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Congratulations on the successful launch! > .. I’d listen to the Voice of America.. I grew up listening to VoA as a kid as well, I was born in a then not so developed part of the Balkans. Sometimes I have the feeling that the ordinary Americans don't have a clue about the impact VoA had in the countries like ours.
> Sometimes I have the feeling that the ordinary Americans don't have a clue about the impact VoA had in the countries like ours. It's not a feeling. They don't know because domestic broadcasts of VoA were prohibited by federal law.
Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
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Re: Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
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As an American, I literally have no idea what Voice of America is.
It is americas foreign propoganda program. is was intentionally made hard for americans to listen to. That it was hard to get at meant the types of people who want to control government propoganda didn't care and so it turned out to be a reasonable source of low bias information.
What do you think NHK is? Same thing but Japanese? It seems cool like people fishing for Ayu.
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I think of it as second mover advantage. The US basically has the first system that worked. And in terms of the expectations of the 1960s, it works really well. But, because it works “good enough” there is very little incentive to make it work better… or to the level of “better” in 21st century terms. And because we’ve lived with this system for so long, all of the fees and charges have largely been internalized, so…
The first system that worked? I have no idea what you're talking about. Whatever system US banks have, they weren't first, and it barely works. I mean Credit Cards are mostly an American invention, sure. But you've been lagging behind on chip&pin and contactleas payments for decades. Even something as simple as a secure bank transfer is a chore over there. I remember asking an American for their account number so I c…
You are way out of date on what the us is like. Chips are all anyone uses in the us. I write about 2 checks a year.
not that it makes a difference - us law puts the liability on banks. Chip and pin is needed in backwards places where a stolen credit card is the consumers problem. It adds no security to the individual in the us. When banks decided to care chips got rolled out. They don't think pin is useful enough to be worth the hasstle so we don't have the.
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It’s because hackernews rate limits users just because someone else downvoted you So you actually can’t finish the conversation when it has the utility to finish it
Really? The rate limit must be pretty generous, because I've never hit it, and I've had a few comments downvoted heavily.
The threshold gets more sensitive if other users have ever flagged you before and there’s seemingly no way to make the threshold less sensitive without mod intervention
so entire accounts can get brigaded in an opaque system that we never know is updated or not
Re: Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s because hackernews rate limits users just because someone else downvoted you So you actually can’t finish the conversation when it has the utility to finish it
Users get rate limited because their account is new, or as you alluded to, they're not productively adding to the conversation (as evidenced by vote ratio at least). It seems like the system working as designed, to be honest.
its overfitting.
its like how people within the US thinks the system works because we’ve never had a military coup, instead of looking at how the system hasnt worked
Re: Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
#196So many strong opinions here from commenters who aren’t actually from Botswana. Let me tell you how we actually feel about it here. We think it’s awesome! The establishment of a university of science and technology in Botswana has been a long hard road, and many mistakes have been made along the way. But the fact that Botswana now has the local skill to deploy a satellite and make use of the data it provides to infor…
Do you see signs of Africa undergoing the developmental transformation we’ve seen in past decades in places like China and Vietnam? I’ve been expecting it for a while.
Africa is not a country. Some countries in Africa are doing much better than others. Some are the stereotype of a new revolution every few years bringing in a new corruption. Some are stable and growing.
Re: Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
#197So many strong opinions here from commenters who aren’t actually from Botswana. Let me tell you how we actually feel about it here. We think it’s awesome! The establishment of a university of science and technology in Botswana has been a long hard road, and many mistakes have been made along the way. But the fact that Botswana now has the local skill to deploy a satellite and make use of the data it provides to infor…
You should be proud. I am happy to see this achievement. I hope it inspires more people in Botswana to pursue engineering. Thank you for sharing.
Re: Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
#198Why so much negativity under this post? This is a positive in terms of global scientific and technological progress.
Probably because of the original clickbait title, which seems to have been changed by the mods to be more accurate.
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> From 1 highschool program in 2006 (TJ3SAT) there's now over 50 high scool programs launching cubesat style satellites. Some use base kits, making the launch even easier. Sure, it's amazing they have a bootstrapping engineering community in Botswana, but this isn't more sophisticated than a high school program with money to pay for the ride up. I think you're trying very hard to grasp at straws to belittle a whole c…
That's funny. Go read up about cubesats friend.
It was from a university.
> EIRSAT-1 (Educational Irish Research Satellite-1) is a European Space Agency-sponsored 2U CubeSat developed and built by University College Dublin
> The mission of EIRSAT-1 is to advance education in space science and engineering across the whole island of Ireland through collaboration between student teams, higher education institutions and high-tech companies.
Actually it looks like most of the first national satellites listed are operated by colleges and universities, not high schools.
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That's funny. Go read up about cubesats friend.
It was from a university. > EIRSAT-1 (Educational Irish Research Satellite-1) is a European Space Agency-sponsored 2U CubeSat developed and built by University College Dublin > The mission of EIRSAT-1 is to advance education in space science and engineering across the whole island of Ireland through collaboration between student teams, higher education institutions and high-tech companies. Actually it looks like most…
Yes because most high schools with money to hitch a ride with spacex are in the USA. So they aren't first launches, which is besides the point. The point is that launching a cubesat is nowhere near the complexity that NASA (or any other real space program) operates at, and it's actually at the level of a US rich high school. This is no detriment to anyone, it's just what it is. I'd say with enough money for the spacex ticket any "tech maker" youtuber has enough sophistication to launch a cubesat too. Also I never mentioned the satellite you reference.