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In early 2000 I worked for a company that made components for usrobotics and 3com. They had a TWENTY-SEVEN month lead time for booking any order. There were three companies in the world that made the parts they did, at the quality level demanded for digital telecom equipment. 12 months later, after the entire backlog of orders was canceled, they started storing the finished products they built in the break rooms. they didn't need them anymore because they fired half of the 1300 employees they had in north america in 9 months. Before it was over they were down to less than 100 staff in the US and were paying contract manufacturers in china to make their very small product line. Their sales went from something like 200 million to about 19 million from 1999 to 2002. The company was eventually sold in 2007 for less than 10 million. The owner turned down 120 million in 1998. The last pallet of those products was moved out of that break room in 2007 when that part of the building was demolished. It was just moved to another storage facility. Some of those products never were used. And they weren't obsolete. They were power/transformer parts for network switches, DSL network hardware, things like that - that are still in use 20 years later. They made SO much that the entire market wasn't interested in their inventory for almost 10 years. I'm not saying that's going to happen again. I'm just saying it might. And the backlog of orders for ram and storage companies is dangerously fragile. Crashes like that bankrupted some of the biggest tech companies in the USA. Micron is not immune if they overextend and bank their entire future on orders that aren't paid for until they're delivered. Lots of other companies are more vulnerable yet. It's not that it will. It's that it might. And not near enough people are willing to admit that to themselves.
For some rural customers, starlink can be the only real option. Two years ago my options were 56 kbps DSL or Starlink. Starlink was the choice. But... fiber got put in in December. Now I've got 3x the speed of Starlink for 1/3 the price. The decision to switch was not difficult. Starlink is not competetive on speed or price if there are other options.
Imagine if 20 years ago someone said you would get faster Internet service from space than your DSL feed.
Waiting to start my DSL cucked you funny
Cell coverage that’s consistent and high speed seems like it should be more prevalent. I have family that’s within city limits of a larger Montana city and cell service is spotty there… their best option aside from Starlink is DSL. Just anecdotal but given that im assuming there’s surprisingly more people than you’d expect in similar situations.
My parents best internet option was DSL getting them about 4-8mbps before they got Starlink. The idea of point to point travel anywhere in the world in 30-60 minutes is cool, seeing a company actually extend and plan their operations beyond earth is cool etc... I mean, what is a great company to you? what do you work on?
Can't stand Elon and refuse to get Starlink. Rather have slo mo DSL thru ATT than give him my $$$.
Basically DSL speeds of oil usage. Good enough for AOL, good enough for OIL.
That too for sure. I just aimed my comment at the dude above since if he’s hankering for fiber he likely is in an area / city where it’s at least somewhat feasible. On the other hand I live in the heart of Silicon Valley in the Bay Area and I’m still on DSL, soooooo…
Yeah Starlink was a god send for me when I had my house built and found out my only internet option was DSL through frontier. But then a nearby company installed fiber and I cancelled that shit real quick. It was $50 more a month for 1/10th the performance of fiber.
The person you were implying was lying is likely in an area with DSL or crappy cable. You are the one who thought any wired / hard line connection means fiber. When only 28% of houses have fiber internet. Densely populated places have fast internet. Places like where I am and likely where the person who said starlink is 10x faster than wired are not in a densely populated area. My starlink gets 30-40 Mbps upload around 200 Mbps download, and 30-35 ms ping. I pay $85 a month. Cable is $90 a month Starlink 100 Mbps is $55 a month. Not everyone lives in a city or has fiber.
You know there isnt fiber everywhere? There is no fiber near my house. In the US 55.2% is still cable/coax, 28.5% fiber, 5.4% copper so mostly old DSL. Around 5% have no wired internet access. DSL is much worse than starlink and some cable is. 16% of the US connections are slower than 100 Mbps download. 25% are slower than 20 Mbps upload. Starlink is faster than this. You might be the idiot.
Auction is closing in 3…2…CLICK IT omg my DSL took a shit.
Must be your internet connection. Time to upgrade from DSL
About ~6m ish people on the US are on DSL. Some more have GEO/WISP or nothing. But correct, even if they capture 70% or whatever of these customers, they won’t be as big as charter. But - Starlink is a global company. This is the difference. How many people in other countries don’t have access to high speed broadband?
