Last first class ticket I bought was US$13k, or a bit less than $500/hr in the air for the trip I took. A 6k laptop that I'm gonna use for 8-12 hrs/day for a couple of years is a rounding error in comparison.
I believe that usually means the local government has given a company an 'exclusive'. Or, to use the HN vernacular, the local government has outsourced a service. It's not uncommon.
Is this a trick question? The county of course. They own the roads.
Is this a trick answer, or just deeply ignorant. Within 20 miles of me there are different places where a county, a city, a neighborhood and the state own the roads.
Seriously, WTF do you live where there's one answer to this question? Apparently so far out in the boonies you don't even have an interstate.
The 8051 is just about 'free' in the sense that all it's patents, etc., have expired. So anyone who says "I need to throw a bit of microcontroller at this problem" can either grab a sub-pennies device or throw a bit of no cost/low cost 8051 IP in a tiny corner of an FPGA or ASIC and leverage 50 something years of experience, tooling, examples, etc. It's not as cool as a ARM or RISC-V, but it serves a purpose.
I lived in a townhouse community with an HOA for a few years. They handled paving the roads and all the lawn mowing and landscaping (which included weeding, as well as replacing the tree outside my unit when it died).
Not that I'd ever want an HOA again, but that was nice and your experience isn't canonical.
I dunno...I paid a small, entirely 'reasonable' fee, and shit got taken care of without me dealing with it. Just like if I'd paid that fee to a government (which I didn't). I know that doesn't fit your agenda, but don't let me stop you virtue signally how much more enlightened your view of how I should run my life is.
Hiring a landscaper that does a decent job and doesn't just collect a paycheck is surprisingly hard, especially on the budget that most HOAs try to get by on.
As far as the road part, I agree, doesn't mean that it's reality though.
Dataram, back in the day, made 'generic' core memory planes. That is, the had a relatively speaking simple electrical interface, and many vendors just implemented whatever was needed to hook it up to the vendors (usually) proprietary interface.
I have a couple I've been (very) slowly trying to get working with a modern-ish microcontroller with USB connectivity.
From what I understand (via friends in the biz), not paying actual wages isn't super easy to get away with and many states (including my own not-exactly-progressive state) have regulators who will very much go after owner who don't pay W-2/1099 wages.
OTOH...various forms of stealing tips and such is apparently pretty common, as are various schemes to keep employees 'off books' to avoid oversight.
That said, while that guy is obviously a craven idiot and complete scumbag, I can help but think "I bet he got away with this in Oklahoma (or whatever shithole he crawled out of) and he assumed he could continue to screw over his employees in NYC and is about to find out the hard way that's not true". One can hope.
No, DOCSIS is nothing like token ring. It doesn't use tokens, it uses channels for up/down and TDMA/CDMA.
No, 'broadcast ethernet' is not token ring. There is no token. It's not a ring. Switches do hide the details, but it's hiding collision domains, not token passing.
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