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US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Re: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Post by Timon3 »

fastball wrote: post #676
Timon3 wrote: post #670

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Thank you for providing the correct link. I just read through it, and I guess you could stretch the first paragraph very, very far to make it compatible with "the feds punishing Musk for not participating in their well documented censorship operations", but unless Mr. Carr has brought something like this up more explicitly, it seems like you're trying to read something into it that he didn't write. There are many way…

Why do you think it needs to be stretched very, very far? I don't think it needs to be stretched at all. The first sentence is literally : > Last year, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and used it to voice his own political and ideological views without a filter, President Biden gave federal agencies a greenlight to go after him. The Biden admin (and by extension the FCC) is "the feds", and "voicing views without a f…

> Why do you think it needs to be stretched very, very far? I don't think it needs to be stretched at all.

The initial sentence "the feds punishing Musk for not participating in their well documented censorship operations" states that Musk isn't participating in censoring other people. The sentence you quoted states that Musk "voices his own political and ideological views without a filter", which doesn't have anything to do with Musk censoring other people.

While both talk about censorship, one talks about "the feds censoring people", and the other talks about "Musk censoring himself". These are completely different things.

Re: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Post by chrisco255 »

mixdup wrote: post #635
chrisco255 wrote: post #130

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I regularly get 150+ Mbps on my Starlink terminal. Don't really care that they didn't hit the ambitious goal of providing 300+, it is already more than 15x better than the next best option available for me. T-Mobile has a three decade head start (maybe four if you count their Sprint Wireless acquisition's history), so hardly surprising if there is currently more T-Mobile home internet users than Starlink users. But I…

T-Mobile Home Internet launched in April 2021, not 30 years ago

That's just a brand name of their 5G service. They have been providing hot spots for close to two decades. Their customer base goes back about 3 decades (easier to upsell your existing clients on a 5G hot spot than start from scratch to build a customer base like Starlink had to), and Sprint's (whom they acquired/merged with, and gained a lot of valuable wireless spectrum from) customer base goes back much further than that.

Re: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Post by chrisco255 »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #430
chrisco255 wrote: post #130

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I regularly get 150+ Mbps on my Starlink terminal. Don't really care that they didn't hit the ambitious goal of providing 300+, it is already more than 15x better than the next best option available for me. T-Mobile has a three decade head start (maybe four if you count their Sprint Wireless acquisition's history), so hardly surprising if there is currently more T-Mobile home internet users than Starlink users. But I…

> I regularly get 150+ Mbps on my Starlink terminal. Your anecdotal experience is not a refuting of statistical data from the overall population of users. Starlink consistently does not provide that level of service to a large swath of its users.

Yeah, the median is about 65 Mbps. That is still more than 6-10 times better than what a lot of rural areas are limited to.

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Post by justsomehnguy »

runlaszlorun wrote: post #675
justsomehnguy wrote: post #292

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Bradley IFV is not on this list.

Former Bradley guy here. Like others have mentioned, it’s done far better then expected. It (along with any other IFV) are pretty much the ultimate Swiss army knife of a military vehicle. It can pretty much do almost any ground role even though isn’t insanely awe inspiring for any one. And the 25mm autocannon is prob the easiest thing in our existing arsenal we have to adapt for an anti-drone role. And, no, that one…

I find it quite amusing how proud American guys are defending their MIC... which took 15 years to produce Bradley. This thread is not about how good/bad M2 is. Please re-read the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38632482

Re: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Post by krisoft »

FredPret wrote: post #423
tehjoker wrote: post #399

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> defense is an existential risk for the US this is not a true statement for a huge country with oceans on 2 sides and nukes. it is a true statement about people relying on the us military to make money tho

Oceans are only a defense if you can float a navy on them. The British Islands got invaded a couple of times... until they built a big navy. Having two oceans is great, but now you need at least two fleets. Nukes are only worth something if you have a lot of them and can credibly delivery them in multiple ways. Now you need subs, long-range bombers and the fighters to protect them, and missile silos. Now add in relia…

> Now you need subs, long-range bombers and the fighters to protect them, and missile silos.

The role of the long-range bombers in the nuclear triad is heavily questioned. It is not quite certain that you "need" them.

Re: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Post by TMWNN »

fomine3 wrote: post #654
8ytecoder wrote: post #401

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Bay Area’s fiber and broadband network is a joke. That it’s the tech capital of the world makes it so much worse. Things are improving - I got fiber in 2020 - and speeds are trending upwards with some local completion. AT&T and Comcast are finally getting a bit better with speed. Coverage still sucks. Number of available options still suck. Not to mention weird collusions between Comcast and apt management companies…

As a non resident, perhaps it's a good thing. Advanced people eat dogfood with slow connection.

There is something to be said for this. Didn't Marissa Mayer refuse to get broadband at home for a long time to make sure the tech she was managing was usable on dialup?

Re: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Post by chiefalchemist »

Wytwwww wrote: post #584
chiefalchemist wrote: post #464

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How many startups start by telling investors, employees and customers, "We're going to fail"? They know the odds are that's going to happen. Are they pathological liars? No one can predict the future. Musk is what plenty of entrepreneurs are...over-confident. That's part of the profile. That doesn't make him or any of them liars.

There is a huge amount of space between saying that "We're going to fail" and promising something will be done in "6 months". > Musk is what plenty of entrepreneurs are...over-confident The real world describing this is delusional. Which I don't think he is (or was at that point anyway).

I'm not seeing that space. In fact, given what we know about startups, "in 6 months" has better odds of happening than pitching and ignoring the high risk (i.e., failure is inevitable).

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, simply asking you to show me the space you speak of.

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Post by rpy »

czl wrote: post #624
DonHopkins wrote: post #569

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It would be dumb to be caught agreeing with anti semitic tweets, and telling advertisers to "go fuck yourself", yet here we are. Your argument is invalid.

Intelligent people have faults and make mistakes like the rest of us. What sets them apart is they are often better at seeing this and fixing things. Did Musk not make amends for that tweet? Do you think advertising should control social media? Do you genuinely believe Musk is dumb?

No, he did not make amends. He never even apologised for it.

Re: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

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Post by acdha »

fragmede wrote: post #673
acdha wrote: post #463

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I said “substantial subset” precisely to avoid this kind of tangent. My point was simply that there are a lot of edge cases we have no clear path to solving which are masked at the current level by punting the problem to the human driver. We are a very long time from being able to build cars without manual controls even if we might hit the point where a majority of driving miles are automated long before then.

Cars without manual controls are closer than you think. The Waymo cars do just fine without a human driver in the seat, and before they got suspended, Cruise was just starting a pilot program with vehicles without manual controls called the Cruise Origin. Sale of such a vehicle to the general public is a ways off but for a taxi service we're pretty close.

Cruise reportedly had human interventions every 4-5 miles. I haven’t seen a similar figure for Waymo, who are generally believed to be considerably better.
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