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Your "more" section lacks a purpose. You mention price of "connection" without additional details. One could argue that the main benefit of the internet, both w
by bismuthcrystal 4y ago
Your "more" section lacks a purpose. You mention price of "connection" without additional details. One could argue that the main benefit of the internet, both ways communication of information worldwide, can be fulfilled with very low bandwidth and today can already be priced at 1 dollar per month per person.
What happens when we allocate resources to enable 1 dollar per month per person internet with megabits of bandwidth and this group of people use it to consume social media and streaming (aka "old days television") old day long?
- withinboredom 4y ago> can be fulfilled with very low bandwidth and today can already be priced at 1 dollar per month per person I can promise you that basically the entire internet (with the exception of this particular site) doesn't work at "very low bandwidth."
- bismuthcrystal 4y agoI believe you. I just recently tried to browse Reddit. The bloat is unbelievable.
- UmbertoNoEco 4y agoSo your point is totally moot. But HN is HN
- bismuthcrystal 4y agoNo, it's not. Just because Reddit is unusable at low bandwidth doesn't mean Wikipedia is also unusable.
- withinboredom 4y agoYeah, Wikipedia loads at low speeds[0] but I think they specifically design to load on low bandwidth connections. RANT Most sites are built for high-end dev machines running OSX and/or chrome. I’m basically the only person running windows and Linux regularly at work and test things in windows for people when they can’t reproduce it anywhere else. The number of times I’ve informed our editorial team that they are about to publish something full of unprintable characters (that are hidden in OSX but show up as a question mark on Windows) is non-zero. The dev mono-culture is real. END_RANT [0]: https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5176284711 https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5176284711