They just had like 100 APs and well configured roaming. I guess they carefully managed power levels and channels of each AP.
It's not much different from 4G mobile data working well at musical festivals with thousands of visitors.
IME from where I live, mobile data work well even when standing in the middle of protests of 10k people (many of them live streaming on FB and Instagram, sending selfies and photos and videos...). 100k becomes a problem though.
I worked in a purely wifi-based office of hundreds of people. Seamless roaming, speeds in hundreds of Mb/s, low ping - while everyone restored their NPM deps, Docker image layers and had video conferences all the time. Don't know what you're talking about.
IME wifi problems are purely administrator capability issue. And I've never seen anyone have a problem with mobile network due to wifi...
This feat of ingenuity requires cca $25k - but distributed over 5 years. How many family households in the US could pay $5k/year?
3/4 of all US family households have income over $50k, more than 1/2 have income over $85k, more than 1/3 have income over $125k and more than 1/8 have income over $200k.[1]
$85k is enough to be comfortable and have $5k for the genius child even if you live in the Bay Area. $50k is enough for this outside major cities.
Yeah I think most Americans could (not talking about averages here). It's roughly the same money as 1 year at an university, or a year of car lease payments, or a nice family vacation. Maybe two, but no more.
Anyone who rides a new-ish motorbike demonstrably has enough money to spare. Are motorbikes that unusual? Are second cars unusual? I don't think so. (and don't even look at how much people spend on cigarettes)
It's likely people wouldn't recognize the value and would buy the car or sports equipment instead and I'm not saying most people have the money on top of these other unnecessary expenses - but people prioritizing second cars/motorbikes/etc instead of their genius children are outside the scope of this discussion because they could, they just don't.
Not really. We all know poor people couldn't really do it, just as they couldn't do expensive sports and other expensive but still usual hobbies, for example.
But this guy is not the only upper middle class person in the world - he's from a country with the largest, richest middle class of all countries; and so discussing the money here is IMHO the more out of touch thing - there is more people in the US with enough money for this stunt than there is poor people.
Can't we just celebrate the incredible achievement that literally not a single other not-poor kid was able to do (compare to the number of semi-pro hockey players - hockey is notoriously expensive)?
Isn't persistence exactly the thing that makes them distinct? Saying everybody could do it if they were persistent... Well yeah, but the point is most people aren't.
I don't remember gold-plated latinum being used within the Federation itself, all their worlds were blissful utopias. DS9 was outside the Federation, and at a place and time where the major civilizations were at war for decades. And even in DS9, the Starfleet officers never had any interest whatsoever in latinum.
There is a similar thing in EU but it's very regulated (though all processes are very lengthy and paper-heavy) and used for paying utilities etc, not gym.
I don't recall ever reading such bland, uninteresting statement.
If you want to claim democracy doesn't work, post some explanation of your position. You might feel like your opinion is shared amd known by everyone, but that's just a social bubble.
I'm more towards your side than you probably think, btw.
You're talking about the employee while the GP is talking about the employer. Both have their income (personal or corporate) taxes, so both statements are true.
I am not saying there is an exodus, of course the Finnish system is excellent for many people, and it is so good that it does a good job even when the child does not fit exactly.
However yes, there are people that were forced to move away from Finland or other countries like it because their child had problems in the standardized schools, and there were cases of people that were criminalized for their different educational preferences.
I don't think that problems of the world and the competing economical ideologies should hinder education of children. While for-profit schooling exists, a large portion of private schools are cooperatives, nonprofits, informal groups etc, and private schooling is even recognized by the EU commision as extremely important in helping non-standard people. Private schools can only help, there is no way that a school that is at least average would do harm - it's the government's fault the public schools are failing, as is clear from the many and many countries where private, public, governmental, religious and other schools coexist peacefully.
Another point to consider is the differing needs of parents (e.g. the weird school-work schedule of a mother that still works on her Ph.d. while working as a researcher while having a baby; some people want to travel while their kids are young; ...); a public school simply won't accommodate to that.
When I was a kid, my father had a small WISP. Even that (done with consumer-level hardware) was super interesting.
IMHO networking is surprisingly accessible though - it's well documented because the field is built on certifications.