How many of those 600 million users are human users that are actively posting or engaging with posts? Bluesky users are reporting better engagement despite having far lower follower counts than they did on Twitter.

If it was just the CEO that was the issue then I'm sure plenty of people would've have stayed. The content cesspool is the issue now, coupled with decisions like the recent changes to blocking.

That comment says more about you than it does about me.

And yet Bluesky is the number 1 free app in the US in the App Store and Google Play.

I'd argue that this round of sign-ups - coupled with the extremely high number of Xitter account deactivations - is the critical mass moment for Bluesky.

Bluesky is closer to the "old Twitter" experience than Mastodon is.

And these days, it's not Xitter.

If Meta hasn't completely ballsed up the moderation and FYP on Threads, that might've been true, now Bluesky has the momentum.

Yes, exactly like that.

Nope, the FAA changed the term to "Notice to Air Missions" in December 2021. So it's the system that's responsible for Notice to Air Missions that's being restored.

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/notam/what_is_a_notam
https://www.faa.gov/documentLi...

It's not a bank, but it is providing credit - whether it's the post-paid plan that you're on, or the purchase plan for the mobile device attached to the plan. They need to know who you are so they can run credit checks to determine if they should provide a service to you.

And what about the $2,000 phone that I got on a purchase plan, but I suddenly decide "nope, not gonna pay for that anymore?" Under your plan you might have some money from me already, but you'll likely be out for a very large part of the cost of the phone.

It's making a comeback as the new (old) "cheap beer". I was at a local pub last week sitting near a group of twenty-somethings, and pretty much all of them had cans of Foster's.

Correct, however that's because we now predominately have a service economy instead of a manufacturing economy.

The reason that Australia didn't go to Level 4 restrictions and shut down manufacturing is because we shut down massive swathes of our service economy (restaurants, bars, tourism, education, etc) and put close to a million people out of work. It remains to be seen whether we will avoid a second wave that results in a harder lockdown as restrictions start to be eased.

Pandora bought Rdio's technology last year - all it would take is a new licencing deal to launch a new streaming service.

Many parts of the mainland capitals approach 43 degrees multiple times during summer, and it's not uncommon to have at least one day a year that exceeds that (for example Penrith and Richmond in Sydney's west were around 45 degrees on 23/11/14). Depending on where the units were placed, it's quite possible that the operating temperature would exceed 43 degrees even if the ambient temperature was below that.

That's what you get for living in Victoria. All other states start their regular rates between 6-7am.

Yes, millions - Vodafone Hutchinson Australia (which owns the Vodafone and 3 networks in Australia) had 6.3 million customers as of September 2009.

I tried that test in the current Chrome dev build (6.0.422.0 dev) on my Vista box at work and it failed.

That's not a problem if you pay attention to all the signs that direct you to get an E-Toll pass from the RTA website... Then your $3 toll only turns into a $5.25 toll on your first trip and $3.75 on subsequent trips over the next 14 days.