Coming soon: 5.99$a month subscription to earthquake early warnings

Value to the customer.

From what I read, better to be between the objects rather then under.

See this is when mass scale data harvesting could advance our species. That’s a cool thing. Somebody has to decide when it’s acceptable to do so though. If the data harvesting objective is to sell me a bag of Cheetos, I want a law saying that’s not a good enough reason.

Stairwells are not good during an earthquake.

I'm not going to lie, I feel like there's probably some money involved in the constant pushing of "X person used Y phone brand to discover Z important thing" news stories.

depends where you are. if youre close the time difference between quake and detection is low, further away the more time between it happening and the shockwaves arriving

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I also had a cable modern in roughly '97, at roughly the speed you quoted.

Starlink is over 100x faster, and this is about a mobile option. Literally no comparison.

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10 seconds is very good considering that dedicated equipment and warning systems can give people an alert from anywhere from a few seconds to up to a minute or two depending on circumstances.

The RV dish is currently the same one as the residential dish, and costs $599. The only $2500 dish that's currently available is the "business" version. I'm guessing the $2500 "RV" dish is the upcoming one that can work while moving. The price difference is $20 a month, but RV users are first to get throttled if there's insufficient capacity in a given area.

I know what most of Reddit can do in 10 seconds…

Not the OP, but I had a cable modem in '98. I believe that it was 1.5 mbps down and 256 kbps up, and I think it cost ~$50 a month (which was a steal because it meant being able to get rid of a second phone line that had been dedicated to Internet use). I got super lucky though, because it turned out the local cable company used that very rural area as a testing ground for new equipment (I heard they did so there due to the harsh weather). Some people in that same area were able to get cable modems as early as '96.

It is not overpriced if you are one of the people that the service is intended for. I have Starlink myself because the only other Internet option in my area is dial-up or other satellite Internet providers (which are far more expensive than Starlink).

Not that I’ll ever need it where I live, but this is a great thing

I got the alert with enough time to get under my desk at work. The epicenter was somewhere near San Jose, and I was in SF. So YMMV, but for me, given the height and location of my building, it really did feel a lot better to he under something for the quake. Idk if it was a full ten second warning, but it was enough.

According to Starlink's website the RV dish costs $599, which is the same cost as the residential dish. As far as I know, the residential dish can be used with the RV plan and vice versa, because it's the same hardware.

Currently the only $2500 dish available is for the "business" plan. Starlink will be offering a new RV dish that can be used while in transit, which I suspect is where the $2500 number is coming from. The current $599 hardware should still work, albeit while stationary.

Yes: when users consent to use Google Location Services, specifically the "Google Location Accuracy" service, they consent to their data being used for purposes such as this. Consent is normally received during phone setup with a brief description of how the data is used and a link to Google's privacy policy.

More information and a link to their privacy policy at: https://support.google.com/android/answer/9319337?visit_id=638023852344601336-1711332009&p=android_earthquakealerts&rd=1#Get_earthquake_alerts_Android

Middle of a building to a stairwell.

Continues monitoring can be helpful, yes.

phones have been listening to you and tailoring ads for like 20 years so if saving people from earthquakes is the first time you've noticed a "dystopian slope" you might not be paying attention

By all means let's use the 1995 version everywhere forever.

Doesn't that still kind of prove the point though? A device that is watching (heh) 24 hours a day can catching things that a point in time reading can't?

Dystopian or utopian?

Here is anonymous data collection done for a beneficial social purpose without any cash transaction on the back end. Of all the issues google has with privacy, I don't see this as a worrying one.