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Are people going to pay a $500 equipment cost upfront and then $99 a month if they have alternatives?

For me in my big city i can get 360mb down unlimited lines for the equivalent of around $50 per month.

Anyone choosing the Starlink option in that scenario probably shouldn't have financial independence in the first place.

Yep - Profit and loss are pretty much meaningless while investors are still willingly to fling cash at them faster then they can spend it.

Isn't starlink for people in 3rd world countries found in Africa, Asia and the Midwest?

This chap is living in North Hollywood, he should expect a cheap/fast wired connection in 2021.

I'm all for progress but... Why?

What possible use could an end user have for a 4gbit connect? The router alone is going to set you back a few hundred bucks.

I have no data but i imagine 95%+ of the reddit user base provide no engagement (lurking only) or want to stay anonymous.

That must heavily influence the quality and worth of any data Zuck would want to suck out of Reddit.

That's weird... All the geo-related subs for my country are full of angsty socialist children or camped and permanently set to private.

I imagine because the data gained is such low value.

I need to maintain three or four different semi-fully anonymous accounts just to make the site bearable.

Agreed, and it isn't a static thing defined at birth by nature, it can change backwards and forwards over a lifetime.

Not sure why i'm getting a hard time from our co-commenters. I assumed this place being primarily US and Tech it would be quite liberal.

You want to take a second crack at that? I'm not even sure what you're trying to say.

An innate desire to form an atypical pairing in a non-reproductive fashion.

Honestly i have no idea but this might be one of the last places left on the internet you can ask a question like this without getting dogpiled.

I've batted for both teams in my life and i still can't tell you.

With weapons distributed amongst all USSR holdings this implies the US was willing to nuke everything from Poland to north Vietnam.

> in 1985 the USA had 21,000+ nuclear weapons, USSR 39,000+.

This is one of the facts from this era which seems completely irrational to me. Considering the damage each one of these devices can do why do you need so many.

Lets presume you're in fact a genocidal maniac (i didn't say the roleplaying would be difficult America) 1 bomb per enemy military installation and 1 bomb per population centre over 100k population friend, foe, own country included.

Why do you need the other 18,000 bombs?

Its Burma, the guy is lucky to have electricity and a phone signal in the first place...

The issue is when?

If that takes several weeks or months in a highly volatile market its basically life or doing a flip.

> I’m not keeping my money with a financial institution that lies to me. End of story.

So you're keeping cash under the mattress then i assume?

Considering i haven't seen my parents in 10 months its safe to say we already have.

"Democracies" are perfectly capable of doing evil things very efficiently as well.

Lets not pretend the last 70 years have been all sunshine and roses with democracy being spread by force around the world.

If only you had some form of centralised health infrastructure to help co-ordinate this program.

Didn't some US politician try this not too long ago?

1.8% is pretty good compared to the rest of the EU right? I'm still not sure why a lot of countries started so late or so slowly.

Still, like a lot of things, the last 20% is magnitudes harder then the first 20%. Finishing vaccination programs will come down to how well each government can educate their populist. I fear this is where America will fall down.

How does US state security compensation compare to the UK?

I've looked at GCHQ a number of times and always found their compensation packages to be 20% below market rates for the same skill set.

Anyone have a comparison point?

Surely you can find some spare change in that 700bn defence budget for a few 4k cameras for a single building?

I'm honestly baffled.

We already have this in the UK via Ocardo.

Rather then supermarket employees running around the shop they build automated warehouses specifically optimised for picking/packing efficiency.

I simply don't see the reason for services like Instacart and Amazon fresh to exist... I can already get deliveries picked and dispatched by the super markets themselves. I count 6 different services within 5 miles of my home/office/isolation bunker.

This has been widely reported in the west for almost two years... What took you so long?

I'll be honest i did not...

He hasn't had much air time over here since leaving office, my opinion of him is all drawn from 2000-2008.

A) Its not really a US problem, its a UK one.

B) The US isn't exactly a hot ticket item at the moment. How many armed riots y'all had this year?

This is what I've never understood about post presentient lives.

People like Trump and Bush can barely deliver a speech or speak coherently, who is paying to hear them attempt it??

Things change, i thought my Whatsapp data was safe from TheZuck.

So to be clear... Despite trying to avoid big Californian tech companies my health data is now going to Google, my chat data to Facebook and my insurrection attempts to torrent websites?

Please make it stop....

100% not a bubble, your money is safe here everyone /s

Can i get some feedback from an American on the current issues?

Historically America have incited and armed mobs to overthrow democratically elected governments in South America.

Why is it unacceptable this time around?