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Cries in German.
Meanwhile Comcast keeps rolling out price increases
My Internet bill went up $5/month.
Every damned year
Ehhh, in my experience, 1Gbps is a very good speed already, what would please me more is lower latency.
That's the main reason I haven't bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.
Getting paid by the letter? Why not just say 50Gbps?
We're probably lucky that they didn't use milibits as it is.
Because the way they write numbers is generally misunderstood in the west. Wan, the ten thousand character, and Yi, the hundred million character, are typically the crux of translating big numbers like this.
万 (wàn) comes up the most often and is the largest stumbling block for most people learning Mandarin numbers. In English, numbers are usually broken up into chunks of three digits. Because of 万 (wàn), it's easier to break numbers up into groups of four in Mandarin. In English, we split "twelve thousand" numerically into "12,000" (chunks of three digits). Split it the Chinese way, "1,2000," and the Chinese reading "一万两千" (one wan and two "thousand" = yīwàn liǎngqiān) makes more sense.
Not saying the figure isn't exaggerated, but holy shit it's obvious why it's translated this way in articles if you look even slightly beyond the surface.
I would guess it's to appeal to the greater United States audience of readers, as at least in my experience most people live in an area where speeds are still measured in the hundreds of Mbps. This would allow for a more direct and distinctly dramatic comparison.
Obligatory reminder that the Third-of-a-Pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder, since it had a three in it instead of a four.
Minds me of the informal study where people kept choosing pizza that came in more/smaller slices because they thought it was more pizza.
The system has failed us. At least a third of us but, to have a respectable shot, a quarter of us must revolt.
A tenth of a Pound must be soo big!
You get hundreds? I don't know anyone with that much. Although starting to see very expensive over 100Mbit options now, I use 4G as it's cheaper and more reliable which is somewhat amusing to be able to say.
Not like I actually need higher speeds anyway.
Lol. I live in a small city that just got a fiber provider in the neighborhood. Their slowest plan is 500 Mbps up and down.
Never lived in a city, 2016 was when I moved to a larger town though and finally got over 10Mbit, got up to a whole 30.
I'm lucky enough to live over a business that allows me to use their Internet as a part of my lease, I do have 25Mbps. A marked upgrade from the non-business options in the area.
No, if they cared for that, they'd say 50,000,000,000 Bps
Fair enough. They could even do 100,000,000,000 Nps
That's how you know it's was written by GenAI
I've enough with my 600Mbs, 50Gbs for an normal user don't make much sense, it's more interesting for big Companies with a huge data traffic or for stock options. For straming movies and downloading some piracy soft, are 200Mbs way enough.
I don't need faster internet. If they had a 2mbps connection for $15, I'd be happy.
Instead, the slowest is 20mbps, for $70. To watch youtube. Wtf do I need all the extra speed for???
You're getting scammed by your ISP. That's a terrible value. I bet they have a monopoly in your area too.
Area? Try building. It's written into the lease of the apartment. Even if you want NO internet, you still gotta pay.
You're talking about the USA, not China. Internet costs in the PRC are much lower than the USA.
0.2 Mbps is sufficient to stream 1080p.
Check your packet loss
That is a lot of propaganda/sec
the grand firewall protects from that
- Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine
- You're Not Immune To Propaganda
- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda
- Michael Parenti,
- Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
That is not a subtle deflection. The so-called great firewall is indefensible, as it would also be anywhere else it was implemented.
In other news….
Since the Two-State Solution post got deleted yesterday, I was unable to reply to your comment directed at me when I pressed Send, so I’ll paste it to you below. Ciao.
I’m under no illusions about Western imperialism in its various forms, nor about the slippage of rights Western societies have undergone over the decades, nor about the oligarchic tendencies baked into capitalism, because I have 20 years experience studying and writing about exactly those issues.
However, I live in a world of comparatives, not absolutes, and compared to those in the cities and especially countrysides of Russia and China, I’m incredibly free. Compared to Western billionaires, CEOs, and the politicians that they own, I’m not. When I say death to all tyrants, it’s a broad brush that knows no borders since the bastards can be found anywhere we look, including DC and China, among many others.
I protect no authoritarian regime no matter whether they pretend to espouse the myths of the free market or those of a worker’s paradise. They’re both excuses for a concentration of power, and having lived in various dictatorships as well as purported democracies, I know evil when I see it, and I see it all over.
And now comes the .ml ban. :)
However, I live in a world of comparatives, not absolutes, and compared to those in the cities and especially countrysides of Russia and China, I’m incredibly free.
So presumably you've been to these places, seen their living conditions for yourself, and spoken to locals about their experience. Would you mind sharing the specifics with us all?
Under capitalism, your "freedom" has a price. That price being the every looming threat of poverty, homelessness, and ultimately resulting in death. In China, housing is a constitutional right granted to every citizen.
Yeah, I’ve been all over China, urban and rural. Constitutional right, hilarious. There is a shit ton of poverty, countless people living in shacks. One time I was also there as an alley was literally being bulldozed to ‘cleanse’ it of homeless people for the upcoming Olympics.
I’ve been to Moscow, but I didn’t go all Tucker Carlson over it. It’s a large city that’s mostly bleak, like many other cities I’ve seen across former Soviet states, and I’ve seen plenty of them. In one regard it stood out to me, and that is in how miserable the people seem to be. Dour and without exuberance. If I could think of an opposite-world to Latin American culture, Moscow would be it, and it’s by far the most prosperous region in the vast Russian Empire.
As for speaking to the locals, yeah, I’ve tried to have conversations eliciting their opinions about their lives, not only in Russia and China, but also in Cuba, and many hundreds of times in the Gulf Arab states because I spent so much time there, and I know that look on a human face oh-so-well when they want to say something out loud but they know how dangerous it would be, so they shoo it away and you’re left only with a sad and demure smile. I’ve definitely had those conversations in your paradises countless times.
Stop with your immature romanticizing. There is no utopia, not in the West, not in China, not on Earth. Stop dreaming of heaven like some religious automaton. We’re nothing more than bipedal apes and we’ve just got to make our own communities as good as we can make them. Kill your heroes already.
I love that when asked for specifics, your response is just some vague, orientalist drivel. It's clear you've either never been to any of these places or if you have, didn't actually bother leaving the airport. You say that I'm doing immature romanticizing, but then you try and paint all of these places with a black brush. Anyone who's traveled outside of their home country will be able to tell that this is just storytelling. The world is of course, far from perfect, but it's also not the bleak dystopia you describe it as.
the vast Russian Empire.
What year do you think it is?
This is some real 🤡 shit. You're either a fed or just really depressed. If it's the latter, I hope that you can get some help. Otherwise, Minecraft is waiting. I see now why everyone else here ignored you and from here on, I will be doing the same. Bye 👋
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