A good bit less. 10 years ago I had just graduated college and was still living with my parents. I had a job but far less income. Gaming is actually a pretty cheap hobby overall (even back then they had $20 "classics" titles that you could play for dozens of hours), so I spent a lot of my time that way.

Now, I make more money, own my own home, and have more expensive and time consuming hobbies. I still play games (and probably always will), but I get through a lot less of them compared to 10 years ago. I mostly do only the big AAA titles and get through maybe 5 of them per year.

It maters less than you'd think. The people with fiber will just be streaming the "ultra super duper HD" version of the video.

Honestly though - I have "regular" cable internet. My speeds are 15Mbps - nowhere close to fiber speeds. I STILL stream full 1080p from Youtube just fine and instantly. Before I moved I was on 3Mbps DSL connection and I still was doing 720p just fine.

Don't get me wrong - I know that faster is always better, but I think we're truly getting to a point of diminishing returns for most things. A person with a 100Mbps connection might have a theoretical max speed 10x greater than someone at 10Mbps, but their actual internet experience is unlikely to be much different - PARTICULARLY for services that can auto-scale the bitrate of a video down as needed.

If anything educational uses will be the LEAST impacted by this type of thing.

Depends on what small gains you wish to prioritize. You claim that driving more conservatively you save money and get to the same destination with a negligible difference in time.

By the same token, there's a lot of people that are going to view your savings in gas as negligible. Its not likely to literally affect your quality of life.

You arrived within seconds of her. She arrived within pennies of you.

FWIW my car (a 2006 Hyundai Tiburon) is rated at 19 MPG city and 27 MPG highway, but not going out of my way I still get over 30MPG from it.

Yep - its weird that alcohol affects people in such difference ways. My brother tends to be an angry drunk. I can't count how many fights I've had to pull him out of when we're out. I know plenty of people who get funny and jokey when drunk.

I personally tend to be a very quiet drunk. My friends find that amazing (since most people you get them drunk to "see their wild side" - I get drunk and just get reclusive). Its weird but though I'm impaired, my reaction is to acknowledge that and get very self-conscious about *appearing* to be drunk, so I try not to say or do much.

Creationism is pretty common among most world religions. Its just the details and deities that change. In Hinduism Vishnu commanded Brahma to grow the world out of an ocean via a lotus flower. Still creationism, just a very different version.

That's why they cling to "Intelligent Design". By doing that and leaving out the details they can at least not have their children taught something that directly contradicts what they learn in Sunday school.

As someone who is non-religious that grew up in a religious family, the GGP's post does pretty much fall spot on. Most of these people are misinformed, but their 'heart is in the right place". You have to understand that to an atheist, its very easy to sit back and "respect everyone's beliefs". That's because they truly see all of them as simple stories and culture. To a Christian though, that actually do truly believe that if you don't live your life according to their beliefs, then you're going to Hell. They see all of their annoyances and pestering as trying to help you avoid a fate that they are terrified of, and they regard teaching their children anything that contradicts these beliefs with great disdain.

I'm not saying that I support removing evolution from the criteria (quite the contrary - I've argued with my religious mother many times in support of evolution) - I'm just saying that to truly understand their motives you have to understand where they're coming from.

Its hard to convince someone of something that they absolutely KNOW is not true - even when it is.

Don't know if its different in other parts of the world, but in the US as long as the machine is owned by your bank they have no fees. Go with a big enough bank and they have them pretty much everywhere. Some other banks (like Ally) that don't have their own ATM's actually refund you the fee that the machine charges so that it becomes effectively free to use any ATM.

About 2 years ago or so a few of the major banks actually announced plans to charge people for debit card usage (it seems to encourage pulling cash out of the ATM instead) but the public outcry was loud enough that they all backed away from the idea.

Buying online - at least when its physical goods - requires a shipping address. That's a big risk for a thief to take as even if they're using an address they don't live at, if the fraud is discovered while the item is in transit the address may be being monitored by authorities.

Meh - we've been mining and messing with Earth for millenia. We still haven't screwed up its orbit nor leave almost any detectable changes visible from orbit (at least not without magnification). The moon won't be any different.

Who still wears a watch at all? I see almost no one with them anymore - at least not on a regular basis. I actually have on (that I think I paid $10 for) whose only purpose is to go with me on trips where I know my cellphone battery won't last the day (ie, on long fishing trips and such). Gets used maybe 4-5 times per year.

Its all anecdotal, but I've certainly killed a smartphone, and I've seen enough of my friends with cracked screens waiting for their upgrade that it doesn't seem that uncommon.

I've dropped mine a number of times and generally they're fine, but one drop to a tile bathroom floor broke the screen.

Admittedly though, I don't use cases. They bulk up the device too much for my tastes and 1 cracked screen in 4 years of smartphone use is tolerable.

Citation needed.

I don't think anybody called it "useless". They simply stated that NASA has a better ROI and deserved more of a budget increase.

They didn't DEFUND the NIH. They just gave them less of an increase. The real world isn't binary where it's all or nothing.

Apparently there's free as in speech and free as in beer, but there is no free as in electricity.

That is irrelevant to the age of the software though. Floppy disk is hardware. It doesn't matter if its a 30 year old program on that disk or if you just saved it - if the disk is damaged the software is lost. That's has nothing to do with the age of the code base.

Hardware maintenance and backup policies are a completely separate issue.

That's a hardware issue and is completely irrelevant to the discussion of code. We run 30 year old code for some applications here. The server its running on is 2 years old.