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- eitland 2y agoFirst example that comes to mind is Starlinks for Ukraine.
- concordDance 2y agoI thought some of those were still free. Do you have information to the contrary? Edit: italicized
- mikeyouse 2y agoPer the Polish government, they’re paying $50M per year for Ukraines service. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87vg38dnpo.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87vg38dnpo.amp
- melodyogonna 2y agoif $50m per year enough for the Starlink services needed in Ukraine?
- whamlastxmas 2y agono - it's a tiny fraction of the actual cost. so it's not "free" but it's massively subsidized to the point of being nearly free when it's a country paying for it
- ta1243 2y agoIn a high-development high-capital low-marginal cost it's tricky to determine the "actual cost". The marginal cost is minimal. The opportunity cost is minimal too (not like the satellites over Ukraine could be providing connectivity for other congested areas).
- flanked-evergl 2y agoYou are going to have to do better than some tweet battle. AFAIU from Wikipedia with decent sources the service is free, but the terminal's not, and that is what Poland paid. Also, it's not like Ukraine or even Poland has to pay, the can pay if they want, they can also not pay if they want. It's entirely elective. They can stop using any time they want. I heard that Google has a Starlink replacement in the works that is super awesome and I also heard that while Europe has completely killed itself with regulation they are entirely willing to buy things made by China which has absolutely no regulation. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...
- exe34 2y ago> they can also not pay if they want. It's entirely elective. even if they pay, he can supply it if he wants, or he can cut them off if it threatens to inconvenience Russia.
- Denote6737 2y agoDoge
- flanked-evergl 2y agohow much is he being paid for doge?
- ta1243 2y agoBillions
- flanked-evergl 2y agoCite?
- exe34 2y agohe closed down all the government departments that had open cases on his contracts.
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- flanked-evergl 2y agoNot a citation.
- exe34 2y agoit's really great that people like you take online discussions so seriously - here's the citation: https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.13_fact_sheet_re_musk_investigations.pdf https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.... I hope you read it carefully and we can have some intelligent conversation about the contents.
- torben-friis 2y agoDidn’t he very publicly offer to fund fixing world hunger then ignored it when an NGO came up with an actual plan?
- flanked-evergl 2y agoHow much was he paid for fixing world hunger?
- jandrese 2y agoI assume you are referring to this: https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world-hunger-but-gave-it-to-his-own-foundation-instead/ https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world... As a response to this: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/04/26/elon-musk-hunger/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/04/26/elon-musk-hunger/
- rpmisms 2y agoHe called them on some ridiculous claim that $10 billion could end world hunger. He said that if they could show him how, he'd donate the money. Spoiler alert, they could not show him how.
- exe34 2y agoback in reality, no, they said "address world hunger", not "solve". I know we are in a post-truth phase of the decline, but please, try do do your part.
- rpmisms 2y agoActually, they did use the word "solve", they just added "help" first. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/26/economy/musk-world-hunger-wfp-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/26/economy/musk-world-hunger... Check the errata at the bottom.