DSL is 35 Starlink is 120. Not sure of the percent, but I was just letting you know that even living close to a major metropolitan does not guarantee high speed internet in the US
Not everyone has access. I live 60 minutes from a major City in the US and our only option was DSL at 5mb speed. We pay 120 for starlink and get over 100mb
I think the issues are real If you look at the valuation and bring it in line with NVIDIA (using it's massive PE and it's 70% margin), you're looking at ~1.5T USD that is basically hot air. If you divide that over all EU and US citizens; assuming 10% is actively exposed, you're looking at 20K hidden destruction of wealth. It be the world's largest wealth transfer in history from the middle class to the 0.01% into a black hole. The problem is imho the amount of liquidity that is needed to prop this up. Even with a "small" free float, the liquidity isn't there. We know liquidity is a problem with blue owl doing a soft default as we speak and BOJ reversing the carry trade. Heck, the yield curve is steepening and 10yr rate is up, even the Treasury can't tap into the liquidity. Also; look up what happened when Aramco went public; it basically sucked the markets dry for a full Q, and Aramco is liquid gold AND a dividend play. Musk will never pay out shareholders, he's a growth guy that wraps the last innovation in the next one. He's like the monorail guy with a Twitter megaphone. Finally the business model does not make sense. All xAi founders have left Grok because none of them want anything to do with LLMs in space. The energy envelope is tiny. Due to radiation you're 2-3 generations behind + once launched you can't switch out the hardware. FPGAs are super vulnerable so that's not an option and ASICs are obsolete once you launch. Musk wants do do COTS but we know this is a problem. SEU for 3nm and 5nm hardware in space are already brutal. Then there's starlink which has congestion problems. If it grows into its valuation, you'd go back to DSL type speeds; which is backwards + there's this small problem called the keppler syndrome. The valuation only holds if you extrapolate the current launch capabilities to a global military fully vertical monopoly (and even that is a stretch; that's basically saying China, India, Russia and Europe don't matter). Remember Musk is stubborn and has a known history of ignoring basic laws of physics (FSD, curevac, spaceship1, solar shingles Tesla SEMI). He's a loud guy who started rich, takes insane risks, got lucky and rode the EV tailwind then saw an arbitrage opportunity at NASA and exploited it. The guy has a long long history of zero-sum grifts. If anything this is a massive tailwind for Eutelsat which has a far better track record and is actually ran by credible people...
I was running DSL in my SF apartment up until the pandemic. The only other option was Comcast and that’s basically like signing a contract with satan. When WFH started I had no choice but to give in.
Shit started in the mid 2000s. Peiple did then. Also in butt fuck nowhere people still had DSL. Nowadays buttfuck is probably better served by Starlink. But that wasnt much better until recently.
At the start of Covid I was on the verge of losing my job because my internet had become so unreliable. I called “my local company” and they replaced the cables between my house and the box, came out and replaced some cables in the box, and I bought a $300 modem and router setup to eliminate any point of failure. Finally instead of the dumbass techs that had been to my house, they sent “the old guy.” He didn’t bring tools or anything, he just came and said “hey your whole neighborhood is fucked, until they upgrade your whole neighborhood the “node” is maxed out due to everyone working from home. And when the node is maxed out, sometimes you’re going to get dropped. If you’ve got a different provider you might want to give them a try.” And that’s how I as someone born in the 90’s ended up with DSL internet in one of the largest cities in American in the year of our lord 2020.
If it walks like a duk and quacks like one. It prolly has DSL’s
Cool. My windows are made of glass. Unfortunately I don't live in an "economically viable" area but some day I ditch this ISDN for Coax. Maybe even DSL! AMERICA!!!
Crazy how they took off right when DSL/Cable went mainstream. I guess there wasn’t much competition for a short period there.
AI is a tool that is here to stay. Almost nothing is invented and begins making money right away. Most inventors throughout history died poor. Their inventions didn't catch on and start making money until years later. I have no doubt that AI will become profitable, but it's just getting started. The large scale data centers are still building out. Power plants still need to be built out....etc. Look at the internet for example. Did we start with GB speed internet. Hell no. The early internet was rough going. Trans ocean lines had to be laid. From landline, to DSL, to cable, to fiber. infrastructure takes time, resources, and money. AI is no different.
TACO gonna TACO I just wish the F'ing market would change their algorithm's to stop with the panic selling when he opens his stupid fat DSL mouth.
