I would bet they are lying They will never install fiber in my area
Even if it even exists, I would expect the $20 rate will be deemed non-viable within a few months of implementation. Everyone knows government contracts have zero teeth for enforcement against corporate entities.
Eventually, yes, but you forgot a bunch of steps:
Then, after about three years, they show the government that nobody wanted $20 Internet service, and ask permission to stop providing it. And the CPUC, being an industry lapdog, quickly agrees to whatever Verizon asks for. And *then* they stop providing it.
"I am willing to bet any of the Trump picks are better than you, both ethically and professionally."
A number of them were clearly picked, off of the Faux News rotation no less, specifically because they have no ethics and no professional qualifications for their jobs. So absofuckinglutely not.
"Plus, there is still very little native game support."
Do not want. Ironically, it's easier to run old Windows games on Linux than old Linux games.
"Which historical trends are you looking at?"
People only getting more days off through social unrest and violence.
I always have trouble with rideshare pickups from my apartment. I can plant an X where I want to be picked up but then this gets translated to an address on a neighbouring street that is not in my complex. I always have to send a clarifying message to the driver. This is challenging because I can't send it until the driver is assigned, which is when I'm rushing around trying to be ready in time. It would seem that Waymo might skip the step of converting to a human readable address. That might help. But if, it doesn't, texting the robot driving the car doesn't seem to be an option. Has anyone here tried to get a Waymo pickup from a similar tricky location?
It probably helps to use a ridesharing platform that doesn't use multiple map providers. If all your map data is from one source, you don't have these problems. It's when you start to mix multiple map providers that things go horribly and irreparably wrong, because the workarounds for one platform don't work on a different platform. Given that we're talking about Waymo, I assume Google Maps is used for everything, so I wouldn't expect those issues to occur. But no way to know without trying it at your specific location.
"Just invest in rail."
No, it's not that easy. Trains are slow to get started, they need a significant amount of time to stop. Most trains weigh way more than a truck with full load. But trains need to be managed carefully. Enough distance between the trains, a quality management system for switches and signals, good trains, good personnel.
Before that, you need to design your network such that it's attractive enough for people to use it. With public transit this generally means: put stations at places where people want to get on or get off or want to transfer to other modes of public transport (such as buses, subways, trams) which can bring people closer to their final destination.
And note that this will change over time, but your rails can't change over time. This is the peril of rail for intracity transit.
Rails make a lot of sense in ultra-dense areas (think Manhattan, *maybe* downtown SF, but not any of the rest of the Bay Area, etc.), because the roads can't handle even a fraction of the passenger volume.
Rails also make sense for long-distance travel. If you're traveling for several hours, you probably don't want to drive that, so it is worth the inconvenience of not having a car at the other end. Also, if the trains are fast enough for their average speed to exceed the average speed of a car, then after two or three hours, you've probably broken even with the extra travel time required to get to and from those fixed endpoints.
But for the most part, rail *doesn't* make a lot of sense, because they're too much slower than air travel for long distances, and they're too much slower than cars for short distances. If you really want rail to work, we need 250 MPH (minimum) bullet trains from city to city so that they are competitive with airplanes. And provide ample parking at the termini.
All of these modes of public transport need to be efficient, arrive at least twice (preferably more) per hour throughout the day, be safe and clean.
Twice per hour makes a transit system borderline useless unless you are traveling for multiple hours. Your average latency is half of that, so that means on average you will waste 15 minutes waiting for every train. That means to break even, even before factoring in the extra time to get to/from the station, you need to save a whopping 15 minutes by using the train. And if you have even one connection, that makes your median latency thirty minutes. When you're wasting half an hour just waiting for the train to arrive, you're not only uncompetitive with driving; you're starting to be uncompetitive with bicycling.
Successful transit systems run avery 3 to 5 minutes during rush hour, and no more than about once every ten minutes late at night or on weekends. If you can't keep trains running at that frequency, you aren't dense enough to need a transit system, and you probably will regret putting one in. You'll end up repeatedly reducing the frequency to keep the trains at high enough occupancy to be worth doing, and then you'll be confused when ridership drops because nobody wants to wait that long for a train, and eventually you'll end up with a massively subsidized waste of taxpayer dollars like VTA.
I've really come around to this idea that we should simply stop any mergers or acquisitions by businesses, full stop. I don't think any major merger in my lifetime has ended actually postitively to where we can all say "wow, sure glad that happened!". Have we ever seen the lower prices promised?
Want to make a business then you make your business to be a self sustaining entity and not just have the end goal of being purchased.
License your tech if you want to join forces. Gone bankrupt and another company wants your assets? They can buy it then but that's it.
Yup. We're well past the point where the resulting economies of scale benefit the consumer. In late-stage capitalism, economies of scale benefit the corporation and only the corporation.
"Rail produces one-fifth the emissions of cars per passenger kilometer..."
Sure, for all cars. But how does it compare to just buses?
I think the inefficiency may lie not the mode of transport but in our unwillingness to all pile into the same conveyance.
Full or at typical capacity? Lots of bus routes around here average a low single-digit number of passengers for much of the route. Even single-passenger cars compare favorably to that. Assuming a diesel bus at an average of 3 MPG, you need a minimum of 15 passengers on average to break even with driving single-passenger hybrids. And that's not factoring in how much dirtier a gallon of diesel fuel is compared with a gallon of gasoline.
There's something to this, but not much, because games typically have graphics settings that you can use to get the performance you want at the resolution you want by turning off features. So yes, target the upper end of the hardware, but also make it possible to play on lesser systems.
If we want shorter workweeks in America, the means to obtain it is not new tech, but new legislation.
Or we could just let workers and employers sort it out.
That could make sense, if you completely ignore facts and history.
If we reduce the per-employee overhead, that would make employers (on the margin) more willing to have shorter hour employees
That's a good argument for single-payer health care.
The CDs were good as coasters, frisbees, and the entertainment value of folding them until they snapped and loudly shattered. Not as financially rewarding as floppies, but good from the standpoint of making fun of AOL.
Office wall Plinko with push pins.
My IT team regularly has to help iPhone users install the Microsoft authenticator app for MFA as part of adding them to our email system.
Stop doing BYOD, preload apps on the phones issued to users, and you won't have this problem.
No fucking way I'm allowing my employer access to my personal phone. Luckily mine is smart enough to issue phones.
I remember attempts to moderate on Usenet, and it really didn't work. It was too decentralized, there was insufficient central authority to enforce or to delegate to moderators, and then the volume of garbage got so bad that it simply wasn't worth it anymore.
Moderation on USENET works fine. Moderated newsgroups require post approval. The only problem there is post volume, but every newsgroup doesn't have to be for everyone.
However, a better plan would have been to give users the tools to filter out the trolls with a web of trust moderation system based on PGP signatures, which could have been added to any newsreader.
They justified it by adding lots of tenured professors
The number of tenured positions has fallen, not risen, so no.
The money is going to executives and consultants, not educators.
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