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> They either have running water and some semblance of infrastructure like roads and power, or they don't. That really doesn't apply to subsistence farming com

by 7952 11y ago

> They either have running water and some semblance of infrastructure like roads and power, or they don't. That really doesn't apply to subsistence farming communities, for example in sub-Saharan Africa. Population will be much more dispersed than in more urbanised developed countries. You can have tiny farmsteads with a dozen people every 100 yards covering thousands of miles of apparently rural land. Connecting mains water or electricity is impossibly expensive, but cell phones can still be widely used though communal charging.

angersock 11y ago
At the risk of being gauche... If the main benefit of Facebook is advertising, why bother extending functionality to people who are too poor to buy anything?
- ehnto 11y ago
  I presume it will be targeted advertising. But I don't know what the end goal is. Both the target market and the target publishers are a mystery so far as I can tell. Perhaps government or regieme campaigns will be the main buyer of advertisements to such detatched communities. I wonder what the cost per conversion is for rural votes?
vonklaus 11y ago
A friend of mine helped out in Uganda and you are correct. If India, or wherever they are targeting is similar they will have limited electricity and limited clean water. It was my understanding that the village my friend worked at had a rationed power supply for the wotkers and medical clinic that was run by a generator. Do this is my point. Literally providing access to water with a hole and pneumatics was such an improvement in quality of life I am not sure what the usecase for this is. * complicated totally foreign technology * lack of charging ability * likelyhood of downloading the cracked screen app is pretty high. * using low cost satelites and repeaters has to make more sense. So I am not sure what communal charging is, but if it is a crank box or generator, In the hypothetical we have just invented it would almost certainly be cheaper (but way less sexier) to just build low cost suburban housing like the hexayurt and provide education and technology from existing infrastructure. How Silicon Valley is a distributed drone based LAN that provides a hookup app to people starving in the bush, or in the sluns of India. The tech is intellectually stimulating, it is one if the main usecases for Planet Labs Api, but maybe im missing something, but how does this make sense. Also, how does this operate in production, these things fly around and then link to eacjother and towers recharging several times a day? Those are real questions. What is the application and ehat does the implementation look like?

by 7952 11y ago

angersock 11y ago

At the risk of being gauche... If the main benefit of Facebook is advertising, why bother extending functionality to people who are too poor to buy anything?

ehnto 11y ago
I presume it will be targeted advertising. But I don't know what the end goal is. Both the target market and the target publishers are a mystery so far as I can tell. Perhaps government or regieme campaigns will be the main buyer of advertisements to such detatched communities. I wonder what the cost per conversion is for rural votes?

vonklaus 11y ago

A friend of mine helped out in Uganda and you are correct. If India, or wherever they are targeting is similar they will have limited electricity and limited clean water. It was my understanding that the village my friend worked at had a rationed power supply for the wotkers and medical clinic that was run by a generator. Do this is my point. Literally providing access to water with a hole and pneumatics was such an improvement in quality of life I am not sure what the usecase for this is. * complicated totally foreign technology * lack of charging ability * likelyhood of downloading the cracked screen app is pretty high. * using low cost satelites and repeaters has to make more sense. So I am not sure what communal charging is, but if it is a crank box or generator, In the hypothetical we have just invented it would almost certainly be cheaper (but way less sexier) to just build low cost suburban housing like the hexayurt and provide education and technology from existing infrastructure. How Silicon Valley is a distributed drone based LAN that provides a hookup app to people starving in the bush, or in the sluns of India. The tech is intellectually stimulating, it is one if the main usecases for Planet Labs Api, but maybe im missing something, but how does this make sense. Also, how does this operate in production, these things fly around and then link to eacjother and towers recharging several times a day? Those are real questions. What is the application and ehat does the implementation look like?