QoS is pointless when you have enough bandwidth. Your VoIP packets are no more important than my VPN packets. Maybe I am using VoIP and doing a file transfer at the same time, through a VPN tunnel, the ISP can't know that. Everyone should just get their fair share and should manage their own bandwidth usage.

At home I use traffic shaping and I can maintain 98% line saturation while still getting less than 0.2ms of jitter.

The biggest complaint of congestion is that it is associated with latency. We have the tech to keep latency low during high saturation, and not even use QoS or even traffic shaping. Look up fq_codel, it's like magic. It's simple, it's "fair"(mostly), it's stateless, it's protocol agnostic, and it's turn-key easy to setup. More ISPs need to use it.

The average person can't manage their own healthcare. The do so at the detriment of all others. It costs more to not have people on insurance. Ideally, we'd have a national insurance that covered everyone via taxes, but we have a hybrid system. The biggest issues with ideals is that they're not always practical.

No matter what, we benefit by having more people with quality insurance. Just with the number of reduced trips to the ER for preventable issues, it will pay itself back in spades. Trips to the ER are magnitudes more expensive than going to the doctor for a scheduled appointment.

the other big issue is that people are worth more than they get paid. A person making $40k/year may be worth over $100k/year to the economy as a whole. If people got paid what their actual value was, there wouldn't be an issue in the first place.

Aggression to some extent is a requirement when dealing with limit resources. Because of this, some amount of aggression is naturally selected for.

I wonder how a psychologist would compare competitive and aggressive. Is one a subset of the other?

An aggressive alien race that works well enough together to be able to travel light years is unlikely. The bigger issue would not them being aggressive, but too logical. They may see us as a threat because we are prone to outbursts. If we stifle our outbursts, we'd be less of a threat.

It does lead to all kinds of health complications. Risks increase dramatically across the board.

A local host doesn't always mean "faster" for either bandwidth or latency. I've seen situations where others had lower pings to me with a different ISP than their neighbors on the same ISP, because of poor routing, and that's not including that they have highly asymmetrical down:up and I have symmetrical.

A simple change would be to make clients favor lower latency clients. Something like floor(log2(latency)), lower is better.

No one trusts hardware anymore. It can be used to mix with the entropy pool, but it should never be used directly.

If your OS is so bad that you don't trust it's entropy, then STOP using that OS. If you can't, then sucks to be you, it's a crap OS and the programmers should die in a fire.

I'm sure they can afford to place a diode on the SSD to keep power from back-flowing, and a sensor the monitor the line voltage on the PSU side of the diode. If the voltage drops too low, the SSD does some quick clean up and sleeps itself.

You're highly unlikely to get corrupted blocks written and just likely to have "missing" data that never got written at all. If your blocks got corrupted, there's a good chance the entire SSD would be bricked or need to be "reset", losing all data.

At least good PSUs don't give you "power flickage". Since they're switching power supplies, once there is not enough power to run the electronics, it dies all at once instead of sagging. I also tend to purchase high end PSUs and they can typically handle the PSU at 100% load for 10ms without power from mains and still maintaining stable clean power. Once the voltage in the caps drops too low, the "switching" part of the PSU stops supplying power.

Net neutrality also states you cannot block or degrade legal traffic.

Why not just shape your own traffic? You get more control and they can't abuse it.

The proposed net neutrality only applies to the last mile. Don't mess with retail customers, and do whatever you want to commercial customers, as long as it doesn't "harm" retail customers.