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it is just getting better and better to live here in Seattle. Legalization of weed, same-sex marriage, and now high-speed internet
Putting high speed Internet (and weed, really) on the same level as marriage equality feels a little...cheap. But, I agree with your sentiment. I love living in Seattle.
it is just getting better and better to live here in Seattle. Legalization of weed, same-sex marriage, and now high-speed internet
The bad thing about WA state is the tax structure -- no corp or personal income tax (good), but the B&O tax is a gross receipts tax, really complex (it varies by county and by type of business), and has pyramiding (as do all gross receipts taxes) -- it's equivalent to a 12-15% corp income tax for many businesses. If you don't use 2-3 levels of contractors, or have a lot of work done as subassemblies, it should be ok…
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We've been prepping for "the big one" for generations. Many have become complacent. We're more worried about earthquakes causing a "lahar" mud slide off Rainier and plowing through lowlands. Evacuation drills are down to about 4.5 minutes. Earthquakes are a good reason not to live anywhere on the Pacific coast. Hurricanes are a good reason not to live in the southeast, or apparently, New Jersey. And I don't want to l…
We've been prepping for "the big one" for generations. I absolutely know this to be false. I grew up just north of you in Victoria. I was a teenager when they began piecing together evidence that earthquakes of that magnitude actually could hit the area. Before then there was no thought to preparation. And large parts of my home town are still on landfill, close to sea level. (Which is not what you want during an ear…
That's probably one of the top links because it's so new, but most of its details are from more than 20 years ago. It doesn't even mention the expectation of the "big one" triggering a reaction from Mt Rainier, causing a "burp" and a lahar landslide.
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Thanks, good to hear it. Alas, we'll probably land in the burbs for all the usual uninteresting reasons. But it won't hurt to have the right people seeing Gb internet across the lake.
Well if you must live in the suburbs (Microsoft has a private bus fleet that ferries people from the city out there), they at least have some FiOS out there. I've heard Frontier stopped deploying it, but that existing deployments are maintained.
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The Internet is more than the World Wide Web.
For what % of people? We should assume that bigger pipes cost more money, at least they do now, so why should Jack and Jill pay for 1Gig/s when a 5-10-20 mbps is more they need? Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires.
Why? The cost for running the fiber has already been paid.
"Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires."
What companies choose to charge for old copper is irrelevant to how much of a profit one can make off of newer cable drops.
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So far that makes 3 confirmed interns, it would appear microsoft has recruited half the comp sci department. I used to live a few hundred kilometers away from Seattle in the same temperature area, I can say for sure I'm looking forward to this summer!
Nice, always great to run into someone else from the u of c. Happy so many people from our school made it. Did you interview?
I'm moving to Seattle in January and was already planning to sign up with CondoInternet. Seeing as my to-be neighborhood is one of those they say this will be offered in, I'm now wondering when this will be rolled out. Awesome news though. Edit: "Gigabit Squared will be aggressively building, with eyes towards beginning services in the Fall of 2013."
Just a friendly mention that if your would-be neighborhood is Belltown or SLU, you may want to investigate some other options (unless of course you already have, in which case please ignore me!). Belltown has become worse and worse for crime (unless Phoenix Jones happens by to save you from being mugged). SLU, while nice and pristine and new, is now very overpriced due to Amazon's recent relocation there. Both neighb…
It really hasn't. I'd be more worried about living in the U-District than Belltown or even the International District.
it is just getting better and better to live here in Seattle. Legalization of weed, same-sex marriage, and now high-speed internet
The bad thing about WA state is the tax structure -- no corp or personal income tax (good), but the B&O tax is a gross receipts tax, really complex (it varies by county and by type of business), and has pyramiding (as do all gross receipts taxes) -- it's equivalent to a 12-15% corp income tax for many businesses. If you don't use 2-3 levels of contractors, or have a lot of work done as subassemblies, it should be ok…
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For what % of people? We should assume that bigger pipes cost more money, at least they do now, so why should Jack and Jill pay for 1Gig/s when a 5-10-20 mbps is more they need? Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires.
"We should assume that bigger pipes cost more money" Why? The cost for running the fiber has already been paid. "Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires." What companies choose to charge for old copper is irrelevant to how much of a profit one can make off of newer cable drops.
Not every mile is owned by one company, the internet is a series of tubes
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[citation needed] re: Belltown crime. SLU is a former industrial neighborhood now filled with Amazon offices and cookie-cutter apartments. Basically the positive there is that you're close to work, the neighborhood itself is severely lacking in culture.
Belltown is "dangerous" only for people who have never lived in a city with a real dangerous neighborhood. I have never so much as felt even uncomfortable walking around Belltown alone at night. I can't say the same about most downtowns of other cities I've been in, let alone sketchier neighborhoods. Maybe I've just been desensitized, but I really feel like there is no cause for alarm in Belltown.
In the past year I've seen ambulances taking away normal citizens who've been beat down (twice) and I've had a stabbing perp run by me as he was chased by the cops. And this is with me almost never going to Belltown. I've never seen anything remotely like that while I lived in First or Capitol Hill (although I've definitely seen plenty of car break-ins).