What if you have 5 homes (with 5 different ISPs)? Is each a household or are the collection of people households?
What if you have friends who are basically family who more-or-less live with you? Are they not part of the "household"? "Sorry, Bob, while you maybe my daughter's godfather and donated a kidney to me, you're now going to need your own Netflix account because Netflix wants to mash the 'pump corporate profits' button that has been a primary contributing factor of both embarrassing wealth transfer from the poor to the rich and inflation post-pandemic."
5 homes is likely rare, but I don't think 2 is extremely uncommon. Like vacation home where family might spend summer or working at different city than where family and coming home for weekends. In Finland over 10% of people have a cabin and in average they spend 79 days of the year there (https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/kotimaa/yli-puoli-miljoonaa-kesam...) though I'm not sure how common it's to have electricity these days.
Most people would consider someone with five homes as very rich, but you could get relatively close with only moderately excessive wealth and a divorce. Each parent owning a vacation home, perhaps.
Realize the marketing and support (likely none) of retail parts like these: manufacturers don't believe enterprise customers will not scream at them if some or many of them fail. They can play fast-and-loose to push the boundaries to get marketshare. Big name vloggers and tech reporters may complain.
OTOH, enterprise parts are built and supported towards conservatism and reliability.
There is crossover and a spectrum between the 2, but this case isn't a complete surprise.
Waves from a perch overlooking AUS and Giga Texas.
I've run into enough NVIDIA and AMD engineers at The Domain to surmise this is true.
We need a funnel towards training highly-skilled blue-/light-blue-collar workers to feed the strategic needs of said fab industry if the US were serious about building domestic capabilities and competitive independence.
Right now, I don't think the current state of the US education system from national to local levels is promoting the fundamentals needed to attain this goal.
Agree completely. High specialization towards physics and science weeds out other brain types that may have a lot to offer. Trades generally don't do that
And rice produced in North America tends to concentrate arsenic.
Because something is difficult doesn't mean it's okay to rationalize more of it. Marketing something as "nontoxic" has a storied history of failure. DDT for one.
Cost/benefit analysis always. Perhaps in a survival or humanitarian crisis situation the risks of water-borne diseases would be far greater.
The main barrier to change is a widespread attitude problem: neglect rather than translating intent into action. The average American doesn't know anyone lacking housing and won't get personally involved to help "a stranger".
Furthermore, social workers and aid agencies generally don't take any proactive steps to get out to where unhoused people are or ask what they need. They're usually employees with performance standards and grand initiatives unrelated to practical and meaningful assistance.
Finally, the social safety net in America is a disgrace. Even in so-called liberal states, it treats recipients like criminals and doesn't respect them or their time while delivery inadequate resources to lift anyone out of dire situations (averaging $140 in cash and $225 for food per month). The recent debt hostage crisis engineered by far-right Republicans to attach punitive restrictions on ABAWDs and non-ABAWDs is a further punitive, collective attack on the poor for the crime of being poor.
What if you have friends who are basically family who more-or-less live with you? Are they not part of the "household"? "Sorry, Bob, while you maybe my daughter's godfather and donated a kidney to me, you're now going to need your own Netflix account because Netflix wants to mash the 'pump corporate profits' button that has been a primary contributing factor of both embarrassing wealth transfer from the poor to the rich and inflation post-pandemic."