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by mlindner 3y ago
This is just incorrect. The speed of light through atmosphere is almost identical to speed of light in a vacuum. There's no latency penalty for traveling through the atmosphere. The one-way time delay to a Starlink satellite is about
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by mlindner 3y ago
On iphone you can call emergency by just holding both side buttons at the same time.
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by mlindner 3y ago
The amount of problems I've had with JSON in my career makes me think almost anything could be better than it. There's so many weird edge cases in the JSON spec that you can hit that it just becomes endless levels of hair pulling.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Here's a blog post by ESA that talks about what controlled reentry means. https://blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2018/11/16/basics-about-con... Controlled requires precise aiming towards a targeted locati
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by mlindner 3y ago
Share price wasn't the metric used to determine the compensation though. It was revenue growth.
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by mlindner 3y ago
1. Most significant satellites already have propulsion, only the smallest do not (which is a side problem). The problem is that when satellites fail, the guidance will often fail too. 2. Engines and fuel are heavy. Including one on the smal
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by mlindner 3y ago
There's already significant amounts of debris that transits through Starlink's orbit. And I'm telling you, your "image" of what this looks like is just incorrect. The kessler syndrome is likely already occurring. Ye
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by mlindner 3y ago
And I'm telling you that the statement is incorrect. Starlink is not equipped with propulsion capable of doing that. They use electric propulsion, which means they can't target a re-entry. They can de-orbit it on a time scale, but
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by mlindner 3y ago
I mistyped the comment. It should be 4-5 tons of TNT for the entire satellite.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Actually the person you replied to somewhat incorrectly. They're not targeted re-entries because the on-board propulsion of Starlink is too low to precisely control the re-entry location. However instead the satellites are designed to
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by mlindner 3y ago
The US military already uses commercial satellite communication systems.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Starlink satellites use inter-satellite lasers and can send those signals arbitrary distances via multiple satellites. Taking out a ground station will just require routing changes and the constellation will continue to perform. And you can
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by mlindner 3y ago
This is something commonly misunderstood. Kessler syndrome is a statistical process that happens over many years. It is not a sudden cascade like is seen in movies like Gravity. Statistical processes are not what militaries are interested i
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by mlindner 3y ago
Yes effectively immune to missiles. SpaceX launches a new batch of 22 satellites on average every 4-5 days right now and if needed can launch a new batch every 3 days. You'd have to shoot down thousands of satellites to create enough o
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by mlindner 3y ago
People don't usually throw out their server hardware after 3 years. After 3 years is up they'll probably sell service plans. And with the code being all open source some owners may go the self-supported route, though probably most
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by mlindner 3y ago
If you're referring to this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Project-X-AMD-Zen-Coreboot This seems to make no mention of Oxide at all. Perhaps you're connecting two different unrelated organizations together as
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by mlindner 3y ago
Even Windows was and is used substantially in embedded systems.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Funny how now the internet is now regressing itself to be "mobile-first" and almost all websites have become "websites that look like garbage". Even on my phone I still often switch to the desktop versions of websites as
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by mlindner 3y ago
Food prices didn't escalate, the dollar became worth less because of intentional inflation (needed to offset the massive federal spending spree during covid). Food prices are the same as they were pre-inflation.
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by mlindner 3y ago
The US doesn't have a high food price problem so I got no idea where they're coming at this from. People only think food prices are high because the sticker price value jumped up because of inflation. The food didn't get more
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by mlindner 3y ago
Trying to claim there's a bunch of tapping devices on the plane seems a bit much... This is going to be one of many up for sale and they're not going to know ahead of time who the buyer is.
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by mlindner 3y ago
I mean that's plenty worthy of downvotes. You're alleging someone would commit illegal action that would send them to prison for basically nothing.
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by mlindner 3y ago
The goal of SpaceX/Elon has never been to make maximal profit at the expense of the market as a whole. I'm not sure why people have such a difficulty understanding this. They state it repeatedly every chance they get and have neve
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by mlindner 3y ago
Yes that's how Cloudfare works. The TLS certificate for basically any website using Cloudflare "ends" at Cloudflare's servers. It's then either forwarded on to the actual servers in cleartext or re-encrypted with an
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by mlindner 3y ago
1. This is factually false. They're not being displayed amongst tweets containing hate speech. (The reporting group basically reverse engineered Twitter's protocol to force an ad to appear next to a hate speech comment.)
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by mlindner 3y ago
iPhone with Globalstar is absolutely a satellite phone. They've added a satellite phone to the regular cell phone. That's different than what Starlink is doing which is broadcasting a regular cell phone signal.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Apple's thing is basically a satellite phone. It's a completely different modem and protocol from what's used to contact cell phone towers. They just added satellite phone functionality to a normal phone.
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by mlindner 3y ago
If that was the case then there would've been a period where SpaceX got more launches. Instead they had to sue to even get a piece of the pie, and ULA has gotten higher percentages of every contract since. It's just regulatory cap
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by mlindner 3y ago
> Powerwalls are expensive even by battery standards. Well of course. Look at the cost of a home generator unit versus how much power it generates. The more apt battery comparison would be something like megapacks, and megapacks bought i
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by mlindner 3y ago
> Look at the price of a powerwall. That's for the energy needs of a residential home. What happens to your AWS bill if us-east-1 was to buy a powerwall? Let alone steel, chemical, paper, mineral processing industries. What would ha

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