All you need to know about Starlink and why it's getting a free pass.
lifestyleguru 1 days ago [-]
Oh Rocket Lab, a CV thrown away in vain! Please answer my application, please give me a sign!
dzhiurgis 1 days ago [-]
Neutron nowhere to be seen. A rocket thats on falcon 9 scale which is already being deprecated. Sure there’s chance neutron to be cheaper than starship and rocketlab does bunch of other things. But I’m pessimistic.
I knew it would be this channel. They always have these titles
znpy 1 days ago [-]
Private citizens doing investigative work? Just like Nick Shirley!
ls612 1 days ago [-]
The thing Starlink is replacing is not gigabit, it’s rural DSL providers who charge an arm and a leg for 20Mbps. The gigabit thing is just pie in the sky idealism while Starlink you can sign up for today.
hndhyc0bdt 1 days ago [-]
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aaron695 1 days ago [-]
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freehorse 1 days ago [-]
I don't think that "multibillionaire gets big chunk of the money intended for building durable infrastructure due to being friends with/funding the president, resulting to no infrastructure being actually built" is shocking (anymore) but it was still worth watching.
bell-cot 1 days ago [-]
Last I heard, plenty of non-satellite internet providers have also taken billions from those programs, then pretty much ignored the associated obligations.
And it's not a "Trump" issue, either. The rot also thrived under Biden.
theoreticalmal 1 days ago [-]
Wasn’t Kamala Harris part of a big push to provide better internet to rural American? I thought I remembered reading $25B in federal funding with essentially 0 marginal positive outcome
raisedbyninjas 1 days ago [-]
That pattern extends back to the Clinton administration.
hypercube33 1 days ago [-]
Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.
The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.
I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.
freehorse 1 days ago [-]
I don't know as much about this issue, but definitely do not doubt that, and the fact that this has not carried on indicates more and deeper issues (the video does mention about the progress of the project being too slow under Biden and does broader criticism than towards Musk/Trump). But corruption being a thing during previous governments does not make the current overt corruption better.
theoreticalmal 1 days ago [-]
I love my Starlink. It sits on the roof of my truck and is a backup ISP when I’m home and a nice way to stay connected when we go camping. 10/10 I recommend to everyone
orf 1 days ago [-]
That’s nice, but how is this at all relevant to the linked video?
Especially as you said you use it as a backup ISP…
All you need to know about Starlink and why it's getting a free pass.
And it's not a "Trump" issue, either. The rot also thrived under Biden.
The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.
I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.
Especially as you said you use it as a backup ISP…