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Because your concern is not real. It wasn't a nazi salute period. You are seeing things. Get your eyes checked.
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Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
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#305One nice thing about Starlink is that they force the airlines to offer it for free. I’m not sure why SpaceX is doing this, but it was surprising enough to me that my international WiFi was not only fast, but completely free that I researched it.
Free (for now). Introducing or raising costs for a previously free or cheap service is normal practice for start ups.
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#307I've written it elsewhere, but: it is such a shame that the United States saw fit to run electricity _everywhere_, no matter how rural your location, but instead of do the same for rural internet we had to wait for... a private company to launch a global network of satellites. Yes, this post is about internet access while traveling 500mph, which is a different problem, but it is so messed up that people fall over the…
I don't think the math works. There are 23 million rural homes in the US and about 3 million miles of rural public roads. Let's say you wired just the public rural roads (ignore going from the road to the house). It costs $30,000 per mile to put up aerial wiring. $60,000 per mile underground. So we're already at $90 billion for wired poles and $180 billion for underground. And that's just for the wires--we're not inc…
Would 5G towers be a better alternative?
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> So let’s get rid of internet on the highway and in trains, too. Because it’s pretty much exactly the same thing. One just happens to be airborne. Ok? You sound like you're trying to make a point. Make a point.
his point is that it's useful, and there's nothing special about planes that make it important for them not to have internet, compared to any other mode of transportation. If you want to get away from the internet, you could have a dedicated space for that. Also, nobody forces you to use the internet on a plane...
Yes, but why is he responding to me? I didn't say there was something special about planes and I didn't say someone was forcing me to use internet.
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It IS different. Because scrolling is effortless, reading a book takes effort. Do you understand?
I suppose you'd approve if I read book on the internet? What if I'd be working?
You don't need my approval. Someone was asking how I view these things, and I was explaining: reading a book is effort, scrolling facebook is effortless.
Now, keeping in mind that you don't need my approval: do you have any questions?
Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
#310I've written it elsewhere, but: it is such a shame that the United States saw fit to run electricity _everywhere_, no matter how rural your location, but instead of do the same for rural internet we had to wait for... a private company to launch a global network of satellites. Yes, this post is about internet access while traveling 500mph, which is a different problem, but it is so messed up that people fall over the…
You have it exactly backwards. It is far less complex and expensive and resource intensive to build Starlink than to run a new copper or fiber line with associated telecom equipment on both sides to every rural residence in the US, let alone worldwide. Yes, despite the large cost of launching satellites. And it's especially good that we don't have to force everyone to subsidize inefficient monopoly utilities with our…
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