And you are here why?

*Every* coffee bean is individually examined - this is a passion for excellence!!!

And yes, in this society, if your only interaction with “those people” is from bad s**t on the news, then of course  your perspective is going to end up skewed

Seriously though, I get the point about Market Pricing, etc. But this "Illusion of Choice" is not a Market, its BullS**t

Google released a patch today that significantly  improves how congestion control works in TCP . First, the great  part - the changes are on the sender  side, and require no co-ordinated changes on the receiver , or the intermediary network .  Which is awesome - it means that this can be incrementally deployed purely by updating the network stack at the end-points. Seriously, that is awesome news.  This field has been more art than science for the longest time, and despite the plethora of approaches out there , not much has really changed since the days of Reno. Part of the reason for this is the network equivalent of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - where bandwidth and network delay are inextricably linked, and can't be disambiguated.  And the problem with that  is that it turns out that you really, really  want to look at the two independently to find the optimal operating point for a network . Anyhow, Google's new algorithm - c...