that this isn't a net positive for the district...just level setting the narrative that a decision being sold to the public as an investment which yields net lifecycle savings is looking much more like an outright expense increase to be carried by taxpayers with notional 2nd-order effects conveniently dismissed.

[1] https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/ladwp/commercial/c-custome...

Average electricity costs in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim locality[1] have increased +46.6% since 2019 (+10% nominal CAGR?! wild) and is currently +65.7% above the national average.

Given this prevailing trend, I do wonder what percentage of projected lifecycle opex is attributable to fuel, and whether any savings will be realized in the end.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/averageenergyp...

Recommend revisiting Huntley's blog post for the insight that he so charitably and concisely conveys. As for derived enlightenment, the onus is entirely on you; I have no interest in bartering an appeal to conditional short-sightedness.

That you so readily conflate the editor itself as a terminal end rather than a cleverly disguised means to an end hiding in plain sight is what makes Microsoft's strategy so scary; they're so effective at steering even knowledgable users into completely missing the forest for the trees as you've clearly demonstrated.

> VS Code is just that much better.

The trouble here is that "better" comes at a cost that the community has yet to truly realize, and Microsoft is very good at playing the long, slow bleed game; if strategic fractures[1] come to fruition, that debt will be repaid and it's going to be very expensive.

[1] https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

Maybe I'm just exhausted, but the abstract[1] alone was quite painful to parse. Was this paper auto-translated?

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9441281

Have you caught anyone attempting to poison the well yet?

Thought it was curious that this was released 4 days ago, but a spot check of the Firefox Add-Ons downstream[1] still reflects 1.51.0 updated on the same day (2023-07-19) as its GitHub release[2].

Then I saw:

> Firefox: Review pending

Mozilla just seriously backlogged or is there a more nuanced story here?

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.51.0

Indeed, I've found it to be quite accurate in my city when zoomed in enough to where the hex grid transitions to green/red dots on individual properties.

In my neighborhood and adjacent communities within a roughly 5-mile radius, utilities are all underground, but the pattern that emerges in these parts when attempting to predict whether a community will have fiber to the home or not appears to be some combination of existing easements/city right-of-way, relative community affluence, and housing density.

For example, AT&T brought fiber to my neighborhood likely because they could easily bury it along the city's right-of-way where not even HOA radicals can stop them. The more affordable townhome community to the immediate west didn't get the same infra though, despite there being comparable townhome communities less than a mile away surrounding a regional park that did. Similarly, the expensive homes within a gated golf country club to the immediate north of us doesn't get fiber despite the affluence living in that community, but the deed restricted community outside the gates to the immediate west which shares the same name did, while the mixed single- and multi-family community to the south of that community didn't. The homes in this area are anywhere between mid-80s to late-90s construction.

> 95% of the US only having access to wired broadband via coaxial cable is more than just an inconvenience to switching ISPs.

This 95% figure is clearly disingenuous handwaving.

Briefly looking at California >= 250/25 residential service for cable[1] and fiber[2] shows substantial overlap.

...and Florida cable[3] v. fiber[4].

...and New York cable[5] v. fiber[6].

[1] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[2] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[3] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[4] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[5] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[6] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

> Housing as a vehicle for building wealth and housing becoming unaffordable for the younger generation are two sides of the same coin.

To be sure, there's a distinct difference between housing as a vehicle for preserving wealth vice building it, where the underlying grift of the real estate industry is in having normalized the country to the perverse idea that the latter is both healthy and sustainable.

JSTOR happened a few years after[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#PACER

It sounds like you're not part of the addressable market[1][2]:

> BEAD prioritizes unserved locations that have no internet access or that only have access under 25/3 Mbps and underserved locations only have access under 100/20 Mbps.

[1] https://www.internetforall.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/B...

[2] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home

> Easiest solution would be what we have in Switzerland. If you want that government money, the fiber you lay needs to be accessible to any competitor otherwise you aren't getting any of it.

How would you square that against one of the core objectives of targeting rural, unserved/underserved communities? E.g. consider Iowa[1], a single state which is ~3.5x larger in land (144,660 km^2), ~63% smaller in population (3.2 million), and ~90% lower density (22/km^2) compared to Switzerland...never mind that there are roughly a dozen other states in similar or more challenging situations.

Suppose a small business establishes infra in a way that must be "accessible to any competitor". After laying the ground work and establishing a customer base, what's to stop an asymmetrically well-capitalized competitor from stepping in with the intent of swallowing a relatively small loss to operationally bleed out a much smaller incumbent with no margin? E.g. if your local addressable market were half the population of Iowa with service aggressively priced at what Switzerland customers pay, we'd still be talking about a notional revenue cap that's ~1% of what whales like AT&T and Verizon with growing fiber segments generate annually.

I can imagine how outcomes might work out favorably for consumers when the addressable market is a small, wealthy sovereign nation with significant population density...much less when considering rural communities in fly-over states that the rest of the country has a tendency to neglect yet whose economic contributions remain significant.

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IA/

Contents of the canonical URL appears to change over time by showing the latest blog post, which is currently this[1] that was just published today, not what was originally submitted.

[1] https://isc.sans.edu/diary/What+is+the+origin+of+passwords+s...

Originally submitted this[1], but refreshing replaces with this[2].

[1] https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Potential+Weaponizing+of+Honeypot...

[2] https://isc.sans.edu/diary/0

Attempted to replicate; this[1] submission swallowed without issue. Perhaps dang working some backend CD magic?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37348284

EDIT: Disregard...yeah, the regression manifests on refresh.

Naw, it just looks like the same submitter, freedude, has been submitting the same temporal top-level over the past month rather than linking to each blog post's static address directly.

The actual blog post:

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/The+low+low+cost+of+committing+cy...