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What browser are you using? Both work for me in Firefox ESR 45.7.0.

Without money to encourage you to spend time on it, how are you going to refine the experience? How are you going to refine the experience? Debugging browser incompatibility issues with non-Evergreen browsers sounds like a nightmare to me, and is part of what holds back WebRTC today.

I just googled Call USA from browser, and successfully called myself with no registration or auth from both of the below providers. Both use WebRTC to access your mic & handle signaling and call media. There are a few dozen more providers that have WebRTC demos set up that you can use like the ones below, WebRTC.org used to have a list of businesses that supported WebRTC but I can't seem to find it now.

https://www.sipnet.net/services/webrtc https://ievaphone.com/

Just ignore Portland, Seattle and the entirety of NorCal, along with Denver/Boulder, and a bunch of other large cities in what some call the "flyover" parts of the US.

Amazon will likely pre-weigh the items and give each a price embedded barcode, though it will be quite labor intensive even with the $100k wrap and weigh machines you can buy today.

Sure, but that isn't the prime vector of E Coli and other illnesses spreading. E Coli literally comes from workers shitting in the fields due to the breakdown of the labor movement, as they are not allowed breaks or access to a bathroom with a place to wash afterwards. Thus how you end up with Chipotle serving up E Coli covered veggies.

Not having a store that your food comes from might make for a safer mental picture, but Amazon is going to go with the cheapest vendor every time, and they don't have the scale of Kroger or HEB to knock prices down anywhere near them, thus they must buy lower quality goods to hit the same price point.

> So first I have to grow this to some decent amount of usage where it even matters really planning out the long term. :)

Eh, if you avoid Level 3 and Bandwidth.com directly, and go to a wholesaler like Endstream, you won't need any volume. Just throw $20 in your account every few months and you should be good.

> But, the current plan is to charge the businesses that want to receive calls from their international customers for tracking and control.

Mmm, you could totes do this, make sure to use Opus and pitch it as Full HD Audio (better than that tin can HD that carriers are pushing now). Grandstream supports Opus straight to their deskphones by the way, so you may wanna look at them. Their middling quality, but rock bottom price wise.

> branded links that auto-dial their number ... track the source of the caller

How do you plan to get the caller's name?

Also, travel businesses might be a viable model for this, I'd just encourage you to think outside the box, what other areas could use this kind of service?

Depends, twice I've had to ship it back, and once Amazon told me there were no returns and refunded me (Samsung Evo+ 64GB that only did 6MB/s, rated at minimum 10MB/s). That being said, I need to throw that MicroSD card away, whenever I use it in a camera or single board computer instead of a tested Evo, it causes poor performance.

> Honestly just ease of use. No fees. No ads. No account required. Nothing to download or install.

So how are you going to stay viable in 3 to 5 years?

> Just go to the website, put in the phone number and call.

Ok, there are a million WebRTC betas out there right now to use for free, even AT&T offered one for the past 2 years up until they killed their WebRTC program in January.

> From what I've experienced with my relatives overseas this is something that's really needed and something they have not been able to find.

Sure, but once again to maintain viability, you need to offer something unique, telecom is a very competitive space, and to scale it you need to build key relationships. Setting up a WebRTC client is awesome, but they are a dime a dozen currently.

> Really? Your costs are as low as that?

Uhh, yeah, and I know I'm overpaying too (though its just $20 or so). VOIP is a solved problem in the US if you avoid resellers like Twilio, Nexmo, etc and go directly to either a CLEC or a voice wholesaler.

> Who are you using for your provider? Endstream (NPA-NXX) & Bulk Solutions (Flat rate @ $0.0045/min), but there are cheaper providers out there if you spend a few hours and set up Freeswitch to do LCR.

We bring in another CLEC for our DIDs (though we have a few dozen with em), SMS/MMS & E911 due to price & convenience, Endstream is still shaping up their offerings in the SMS/MMS arena.

So, what sets you apart from all the other WebRTC providers out there? How are you unique?

It could be offering HD Voice interop with AT&T/VZW/T-Mo, selling user verified CNAM, or anything that adds value you can't get elsewhere.

I'd just avoid trying to become a voice wholesaler, its a very competitive space filled by a bunch of hyper competitive sub-5 person businesses that are super nimble due to their size. Most are pushing a few tens of millions of minutes a month.

Its built on someone's platform, who they are obviously paying through the nose for. Their FAQ says it costs $5 for 250 minute, which is $0.02/min. Comparatively, I sit somewhere around $0.0028/min and I am not trying to optimize my costs by doing LCR on the few tens of thousands of minutes we push. Could probably halve that if I pulled in more providers.

Sure, but who'd actually trust Amazon with their food? I know I wouldn't, they've screwed up 3 out of 5 orders in the past year, leading me to have little faith that they won't give me E Coli covered veggies.

They're opening a large, car centric Amazon Grocery pickup location just over in Ballard as a test, but the particular location they picked is a parking lot for 3 to 4 hours a day, and is over 3 blocks from transit (and where they will be putting the light rail in) due to Safeway & Walgreens already owning that prime real estate.

Single radio meshes halve throughput, but a multi-radio mesh does not have that same hop speed halving effect.

Are you planning a prepaid hotspot model, or individual connections? I'd think the cost per Mbps from your upstream and the overall cost to backhaul each Mbps across your network would be the limiting factor for lowering your price point further.

How do you intend to get roof rights to do so? I'd be adverse to using roofs without a roof access agreement, otherwise whenever a customer moves, your apt to lose a node & its coverage/the sites it relays bandwidth for.

