I seem to recall Comcast and others “allegedly” throttling (or perhaps more accurately: traffic shaping) connections to netflix and reducing the quality but if you went to speedtest.net you’d show full speed. Which is why Netflix set up Fast.com, because if your ISP is hampering traffic to netflix, it’ll show up there.

Man, I’m sure all those people who talked about wait times with single payer healthcare sure feel stupid.

My ISP runs the closest couple of test servers for Speedtest.net - which means when I test there I get like 18-20ms latency and absolutely maxed out speeds - since my connection is essentially never leaving the ISPs datacentre. I also believe they prioritize speedtest.net connections so that it always shows the best…

Fucking Boston gets away with SO MUCH SHIT. Between Chara and Marschand that team can get fucked. It’s just not enjoyable to watch them literally beat the shit out of another team and not even get so much as a glance from the refs while if someone looks at them wrong a penalty is called.

Until you are thrown in the poor house for trying to satisfy your munchies at Disney prices.

How?

This post-season, more then most in recent memory, seems wild. Favorites are losing to wildcards, no one has any idea (or even any good indication) who is going to win one night to the next. The only constants are dirty hits from Boston and Don Cherry pissing himself with rage over people having fun!

I mute the TV when he’s on so that I can watch the life leave Ron McLean’s eyes every time Don Cherry speaks.

That’s clearly just the audio from the scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex is trying to figure out how to eat what is in side the jeep.

They get some assistance yeah - but mostly that applies to tuition and not any of the other multitude of costs associated with college (colleges love their fees, and bookstores love their money). And those programs are notoriously hard to apply for, and take in to account the wages of your parents even if there is no…

“Should people who aren’t from rich families just not become nurses?”

I fully agree that “college is the only way to get a job that isn’t minimum wage” is why we are in this mess - except it’s also a reality. Entry level tech jobs (my field, so it’s what I know) demand a Bachelors in a related field (or “the equivalent combination of experience and education” - which is a fancy way of…

Tuition at the College of Medicine at USC for an undergrad nursing program is $7,811 per term this year. 2 terms a year is $15,622 per year, for 4 years is $62,488. And that’s in state tuition. And doesn’t include books, or any of the thousands of dollars in fees required every term. Should people who aren’t from rich…

Thing is that’s not that extreme of an example. And it’s profoundly shitty for us as a society to say to someone “Hey, you’re not from a well off family so you shouldn’t go to college even though college is pretty much the only way to get a job that isn’t minimum wage. Tough break, try not being poor.”

I think a key problem with V2I or V2V communication is that you have to treat all incoming data that isn’t collected by the vehicle itself as not just potentially inaccurate but potentially malicious. If you have to independently verify any data points coming in with your own fleet of sensors then the incoming data…

“OR...you could wait a year or two, work, save, live frugally, go to a cheaper option that you can afford, and not take it all as debt.”

I’m not overly surprised that 17-18 year olds, by and large, aren’t able to go against every societal message about college that they’ve received since they started elementary school. I think following the advice of your family and everyone around you when you are 17 years old is hardly a mistake that is your fault.…

Yes - they found an option that was available to them, in their area, that was close enough to be able to afford transportation to and from with jobs that were flexible enough on hours to ensure they could go to class. Good on them.

You may not agree with the plan - but there is actual proposals for paying for it. And it’s not like the US would be the first country in the world to provide higher education for at or nearly free.

It’s predatory. The job markets haven’t kept up with the cost of inflation - much less the cost of higher education. Universities know this - but they keep bringing in the students and encouraging them to take on tens of thousands of dollars in debt. It’s essentially a $100,000 gamble for the student - hoping that…