Anti-positrons have even more advantages.

If they had paid the 50% taxes when they first acquired said wealth, when it was income masquerading as something else, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.

Speaking from experience, this is the order of business.

Seems like you would want to store the error correction data somewhere besides right at the data, if it is your recovery plan - like an off site backup. Use a fast checksum for the initial validation and only read the error correction when necessary.

Who did you think you were building this ridiculously expensive, generally unneeded thing that no one will actually pay the true cost of for? It has military written all over it.

Agree... The world was apparently not waiting around for cheap rockets to start some kind of "Space Age 2.0". Sure, cheaper launches are great, but maintaining the manufacturing base to build rockets is hard. When said rockets are re-usable, at some point you have all this manufacturing capacity sitting around with nothing to do but build a few spare parts. You would need to have demand so high that the rocket replacement rate was enough to keep your manufacturing at a break-even point. Starlink was SpaceX's answer to its problem, but it would be foolish to believe that Starlink can compete head to head with fiber or even cable. It's a minor product destined to hit a wall; 80% of the world's population lives in urban areas where Starlink just can't compete on speed. You'd need a hundreds to even thousands of satellites visible at all times over every city just to offer service comparable to shitty cable, and not even close to fiber.

11k Starlink satellites currently in orbit, if each was the "future" V3 satellite it could support maybe 2k customers at decent bandwidth... That's 22 million customers worldwide. More if you're fine paying 2026 prices for 2005 speeds. Comcast has more than that in the USA.

n/t

Their launch costs might be great, but there just isn't any demand. Without the starlink launches, the business would not be able to sustain itself. Reusable rockets is a catch-22 because the demand isn't high enough to keep a fleet of rockets with a replacement rate that makes maintaining the complexmanufacturing pipeline viable.

So without starlink, spacex is a dead end. And without spacex, starlink is a dead end. It's a very circular dependency, and they aren't profitable. Starlink will plateau in users - they can never hope to compete with fiber. Most of the world's population lives in cities, not rural areas. The satellite density needed to be a true cellular network is prohibitive. How many satellites would have to be over New York City to provide competitive service?

Paid for by CedarDB?

This was exactly my thought. They want to turn off the money incinerators to juice their numbers and get that sweet IPO money.

Why not a screen or cover for your license plate that activates and obscures it when within a certain distance of any known Flock camera. Make it appear as to be something innocent, e.g. mud, so it looks like an accidentally obscured tag.

Talking about that game, which I played at a friend's house when it was released, right after the 60th anniversary, is a great way to make me feel old AF.

Incorrect. Anyone past my current decade is old. Anyone younger than my decade is just a kid.

Oh someone should definitely name a model Dalek.

If we're open to reducing it to one annoying icon, how about none.