Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast

Re:Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast by wpietri on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:49PM (#17308355)

Ok. I've lived in Grand Rapids, Chicago, Sydney, London, and San Francisco. I'd trust all of them except maybe Chicago. People have different opinions and different experiences.

Turning toward actual data, in general, the US's water quality is good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water_quality_in_the_...

In the US most water systems are run by local governments, and generally it works out fine.

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Re:Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast by rayiner on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:34PM (#17308569)

You’d trust the people who run BART and CalTrain with your broadband? BART’s on time performance is 87% arriving within 5 minutes of schedule for all trains. In a place that basically has no weather. In Chicago, 83% of trains arrive within a minute of schedule during rush periods.

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Re:Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast by wpietri on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:38PM (#17312940)

Neither BART nor Caltrain is run by the city of San Francisco. And I think broadband is much easier to run than an overloaded, underfunded transport system.

If you're going to keep setting up straw men, could you make them more relevant? Thanks.

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