I can’t find more recent stats, but a 2012 study famously stated that 1% of mobile wireless users were responsible for 50% of the network capacity. So the answer to your question is that if they could limit the top 1%, they would have twice the capacity to serve the rest of us. As someone who doesn’t get to 1GB/mo.,…

The essentially fallacy of arguments like this is that carrier coverage varies depending upon where you are and where you go. If you never leave an NFL city, carrier performance is probably pretty fungible. But as soon as you get into areas that are remotely non-urban, differences start to appear. In some areas,…

First, you realize the article is talking about Verizon’s wireless services? If you are doing this over wireless, I hope they crucify you in overages.

Businesses advertise to get business; they don’t hide rates and deals. And it looks to me like AT&T’s business rates are in line with Verizon’s (https://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/plans/mobile-share.jsp?source=RED-att-redirect-attmobileshare), including $450/mo for 100 GB/mo. I’d note that the 100 GB cap…

Funny, when I look at Verizon’s business page, it looks like they don’t offer unlimited business plans. And, for reference, a 100GB/mo. business wireless plan plan seems to cost a whopping $450/mo. You really think you want what the business side gets? https://www.verizonwireless.com/biz/plans/voice-data-plans/?cmp=…

Someone just linked back to this old post and I re-read what you and I wrote—which isn’t right... Sure, adding pasta to a larger amount of water will drop the average temperature less, but it will also require longer to subsequently raise the temperature of that larger amount of water... Turns out less water…

To be fair, if the idea is to build a base for a theme bed for a child, those metal rails may not be ideal. You can typically attach those cheapo rails to a headboard, but attaching something to the other end (foot board) would be difficult and if you are putting sides on the bed, the side rails are kind of…

Low income + a lot of dependents = depressing. Seriously, comment wasn’t intended as a slight on anyone, I just can’t remember the last time I actually got money back.

What are these tax refunds you speak of?

I think there are options for doing this more easily and creating a more comfortable bed. Most bed frames don’t have a solid base, like the plywood he is using. Box springs are typically supported on the sides, or maybe on flexible slats. Provides the bed with some give that this bed won’t have. And if there isn’t…

I have a few of these—needed to address a strange issue with smart lights, which is that if the lights are also controlled by a wall switch, as most lights are, someone will turn off the light switch, rendering your smart light useless until you re-energize the light from the wall switch. Which kind of defeats the…

Getting all literal about the terms of a consent order when it is pretty plain that the actual application is outside what either party to the consent order was contemplating is stupid. Not having looked at it, I also kind of wonder whether “Joe” has any private right to sue under the consent order at all—it may be…

It was at a discounted price, seems like the deals on both are over...

It was at a discounted price, seems like the deals on both are over...

I’m sure you are well meaning. But if you said that to me, honestly, it would not be well received. I might not show it, which is why you might be under the belief it is universally well received, but I’ll tell you right now there’s a part of me that would want to punch you.

“Platitudes like ‘He’s in a better place now’ or ‘There’s a reason for everything” are easy to fall back on’”—add to that list any comments about God’s plans or God’s will.

I did Kenji’s deconstructed green bean cassarole for Thanksgiving, which involves combining cippolini onions caramelized in butter with blanched green beans and a bunch of browned mushrooms. Seemed a pity to waste the little brown bits in the bottom of the pan from cooking the onions and mushrooms in the pans, so I…

There’s a little voice in the back of my head that hears things about registering/interning Muslims and the comeback in my brain is “but... but... this is America, while we may end up doing irrational things here and there, the People wouldn’t let that happen.” And then I remember Japanese internment. And…

I wonder if you misheard what he said—I’m wondering if he may have said that that there is usually one street that is a meridian (rather than “is Meridian”), dividing N/S or E/W.

The comparison isn’t with getting paintball tanks refilled, it is the convenience of swapping out Sodastream branded tanks at a bunch of different locations. I use Airgas for my welding gases. The ones around me don’t have weekend or evening hours. I find that rather inconvenient.

Does Spotify not include The Avengers? Surely “The American In Me” ought to be on any such list.