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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by anigbrowl on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:48PM (#8065307)
There's no inherent problem with publicly funded services, but they're only as good as the public body that runs them. If you're in a well-run city/county that's great, if you're in a dysfunctional one then not so much.

I wouldn't have much confidence if my place of residence (Oakland CA) set up muni broadband, for example, although I'd like to be proved wrong. Large parts of the city government are painfully inefficient.

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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by baddox on Monday July 21, 2014 @05:07PM (#8065998)
> There's no inherent problem with publicly funded services

The scale of the problem isn't clear, but I would argue that the economic calculation problem is certainly an inherent problem with publicly funded services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by anigbrowl on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:38PM (#8066665)
That's predicated on the idea of all means production being state sponsored.
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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by baddox on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:48PM (#8066706)
I don't think that's the case. The scale of the problem would be proportional to the amount of production being state sponsored.
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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by toomuchtodo on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:00PM (#8065670)
> There's no inherent problem with publicly funded services, but they're only as good as the public body that runs them.

Agreed. This is solved with complete transparency and independent oversight.

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