Greg Clarke

Beetles

We’re not dumb

I’m not suggesting this at all. I’m arguing that using “parts per 10 million” makes more sense to an American audience because fractions are more common in America. So using non common denominators is easier for an American audience. Whereas in metric countries, using standard denominators like thousand, million, billion, etc with decimals and significant figures is easier to interpret.

it’s a simple fact that comparing 5 to 20 is easier than comparing 0.05 to 0.2.

Sure, but you’re ignoring the additional cognitive load of using non common denominators. And losing the ability to easily compare these metrics with others.

Every engineer and scientist in the US uses metric

Imperial measurements are commonly used in construction & civil engineering in the US.

In metric countries, parts-per notation is common but it’s normally per million, billion, trillion, etc. Parts per 10 million is not common. Using an uncommon parts-per notation makes it difficult to compare between countries for instance as it’s unlikely that other countries are reporting in parts per 10 million.

The imperial measurement system uses fractions, 3/4 inch, etc. The metric system uses decimals, 19mm, etc.

So to represent this data in a metric country you would use per million inhabitants and use 2 significant figures. Decimals are easy for people who grew up in metric countries to understand.

I moved to Canada which used a lot of imperial measurements for building materials and tools (it’s a weird mix). I find the imperial system confusing with its use of fractions but I know lots of people that grew up with this system prefer it.

That’s why I think this globally uncommon per 10 million inhabitants might feel normal for Americans.

Powers of a thousand; per thousand, per million, per billion, etc

I guess this is a US cultural thing. I grew up in a metric country and decimals are much easier for me to compare than fractions.

Sure but using a non standard denominator makes off more difficult to compare to other metrics.

inmates per 10M inhabitants

Why per 10 million?

Sweden… more like snitchden… amirite?

I haven’t checked the ToS in a while but last I checked it was 50mb upload limit for the free tier and a loosely policed no video streaming. And they don’t shut you down if you send files larger than 50mb, the upload just fails. I served over 8 million requests through the free tier last month.

Use Cloudflare’s free tier tunnel

I don’t want to get my hopes up but is this Facebook’s MySpace moment?

What are you hosting and who are your users? Do you receive any legitimate traffic from AWS or other cloud provider IP addresses? There will always be edge cases like people hosting VPN exit nodes on a VPS etc, but if its a tiny portion of your legitimate traffic I would consider blocking all incoming traffic from cloud providers and then whitelisting any that make sense like search engine crawlers if necessary.

Firearms decrease your safety in any but the most dire situation

This doesn’t have to be the case. Guns can be safe with proper regulation and enforcement.

it is a tool made for specifically one thing. To pierce the skin and rip through the inner organs of a person.

This isn’t true. I live in a country with sensible gun control laws and live on a rural property with 10 acres of forest. We have a small rifle to protect the wildlife against rabies or to put down an injured animal.

The US conversation around guns is toxic.

Did you try switching your exit point?

It’s likely bad actors causing your VPN’s public IP address to get flagged. Next time change the exit point.

This post makes me respect Proton even more. It’s a well articulated position.

Nice try Mr Altman 🤔

I just downvoted you to be funny

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