Yeah this seems like an easy way around it. Post the video with subtitles and no audio, and a link to the original video hosted on a PeerTube instance or something.
Isn't the only way to learn what things we can ignore and what things we can't ignore to do a lot more testing? Is there a better way to learn that? It seems like having a lot more data from tests is the kind of thing that would have some short term harm but massive long term benefits.
I can definitely see how someone who sacrificed to pay rent throughout the pandemic, maybe using up some of their retirement funds or defaulting on car loans in the process, would be frustrated to learn now that they could have just not paid rent instead and been fine. They're not getting that money back. It doesn't necessarily mean that they want to see people become homeless.
(I don't have a dog in this fight, I don't live in California, don't rent, don't own rental property.)
> They're not getting that money back. It doesn't necessarily mean that they want to see people become homeless.
That sounds like a pretty privileged take on their parts. If they were wealthy enough to survive a global pandemic that upended the global economy without anyone's help, that speaks pretty well for them. But not everyone was so fortunate, and that's what this program addresses.
I see no cause for resentment here, anymore than I see cause for resentment against poor people on Medicaid while the more-fortunate pay for health insurance. Like, sure -- we could do something "radical" (by US standards) and make Medicaid available to everyone, but if the choice is between having health insurance only for those who can afford it (and sucks to be you if you can't), and having a Medicaid tax to pay for health coverage for those who can't afford insurance, I'd much rather take the latter.
Another fun thing you can do with flies, and also bees and wasps, apart from vacuuming them up, is put them on a leash. But first you have to freeze them.
Catch one in a cup or plastic bag and stick it in the freezer for about 10 minutes. When you take it out it will look dead, but it's not (unless you leave it in too long.) Being careful not to rip it's wings off, tie a small string or fishing line to one of it's legs.
In a few minutes it will thaw and start to walk around, and then start to fly. You can now walk it around the park like you were carrying a balloon.
Where would you say it falls on the spectrum of animal abuse in relation to going fishing, fly swatting, and walking the dog? Those are all activities I'm personally ok with.
> Exactly. 5G doesn't focus on increasing coverage but mostly latency.
This is my opinion as well - 5G will improve latency and also capacity (meaning carriers won't have to be as stingy with tethering plans) but not necessarily top speeds or coverage area.
(Author here) This is great, you can't see me but I'm laughing with you! :)
I have sometimes considered making this in to a game, actually. It could have some fun territory and financial mechanics. But the more I think about it the more it seems like work, and the less I want to play it!
To be realistic it would have to wake you up at 3AM and make you pull pants on and drive out to the bottom of a tower in a muddy field that smells like chicken shit to drop in a generator. While it's <0 F˚ outside.
(Author here) Maybe possible to figure out a way to use this. The problem is the people using it would still need transport to your network, which in practice can cost as much or nearly as much as direct DIA to their location.
The reverse here is maybe interesting too - a lot of WISPs have a bunch of spare 'upload' (from their perspective) bandwidth available, and by definition it's very geographically distributed, maybe that would be of use to CDNs?
I'd love to chat more about this if you're interested. Email in my profile.
The tricky bit is that a CDN doesn't really want geographic distribution so much as to be close to network distribution points. If a WISP's customers aren't enough to warrant a CDN node and their internet backhaul is fiber to a not particularly nearby internet exchange point, there's not a whole lot of benefit to the CDN to be at the WISP rather than the internet exchange.
It might be different if the WISP has connections to local residential ISPs that aren't well connected to local internet exchanges (or there nearest internet exchange isn't very near) so the WISP facility offers a way to get (network) closer to more users.
I could also see some potential for mixing traffic streams between a WISP (or several) and a CDN to try to balance traffic flows enough to qualify for peering with networks with restrictive peering policies; however, they also often have geographic requirements that might be harder to meet.
Thanks, this helps to confirm what I've always expected from my end (the wisp side.) It sure seems like a good match at a high level but seems to fall apart once we get in to the details of making it work.
Could be! East coast has traditionally been hard for WISPs because of trees. Recently I've been doing a proof of concept in Georgia, though, and had a lot of success even with tree cover. Would love to try out a few more of these places that have traditionally been hard for WISPs. (Author here.)
Also just a note for those curious: this is how I like to measure what's needed for a WISP, and track how it changes over time.
Set up a 1gbps connection and start adding customers. Watch the usage on the circuit as your customer base grows. You want to make sure that any time a customer comes online, they can get their full speed according to the package you're selling. So if you're selling 100mbps packages, you always want to have at least 100mbps available on that circuit, even at peak times of day. As you add customers, you can start to estimate how much traffic, on average, each customer adds during the peak time of day (it's not as much as you'd expect.) Then you can estimate how many customers you'll have before you approach your limit (1gbps minus max speed package.)
You have to monitor peak utilization of the network on the order of seconds to minutes. The rule of thumb from queuing theory is that network performance tends to tank when capacity utilization hits about 80% => a 1 Gbps link is only good if your max utilization is 800 Mbps. But if your monitoring only looks at 1 hour averages over the course of a month, you're going to miss the periods of seconds where everyone's getting ping times of >100ms and having their VoIP calls drop out.
There are a lot of things you'll learn along the way if you try to run an ISP. =-)
