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Transmission
Company blog · transmission.xmission.comsystemsbusiness
Transmission is the company blog at transmission.xmission.com, writing about systems and business. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Google proposes to buy the Provo,UT fiber network for $1”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Xmission ISP blog as a source on the 2013 Google Provo fiber deal, including the claim about who pays the city's debt. Comments cite it for facts rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Google proposes to buy the Provo,UT fiber network for $12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-18
What Hacker News says?
Well, in the case of SSDs, every byte counts. But no, that's not my concern. My concern is installing a binary I have no intention of using. It's solid security best practices to only install what you need, and leave the rest out. Also, I don't have a "fundamental misunderstanding of NTP". I've blogged about it quite a bit: https://pthree.org/2013/11/05/real-life-ntp/ https://pthree.org/2013/10/13/ntp-drift-file/ ht…
Comment linking /2014/05/28/building-a-stratum-1-ntp-server-with-a-raspberry-pi
on “Ntimed – NTPD replacement”Submitted Google proposes to buy the Provo,UT fiber network for $1 as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> So Google's not getting $39m worth of stuff for $1, they're getting $39m worth of assets plus $Nm worth of liabilities (where n > 39) for $1. Pete Ashdown of Xmission says "Google will not assume any of the debt, the Provo city taxpayer will continue paying that." http://transmission.xmission.com/2013/04/18/the-1-fiber-opti... Who is right? I haven't looked into it.
Comment linking /2013/04/18/the-1-fiber-optic-network
on “Google buying $39M fiber service in Utah for $1”Submitted XMission (a smaller ISP) on exactly why we need net neutrality as a story · 2 points
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