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Comment Re:In other words.... (Score 2) 71

Get your facts right. One SpaceX Crew Dragon blew up during a test using engines normally not firing on a mission as they are only for launch abort. They tested, failed and fixed. Since then SpaceX had a successful launch abort! There is no shame in testing-failing-fixing. There is shame in mission failures. Crew Dragon had non of these!

Comment Depth of Field!! (Score 1) 104

Funny all the preferences here. But there is also some cold hard science: A white background with black letters will be brighter than dark mode. Brighter means your pupils contract to compensate for the bright image. When a pupil contracts the depth-of-field of your eye increases allowing your eyes to strain less while focussing. This is simple and irrefutable scientific fact. You might have another preference and that is OK. But in the end a light mode is easier on the eyes.

Comment Re:Simple Test (Score 2) 115

Logical. You get what you want to find. In your case you just do a test and find normal results. But sycodon's tag line about Fascism seems to indicate he is a conspiracy theorist. Google's algorithms have learned that this is what he is interested in so that is what they serve him up. Serve people what they are interested in and they will stay longer and/or come back more often so you can sell them more ads!

Comment Re:You are getting fleeced in the US (Score 1) 105

My subscription has free roaming across the whole of Europe, USA & Canada. Inside Switzerland it is totally unlimited. Outside I get 40Gb/month at full speed and after that it gets squeezed to 256Kbit. No additional charges involved! And that is with Switzerland NOT being in the EU.

Comment Re:You are getting fleeced in the US (Score 2) 105

The bandwith is sufficient for all users to have at least 100mbit. They are using modern systems and it gets upgraded regularly. There is good competition in the market and this drive continuous innovation. Monopolies are not allowed. Two providers in my small village here already switched to 5g. So ban monopolies and promote competition. Something the US used to do. But sometime in the not so distant past your government turned to looking after the rich and powerful and started killing of competition as competition lowers profits. You are ruled by corporations and not the people anymore!

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