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Re:Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You by sbov on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:36PM (#18727034)
> The '30% of rural Americans still not on broadband' point is, understatedly, one of the most important points of the article by far.

I didn't care for the metric. How many rural Americans are there? Is it 1% of the population? 50%?

According to the 2010 census, roughly 20% of people in the US are classified as rural. So that means 6% of all Americans are not on broadband. That metric would be a lot more useful to most people.

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Re:Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You by JoeAltmaier on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:51PM (#18727173)
Yeah the world rural population percentage has dropped steadily for the last 50 years, dropping below 50% in 2007.

The rural population has actually been growing the entire time; but as a percentage its dropped.

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