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Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by jedberg »

The most interesting part (to me) is buried in the middle:

"Compared to the current satellite link the [undersea, Google owned fiber-optic] cable will bring almost incredible amounts of capacity. The Government of St Helena estimates that it will deliver several hundred gigabits per second - far more than the island’s population of around 4,400 people could possibly use. The plan is therefore to turn the island into a communications hub, with satellites in space linking via groundstations on the island to the world via the cable. The Government of St Helena believes St Helena’s position in the South Atlantic and its political and physical stability make it an ideal and almost unique location for this use."

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by dekhn »

warkdarrior wrote: post #59
JetSetWilly wrote: post #48

> A search on Google™ for ‘Saint Helena’ will bring up many sites that are in California, which has a town called ‘Saint Helena’, or South Carolina, which has an area known as ‘Saint Helena Island’. For this reason it is best when using Google™ to append to your search ‘-napa -carolina -california’, which will remove many of these irrelevant results. Not any more! Since google "enhanced" their search to remove such o…

The operators work for me. I get different results with and without '-napa -carolina -california'.

Truly weird: for me, -california won't suppress the top result (a map of St Helena California) but adding -carolina and -california removes the map and puts the wikipedia page for St Helena (the saint person). In either case, using Tools -> Verbatim works better than "All Results"

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by mavhc »

JetSetWilly wrote: post #48

> A search on Google™ for ‘Saint Helena’ will bring up many sites that are in California, which has a town called ‘Saint Helena’, or South Carolina, which has an area known as ‘Saint Helena Island’. For this reason it is best when using Google™ to append to your search ‘-napa -carolina -california’, which will remove many of these irrelevant results. Not any more! Since google "enhanced" their search to remove such o…

Depends where you live, for me in UK it brings up a) a location in uk, then the rest are about the island.

[Saint Helena Island] brings up only results about the island

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by denysvitali »

ta1243 wrote: post #28
dylan604 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a meme-like website that demos this very concept. Then there's a v2.0 or some ++ type versioning where they use very minimal CSS to actually improve the readability. I'm a fan of the use of the minimal CSS to add margins and widths as it improves readability for me. Searching for it with only the vagueness of what I can think of right now returns nothing useful, and that's with not using Google. Maybe my vagu…

https://bestmotherfucking.website/ perhaps, which I have to admit improves on http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ Searching for "the best fucking website" is not fruitful though.

You missed https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ :D

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by btilly »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #57
GolfPopper wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?" - A Man For All Seasons (1966)

Depends: are we cutting them all at once?

The context of the quote is a debate about whether to give the Devil the benefit of law. And yes, it was cutting them all at once to get at the Devil.

You can watch the original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqReTJkjjg. (I picked the longer version at 3 minutes that includes the leadup to why the debate happened.)

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by coryrc »

cbsks wrote: post #56

Yikes! Internet is expensive! And there is only a single provider legally allowed to operate. 18£: 30GB. 5Mbps down, 1Mbps up 36£: 60GB. 5Mbps down, 1Mbps up 67£: unlimited. 10Mbps down, 1Mbps up 120£: unlimited. 20Mbps down, 1Mbps up https://www.sure.co.sh/assets/Banner-Links/Residential-Broad...

Wait until you hear about what it costs in regular parts of the US...

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by yieldcrv »

alejohausner wrote: post #45
nycdatasci wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Relatedly, it's worth watching the entire Bill Gurley talk at the recent All-In Summit. Edit: Updating link to jump to the relevant section of the talk. https://youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM?t=397

Awesome! Thanks for the link. Ending regulatory capture is the main plank in RFK Jr's presidential campaign. He's mentioned the FDA, NIH, EPA, the CIA and the military industrial complex, but I haven't heard him talk about capture of the telecom regulators. Sorry for the political ad, but I'm frustrated by news articles that say "voters don't want Biden or Trump", but fail to mention RFK's campaign. (stepping off the…

neither RFK or Vivek Ramaswamy have a chance

if you would like candidates like that to have a chance, petition your state to allow non party members to vote in primary elections

partisans of any party are a now minority in this country but the growing number of independents dont know it yet and have no representation, while their participation in the primaries would smooth out the candidate selection

in the mean time, fawning over non consensus candidates are a waste of time

it is accurate for there to be frustration over the two predictable candidates because rabid partisans are going to pretend that the rest of the population have a choice (as long as its the "choice" they like)

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by tomcam »

beowulfey wrote: post #51
JetSetWilly wrote: post #48

> A search on Google™ for ‘Saint Helena’ will bring up many sites that are in California, which has a town called ‘Saint Helena’, or South Carolina, which has an area known as ‘Saint Helena Island’. For this reason it is best when using Google™ to append to your search ‘-napa -carolina -california’, which will remove many of these irrelevant results. Not any more! Since google "enhanced" their search to remove such o…

When did Google do this?

At least five years ago. Drives me crazy.

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by avgcorrection »

AlbertCory wrote: post #16
avgcorrection wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the epic steps?

I did a find on "Napoleon." what did I miss?

Oh, you meant that this site doesn't mention Napoleon.

I don't see a reason for a how-to site on their site to mention whatever this island's claim to fame is? Sounds like someone putting a plaque at Milford Sound that says “You might have heard of New Zealand as the filming location of Lord of the Rings!”

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by aquaticsunset »

coryrc wrote: post #66
cbsks wrote: post #56

Yikes! Internet is expensive! And there is only a single provider legally allowed to operate. 18£: 30GB. 5Mbps down, 1Mbps up 36£: 60GB. 5Mbps down, 1Mbps up 67£: unlimited. 10Mbps down, 1Mbps up 120£: unlimited. 20Mbps down, 1Mbps up https://www.sure.co.sh/assets/Banner-Links/Residential-Broad...

Wait until you hear about what it costs in regular parts of the US...

Umm... significantly less than that? US telecom isn't a shining star of good value and fair pricing, but a median speed of 210 Mbps with a roughly $75/mo bill is a lot better than Saint Helena Island.
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