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> ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.
Your link says 46M total which includes native speakers. So it does not state how many non-native speakers. (not that it would matter as most would be proficient english speakers, just pointing out you're exagerating and your numbers are wrong)
Where does it state this?
Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers?
wikipedia. You are a bit off...
As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.
It's not fully 3d printed. 3d printed parts are fragile.
So what exactly are they banning?
Why not ban the electrochemical machining instead?
The static blocklists can be defeated easily by having ads served by the same domain.
In that case you are stuck due to apple's decisions.
I configured iptables and had no trouble blocking WAN access to docker...
In addition to that there's the default host in daemon.json plus specifying bindings to local host directly in compose / manually.
As long as they make a fair guess and I get my bandwidth whenever I want, all is good.
That seems to be the case right now.
Dedicated internet access is a different thing, I agree, it also provides different guarantees, support, etc.
As long as they also provide people the bandwidth sold to them when they want it.
Otherwise compensation should be in order if they throttle.
If ISPs sell you a bandwidth per month they should deliver it.
You're the one that's short changed if you accept the throttling.
Same logic for interstate. You lay fiber once and scale equipment as needed. If you already have the fiber there then just use better modules.
> Netflix and YouTube have already agreed to switch to standard-definition streaming in Europe to reduce bandwidth demand.”
You can change quality back to whatever. You can also use other services or use the connection for other things.
Plus compensation which is an admission of fault on airlines.
> There is no way on Earth that you being in Europe somehow makes you immune to reality.
Perhaps you can think of how that might work, i can think of:
- large fiber pipes capable of accomodating spikes
- average out traffic for large systems - have predictable traffic at scale, scale up as needed, power on/off equipment, etc
Large systems have their own rules.
If everybody watches the superbowl at the same time I'd expect the power grid not to fail.
If everybody gets home at around the same time from work and start powering on devices I'd expect power grid not to fail.
If it suddently gets cold and people turn on heating around same time, I'd expect it not to fail.
Those seem valid expectations and are met.
Therefor when I say if everyone starts streaming netflix it should work, then this is also valid expectation and should be fine.
> It is the level of service you paid for. The overbooking possibility? You paid for it, it was in your contract.
I get what I pay for when I want. I have 1gbps, I can run full speed as much as I want and sometimes it's nice to do that.
I am also in europe. I don't get throttled service and what you say is not in my contract.
What do you say to that?
You pay for a certain level of service, you expect it delivered.
I do not buy your argument.
People buy a certain level of service, they should be able to enjoy it as in the rest of the world.
People do pay for a certain bandwidth. They should be able to get it.
Same thing with overbooking on airplanes. You paid for a seat you should be able to use it.
Your argument wouldn't work there either.
> But for regular, personal usage, I genuinely think that Linux does break more often.
How do you feel about windows forcing ads and monitoring what you do?
How do you feel when windows updates ignore your privacy choices to push the boundary even more?
Do you even have a choice now to stop ads and telemetry entirely as a consumer?
Is that a breakage? (nobody wants ads/monitoring yet here is microsoft forcing it on you via updates)
I would argue that is worse then whatever technical issues might appear upgrading linux and you cant fix that.
On the other hand I see lots of people using linux on laptops just fine.
They are probably counted as windows because it comes preinstalled and there's no choice to give it up and get money back.
So you might be wrong on your prediction.
Consumers will eventually follow. (see android).
> 6. Hardware support and compatibility
Bonus points for having enemies trying to replicate the technology and observing that progress and espionage around it.
Other places have cheaper internet driven by market forces. The low income plans very likely arent loss generating.
The high prices for internet are likely a result of lack of competition, so perhaps the issue is companies can already charge what they want with impunity.
> Never mind the privacy issues of citizens having to spill their annual income to private companies for the means testing, or the bureaucratic runaround of somehow having to prove income levels ahead of time.
Do you have any links to the actual process? I was curious but couldnt find any. Either way, might not be an issue considering you need internet. Might be the difference between having employment and proper education or not.
> The right answer to helping poor people is direct subsidies for whatever qualifying service they choose.
This just means giving money to ISPs for the same result.
If you really think more government action is needed then why not ask gov to address ISP monopolies or introduce municipal providers.
you have a phone and the voting booth is private, how is anyone going to catch you?
the other old school (90s) way was you were given an already stamped paper and you had to return an unstamped one to get the money.
or if you want to go communist old school, you had people looking at you through holes in ceiling.