I heard most of NH finally just got DSL so it's gotta be coming soon
I'm not grateful for the infinite rental fee on the modem. The previous iteration of DSL I at least could use my own modem.
I grew up gaming on AT&T DSL that maxed out at 3mbps down and 0.3 upload when nobody was home. When I was deciding on colleges I applied to the state school in the only with gigabit fiber. 10 years later my parents finally have ~30 down and maybe 5-10 upload…. And it’s not through AT&T
i like that u fukin nerd serioously though, fuk MSFT DSL ( dik sukin lips )
This guy can suckkk, prolly got dem DSL too #WHEWWWWWWWWWWW 🛼🛼
Also the extraordinary measures will run out then so the debt ceiling might be a double whammy. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/DSL-Public-v05092025.pdf
Measures remaining subject to debt limit. US Treasury [measures remaining subject to debt limit to May 2nd US Treasury ](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/DSL-Public-v05022025.pdf)
I remember the Pentium days... they ruled the world. Zero competition. I had a Pentium 3 800mhz and an ATI graphics card. 20 Gig hard drive and DSL internet. Quake 3 arena and a dream...
She has no upper lip... so no DSL, just dial-up.
It's all right here. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/DSL-Public-v02.28.2025.pdf The "extraordinary measures" is just them re-directing government retirement pension payments to servicing the debt, mandated by law.
I used to play with jnug years ago but crypto has really destroyed that trade. If SHTF i would hide in miners but there will be obvious buy signals to do that. I’m really skeptical about anything global with tariffs. bonds maybe. If I had a longer time horizon I would probably be 100% corporates. I’ve tried reading about all the different types of treasuries but when I watch the price action, can’t make total sense of it. I think supply and demand still control the price of TIPS I have some of the peter schiff europac anti-dollar things on watchlist, but It’s more of a democrat trade. EPDPX the double line DSL thing is also alluring. never owned a closed end fund before
>Most of the satellite people are rural and can't even secure 5mbps up or down. Sure - thats the case where I'm at. I can get rural DSL 15dn/2up... Or starlink, which the majority of the speed tests I've run are minimum 150dn/20 up, and I've had dl over 400 on several occasions... The difference between what I can get wired, and SL is not even close.
I disagree. I don't think it does solve the problem and in the long run I don't think it's more cost effective because the operating costs of satellite internet far exceed fiber and the quality of the connection is so much lower. You're also locked in to much more limited providers, whereas once the fiber infrastructure is in place various internet providers can then then offer services over those lines, leading to a more competitive market which benefits consumers. Realistically he sees this as a way to capture a market that has no other option, by taking away the other option. Like you say that it's better than DSL, but if you options were a direct fiber connection or a satellite connection there's no way you'd every choose satellite, right? You like it because it's better than the currently available options, not because it's actually good.
Waiting for DSL modem to pull up website, are there pretty pictures? If so, I'm in.
And from your fellow German person on Quora answering on this topic: "[Is the internet good in Germany? Is it a good idea to work remotely in Germany?](https://www.quora.com/Is-the-internet-good-in-Germany-Is-it-a-good-idea-to-work-remotely-in-Germany) That very much depends on where in Germany you are. Generally, Germany’s phone line system is vastly outdated. Before the mid-90s all phone lines belonged to the German federal postal service (Deutsche Bundespost) which had the monopoly and thus saw little need to innovate. When the monopoly fell and other providers like Mannesmann-Arcor joined the game, the infrastructure was updated very slowly. Even today, in older buildings in poorer parts of Germany, all you have is the old copper lines which allow a maximum transfer rate of 16MBits via conventional DSL…if you’re lucky. In richer parts you will find VDSL, cable and the likes. This is not only a rural vs. urban problem. It is also a problem of classic German conservativism. I live in the southern part of the city of Essen, part of the “Ruhrgebiet”, one of Germany’s most densely populated urban areas. When I moved into my new place I found that my connection was only 4MBits at best, but shaky. The Deutsche Telekom told me, my place was in an area scheduled for “further development”. Then they made a survey. And then the further development got cancelled. As the area where I live is populated with a lot of old people, care homes etc. there was just not enough demand for proper internet and the Telekom saw no point in investing a lot for a handful of people. This is why on my street the people living in houses with even numbers have VDSL with 50+MBits as their lines are fed through a new modern backbone, while the people living in houses with odd numbers cannot have anything above 16MBits depending on how far they are away from the DSLAM which is fed through ancient lines and sends its signal through copper lines from the mid—50s. There is also no cable tv as people are perfectly happy with their satellite dishes and thus no internet via cable. The cables are simply not there." Meanwhile here I am nearly 10 years using 1000mb internet with strong and stable connection always. And no, not in one place. During that 10 years 2 different countries in Center Europe and 7 different flats and 4 different providers in total. So not that I spent 10 years at the same place at the same provider, nor that I got lucky, simply other countries have more developed internet and finance tech even if the countries themselves on gdp and other level behind Germany (I'm just stating this that don't worry, of course you are still a great and economically rich country, just the use of paypal and not knowing tech/finance/internet stuff from the last 10 years is not shocking when on that front your are 20y behind todays)
