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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.295s | source
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tryptophan ◴[10 Aug 22 15:04 UTC] No.32413212[source]▶
Crazy idea, but why can't we just buy some armored cable and let it lie on the ground? People can bury it themselves if it really bothers them.

A lot of these people dont seem rich enough to justify caring about it being pretty...

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1. dboreham ◴[10 Aug 22 16:17 UTC] No.32414447[source]▶
There are many reasons why this isn't done and isn't a good idea. One of them is: animals will eat the cable. Another is: people will trip over the cable. Another is: eventually someone will dig the cable up with an excavator, even if the operator of the excavator is the same person who carefully laid the cable a few years earlier. I don't explain how I know that...