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by extheat 4y ago
HN generally had good SNR. However when it comes to certain things remotely involving a controversial party, it can inspire lots of off topic/uninteresting/uninformative commenting. Just have to tune it out. Anywho, I totally agre
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by extheat 4y ago
I only see this being an issue storing times as strings. Why not store them as integers (like a Unix timestamp) or at least some standardized string format? The only reasonable use case I can think of where you absolutely need all this comp
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by extheat 4y ago
This is typical for court cases. Even if a party may have little to do with what’s going on trial, if they’re a relevant party in any way they can get sucked in and be forced to give a deposition. It’s totally possible to “plead the 5th” he
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by extheat 4y ago
5G isn’t just about phones. It’s about IoT and all sorts of mobile (and non mobile) devices. Having the ability to transmit more bandwidth albeit at a smaller distance is a big deal. Edge computing helps on the latency front which is also a
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by extheat 4y ago
Pictures alone are pretty low bandwidth with good compression. While the concept sounds cool, I don't see any immediate application for it. For long distance communication (/interplanetary) it's a problem of latency, not band
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by extheat 4y ago
Apple phones are a lot less ubiquitous than general cell phones. Anything with an antenna and a (e)SIM card can get access to the T-mobile network, so what Apple is providing might be nice but I can't see how they compete at the level
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by extheat 4y ago
I imagine that the satellites can switch frequencies within a small margin as they commonly need to do that when faced with interference. They can already shut off when traveling over countries where they don't have broadcast permissio
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by extheat 4y ago
Yes, I expect this to be one of many announcements going forward, with Amazon Kuiper and OneWeb coming into the party -- eventually. However, SpaceX has the advantage of vertical integration (they launch their own rockets) which substantial
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by extheat 4y ago
Line of sight will be needed for upload transmit, definitely. However, with sufficient power on the satelites it should be able to transmit loud enough at lower frequencies (better penetration) so it should be receivable inside of a phone p
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by extheat 4y ago
Less network congestion probably? Maybe something in the area is causing interference on the mobile frequencies.
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by extheat 4y ago
Getting regulatory approval for the spectrum is one of the hardest problems, the hardest non-technical one. T-Mobile agreeing to allocate some of their spectrum to SpaceX is something that will probably happen with other carriers later down
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by extheat 4y ago
> Included for free with most T-Mobile plans other than the cheapest plans This is big. Only concerning part seems to be the large antenna required on the satellites, which would probably incur some extra scrutiny by regulators, but IMO
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by extheat 4y ago
I’m almost certain that Google/Amazon/Apple et al have similar specialized computing hardware, but at smaller scales. We don’t publicly know much about their internal hardware. If they had the infra, I think it would be interestin
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by extheat 4y ago
Cool. Can anyone chime in on how this compares to other ML SoC/ASICs? I know many places are going hard on general purpose GPUs, but I’d imagine ASIC based supercomputers (like Google TPU) are the way to go forward.
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by extheat 4y ago
I’m sure it works pretty well on desktop browsers, but on mobile the web interface is pretty hard to use. The PDF link though works great.
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by extheat 4y ago
That’s like saying you can hack 5G because you can root your phone.
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by extheat 4y ago
There is one for PS5, no hardware hack needed. I don’t know about Xbox.
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by extheat 4y ago
You mean the right? I think it's a consequence of people being mostly right handed. It's just easier to reach things to the right over reaching them on the left, for example when sifting through a stack of papers. Similarly on tou
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by extheat 4y ago
I disagree, the difference is still there. It’s gotten a bit smaller, but it’s still there. Some people who are perpetually online on forums will say things like “that’s based” in real life, but out of a diverse group of 100 people how many
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by extheat 4y ago
> just shut down Yes, a year ago.
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by extheat 4y ago
If the payout would be substantial, it would be dumb for Musk team not accept and buy Twitter at that point and do a later IPO at a new price after restructuring. There’s not much for Musk to loose by playing it out like this. In the end th
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by extheat 4y ago
That would lead to more shareholder lawsuits. The $54.20 cash deal is like a golden carrot on a stick, seeing what happened to Snap and the cloudy economic outlook means they would tank in value if Musk sells his shares. They have no choice
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by extheat 4y ago
There’s a good saying, delete Twitter, and productivity will sky rocket.
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by extheat 4y ago
I think it’s a legitimate question. Doesn’t seem like an personal attack.
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by extheat 4y ago
Why not? Be more specific. The tree issue I believe could easily be fixed by broadcasting over a lower frequency that can penetrate more materials easy. Wi-Fi for example works at lower frequencies (2.5Ghz/5Ghz opposed to 12Ghz). This
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by extheat 4y ago
Sounds like you have an axe to grind. Think about solutions instead of problems, nobody is asking you for anything. If the physics permits something to happen, if there’s a will there’s a way. If you don’t have the will there is never a way
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by extheat 4y ago
Going through court will lead to even more dragged out speculation and hurt Twitter more than any other party. They can't be 100% sure that they will win the case, and will also have to work to run the company on the side in a continu
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by extheat 4y ago
> Almost everything in this comment is wrong or misleading. Feel free to point out specific inaccuracies. I think it's pretty clear. > Just because EM wants an escape hatch, doesn’t make it so Yes, never suggested it's legal
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by extheat 4y ago
So much noise here and ill-informed comments fail to give a broader understanding of what's going on. Elon bought up Twitter shares early in the year for a reason, because he wanted more control over Twitter. He bought up so much Twit
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by extheat 4y ago
He needed to liquidate stock to pay taxes from previous stock options he'd been given either way of the Twitter poll. I find a lot of the comments here to be pretty off-base and ill-informed to say the least.

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