• Cocodapuf
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, Musk has gone insane, anyone can see that.

    But Musk aside, LEO satellites are still really the only viable and economical solution to the problem of broadband in rural areas, and Starlink seems to work great.

    Also, the objection that resulted in pulling this funding looks pretty bullshit. Several other broadband providers are getting these same funding deals for doing basically nothing.

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      2 years ago

      Musk has gone insane

      No, he hasn’t. He’s just a bog-standard capitalist doing bog-standard capitalist things.

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        2 years ago

        Explicitly not the point of my post…