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Strangely i enjoyed it more like that also but it's probably not the goal :)
Maybe I'm too pessimistic but at first I only see a big corporation (with an history) putting the blame on the local management.
Maybe it's due to my bad English, but I'm not able to find any sign of actual "overrule" of this decision. Is the WUC was finally accepted at this Hotel?
> There are a lot of places where local providers act like robber barons.
I agree, this may be the best effect Starlink can have : create competition.
> Population of the world is around 8 billion
Yes but which part is able to afford 99$/month (+antenna) + bad local provider which refuse to adapt to competition (first at price/offer level before even infrastructure) + no political reason for a global-us based provider ?
Sorry but i have difficulty to understand Starlink business : who are really their potentials customers ? It seems there is only a few possibilities :
- rural area (with sufficient incomes to afford the price)
- urban area with highly expensive/bad quality landline internet (but still with sufficient incomes to afford the price)
With the development of fiber in most urban area (usually fist in high income part) and the small number in the first category, I don't see how deploying tens of thousands of satellites could be profitable.
The only option will be to be able to lower the price but it will need a lot of customers...
Could you help me understand ?
In France (and probably in other European countries), private health insurances from employers are complementary to the government health care and don't replace it. That's why it is much cheaper. And so even highly paid professionals still use the government paid health care.
Moreover, if it wasn't the case it would make the national health care system a lot less efficient.
> What I’d like is a MArkDown Editor that also simply allows me to drag and drop images
Have a look at Typora [0]. It's my main Markdown editor for this reason (and others).
[0] https://typora.io/
> Was in the emergency room with my son a few months back, not overflowing or anything, but I wasn't there to track Covid cases.
In most (all?) hospitals, Covid cases are separated from general emergency because you don't want your emergency room transformed in a constant cluster.
It was for the last 11 000 years. With variabilities, but based on demographic only it was pretty scalable and sustainable.
> It's NOT the consumers of news, and never was.
You're right for the vast majority of news organization on internet but we can't say that it's "never was" (or "is" for the matter).
I have at least 3 examples [0] in mind of news organizations for which advertising is not part of their business model (or a very insignificant part compared to "consumers of news" part). And I'm sure we can find similar example all around the globe.
Of course such organization generally relies on subscription and/or donation. And of course for this to works "consumers of news" need to pay for it.
[0] Sorry all French : Le Canard enchainé (paper) ; Le Monde Diplo (paper and web) ; Mediapart (web)
Maybe it's a fantasy on headphone (as for most electronic). But I think the idea is more global : buy expensive stuff to keep them longer.
On headphone, the switch to Bluetooth-only with addition of batteries don't help on this scale.
But we should probably compare similar products (bluetooth headphone vs bluetooth headphone).
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The world needs to stop China.US (may) needs to stop China.
For others countries it's not that clear.
I agree on the first part. But "higher salaries, better work conditions, more benefits, and similar things" are usually part of left-wing political ideology too.
So for me there is no surprises and nothing new in unions sharing/pushing "sociopolitical ideas currently in vogue in left-wing political circles".
If i understand correctly your point (and to paraphrase), unions are not setting the correct priorities between work condition and more general sociopolitical ideas.
For me this is a good new : It mean works conditions are not that bad and that union want not just to take care of personal interest but of company interests as well. But this is a ideological stand point :)
And some may argue that's not the role of unions. But the role of union is to carry the worker voices. If this is the subjects workers want to talk about, i don't see any issue. If it's not, the union will just not meet enough workers to join them.
I don't understand this "ideological" issue. (but maybe it's just due to language as English is not my mother-tongue)
Lots (/most) of what you choose to do (or not) can be see as a result of your own ideological standpoint. (investment, buying, culture, laws, politics, culture, media...)
I prefer when the so-called ideological point is explain in an article rather than discovered after fact. This is more honest.
This is an oversimplified description of Jacobinism.
Between the dogma, the history/ (French revolution, England), the evolution through time and the use of it by different political groups it is difficult to summarize it by Jacobin = "hard left extremism".
In fact this reference can by use all over the political spectrum. For example, the idea of a strong centralized state power speak to communists (left) as well as nationalists (right). As well, the idea of equality of every citizen of jacobinism can be closer to centrist than extremist.
Fun remark : only the English Wikipedia article emphasis so much on a link Jacobin-left (for the languages i can read). On the other hand, the french article is much more careful and emphasis more on the difficulty and evolution of interpretation.
Fun fact : Zscaler which is my company's proxy, has flagged this page for "malicious content".
This is the first time a HN page is blocked by it. And currently the only one.