• dan@upvote.au
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        I’m from Australia and remember when gas hit $1/litre in the 90s. The pumps could handle it, but the signs only had space for three digits (cents and tenths of a cent) so petrol stations (as we call them in Australia) had a hand-painted “1” at the start of the price, until they could upgrade the signs.

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      And for the billions and billions of dollars given to Telco companies, we should all have under $10 a month gigabit symmetrical connections to our house […]

      One of the biggest thefts from the American people?

      (Just one of, of course)