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> over $30,000 for each of those homes to get served This doesn't seem very efficient to me.
This seems like a fun project to work on but what is the financial game here? Does he invest in building the network, operate at a loss and then sell to someone like Comcast? I assume building a remote fiber network that can reach 600 houses has to incur huge CapEx (way more than $2.6M right?) and at $50/mo a very long payback period. However it works, pretty awesome project, kudos.
If I were really rich, I would spend a gigantic amount of money for the sole purpose of fucking over Comcast.
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The correct price in cities is $10 a month. The correct price in rural areas is $500 a month plus. But we have to average them because we insist on taxing cities to subsidise rural lifestyles...
The corn has to be grown somewhere.
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Are you also concerned about your tax dollars paying for roads in the next neighborhood over?
The neighborhood developer paid for that. The roads connecting, donated many many years ago by the landowners at that time
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Inflation isn't at 10% but it seems like investing in infrastructure is a good idea. If we needed to pinch pennies we could start at the bloated military budget
Right, in the middle of war with Russia and with war with China on the horizon. Great idea.
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That's fair, maybe this family should be able to opt out of taxes that don't benefit them then, you know since they are so remote and everything.
Well it's not a stupid idea at all, that when you pay taxes, you could vote for the 3 or 4 topics that you want support in priority, and they get allocated a more budget in proportion or something like that. This could even increase support of people to pay taxes (reducing fraud) as the taxpayers would know they would be supporting projects in line with their vision and lifestyle.
...And they say 10x engineers are a myth.
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The correct price in cities is $10 a month. The correct price in rural areas is $500 a month plus. But we have to average them because we insist on taxing cities to subsidise rural lifestyles...
Us vs them is not cool. Every lifestyle has value.
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I don't know (or care) about how he got that ASN but ARIN does occasionally recycle returned 3 or 4 digit ASN's, including very recently: 20220607|arin|US|asn|888|1|assigned|66e25d155d3f3d57ff208733b59f8cc8 20220607|arin|US|asn|889|1|assigned|5b048aafff56a02f895e68ac5188853b 20220607|arin|US|asn|890|1|assigned|708d3f11915973323c76a5f95fa2d775 20220607|arin|US|asn|891|1|assigned|ab9bfca0becd32b7fe44c7ea0ba1aac3 202206…
He's been a backbone guy since the the mid-1990s.