You don’t think they’d hang you with your own rope?

AFAIK it’s the most known infectious.

Covid, or at least one of the omicron variants is next i think, but one might argue its more since the infection cycle was faster leading to larger numbers, but in terms 1 person infecting X people, it’s Measles.

I don’t know all the costs, but definitely not single digits.

15,000 (people) * 500 (dish) + 15000 * 140 (service) * 12 (months) is 37.2 million. If they help with roof installs that’d be more too.

Commercial stuff costs more, so if they connect a hospital it’d be more.

There was something in the contract about paying more to ensure guaranteed bandwidth for them as well, and I wonder if the government is helping pay for some of the ground stations it’d need which might be one time costs?

Also the government has a policy of connecting all of Canada to high speed internet which is considered 50 down, 10 up with 98% in 2026 and the rest by 2030.

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/high-speed-internet-canada/en

Edit: to be fair though that policy isn’t about paying for the end user, but it would include going towards infrastructure like ground stations, guaranteeing the bandwidth and paying for SpaceX to launch a few extra satellites to help guarantee the service.

A test loop would be better. All sorts of tracks out there.

I only played it after the fixes years later and concur

Third party ram, third party motherboard, third party cmos battery…

Not funding CBC has absolutely nothing to do with saving money.

It’s so they can control you better. It’s just lies people will swallow

Connecting these homes properly is worth it, yes.

The question was always is it worth giving it to SpaceX specifically given Elons ties, or a US based company due to Trump. Xplore is US owned as well now, and was the other option.

In June 2020, Xplore announced its sale to New York private equity firm Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners

During the pandemic

According to Lis McWalter, a Carling, Ontario resident and chair of the West Parry Sound SMART Community Network, speeds are so slow that audio calls are impeded, and said “Even at the best of times we don’t get the speed that’s promised.”.

I think we should try and avoid supporting the US for the moment, but if there isn’t a good alternative and the other options might seriously impact the quality of life for our citizens, then I think it’s worth considering still doing it until we can work something else out.

Edit: I thought this addition would be worth while… Xplore struggled during the pandemic when usage was higher, and starlink has much higher bandwidth capabilities. If we not only want to connect but encourage people to consider living in these communities, that also means more population growth, which means more demanding usage which means Xplore struggles further.

DOGE to the rescue, of course they’d save it right? …right?

Even if this was true… the current administration is all about rolling back all the regulations that protect us from things like this hypothetical toxin.

The government wouldn’t ban it, they’d call it fake news and give companies producing it subsidies so they could make more.

I’m sure you can learn a lot by watching, but learning directly from those that actually do it is much better. Denmark is sending actual soldiers to learn.

I said modern drone warfare tactics.

Using a drone for a specialized op isn’t the same thing as sending 20-50 drones out at once amd having to defend against 50 drones a day type thing.

Edit: nor having the infrastructure to deploy said modern tactics.

The US has modern drone warfare experience? They use drones yes, but it’s not like a full blown war experience?

Traditional geostationary satellite latency really causes problems with real time communication which this is trying to help with. You end up in a situation where you talk over each other frequently unless you go into radio style communication of always waiting for the other person to clearly be done talking with a long pause which hampers fluid conversations. Reactions to things you hear or say become delayed making for a jarring experience.

You can do it yes, but it’s subpar.

Edit: Imagine a lawyer not being able to interject properly during a court case or read non verbal queues of whats going on in court in real time.

Along the lines of just do it, I’ve heard suggestions of, do it, and have the law say there can be a referendum on it after 2 elections using it.

That way people can see how it works and then decide.

Otherwise it might just turn into every election is about undoing it or keeping it.

Makes a lot of sense. Russia and Ukraine are really the only ones with modern drone warfare tactics. Granted if Russia attacks a NATO country the response and type of war will be different, but drones are going to play a big part either way.

Where are you going on about emergency use? The article is talking about how this is going to impact northern first nations communities who were going to use the service for virtual court appearances which require good bandwidth and low latency.

The only people he’s going to have to upgrade are those who purchased it. In the past there’s been some small claims court cases where someone won about being upgraded for a subscription, but if that is truly a concern, Tesla could stop the subscriptions for a few years and let the cars age out. They have no obligations to offer a subscription, it wasn’t a thing when the original promise was made.

Also, they only need to upgrade cars when it’d actually be capable. The promise is to upgrade cars to capable hardware, not upgrade cars with every hardware iteration, so as long as hw4 can’t actually do it, they’re likely in the clear as well.

Given most people don’t think they can actually make fsd work, then they’re in the clear.

If they somehow make it work, the upgrade cost is going to be peanuts compared to the insane amount of money they’d start printing.

So it’s not much if a story.

Edit: also worth mentioning, he’s been pretty clear over the years that FSD is going to cost a lot more money once it’s available for real. So if he does have to upgrade everyone who pays for it (lets assume they stop subscriptions to avoid that issue), even if that means upgrading all HW4 cars as well because it needs HW5, he can jack the price up more to help cover the upgrade cost. No one should be under the illusion that purchasing FSD will be cheaper than it is today if they succeed.

Starlink offers the low latency that others can’t provide which is needed for more real time applications and at a much more affordable rate. Maybe in the future there will be another (edit: low latency) network that rural people can rely on, but that isn’t today, or tomorrow, or next year, or the year after.

Satellites that have to communicate with a ground station, unless they want to do all the traffic in a region over the laser links, but those links will have their own limitations.

I’m not sure what the ground infrastructure is specifically, is it spacex hardware that connects to local ISP stuff or is it their own ground based infrastructure. That ground infrastructure is usually what part of getting approved in a country involves. Doing only laser links for a whole country would be too much. (Edit: I mean it’d technically be doable, but it’d greatly reduce their network bandwidth vs having a closer ground station, so fewer users and lower speeds)

The other option would be a hybrid situation where starlink backhauls one of our telecos internet but the local infrastructure is built and owned by them. In the future you could then backhaul with another satellite network in theory. Basically drop a 4g/5g tower in the middle of nowhere and connect it to Starlink.