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Senor Tron posted:Good luck getting fiber laid to aircraft and ships. Good luck getting fiber laid to apartment buildings when the local telecoms are fat and happy with monopoly pricing already.
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Senor Tron posted:Good luck getting fiber laid to aircraft and ships. Fibre internet with local wifi, or 4G / 5G, is the correct option for the overwhelming majority of internet users, who spend the overwhelming majority of their time either in houses or buildings, or within range of a tower. Folks on ships or aircraft are there temporarily.
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Senor Tron posted:Good luck getting fiber laid to aircraft and ships. This is the same problem as electric car range, and has the same solution: really, really long extension cords.
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Feb 5, 2021 02:42
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Senor Tron posted:Good luck getting fiber laid to aircraft and ships. I mean if the Starlink laser link between satellites doesn't work it's going to be anywhere from bad to useless far from the coast with no ground stations in range. Lead out in cuffs posted:Really? Last I heard when they put a Starlink satellite on course to (potentially) collide with an ESA satellite, they were basically "no gently caress you, you move out the way". They are actually trying to make their satellites darker and seem to have competent engineers that aren't constantly being interfered with by the musk. I heard about the possible collision thing and am not sure what to make of it. Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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Feb 5, 2021 02:49
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adoration for none posted:This was SpaceX's statement in response in the article: Move fast. Break things.
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Is the idea that if we just all use cell phone 5g that that will take capitalism or evil companies out of the internet?
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Feb 5, 2021 03:58
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Senor Tron posted:Good luck getting fiber laid to aircraft and ships. They'll get parallel frequency hopping and they'll like it.
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Feb 5, 2021 04:31
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Is the idea that if we just all use cell phone 5g that that will take capitalism or evil companies out of the internet? Um, no
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I've got bad news for you regarding the general reliability and redundancy of things propping up human civilisation they're mostly flimsy rear end poo poo or decades past their sell by date being maintained by the last neckbeard who remembers what the 1960s COBOL codebase actually does
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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adoration for none posted:This was SpaceX's statement in response in the article: No, this is actually code for "he/she didn't read their emails." So someone not opening their Outlook could have screwed humanity out of spaceflight for a century.
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One satellite collision doesn't result in Kessler effect and mass orbital destruction, nor does Kessler effect create an impassable barrier in space. There have been actual satellite collisions and even weapons tests in space.
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The biggest opportunity with satellite internet is offering global web access in countries where that access is highly restricted or difficult.
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Well, that and really rural areas. It's difficult economically serve out fiber or whatever when people are really spread out. I seem to recall Norway having some program where for rural homes they'd give you basic equipment and you could just dig out the trench or whatever yourself, that might be a reasonable compromise.
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OctaMurk posted:One satellite collision doesn't result in Kessler effect and mass orbital destruction It’s a bit easier to do when there are forty thousand satellites up there and they’re made by the guy whose machines keep falling apart both on the ground and in the air.
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OctaMurk posted:One satellite collision doesn't result in Kessler effect and mass orbital destruction, nor does Kessler effect create an impassable barrier in space. There have been actual satellite collisions and even weapons tests in space. People/sci-fi really have ramped up the kessler effect into something it never was. Like the idea was that particular orbits could have too much stuff so that a collision would create debris that would create more debris. In like a statistical way. That got turned into some sort of really weird, "all orbits instantaneously close and are impassable across all space" that isn't really based on anything except looking cool in a movie and the weird casual sci-fi idea that space is about as large as a small football field.
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https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0 hahahahahahahahahahahahaquote:Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. Not entirely tech nightmare but you know know the tesla factory will set this up if it comes to pass
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Not entirely tech nightmare but you know know the tesla factory will set this up if it comes to pass quote:Sisolak pitched the concept in his State of the State address delivered Jan. 19. The plan would bring in new businesses at the forefront of “groundbreaking technologies” without the use of tax abatements or other publicly funded incentive packages that previously helped Nevada attract companies like Tesla Inc. An AI-blockchain-IoT-biometrics company town springing up in the desert east of Reno is basically the entire bingo card of tech nightmares.
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/5/22268239/dril-video-game-copgame-patreonquote:Dril, esteemed shitposter and published author, is developing “the next great Gaming Classic”: a 2D action-adventure called copgame about the “quest of a silent protagonist who stumbles upon the gift of immortality in a dangerous future where Top Influencers and corrupt hollywood guys maintain a cruel grip on society.” He posted the news today on Twitter, along with a link to his Patreon for funding.
