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Re:If It Prints, It Ships: 3D Printing and the Postal Servi... by JonnieCache on Friday July 25, 2014 @05:04AM (#8084305)
>One that jumped out at me was 'USPS facilities could server as 3d printing hubs.'

It made me think of how the BBC (presumably youtube etc as well?) have video caches in the exchanges of larger ISPs, to get the data as close to the last mile as possible.

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Re:If It Prints, It Ships: 3D Printing and the Postal Servi... by icebraining on Friday July 25, 2014 @05:11AM (#8084322)
presumably youtube etc as well?

Yeap. Even my ISP, which is only the fourth largest on my rather small country, has a local Youtube cache.

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