According to [1], in 1973, Roe v. Wade said abortion is legal US-wide at 27/28 weeks and earlier, then in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey said abortion is legal US-wide at 22/23/24 weeks and earlier. I'm not exactly sure whether the ages are inclusive or exclusive or how rounding/truncating works with the ages, which is why I made them fuzzy with the slashes.
According to [2], there are 203 countries listed. I'll look at "on request" abortions.
* North Korea is marked "unclear".
* 6 allow abortion at 23 weeks (24 weeks is also an identical list): China, Colombia, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, South Ossetia
* 2 additional allow abortion at 22 weeks: Iceland, Vietnam
* 191 ban abortion at 22 weeks.
* Australia ranges from completely prohibited to no limit, depending on region.
* Canada ranges from 12 weeks and 6 days to 24 weeks and 6 days depending on region.
* United states ranges from (ignoring the recent laws that prompted the ongoing cases) 20 weeks to no limit depending on region.
Those numbers don't make sense to me. I just watched this video[1] in 4K 60fps on Youtube. I think it's ~5GB. I watched it at double speed so it took 15 minutes to watch. Your second link says it takes 5.12 kWh to transfer 1GB, so it took 25 kWH to watch that video. That's about $5 at California power prices. Did it really cost $5 to watch that free Youtube video?
My ISP caps me at 1.2TB/month. That would be $1200/month, but I don't pay anywhere near that.
25kWh in 15 minutes is 100kW. That's 150x the max amount of power my overpowered desktop uses.
On HN people claim AWS overcharges on egress pricing. They charge between $0.05/GB and $0.09/GB[2]. Their "overcharging" price is much lower
(5% - 11%) than the cost of electricity if your numbers are correct, which doesn't make sense. Their ingress price is free, so they're not making up for lost money there.
I think 1/59th the price is clearer than 59x cheaper. In 59x, what is the x for? Multiplication? What is being multiplied?
"1/59th the price of AWS" is clear because you take the price of AWS and multiply it by 1/59. Probably more clear would be "1.7% the price of AWS".
When I think there's an opportunity for misunderstanding, I point it out. I don't think I'm more likely to misunderstand something than the average person, but I am more likely to speak out if I see something potentially confusing.
I would be interested in seeing a poll where we ask people to estimate "59x cheaper than $200", vs "1/59th of $200" vs "1.7% of $200". Obviously the last one is easiest to do exactly in your head, but we can still get a fair comparison by just seeing whether people are at least in the neighborhood vs way off.
Yeah, I could guess based on context. I would prefer notation that's clear on its own without needing to look at context. "1/2 the price" is clear on its own.
And it still makes me feel nervous that 3x improvement = 200% increase. It seems to me like a big opportunity for misunderstanding.
Is that a typical way to describe cost savings? I would have said 1/2 the cost of AWS. It almost sounds like cloudflare would pay them money (e.g. you go to the store and see something marked 200% off, so you get paid to buy it, like when oil prices went negative).
Related: I've always found the 2x, 10x, etc notation confusing. Does a 2x improvement mean a 100% increase (e.g. 10 -> 20) or a 200% increase (e.g. 10 -> 30)? Would someone ever say a 1x improvement or a 0.5x improvement?
I speculate it's due to archive.today wanting granular (not overly broad) legal censorship compliance. Which is somewhat related to this post.