El Nino is more accurately Christ Child.

It's a reference to it being warmer water in the Christmas season.

Wasn't it so with power too?

We managed that as a society.

This is about "tech professional connections" being available. Not being the lowest speed sold.

This isn't a conservative vs non conservative thing. That would be cutting the funding.

This is "let's give government money to bad solutions instead of good ones". That's neither conservative or not. It is currupt and/or inefficient.

I had rock solid dialup connections in the 197xx area.

They're already competitors and Netflix has more streaming time than YouTube.

Netflix has a larger share of online streaming hours than YouTube.

Neither is a monopoly in the streaming and I don't think this would count as google leveraging search (where they definitely are a monopoly).

Aside from carrier level NAT 5g internet thwomped Xfinity for quality in my neighborhood (this may have changed now that there's competition).

My choices (at the low end)were:
  200/6 cable $75
75/50 5g $50

These were observed speed. The 5g was sold as 150/50 and cable 300/6. To get acceptable upload speeds to do remote work with cable was $185/month (I forget if that was 25 or 50).

Verizon ran fiber and now I'm paying $50 for 300/300 and getting pretty close.

Xfinity is now offering reasonable plans for $50 also, not sure if that's because of fiber or 5g. It could be either.

That's why I'll never get a modern car that checks my attention.

Makes it hard to change my CDs on the fly.

I imagine my software that simply returns "not a shop lifter" would have a similar accuracy rate.

Because some people won't pay $120 for a game.

They sell it full price new, then when the hype of new has passed they discount it for people that are more frugal.

Since $60 is better than $0 they can make more money overall. They probably have sales data to support this (or at least Steam does, since they keep doing pretty deep discounts for their sales).

MIT does this.

A-C are pass, D and F are no credit for the fall semester.

Then for spring you get A-C as a letter or no credit for D-F.

They (MIT) doesn't pass the Ds.

Hasn't MIT been doing this for decades?

It's not a new concept and is used by some of the best schools in the world (well MIT at least).

Doesn't practically every google search use gemni for ai overview?

Right.

So the value probably isn't the 500 billion investment, but it's likely 50 billion at least.

That's kinda my point.