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Comment Re:Wireless Sucks (Score 1) 68

If you are limited by the speed of your WiFi, then these aren't the droids your looking for - er, I mean - you aren't their target audience. FCC wants to know that where I live, CenturyLink might say they have fiber nearby, but in reality, the best I can get is crappy DSL with 600Kbps upload speed (and about 12Mbps upload). My Sprint MVNO (Tello) tests faster with a moderate signal I get 2 Mbps up and about the same download. What they are trying to find out is that while I live in town, and CenturyLink has a little fiber in my area, they aren't serving me (or any of my neighbors) anything close to what's considered broadband. That's why people in rural areas are clamoring for StarLink. The upload for Starlink is faster than my Download with crappy DSL.

Comment Why is the Exec branch using the Judicial branch? (Score 1) 123

What I want to know is why the US Executive branch is going through the Judicial branch for enforcement? Seems really odd. Maybe it's because the law has no teeth (I really don't know) for them to fine the company, or otherwise stop them from braking the law.

Comment Re:3 reasons I won't buy it (Score 3, Informative) 151

Why not? Because when I go to hit the backslash (or the pipe) that's usually above my enter key, I accidentally press enter on an L shaped enter key.
I don't look at my keyboard when I type, I look at the screen. Too many people don't know how to touch type, and have no idea how much keyboard layout affects those who do know how.

Comment Vitamin D (Score 2) 251

researchers suggest vitamin D as a potentially useful Covid-19 drug

I got sick back in March. I couldn't get tested because I didn't have enough symptoms. At the time, they were only testing people on death's doorstep. I did some research about what I could do to help my body fight respiratory infections, and came across Vitamin D.

I started taking 2x 2000 IU every morning and night, and improved right away. Ever since then, my family and I take 1x 2000 IU Vitamin D supplement every morning.

I'm telling you, this is real. Vitamin D helps! I tell everybody I know to take Vitamin D if they start feeling sick, and nobody who I told that to has been hospitalized.

I also found some info somewhere that said be careful taking over 4000IU per day. I was taking 8000 for a short time when I was sick, but back down to 4000 for a few weeks while I recovered, and 2000 daily now. I don't recall what the potential side-effect were, but I'm sure you can look that up.

Comment Excel isn't a database (Score 3, Informative) 217

repeat after me. Excel is not a database.

I am baffled by people using excel for things that should be in a database. Makes no sense to me. Spreadsheets make sense for finance usage, but even then, most robust finance application use a database.

"Everybody else is doing it" is a horrible excuse for using the wrong tool for the job.

Comment Reverse the premise (Score 1) 324

Every time I see a study like this, I reverse the premise and see if it makes sense. In this case, I would ask this. Instead of poverty cause low brain development, does low brain development cause poverty. I would argue that much of IQ is inherited, either through nature or nurture. To put it bluntly, stupid parents tend to have stupid kids. Its also clear that a lower IQ very much limits your earning potential - thus puts your family in poverty.

So, I think this study is balogne. All it says is poor people tend to be on the lower end of the IQ scale, and so are their kids.

Comment Re:Gone with the winds. (Score 2) 82

I grew up near Altoona. Google maps says 3 miles from the site of the data center. There is no chance of flooding in Altoona. As the name suggests, its a relatively high spot - and not near any rivers' flood plain. The biggest threat is tornadoes. Not nearly as much as Oklahoma, but we still have them. Look up Parkersburg, IA tornado of 2008 for a near town-wide leveling by an EF5 tornado.

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