Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
by HideousKojima on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:06PM
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Did you not read the first sentence of the post you're replying to?
Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
by troupo on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:11PM
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> The last mile might be monopolized, but you are oversimplifying it. When implemented well, there are markets for generation, transmission, distribution, and retail, implying alternatives and resiliency.
First you claim oversimplification and then you write a sentence that feels like a "but when implemented well".
Tell me how this is a market in a reasonably sized city, and how many parallel electric lines, water and sewer pipes you can run for the market to be well implemented?
Bonus question: how many competing power lines can be run from a single power plant? 1? 2? 10?
No, there are not. You can't have 15 different companies running 15 different cables over 15 different sets of electric poles into a house, each competing on delivery of electricity (or water, or sewage, or...).
Well, you can, but there's nothing good or efficient about it.