I'd avoid NGOs, if you look over at DSLReports you'll see NGOs complaining about the free connectivity they get, and their ISPs chiming in about how its costing them a couple grand a month to supply a few Mbps to them since they slam the connection 24/7.

Costs are high and anything less than perfect, low latency connectivity supporting 20+ HD Skype calls is unacceptable results in NGOs bitching about the service they get for free.

This is cruel & unusual, blocking content for users stuck in places that have locked down Youtube to Restricted Mode only.

A purchase of Gilead's two cures for Hepatitis C would directly improve the lives of 3 million Americans who live with it at a much lower cost than what we'll pay for Interferon and liver transplants. As a bonus, most of these 3 million people voted for Donald Trump as president, coming from rural areas where IV drug use is high.

Why hasn't The Donald gone and scored this easy political win? This is about as easy as it gets, big cost savings, literally saving millions of lives, it'd easily be like Nixon with the EPA, a memorable positive legacy that would last for decades if not centuries afterward.

Yeah, I have to say while Texas is a pretty nice state, the politics and some of the people I met are not my cup of tea. When it comes to people its better than Cali, but politics are worse than the west coast.

Hopefully the city council here in Seattle can get out of its own way and dezone the city so that it may densify. Height caps and parking minimums are forcing suburban hellscape style infill in Seattle, which is very destructive and guts the neighborhood of its classic charm. Large buildings clustered around transit would be much more productive for our city versus tearing down 100 old homes to replace them with 200 odd 2800sqft boxes on postage stamp size parcels.

Is it true that gardening is illegal in NZ? I've heard of a ban on it, but I couldn't imagine a place where your not allowed to grow some carrots, rosemary, strawberries, tomatoes, etc. Its one of the few things that draws me outside in the summer.

So basically the same rent seeking behavior Microsoft applied to Android vendors, now applied to the cloud? Except instead of paying $20 to $40 per handset to MS, you have to use Azure and deal with the resulting mess.

Your gonna end up with a bunch of Amlogic, Allwinner & Rockchip boards with little to no software support unless you get a bunch of H3 based Allwinner boards. Most of what is out there is nothing to write home about, the decent stuff (eg. OrangePi PC) is either pure luck, or browbeating by the community (OrangePi+ 2e) with the occasional vendor like FriendlyARM coming in using SOCs that the community mainlined support for.

Then you have incompetent vendors like Olimex, Pine64, Next Thing Co (of C.H.I.P., the "$9" SBC) that fuck up the hardware, software, or both, and forget critical stuff like heat spreading copper layers in the SBC (Olimex), misroute ethernet so it can't actually do a gigabit a sec (Pine64), or lie about SOC software support and scramble to port the closed blobs that make their board work forward (Next Thing Co).

Sounds like a company to avoid if they throw the improper tool for the job at you and expect you to do it with that, even if a pen & paper would be better.

A normal payment processor (which you can integrate with PayPal) can beat 5% plus 5 cents.

Its a temporary bandaid though, that is the issue. With a lack of zoning, like we had not even 100 years ago, we'd have much more core development, and it'd prevent much of the extremely destructive single family home infill that is occurring.

Zoning adds risk to projects and creates an overheated housing market, where the cost of housing is land cost, construction costs, & zoning cost plus whatever the seller can get thanks to the artificially constrained supply.

"They aren't making more land" is entirely due to zoning ensuring most of the city is underdeveloped.

No, the areas will still have restrictive height caps that will stave off tall buildings per that HALA overview doc, we need these areas de-zoned, not rezoned.

Seattle needs to dezone MLK, Interbay and other major transit corridors and allow these areas to densify. The transit is there, and the property is either empty parking lots or 1 story slum commercial as the zoning restricts the area to a certain use. These areas should be replaced with dense, mixed use development.

We can have $800 apartments inside the city if we so choose, but with zoning forcing developers to build skinny dual towers and similar, we are forcing the minimum apartment price skywards.

Pretty much, Debian moved forward to recompiling for ARMv7 as it netted significant performance improvements, and if you wanted ARMv6 binaries you could compile them yourself. Raspbian did this, but not very well.

Walmart fundamentally doesn't give a crap about the customer, and it shows. They know that at 2am, they are the only place your gonna be able to buy bedding, a cable modem, etc. and thus will staff the front end with 1 cashier to deal with a line of 20+ customers.

Returns are even worse, they will not comply with the store policy they have clearly printed on the signage behind them (eg: Store credit for an airbed that was defective and brought back the same day).

That being said, Amazon is sitting much worse with me than Walmart right now, over the past year I've had issues with 1/3rd of the products I've ordered off Amazon (bad mouse, Evo+ card performing at 6MB/s when rated for 25MB/s), and I'd never shop at any of the Amazon brick & mortar stores going up in Ballard or other parts of the city due to this. Amazon would likely sell me e.coli covered veggies at their current success rate.

Only a select few boards were based on ARMv6, the Raspi 2 and above use a modern ARMv7 core. Running Raspbian vs Debian on a Raspi 2 or 3 shows off the massive performance gap between the two, IMO they should have used a single ARMv7 core from the get go.

But the Raspberry Pi is a fundamentally flawed platform, with poor I/O, binary blobs required to make the hardware function, and a community that is toxic towards free software, with its own vaguely supported distro.

An OrangePi Zero ($7) or OrangePi PC Plus ($22) will blow a Raspi out of the water any day, due to each USB port and the ethernet port being directly wired into the SOC, allowing 40MB/s per port. Plus, I can run kernel 4.10 and mainline Debian on it without any blobs, and the only things I'll miss out on are GPU support & WiFi. The VPU has been reverse engineered though, so H.264 & H.265 video works well.