Fixed income is a broad category. I’d park cash in preferred stocks or CEFs (like DSL, DLY, SPTL, etc)
Meanwhile aside from having to reopen the event a few times, it's otherwise streaming fine on my 100 meg DSL 🤷♂️ They probably feel bad for me
Sara Eisen mmmm, nothing better than a 40 year old milf who still has DSL
A lot of this I think has to do with the infrastructure bill which had a huge provision for broadband expansion. My parents neighborhood was in a broadband dead zone, which only had access to 12Mbps (on a good day) DSL. They ended up getting fiber from their utility company about six months ago, and immediately cancelled their Dish network in favor of a few streaming apps and Hulu live.
The parallels and similarities between the dotcom bubble are uncanny, and it's mind blowing how many people are ignoring it. AOL and Yahoo had P/Es of 100 and 200. AOL even had 50 mil customers paying $20/month at one point. It was decent revenue and the internet was the future. To be fair, the internet WAS the future, but it was still way overhyped. Also, just as NVDA has the market cornered in cards, AOL had the market cornered on internet service. How else were people going to have internet? Well, when a market is that big, you can't keep a monopoly forever. Competition will find a way in eventually. DSL and cable providers started to pop up. I could go on and on about other similarities...
Is DSL still worth holding even with the newest cuts by the Fed? Should I go back to money market?
She had a great pair of DSL’s
Zamn this moderator has a nice pair of DSL’s
Let me ask a question as a Verizon DSL consumer. I have Frontier right now (which has taken over Verizon FIOS in my city). * Would my service improve if Verizon takes over? * Would there be any interruption in service?
We had DSL from Verizon for a long time during the early 2000’s. They had a good customer service and took care of the infrastructure. Sold to Frontier and it went down hill fast. I never thought Verizon would get back into the market. Haha
Sounds better than what I went through with AT&T! I swear I used to get outages every month or two. Luckily Lumen came in and laid their fiber lines everywhere and it's 1000% better than whatever the shit AT&T had. Couldn't stand that I lived in 2022 and only had access to DSL internet cause the AT&T monopoly didn't want to invest in fiber here.
ASTS has empirically better technology. Faster data speeds, more users, and better spectrum reuse. AST is like having cable and Starlink D2D is DSL in comparison.
DSL? More like they are on ISDN or 56k
I would tend to agree. LUMN is fundamentally flawed in the structure of what they are today arisen from the legacy of the telco era into what the future is unfolding towards. There is massive intrinsic and high ratio employee to income potential in their fiber infrastructure, the domestic and undersea links, and I would suggest datacenter footprint. It is weighed down by the legacy wireline, DSL, telco, CO's, tech's and trucks, etc. Consider a scenario where even someone like Microsoft themselves decides it strategic to own that fiber for AI solutions. They might also start to like owning some more DC space for more easily integrating customer assets (colo) in close proximity to their azure regions and add all this to help bolster their CD and use that to differentiate further from AWS / GCP in what they offer for cloud. Buying out LUMN for $20 a share, and spinning the legacy wireline or other non strategic parts of the business to like Frontier or Windstream who can support those kinds of fundamentals involved could make sense. Or consider who else might grab them to split them up like this to get in front of such a scenario unfolding. Nothing like this plays out overnight and is totally just wild speculation so I agree and would not count on much short term and probably levels out around $5 for a while. But by end of 2025 there is all sorts of potential given what intrinsic value there is currently wrapped up in this company. Seems to me like could be a good one to accumulate and hold and would be confident in getting good returns inside of a few years. The good news is their debt is improving, the market is seeing more of the upside potential and creating a more sustainable floor in the price. I think it makes sense to accumulate and buy on dips and / or keep averaging down if you were in from higher points as long as you can hold. And with all this kind of wild speculation good chance will still see some ongoing fluctuations from short term traders on any kind of news as this stock has gained recent attention.
