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In America, "large metropolitan area with passenger train service" is the exception, not the norm.

The problem is there isn't really much of a market for something like that. Sure, you can have detailed documentation on such a product that explains how it's functioning, why it m…

Essentially, yes. My guess is that it's due to the fact that amateur radio for a long time has been CW and SSB, where there isn't much bandwidth issue. Digital modes are the new ki…

Yep, PSK31 has a baud rate of 31.25 - that's literally 31 bits per second. There's no practical use for that in modern commercial or consumer applications. In amateur bands, symbol…

A GRB hitting earth wouldn't actually cause an immediate extinction event. From Wikipedia: > Earth's atmosphere is very effective at absorbing high energy electromagnetic radiation…

They honestly read like clickbait: "10 myths programmers always assume - #6 will SHOCK you!"

Perhaps, then, twitter is not a malady but a symptom. The idea that we can whittle all of our ideas down to 140 characters has been building for decades, as you say, and only now m…