Do you think that Slashdot is made up solely of programmers and developers? It is not.

There are people here who are scientists, physicists, Engineers, I believe some NucE's as well, and may or may not be highly placed. My present position involves electromagnetic issues - RF from 100 MHz to 6 GHz mainly. but can be anywhere from DC to Daylight as we say.

As I noted, I'm not a VP in name, only that is the closest type position I can associate with what I do.

The advisement I give and counsel I give is on mitigating RF interference, very broadly stated. And since the process looks like black magic to normal people, what I say generally goes. That pattern weaving and mirroring I noted in my previous reply is why I can speak to the CEO's on their level, the Engineers on their level, and interact with all levels on the food chain.

And that is about as much as I can tell you.

That's pretty cool, mind sharing what it does? Don't worry, I have an iPhone and won't be bugging you for a copy. And probably won't repeatedly harass you about porting it.

Looks to me like an opinion founded on a bad experience with the product.

Back in 2013, ages and ages ago, Facebook purchased parse.com, a backend as a service platform that had tens of thousands of projects and apps running on it. It was very similar to Google Firebase product or what is now AWS. As soon as Mark Zuckerberg lost interest, they open sourced it and shuttered all the servers and infrastructure that was running it. Massive headaches for two companies I worked with back then.
 
Anyone who uses any product from Meta is a fool, because they have no oversight to keep the project running other than the whims of one lizard person.

You will not find any positive feedback to making historical claims here on /.! If you do not sufficiently give obedience to the socialist totalitarian worldview here, repeating the anti Trump incantations and accepting the holy shibboleths, you will be downloaded into oblivion for saying even the most obvious things.

Explain for the folks at home exactly why I would do such a thing. Your debate technique has a non zero chance of not being very good.

It is extremely clear that you do not want to deal with anything I wrote. Discombobulated or not.

Elucidate on your specific claims, where I said you said something you did not say, or is it perhaps that you are demanding to control the conversation by claiming the other person is discombobulated, lying about what you said or does not make sense.

Here's your challenge, If you care to reply. As teacher says, make your claims, and show your work.

Show exactly where I made up things that you supposedly said that you did not say.

Necromancy, or something.

That's one condition that can cause you to have "left the workforce". Another is that you were terminated without unemployment and haven't resumed work after a certain amount of time. Many people who lose their jobs do not qualify for unemployment at all.

... as in: If you get in bed with them, you'll get screwed.

You really have to be a special kind of dumb to buy anything from Facebook. What did you expect? Their entire business model is selling YOU.

This simply means that people with cancer are less active than healthy people because they get tired quickly or are in serious pain - both of which I can confirm.

Unless the Internet is lying to me, Leo orbits around 600km and Starlink around 350-600km. So it doesn't appear that will make a lot of difference.

Most of the latency in my Starlink connection is because the signal comes down in the US and has to route back from there to Canada if I ping my office from home instead of going direct through a cable. So I wouldn't expect to see much difference if I was using Leo instead.

Non-sequitor. GP was specifically talking about going beyond LEO with a two stage rocket and at a low cost. So you came in and put the cart before the horse.

Actually I take back a prior comment I stated about you -- I doubt you understand any engineering at all. If you had, you'd be capable of mentally compartmentalizing problems into their respective domains.

As for why it didn't work in this particular case, I have no idea. I imagine they did the math and determined that it would work, but it obviously didn't. That's why you gather telemetry and iterate on your design. As far as I know, this was their first attempt.

Somewhere in that void you call a head, you concluded that if at first you don't succeed, then it's obviously impossible. This is probably why you never made it anywhere in life, and rather than fixing yourself, you sit here and complain about those who did.

And when did either of these places take away a yacht?

By the way, do you know why Francois Hollande end up lobbying against his own tax hike that was a key part of his campaign platform and promise?

Regardless, if you think the grass is greener, feel free to move there. I tell everybody this -- it doesn't matter where you live -- if you're unhappy there, then why would you stay?

If you already are in your preferred place, then...what are you complaining about?

You guys keep saying that it will work with democracy, but we've already observed exactly how that pans out: After the masses start to realize that this isn't such a hot idea after all, they vote you out. What happens from there depends.

In the case of Croatia, you guys just overthrow democracy under the reasoning (as argued by Karl Marx) this is all inevitable anyways, and you may as well get the red tape out of the way of progress.

In the case of Hungary, the tankies roll in from across the border, and those who still live under democracy and benefit from it cheer them on because they haven't yet had to live under the system they so desire.

The fact is, collectivism, in all of its forms, is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. Collectivism is about surviving. Individualism is about thriving. A case can be made for the former in times of war or famine where the main objective of the day is to live another day. But outside of that, it's not living.

You'll find nothing of value in his head, nor anything to drink. Your brain is the only one made of brown matter.