Is Diddy gay? I'll check Wendy's for them DSL
I owned that stock for the then 10% dividend around $10. I sold out roughly breaking even right after they announced selling half of their residential DSL business above $9. Of course they announced cutting their dividend shortly thereafter. That was only 2 years ago.
I want that AI DSL on my hunglow
Yes, but not the way you would imagine.... Some time ago I created a backtester (MesoSim) that operates with a JSON infused Lua (DSL). Then I provided ChatGPT training data about the product (Documentation, Example Strategies, Rules). It wasn't trivial to setup as such that it creates correct MesoSim Jobs: Sometimes it doesn't respect the given schemas and the rules within the fields. It can help our users get started but it definitely can't come up with options strategies on it's own. You can check it out here: [https://chatgpt.com/g/g-QYJNKOSo4-options-backtests-with-mesosim](https://chatgpt.com/g/g-QYJNKOSo4-options-backtests-with-mesosim) And don't be too hard on her.... who doesn't like to hallucinate a little? :)
Stupid is as stupid does - I hope they all have DSL
Building out a worldwide workforce to build and support a wired network everywhere spacex already provides internet isn’t cheap. If it were we wouldn’t have a significant number of Americans still using DSL. Fiber is 60-80k/mile and studies estimate that we would need to spend 200b to provide it just to underserved communities in America. There are certainly significant financial efficiencies with the starlink approach.
> Liberty Global has a strong market position in key European markets. Here in the Netherlands they own Ziggo, formerly the dominant ISP which is losing customers by the hundreds of thousands due to the switch from copper to fibre. They do a good job but the handwriting is on the wall. The revenue from the copper they own will continue to decline with no turnaround opportunity in sight as far as I can tell. I believe the position is the same in several other European markets. Cable seemed like a good bet some years ago when the competition was DSL, but the telcos turned around and got on the fibre bandwagon, while most of LG's plays have doubled down on trying to wring the last drops from the coax networks they bought.
See that’s the beauty of Broadcom. 99.9% of [internet traffic traverses a Broadcom chip](https://datacentremagazine.com/technology-and-ai/broadcom-connecting-everything-0) so even if you want to exit all your Broadcom related purchases, you’re still using them. Got an iPhone? Yep, Broadcom WiFi. Pixel? Same. Cable modem? Unless you buy Intel Puma, which has its issues, you’re getting Broadcom. DSL? Broadcom. NICs? Broadcom. Google or Amazon? Broadcom switches. Verizon? Broadcom switches. You use them every day without even knowing it, and even if you don’t want to. If you can’t beat em, join em imo. Getting away from Broadcom networking is like trying to get away from Nvidia for AI.
What's bad about it? I've used it before and it's DSL is the same as a lot of other ORMs/databases
> However, surely you must realize how niche the internet was in the 90s. If you're talking about the "world" I will agree. If you're talking about first world USA and European cities, I disagree 100%. Everything around internet was incessantly discussed after 1994, and considered and influenced every major business. It was everywhere and everything, like current 'AI hype' x 10. It was the center of US capital market discussions. There were national governmental committees about internet and Y2K. People in more prosperous cities were getting DSL and cable internet. > It wasn't safe, many people around the world didn't have internet, and most that did had no idea you could use it to trade financial instruments. Around the world no, in USA certainly yes. E-trade marked the top when it ran a well known SuperBowl 2000 commercial. (like FTX superbowl commercial marked the crypto top). That's as mainstream as Budweiser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftjwYmlfoA
Dart is definitely niche! It’s at least several orders of magnitude below mainstream languages and, realistically, only really exists as a DSL for the Flutter framework. Where Flutter itself is niche (on par with a dozen B-level JavaScript mobile app frameworks). Of course there are a lot of apps using Flutter/Dart, it’s just that there are so many more using other technologies.
