I believe you’re confusing bandwidth with latency.

“Breaking News: Bradley Brownell of Jalopnik has no idea how data transmission works”

The article is conflating bandwidth with transmission time (which is essentially lag), and these are not the same thing at all.

Someone below already explained this in detail, but this is about increasing throughput/bandwidth, not decreasing time of flight/latency. As can be observed even with home wifi, signal strength(not time of flight) directly impacts bandwidth and gets weaker with the square of distance. Increase signal strength with a…

I read nothing in this article that convinced me of the headline, and the content actually works against the assertion in the headline.

petabyte(bit)/second hasn’t anything to do with the transmission propagation rate, it has to do with the transmission bandwidth. Transmission delay has to do with the transmission propagation rate; as you noted, latency.

With all due respect, this is a misunderstanding of the argument. I do not read that the signal will propagate faster but that they will increase the connection throughput.

Seems like latency and bandwidth are being conflated here.

Did you read the article?  He used the sign after he was unable to get any buyers from his online ads.

Uh....for all uses of cruise control, a space large enough for other drivers to merge in should be left....that feels like works as designed to me.

I think the art they used is pretty cool looking. Non ‘AI’ generated art is used for loads of shady purposes so I guess that’s bad too?

...it should be harder to buy cheap decorations?

Jesus, I can feel the smarm from your post despite the fact that no one calls them “chicken wings.”

“We’re just eating a lot today and not caring about what we look like?”
“Ugh, lame. What is going on with you? You’ve outdone yourself.”

I never understand this line of reasoning when it comes to Taco Bell. Never once have I wanted Mexican food and considered Taco Bell an option, and never once have I wanted Nachos Bell Grande and tried to get something similar from an actual Mexican place. They’re two different things and scratch two different itches.

I don’t trust this guy, but “floating Venus sky city” is cool as hell. Also not as weirdly impractical as you might think - Venus has a segment of sky about 55-60 kilometers above the surface where the air pressure and outside temperature are such that your habitat wouldn’t need to be either actively cooled nor…

I’m NOT a Musk defender, but I hate this line: “Should’ve Built in the First Place”

They tried something new. It failed, and didn’t cost them anything. This was a useful experiment.

I’m a little surprised nothing from the Fast movies made the list, not gonna lie. Of course, they’ve (Tokyo) drifted away from practical stuff more and more so I get it, but I mean, the scene in Furious 7 when they parachute the cars out of planes, ending with Paul Walker’s fight with Tony Jaa and then having to run…

Could have taken you all of two seconds to Google her name and find out that she’s black/Hispanic.

As the article says, this is why virtually all hotels include single-use plastic bags/liners for ice buckets. Seems reasonably fine for non-hypochondriacs.