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"Decision-making power in the US is too spread out to make that feasible!"

If you wanted to run a fiber-optic line between SFO and SJC, you'd probably have to ask at least three or four different county governments, never mind the state, federal, or municipal governments. Take a look, for example, at the mess that is keeping Caltrain funded every year.



That problem is mere politics and provides no fundamental technological barriers.


You're right, but that makes it sound more, not less, difficult to accomplish.




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