[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 2 hours ago

Sorry, did you mean to reply to another comment? There is no reflection whatsoever to the comment you are replying to.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 hours ago

FYI

According to Wikipedia the percentage of English speakers located in the US is lower that 20%. Does this mean that only 1 in 5 users is from the US?

Population of the US: 334.914.895, Population of Europe: 745.173.774. 334.914.895/745.173.774 = 0,449%

English Speakers in the US: 297.400.000. English Speakers in Europe: 260.000.000. So you have about 37,4M more English speakers in the US than in Europe.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Sorry, are you trying to prove beyond a doubt that you are dishonest and statistics-illiterate?

which is why I said:

It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.

No, you wrote:

**The US has more allocated IPv4 addresses and more users per allocated IPv4 address than any other country, by wide margins **- and IPv6 adoption is not that widespread yet. It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.

So your assumption is based on a gross misinterpretation of the statistics you presented. Your incorrect interpretation of the graphs would put US participation at about 99,99%, which is obviously ridiculous.

Also according to Wikipedia the percentage of English speakers located in the US is lower that 20%. Does this mean that only 1 in 5 users is from the US?

The point of using the IP address statistics is to show that the vast majority of websites on the Internet were created in the US for the US market, and that is still true today.

That's not at all what these graphs show though.

Also, while I agree that most websites might be US targeted towards the US calling that 'vast' is bit of a stretch.

... and realistically not many people outside the US had any interest in the internet in 1983.

I gather you've not been around then. Almost none had any interest in "the internet" until the mid 90s - this includes the US. Partly because what you refer to as "the internet" was called WWW back then and started only 1989. People had been very anal about this until about 2005 - I guess you haven't been around then either.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 hours ago

Sorry, what a shit, rage bait article is this?

… it was deemed in a National Hurricane Center (NHC) report [PDF] to be one of the two "best performers," the other being a model called IVCN (Intensity Variable Consensus).

OK, what about IVCN? Is this available? We can assume it is as is not mentioned any more in the article. Also skimming the report it’s not like the other reports are wildly inaccurate/unusable.

Asked whether the NOAA deal affected the release of information about Hurricane Helene, Buchanan said, "HCCA is one of many computer models that forecasters use at the National Hurricane Center. NHC forecasters use a variety of model guidance, observations, and expert knowledge to develop the best and most consistent forecast, along with watches, warnings and other hazard information for use by the emergency management community, the public, and other core partners and decision makers."

So the outrage is hot air over nothing. Got it.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No, they highlight some problems with IP4: Bad distribution of IP4 ranges and bad usage of those ranges. So the graphs show the US has way too much IP actresses, some under used/unused and some overused. The blog post they are from is pretty clear about this.

These graphs do not give an indication of how many users per country there are. There are in fact statistics on that which expectedly show China and India on top. These however do not take into account that social media use way more popular in the U.S. for now.

The closest stat may be Reddit users by country which seems to indicate that about every 2nd user is from the US. (Not sure if Russian/Chinese bot accounts also count towards these though).

I achieve lawful good while being true neutral by using a single ultra wide curved monitor.

Such incidents are invariably the product of organizational failures, and most major crowd disasters could have been prevented by simple crowd management strategies. 

When was this ever in doubt?

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

person I knew actually had self adjusting headlights, which somehow were damaged and would not adjust properly anymore. They drove around like that for years before retiring the vehicle.

Where was that? In Europe this should have been spotted during the mandatory inspection.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Where I live that AH would get a fine of at least 55€ and get towed (adding >150€ to the bill). That should help learning not to repeat that behavior.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

“Es lebt!“

„Wer?“

„Das Mädchen.“

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 days ago

FYI Hillary did not win the popular vote just because of California

Also you shouldn’t reward bad actors providing a shit place to live by making their vote count significantly more.

One citizen one vote!

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