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Comment Re:100M is enough (Score 1) 99

Honestly, if you want to live in the mountains in bum fuck no where, you can't expect society to provide you a fiber connection. We don't even provide those people with sewer connections for precisely the same reason.

Well, no. The two things are very different. Data leaves down the same "pipe" it came through, while sewage systems and water supply systems are both separate (you hope) and VERY DIFFERENT. They have almost completely different considerations in every department. Also, if you live in the sticks, there's no real drawback to not having a sewer connection.

Comment uh (Score 1) 99

At present, it is impossible to predict long-term technological developments and the evolution of consumer preferences.

Yes, they might prefer slower internet!

This guy has passed right by needing to determine whether people would like fire which can be fitted nasally and on to deserving to have it fitted rectally.

Comment Re: Standing on the shoulders of giants (Score 1) 102

(remember the "90% of the brain is not used" pre-fMRI myth?)

Yes, but only in the same way as I remember there was a global cooling scare supported by a tiny minority of scientists but in fact perpetrated by media — which has always been sensationalist. The actual scientific statement was that most of the brain is not active at any given time. We found out that more of it is doing something more of the time, but some areas remain way more active than others so there's still a kernel of truth to that idea — the same as it ever was.

Comment Re:Space telescopes will soon be much cheaper (Score 1) 29

That's just Musk hype, i.e. hopelessly optimistic drug-induced rambling.

I'm sure when they finally get it to work, Starship will be cheaper than other options. It won't be as cheap as he claims though, not by a long shot. There will probably be cheaper options too - Musk often claims he is going to make the cheapest product, but fails and others do even better than he was hoping to. Cars, solar, batteries, tunnels, robots.

Comment Re: Not necessarily a bad thing (Score 1) 206

Some of us don't want to hear a lot of bullshit.

Suggesting for example that I should have to constantly hear from the religious about what they think their magic sky daddy wants from me today is frankly absolute shit. Those people do not deserve attention. They should be ignored. No one should have to accept their harassment.

The idea that I should want to be subjected to that kind of emotional abuse is childish at best and comes from a needy place of having to have everyone be forced to listen to YOU.

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