Found plugged into a coworker's PC
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@Ben L. said:
Okay, everyone on the internet is a terrorist. That explains the NSA stuff.
Love how you blurred out the section heading above: "Unusual interest in high risk or symbolic targets" which puts it into a different context.
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@Zadkiel said:
Nope, still about porn.@Ben L. said:
Okay, everyone on the internet is a terrorist. That explains the NSA stuff.
Love how you blurred out the section heading above: "Unusual interest in high risk or symbolic targets" which puts it into a different context.
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@OzPeter said:
Especially when you have places in the US with population densities upwards of 50,000 people per square mile and they still have shitty everything coverage. Yet Tokyo with a density of around 16,000 people per square mile has magical cell phone services that deliver internet faster than fibre in the US
Tokyo has a fast internet, sure, but on the other hand this does not happen in the US. I'll take bad coverage over subway stuffing any time.
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@Ronald said:
@OzPeter said:
Especially when you have places in the US with population densities upwards of 50,000 people per square mile and they still have shitty everything coverage. Yet Tokyo with a density of around 16,000 people per square mile has magical cell phone services that deliver internet faster than fibre in the US
Tokyo has a fast internet, sure, but on the other hand this does not happen in the US. I'll take bad coverage over subway stuffing any time.
You've clearly never been on Boston's Green Line on a Friday night.
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@mott555 said:
No, where I grew up that was the actual. We lived between towns. Our nearest neighbor was over a mile away. About 5 miles away was a town of 150 people, and 10 miles past that was the local metropolis of 1700 people.
150 people is a hamlet. 1700 is a village (or would be except it's got a more substantial hinterland than a village normally has). Let's face it, that's out in the boonies. If you're expecting to get services just as cheaply as people do in a substantively more urban area (e.g., a city of 100k) then you're nuts, and that applies to all sorts of things.There's an exponential effect that increases the number of overall interactions between people as the population of a settlement goes up (I forget the factor, but it's greater than 1; it's a few years since I read about this). Unfortunately, not all of those are good interactions (large cities definitely have more crime) but the large majority usually are, and the net result is typically strongly positive. This is what drives the creation of places like New York, subject to a whole bunch of other constraints.
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@mikeTheLiar said:
@Ronald said:
@OzPeter said:
You've clearly never been on Boston's Green Line on a Friday night.Especially when you have places in the US with population densities upwards of 50,000 people per square mile and they *still* have shitty everything coverage. Yet Tokyo with a density of around 16,000 people per square mile has magical cell phone services that deliver internet faster than fibre in the US
Tokyo has a fast internet, sure, but on the other hand this does not happen in the US. I'll take bad coverage over subway stuffing any time.Or New York's Lexington Lines (the 4,5, or 6)
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@TheCPUWizard said:
@mikeTheLiar said:
@Ronald said:
@OzPeter said:
Especially when you have places in the US with population densities upwards of 50,000 people per square mile and they still have shitty everything coverage. Yet Tokyo with a density of around 16,000 people per square mile has magical cell phone services that deliver internet faster than fibre in the US
Tokyo has a fast internet, sure, but on the other hand this does not happen in the US. I'll take bad coverage over subway stuffing any time.
You've clearly never been on Boston's Green Line on a Friday night.Or New York's Lexington Lines (the 4,5, or 6)
I have to confess, I never take the subway. When I'm in NYC I rent a town car and driver (they are not a lot more expensive than cabs but the drivers know their way around and don't smell like a bangalore dumpster). Same goes for Chicago. But I never go to Boston. Why would I go to Boston it's like the Boise of the East Coast.
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@Ronald said:
I have to confess, I never take the subway. When I'm in NYC I rent a town car and driver (they are not a lot more expensive than cabs but the drivers know their way around and don't smell like a bangalore dumpster). Same goes for Chicago. But I never go to Boston. Why would I go to Boston it's like the Boise of the East Coast.
Typical "Car Service" is $25-$60 within the city. Yellow Cab (the only legal type to hail) is $5-$20. Subway is $2.50 for any ride (unlimited connections) and cheaper with a monthly pass. Now make 3-5 trips per day average (20-40 trips per week) and see what the difference is.
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@Ronald said:
Why would I go to Boston it's like the Boise of the East Coast
You're thinking of Providence. Boston's not a bad place to live. Wouldn't want to visit, though.
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@TheCPUWizard said:
Typical "Car Service" is $25-$60 within the city. Yellow Cab (the only legal type to hail) is $5-$20. Subway is $2.50 for any ride (unlimited connections) and cheaper with a monthly pass. Now make 3-5 trips per day average (20-40 trips per week) and see what the difference is.
Subways are cheaper in Boston, taxis are more expensive. $2 to get on the subway, free transfers, discount on buses if you have a plastic card instead of a paper one. OTOH, it costs $40 to get a cab to work (approx 8 miles [approx 13 km]).
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@dkf said:
If you're expecting to get services just as cheaply as people do in a substantively more urban area (e.g., a city of 100k) then you're nuts, and that applies to all sorts of things.
Except that the city of 100K still has shitty service, as OzPeter pointed out previously.
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@dhromed said:
Except that the city of 100K still has shitty service, as OzPeter pointed out previously.
Which service did you think I was talking about?Hint: I was actually talking about all of them, including the ones that are entirely private sector. If you gather a bunch of people, it's much cheaper to provide all sorts of things to them, and they all interact with each other more and come up with new ideas for things to do. Spread everyone out and you've just got less activity going on.
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@dkf said:
Which service did you think I was talking about?
Hint: I was actually talking about all of them, including the ones that are entirely private sector.
Oh, we were talking about internet.
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@dhromed said:
Oh, we were talking about internet.
Well I wasn't. That's relatively easy to provide remote from population centres, even if with reduced bandwidth and increased latency. Other services (like the fire department or a grocery store) have a much higher overhead out in the boonies.That some fairly large US cities have terrible internet access is just bad organisation, probably due to regulatory capture and rent-seeking.
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