If you guys actually used the product and was around for AOL then Yahoo and finally Google era, you would know why users switched over and stayed at Google. First of all AOL was the literal King of email and advertising. But their email was good and only one available at that time. The only downside was you needed to pay for it. At that time dialup was affordable. Next came Yahoo and everyone I knew had a Yahoo email. It was the start of free products and who doesn't like free. Once they got you in, you stayed and used their other products. Like search. How Google differentiated from Yahoo and the rest? Well AOL didn't innovate at all. They did offer some online MMO gaming but fumbled that ball by not innovating or improving to DSL. Yahoo fumbled by not providing more services. It was just news and e-mail. Google had a sleek e-mail with spam filter, news, YouTube (eventually), and the first killer app. Google Maps. That's it. Just a few additional free apps that made our lives much easier. Yahoo and AOL dropped the ball by not innovating. And likely Google had a way to make money also. I can't comment on that side of the ad business but you need revenue and cash to buy good products. Which Google did and continues to do.
Patria, Defence Service Logistics (DSL) and Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft (FFG) will create them together
Yep. I help run a small ISP in Lyons. CL is only DSL here and we have been running fiber all over town. We service probably 85% of Lyons. CL is dogshit, there customers call us weekly to switch to us. There DSL will go down and a tech won't even show up for a week or more. We can show up same day and snipe them as a customer. Lol. The funny part is, we lease our fiber backhaul from Lumen out of Denver.
I mean, that's about right for DSL
To be completely honest, Eastern Europe has better internet than the states. Fiber optic, unlimited data, top speed for upload and download for like $20-40 euro per month. By comparison, my ISP is charging $189 per month which should be fucking criminal. But it’s not since they’re the only real game in town. We have some shit DSL here too and obviously starlink so it’s not a “monopoly” but it really is. Pisses me off.
If you need me I’ll be back behind the local Home Depot nights and weekends. I’ve got major DSL’s and I can keep a secret. 20$ a pop lemme at it boiz
What doesn't help is the monopoly in some areas, they'll say ok don't like it? Go with the competitor's DSL product.
I’m talking more of the mainstream. I mentioned that specially in my post. While the internet was invented already. Most average working class households, especially when thinking western developed curries outside of USA, only adopted the internet en masses in the late 90s, ie the same time as the dot com bomb and certainly not 30 years before. Heck developed countries not the USA were still on DSL and not even cable/fibre just a few short years ago.
No they weren't. Cisco was both Y2k and Datacenter. Oracle was Y2K and Datacenter. so there.. 2 had partial internet exposure. but the rest it was the Y2K bubble. nothing to do with the internet. ( hint. internet back then was still dialup and DSL was the high speed ). Yeah none of the internet stocks were added to the S&P until after the dot com bubble. seems intentional.
I couldn’t download music quickly until my father upgraded to DSL. That shit was WILD.
Sometimes there's other benefits. In my case it got me off old crappy DSL lines. Since my ISP waived the installation fee there wasn't any real reason not to take it, it's just a few bucks more a month.
That's exactly what it means. LLMs are micro distilled internets for the sake of the argument. However they're running at 56K modem speeds, a GPU like 3060 that most people have is like DSL for inferencing. 4090 is the ISDN line of our time but the barriers to entry will be lowered over time. When apples unified architecture becomes ubiquitous amongst chip makers we'll see that iPhone moment where everyone has their favorite LLMs for every topic or subset of topics that they use day to day. That's just text. Couple it with text-to-speech, stable diffusion, text-to-video etc.. and you pretty much have unlimited content generation. Now ask the question: Why do you need to browse the Internet anymore if you have all of that localized in your device? All of these internet mall companies like Google, Meta, YouTube will see major declines of eyeballs to localized AI.
My girlfriend has DSL and they're amazing.
My DSL was 10x more stable than cable....
Nobody except for my grandma thought DSL was the best it could be bro.
Thought the same thing presplit when it was 400, then 500, then seemingly overnight 750. CRAZY. But, TBH, NVDA is in a tier of its own right now. Revenue went from 6B to 7B to 13B to 18B -- trippled revenue in one year for a mega cap. Insanity, and the thing is, just with their current hardware/software they could keep up at an elevated rate -- what if they release some new, seriously game changing thing that is the beginning of a new 5 year trend? Yuup, just like when the internet came out, people thought one thing after another was just the best it could be, i.e. dial up, then cable, then DSL lol. Shit can keep running for a long time.
