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SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by moomoo11 »

AlexandrB wrote: post #676
nalekberov wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Granted “we” are billionaires. Not only you didn’t get the point, but you still hold on to your delusions: > life for our kin will only be better. Right? In this subscription economy? Where you have just limited time to watch the movie you loved? You can’t afford to rent the house you loved let alone buy it? (previous generations could afford) the list goes on and on. Maybe stop spreading lies and see things more obj…

Being objective doesn't mean laser focusing on the negatives. For instance: > Where you have just limited time to watch the movie you loved? You know how many movies the average peasant watched in the 1800s? 0. The closest equivalent was live theatre and that was an expensive luxury. You'd also likely get see one or more of your children die to diseases that are trivially treatable or preventable today.

these people are hopeless.

this is why it is important to give toys and distractions to the masses and meaningless grind so they can stay busy and happy.

while other people actually build the world for them.

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Post by root-parent »

tw04 wrote: post #835

SpaceX needs to claim there’s a need for 100k more satellites to prop up unreasonable valuations. This is no different than Elon claiming Tesla owners would be renting out their cars as FSD taxis while at work (next year, we swear guys!!!) In a functioning economy he’d have faced criminal charges for knowingly misleading investors and customers about a dozen times over by now. It’s one thing to set lofty goals intern…

If Bitcoin...that has nothing behind it, can´t realistically be used for financial transactions, and is essentially just a virtual NFT... can hold at $60,000 for years, So then....SPCX that has nothing behind it, and realistically will never offer any business value that is even 0,01% of expectations...can then certainly hold at $150 for years...

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Post by simonh »

rayiner wrote: post #883
DemocracyFTW2 wrote: post #855

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> disagreement with the founder’s politics Are you talking about the guy who did a double-down Nazi salute to celebrate Trump winning the election?

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Because being in a building Nazis have been in is just like making an actual Nazi salute. Twice.

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Post by noahbp »

digitaltrees wrote: post #379

I have started to see what I think are star link satellites at night on walks with my kids. It actually makes me sad to see that on person owns the night sky and is changing the literal stars my kids will grow up with. It feels different when it’s the government that theoretically represents people but when it’s one person that feels truly depressing.

I have a hard time blaming anyone other than the internet monopolists and the FCC for this. If we had similar regulations as the UK (you lay infrastructure that serves Internet users, you must also rent this infrastructure out at regulated rates to other ISPs), we could have had a much quicker buildout of high speed internet service, instead of regional monopolies which defeated even the great Google.

Starlink’s total addressable market is only so large because of these monopolies. As sad as it is that astronomy will never be the same, it is a strong net positive for the world that fast internet be available at an affordable price.

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Post by UncleMeat »

rayiner wrote: post #883
DemocracyFTW2 wrote: post #855

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> disagreement with the founder’s politics Are you talking about the guy who did a double-down Nazi salute to celebrate Trump winning the election?

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I don't recall her agitating for a race war online. Maybe I missed it.

If the salutes were one weird thing it'd be one thing. But Musk spends all day online talking about how much better white society is than everything else and how foreigners are destroying society and need to be dealt with extremely harshly.

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Post by VBprogrammer »

coffeemug wrote: post #876
tw04 wrote: post #835

SpaceX needs to claim there’s a need for 100k more satellites to prop up unreasonable valuations. This is no different than Elon claiming Tesla owners would be renting out their cars as FSD taxis while at work (next year, we swear guys!!!) In a functioning economy he’d have faced criminal charges for knowingly misleading investors and customers about a dozen times over by now. It’s one thing to set lofty goals intern…

Would you feel the same way if he attached good faith probability estimates to those claims?

I think there would be no point in making the claim if the probability estimates were truly in good faith.

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Post by mlsu »

digitaltrees wrote: post #379

I have started to see what I think are star link satellites at night on walks with my kids. It actually makes me sad to see that on person owns the night sky and is changing the literal stars my kids will grow up with. It feels different when it’s the government that theoretically represents people but when it’s one person that feels truly depressing.

I went on a backcountry camping trip last year and was stargazing as one does. Kept seeing satellites. Was cool at first (used to be a rarity) but it got more and more annoying.

And for what? So that we can have more internet? Oh that’s just what we need. To spend even more time online. I’m sure Elon is quite excited for all of us, no matter where we are, we can be plugged into X just like him!

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Post by Danox »

Dig1t wrote: post #851
tw04 wrote: post #835

SpaceX needs to claim there’s a need for 100k more satellites to prop up unreasonable valuations. This is no different than Elon claiming Tesla owners would be renting out their cars as FSD taxis while at work (next year, we swear guys!!!) In a functioning economy he’d have faced criminal charges for knowingly misleading investors and customers about a dozen times over by now. It’s one thing to set lofty goals intern…

Apple announced AirPower and then didn’t end up shipping it. In a “functioning economy” should Tim Cook be indicted for misleading investors? Obviously not. The only decent argument for the criminal case you are talking about would be if it was an outright lie with no intent whatsoever to deliver on the promise, but there’s obviously a huge effort to deliver on the robotaxi promise. Just ask any of the thousands of e…

No Lidar, no chance…

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Post by archagon »

digitaltrees wrote: post #379

I have started to see what I think are star link satellites at night on walks with my kids. It actually makes me sad to see that on person owns the night sky and is changing the literal stars my kids will grow up with. It feels different when it’s the government that theoretically represents people but when it’s one person that feels truly depressing.

It's inevitable that at some point, a hostile nation will, ah, "disagree" with this laissez faire approach and start launching junk satellites at the Starlink constellation. That should be fun.

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Post by dtagames »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #764
askvictor wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once upon a time, people did long RV trips without internet access. Or even (cellular) phone access.

People used to die trying to cross the country

Indeed! That explains the popularity (and realism) of the Oregon Trail game.
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