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Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by scottyah »

mattmaroon wrote: post #52
_blk wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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While I semi-agree, they both do plenty to encourage it. I mostly just wish Elon would stop using the R word. Not enough that I’m going to cancel my plan, but come on.

I get the fight to keep one word to remain non-offensive, instead of changing it every ~10yrs. It might be a locality thing too, when I was going to school the teachers used "special education" but now I've unintentionally offended with that as well. Google says it's "Intellectually Disabled" now. It's hard to keep up, and pretty annoying to constantly be tip-toeing around certain words.

I leave it to others to fight that fight, but I'd take any word.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by buellerbueller »

mattmaroon wrote: post #59
shimman wrote: post #54

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Yes and the seeds have already been planted by the current US administration taking various financial stakes in public companies as a condition of corporate welfare.

The current administration didn’t start that, see the bailouts of the 07-08 financial crisis.

I don't see this as a good analogy, because the financial crisis bailout appeared to save the companies from shuttering, which is not what happened under the current admin.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by mikeyouse »

lateforwork wrote: post #75
iloveitaly wrote: post #70

Really interesting that Starlink continues to improve the service when they have an absolute monopoly on fast, portable satellite internet.

Absolutely monopoly? You mean other than Kuiper, right? https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/what-i...

How many customers does Kuiper have at present?

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Post by dragonwriter »

mattmaroon wrote: post #56
talkingtab wrote: post #33

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This resonates for me. I do not want my technology tied to some person I consider of despicable character. Would I buy a cell phone, even at a good deal from Putin? No. Corporations have increasingly become political. Thanks, United vs FEC! So we see them taking a knee to gain commercial advantage. And as in this case harm to our democracy. In my opinion, no discussion about Starlink is complete without considering w…

I’m always amazed how much people attribute to citizens united, a ruling that overturned portions of a law that was only on the books for 7 years at the time.

A large part of it is mistaking the effect of the central holding in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) as stemming from Citizens United v. FEC (2010).

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by shimman »

rlt wrote: post #64
shimman wrote: post #57

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[citation needed]

Take your pick homie:

https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-more-14-...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary...

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

This one is a PDF, so warning:

https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/news/news-logo...

So right now, there are nearly 400,000 verifiable deaths due to the cuts of these programs. It's on track to be way worse than what I imagined, several million to 14 million.

I'm sorry but that's just straight up evil behavior.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by syntaxing »

lta wrote: post #58

Regardless of the price and the data, I'd never subscribe to this service due to the owner. I'm looking forward for alternatives from a more neutral vendor

I’m 100% on the same boat. The only competitor I can see is Amazon Leo. Having options is great but they both suck.

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Post by mattmaroon »

shimman wrote: post #80
mattmaroon wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The current administration didn’t start that, see the bailouts of the 07-08 financial crisis.

Those were just repaying the loans, having a stake in a company is completely different. It's not hard to push that further and in more creative ways too.

That’s completely incorrect, they got significant equity in AIG, Citibank, and several other companies.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by eterm »

vachina wrote: post #47
QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #35

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My mobile data plan is like this. It’s funny because when I’m “out of data” my provider sends an SMS suggesting I upgrade to more gigabytes, but then it still continues to work. And yes I checked my bills to make sure that they are not charging me for any usage excess of what’s included in the plan. It’s not even particularly slow. I can still browse the web, send and receive WhatsApp messages, images and videos, wat…

There are still telcos offering 2GB plans. Wow. I’m on the cheapest plan and it comes with 400GB.

I always think by law any ISP that advertises speed and a has a cap must express the cap in terms of the advertised speed.

So telcos can advertise "Up to 200Mbps" for their package.

But then if they have a 2GB cap, they also need to say, "Caps at 80 seconds of usage".

Because that's what you're paying for at that speed, 80 seconds of usage per month.

Sure, you're not always (or indeed never) doing 200Mbps, but then you're not getting the speed you paid for.

Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by consumer451 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #16

I'm actually a huge fan of "unlimited slow speeds" as a falloff, instead of a cliff. Aside from the fact it allows you to work with Starlink to buy more fast speed, it also allows core stuff to continue to function (e.g. basic notifications, non-streaming web traffic, etc).

> I'm actually a huge fan of "unlimited slow speeds" as a falloff, instead of a cliff.

When on cellular, I like to call that "HN-only mode." It is one of the few web properties that is entirely usable at 2G speeds.

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