Back in the 90's or early 00's NK had like four DSL connections for the entire country's internet. It would have been super easy to DOS them, heh.
Dude, I had to google -DSL-. There's no doubt you go to bed always knowing something new.
Or live in leftist cities that see being anti-telco and cable monopoly as being pro-worker so they don’t allow upgrade or often even repairs. Sub-megabit per second DSL was the fast at I could get here in Seattle for almost twenty years. The city finally allowed Comcast to start offering service. Ziply is fighting the city hard to be allowed to connect their fiber in our building to their powered equipment.
>but don’t know the best apps to use to do so. Old guy here. Boomer who retried early and on his terms, and who had high speed Internet when most people could not spell DSL. CAT 5 was expensive before Home Depot stocked it! Apps are about doing things. What you are looking for is knowledge. And no; YouTube does not give that, with very rare exceptions such as Ben Felix. What you are looking for is books (and Ben Felix). These are things created by people who were putting a lot of effort into what that they hoped and knew would face the test of time. Things that would be edited, fact checked and critically reviewed. Google maps. "your location". Search nearby, "library". Bonus, it is full of interesting people who interact with each other. Yea, I am a cranky old bastard. But I am not eating cat food.
Ayo why does he have DSL’s?
We're all gonna pretend that isn't the a perfect set of DSL's
Before Starlink all I had was shitty 6Mbps DSL service which sometimes wasn’t even 2Mbps. Now I can game and download at 10Mbps consistently. So it’s definitely changed my life for the better. The stuff before that has and will positively impact other parts of earth and beyond too since the ability to reuse rocket boosters is groundbreaking. Also say what you want about Tesla, electric cars, whatever, but they’re obviously the future and better in almost every way but price at the moment. But they kickstarted the movement so that affordable electric cars like the Chevy Bolt could exist too (well, sooner than it otherwise would have anyway).
That truck has some DSL for sure
> Trust is a big thing and it is relied on heavily, people do trust companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, even banks like JP Morgan. These companies would lose credibility immediately if they were to try anything like what you're describing. I hear countless stories of people's bank accounts being closed for bullshit "risk management" reasons. Their user agreements typically include a clause that they can close your account at their own discretion, for any reason, without notice. That's not getting into the Wells Fargo fake account fraud or the Bank Of America overdraft fee fraud. You're not even safe by choosing not to do business with them - the bank you mentioned, JP Morgan, forged documents to try to steal houses from a bunch of random US residents in 2012 who were not even customers. Banks are as good as the laws that bind them, and even then they are only as good as the enforcement of those laws. I don't trust any banks half as far as I can throw them, and I don't believe anyone else should either. And I live in a country that has the so-called "good" banks! I can't imagine what the bad banks are like in other countries. Banks usually do what you instruct them to; the blockchain ALWAYS does exactly what you instruct it to, for better or worse. I enjoy these assurances. As a side note, are you aware that Google deletes people's data? I never recommend that people store anything important in a Google account, because they too are known for closing accounts for no reason and without recourse. They pop up in tech news every so often - person loses their Gmail account here, person loses all their family photos there. The banks have no credibility. Google has no credibility. In my opinion Apple and Microsoft do, for now. > You can already do this, think about websites like The Pirate Bay. It's still going, the measures taken to interfere with it are now done at the ISP level because that's all governments can do (the ones which care about it). I'm not sure using a blockchain really changes much as long as there are so many nations with internet access and wildly different regulations. To be fair, that's a lot more work than publishing a smart contract and calling it done. For every 20 Pirate Bays that pop up, 19 of them get discovered and shut down for good, or their owners realize that they'd rather not make it a full-time job to hop from jurisdiction to jurisdiction evading law enforcement. Centrally running illegal software also can't handle money, because when the server gets seized, any money on the server gets seized as well. For example Silk Road - none of that money would have been seizable if their escrow and dispute software were integrated with a smart contract backend for the actual money processing. (Silk Road predated smart contracts, of course.) > I'm struggling a bit to understand this one. Can you explain especially the bit in bold? Is it like forking or a different concept? Of course. It's a different concept than forking. In software, **composition** is a pattern where a piece of software can integrate with another piece of software by abstracting out complexity. It can be described using "has a" relationships, for example each car "has a" engine and "has" four wheels, and each wheel "has a" tire. The car only needs to worry about the engine and wheels; the car doesn't need to concern itself with the workings of the tires, because that responsibility is delegated to the wheels. In traditional software