there are places where it’s the only option. like highway rest stops.
there are places where it’s the only option. like highway rest stops.
same here. i can pay 120 for cable tv and internet at 250mbps, or 100 for internet that is 50mbps.
but my town is a monopoly. i have zero other internet/cable choices.
They pay all their employees like shit. Pretty much every University/college does.
Except for the administrators.
which is why people want to be rich. it’s way bigger benefit than the money.
people think about all the maga types that are ‘one day millionaires’. nah, it’s not about being rich for money, it’s about they back a guy who does the stuff they wish they could personally do. like be rabidly racist in public without consequence
When i was in school in the 2000s file sharing basically crippled the campus network until it was banned. A few bad actors were hoarding all the bandwidth and storing copyright violation stuff on school servers.
I mean, most people seem to agree with them. People listen to billionaires way more than they do your average academic making 100K/yr.
money talks. climate gets fucked.
It’s the protocols more than anything.
stuff with this speeds existed already, it just wasn’t via USB. it was expensive proprietary protocols and hardware and cables. USB is an open standard design for consumer use, and not for giant corps with datacenters who can pay $2,000 for a single data cable.
Thunderbolt is basically a data-transfer focused version of USB, and just requires a different controller that supports the new protocols to achieve the higher speeds.
multiplexing is one way to achieve higher bandwidth and throughput over the same physical cable.
This is the truth of it. A lot of people simply don’t vote, especially young people. So the old conservative times have more power, because they do vote.
I’m in my 30s but half the people I know love to complain, but won’t ever vote. Because it’s inconvenient for them.
that’s true of everywhere in the developed economies.
we value assets more than we value labor. so assets get more expensive and labor is cheaper. and since the rich are getting richer at an unprecedented rate, it’s not going to change unless we have a serious social collapse.
GDP is a useless metric. Most USA GDP grown is from stupid shit like housing prices being super inflated.
indigenous Hawaiians aren’t the one filling the state’s coffers.
zoning laws are the biggest single factor in limiting development, housing or otherwise.
proper gun ownership turns you gay tho
losing your career and being sued into oblivion by the kids parents sounds like a real good choice!
because the us govt doesn’t give a shit about monopolies.
EU might get up in their shit though.
Your financial situation drives your social situation. Socializing costs money.
Yep. They are ordinary businesses now, and must seek every increasing profits via squeezing.
The innovation era of big tech is over. The internet is just another utility over which ads must be pumped.
People forget that cable was ad-free went it first started rolling out.
cool. i can say from experience most women I have ever met do not play video games.
all Tinder cares about is keeping you swiping, with your eyes on the screen.