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by excalibur 3155 days ago
> However, if you go to his house on 11 Tee Pee Row, you will unfortunately speak to a kind person who will tell you that John has been passed away since 2016 and no one else there has the same name.

This is my new favorite name for a residential street.

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If net neutrality is axed I'm moving to Berlin to live on Max-Beer street. With HN throttled I'll need a new addiction.
HN is so fast I use it to test my internet issues. It’ll be hard to throttle it.
Additionally, why would any ISP throttle a site with as little traffic as HN?

Edit: I say "little" in comparison to the seriously high traffic sites like Netflix or Google.

I'm imagining a situation where Susan Startuper wants her HN fix 20x a day just like everyone, but refuses to pay for the "Hacker Channel" subscription with her ISP. She still gets access but only at 128kb/s. In some areas there's just one ISP and it doesn't offer the Hacker Channel. DNS resolution of news.ycombinator.com fails for all of its customers.

Max-Beer street would start looking pretty good, especially if Max-HN was also available there. I'd be interested to know what, if any, effect the demise of net neutrality would have on American service providers with foreign customers.

They're not doing it for bandwidth conservation, it's a way to extract rent from companies that are (already paying someone for) using the internet to reach their customers.
> This is my new favorite name for a residential street.

There's a "Wildgoose Chase" in the Clarence Valley, Australia.. I find that one pretty good

I'm partial to Five Card Draw. The street, not the game. Now how do I get dead people to vote for things I want?
Easy! Browse this database to select the telecom firm you find most compatible with your ethical standards:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/issuesum.php?id=TEC

Drill down to find a list of firms who can recruit dead people and random special interests (see here from some of the interest groups who will rent you their outrage: http://stopthecap.com/2009/10/02/special-report-astroturf-ov... ).

Handily enough, you also get an idea of what it costs right on Open Secrets. I wish medical price lists were this easy, and I bet there are some dead people who think so, too.

Funny you say that. I used to drive by that street on the way to school.
You may also like Lake Jackson, TX where you can shop at the Aldi on This Way St or eat at the Wurst Haus on That Way St.