development, composition across different executables, or across a network, generally requires some sort of API pattern. For instance, a bank might provide an API for a contracted fintech startup. This allows the fintech's software to "log into" the bank (using an API key) and create and close accounts, move money around, etc. This API pattern allows the "has a" relationships to cross boundaries between the fintech's software systems and the bank's software systems. For example the fintech's software can recognize and manage e.g. a customer who "has a" login credential provided by the fintech, "has a" parent bank account shared between many customers, and "has a" virtual account number that belongs solely to them. The parent bank account is managed in the bank's software, and it "has a" routing number, account number, dispute files, lien files, customer notes, KYC, and all those good things banks are required to keep by law. The "has a" relationships cross company boundaries. Critically to my point, these APIs are closed by default. By default you are not allowed to connect your own software to your bank account. With most banks, you need venture capital levels of cash to get their attention to be able to sign a multi-million dollar API agreement so that you can build software that integrates with their bank. Smart contract development flips this paradigm on its head. Every API is open by default. Any action a user can take, any other software deployment can take as well. Every asset gets surfaced by the system as a tangible, standards-compliant, composable software pattern. For example, the closest thing we have to banking on Ethereum right now are our silly little stablecoins and DeFi contracts. I'll use Liquity's stablecoin as an example. It uses some clever economic tricks to create a USD-pegged stablecoin, LUSD, by backing its value with ETH and creating incentives to arbitrage the peg towards its target price of 1 USD. It's far from a simple system, involving price oracles, liquidation conditions, and different pools of capital. But all of that complexity gets abstracted down to a single ERC-20 standards compliant token. Now you can use the token anywhere. It's almost like every LUSD token has a physical "handle" that makes it easy to pick up and move around. You can use it in your own software, without asking Liquity for permission or needing to sign an API agreement. The asset itself is an API. So for instance the AAVE lending platform comes around and wants to use the LUSD stablecoin as part of their lending product - AAVE can just paste in the LUSD token contract address and not only do they not have to ask for any permission from Liquity, their software automatically recognizes LUSD just like every other asset on their platform, because it follows the same ERC-20 token standard. On smart contract blockchains, everything, even down to the function level, is an API. One way of thinking about this is that every piece of software can communicate directly with every other piece of software. Another way of thinking about it is that a smart contract blockchain is "one big piece of software", tangled with cross-functionality and dependencies. That's one of the reasons it's classified as a virtual machine - because from the software's perspective, it's all running "locally" in the same execution environment as all the other software. > Another thing I always like to point out to people, which I'm sure you accept based on your response, is that if this sort of solution did provide value for more than just transferring wealth, then companies would be all over it already. The tech world evolves extremely quickly, and blockchain is just completely absent from the mainstream industry. It may well end up being a system mostly just for transferring wealth. If scalability progresses in the ways I anticipate though, it could open up more use cases. Right now, transactions on the most secure chains cost close to a dollar each on the low end. But when I look at the tech roadmaps, I see sub-penny transactions within the next decade, easily. That might just be cheap enough that companies will start saying "hell, why not just put this on the blockchain so we don't have to establish a relationship with a hosting company?" But of course, that's all speculation for the future. Many companies are just now experimenting with blockchains to timestamp, authenticate and store supply chain records. That's a use case that isn't viable with $1 transaction fees, but is potentially very viable with sub-penny fees. At their core, blockchains are immutable append-only databases, which makes them well-suited for auditing and accountability tasks. This may sound like cope to you, but I feel better about dropping my silly beliefs here knowing that you're receptive to serious discussion. I believe blockchain technology is still in its "dial up internet" era. The total bandwidth of the Ethereum blockchain is currently about 1 megabit per second - much slower than a 2000s era DSL line. I could get into the roadmap and how I believe it will increase the blockchain's bandwidth over one thousandfold within the next decade, but that gets very technical, involving zero knowledge proofs, data availability sampling, and blockchain constructs such as "roll ups" and "validiums". Just as people in the 1980s didn't imagine the internet carrying imagery, then audio, then video, then eventually replacing broadcast TV, I believe that when blockchains scale 1000x there will be new use cases that nobody really expects now. Humanity has never had access to a single, shared global virtual machine, and I believe most of the things it will be used for are still "unknown unknowns" to us at this point.