new_realist

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by new_realist 7y ago
I believe the 35 ms latency number is on top of any required routing latency, either on the ground or in space. I'm curious how much each satellite hop will add.
692.
by new_realist 7y ago
With more fiber being laid every day, increasing wireless deployments, and technologies like AirGig in the horizon, is Starlink launching into a shrinking market? Further, as SpaceX is having trouble raising the needed funds, is this launch
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by new_realist 7y ago
The 1000 miles per hour figure is burst, not sustained. As the battery fills up the charge rate will slow. There is a fire risk to charging, but there's nothing you can do about it, so it's better to exit your car.
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by new_realist 7y ago
The Model X also looks like it was shit out of a dinosaur. Looks matter, even if range suffers.
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by new_realist 7y ago
Bedtime is also at a fixed time of day, if you choose. Alternatively, you can choose to sleep more in the winter and less in the summer: in this world your smartphone tells you when to go to bed, at which point you can choose to draw the b
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by new_realist 7y ago
For extreme locations, there are no perfect solutions, only improvements: bedtime is also at the same time each day. No time scheme is going to magically fix an unnatural habitat like a set of blackout blinds would.
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by new_realist 7y ago
Seven is arbitrary. The point is that the dawn is always at a fixed time of day, which allows human activity to be synchronized to daylight: just as humans and proto-humans had lived for half a million years.
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by new_realist 7y ago
In the age of smart phones and smart watches, we have the ability to define two dimensional time zones and skew the time each night by a minute or so, in order to achieve the ultimate goal: the sun always rising at a constant time (e.g. sev
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by new_realist 8y ago
25 km is less than typical, but remember each direct LEO path between popular destinstions is likely to be congested.
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by new_realist 8y ago
Local latency might be okay (worse then fiber, slightly worse than cable) but using space based routing is going to be a poor experience. There are a lot of latency-adding hops in space, and the terrestrial link bandwidth is so poor that p
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by new_realist 8y ago
TinTin A and TinTin B are at a similar altitude and achieve a reported 25 ms. That's a bit of an unexplained disconnect.