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That looks really good for a single dev team. So in terms of the plot, will it be like an inverse Braid where the twist is that you're the good guy?
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0 hahahahahahahahahahahaha Shadowrun was just supposed to be a tabletop RPG, not a blueprint for the future.
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Special Economic/Free Trade/Enterprise Zones exist already. I'm American and have been past one anytime I went out the back of my grandpa's old active living community. I assume this is a case of tech reinventing the wheel but making it square.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:People/sci-fi really have ramped up the kessler effect into something it never was. 
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Big Hubris posted:Special Economic/Free Trade/Enterprise Zones exist already. I'm American and have been past one anytime I went out the back of my grandpa's old active living community. I assume this is a case of tech reinventing the wheel but making it square.
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I am actually embarrassed to report that I didn't google other articles and thought that one was bullshit. I uh, still had some level of credulity and assumed that corrupt politicians wouldn't automate themselves out of work.
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Galaxy brain option is to launch some industrial space labs and use them to make ZBLAN. 
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Cicero posted:https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/5/22268239/dril-video-game-copgame-patreon I hope to one day be described as an "esteemed shitposter" though I know the reality is that I just make lovely posts.
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Tesla Skips 401k Match Third Straight Year Sometimes you have to make hard business decisions, like paying your employees vs buying a bunch of cryptocurrency for no reason.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Tesla Skips 401k Match Third Straight Year Tesla is basically a shitpost in company form.
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Google and Facebook aren't just the core of the adtech Panaopticon, Google is also a classic monopoly. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1358907018975838208
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I'm not sure that breaking apart the concept of advertising into multiple components really qualifies as "all sides of the market". A widget-maker isn't a monopoly just because they make all the parts of the widget. I would expect that the report itself doesn't have nearly as hot a take.
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No company ever 401k-matched its way to the highest market cap.
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Even most lovely companies have at least some 401k match, that's loving hilarious
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Gazpacho posted:No company ever 401k-matched its way to the highest market cap. Enron took a good shot at it. Offering their 401k match in company stock rather than cash (and generally privileging company stock in the retirement plan) helped juice the price per share. It worked great, until the company collapsed and took the employees' retirement funds with it. Now those spoilsports at the IRS say "it's illegal to do that."
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Remember that Florida water treatment plant that was hacked and someone tried to add lye to the drinking water? Turns out they were running Windows 7 (lol), no firewall (lol), and all of the employees were sharing one Teamviewer password for remote access to the SCADA system (lol). https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/breached-water-plant-employees-used-the-same-teamviewer-password-and-no-firewall/ I can't remember if this story was originally posted in the cyberpunk dystopia thread or this one, but it probably doesn't matter.
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That can't be part of a cyberpunk dystopia, cyberpunk assumed we'd have firewalls that would melt your brain and elite armies of corporate and government hackers actively tracking us every second of the day
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Don Gato posted:That can't be part of a cyberpunk dystopia, cyberpunk assumed we'd have firewalls that would melt your brain and elite armies of corporate and government hackers actively tracking us every second of the day Well, we got the last part.
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https://twitter.com/danieldrucker/status/1359594604618604544 The future is stupid. And that seems pretty wasteful. But mostly stupid.
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feeling a little crazy - was there a video that was very close-up of Elizabeth Holmes where she is creepily talking right into camera? google is failing me, or maybe i'm thinking of another tech person making a similar video? edit: nvm found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXqJNcQOBm0 PopZeus fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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PopZeus posted:feeling a little crazy - was there a video that was very close-up of Elizabeth Holmes where she is creepily talking right into camera? google is failing me, or maybe i'm thinking of another tech person making a similar video? Gah! It's like she's staring through time and space at me.
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PopZeus posted:feeling a little crazy - was there a video that was very close-up of Elizabeth Holmes where she is creepily talking right into camera? google is failing me, or maybe i'm thinking of another tech person making a similar video? She was so specifically crazy that a ton of older white men fell over themselves trying to stuff money into her company and sued each other for jumping the line to stuff money into her company. Like it all seems so insanely obvious now, but for a solid few years she was spoken of like the next Thomas Edison/Steve Jobs despite anyone with a basic understand of blood testing and biology able to point out their claims were physically impossible.
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