niiwe’s Comments

• Jul 9th, 2021 @ 12:05pm

  3 billion?

  on It Can Always Get Dumber: Trump Sues Facebook, Twitter & YouTube, Claiming His Own Government Violated The Constitution

  Wait, is he arguing that there are 3 billion US citizens?

  its approximately three (3) billion Users that are citizens of the United States.

  Or that each US citizen has 9-10 user accounts, on average?

• Dec 29th, 2017 @ 9:23pm

  Re:

  on Comcast Busted For Signing People Up For Services They Didn't Want, Never Asked For
  $73M was the cost for Washington State customers, so the relevant number for the amount of internet customers, is "number of Comcast customers in Washington state".
  This state has less than 7.5M people, so there can't have been 25M Comcast customers being swindled. (Those 11M+23M must have been the national customer base.)
  
  I don't know if Comcast is more or less popular in WA than elsewhere, but if (for a first approximation), they are as popular in WA as elsewhere (25M out of 320M), we'd get less than 600,000 Comcast customers in WA.
  
  In other words, about 1/6 of the WA Comcast customers got hit by this particular fee, assuming that each one payed this fee every single month for the entire 5 year period.
• Oct 24th, 2017 @ 9:27pm

  Re: Re: So where's the problem?

  on Internet Archives Liberates Old Books Using Never Used Before Provision Of Copyright Law

  Well, not only archives:

  a library or archives, including a nonprofit educational institution that functions as such