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SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant (arstechnica.com)
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SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant::FCC doubts ability to provide high-speed, low-latency service in all grant areas.

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[+] -57 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The level of ignorance from you musk haters is hilarious. Starlink has done 100xs more for rural areas than the nearly trillion we gave to the telecoms. Yea musk is a dick but you're ignorant as fuck if you think starlink is a scam.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There were a dozen companies that applied for the grant. Musk won by over promising.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not just that, he used star link to manage international relations by suddenly stopping service for Ukraine.

    He's a "free speech abolitionist" and egotistical megalomaniac that's willing lie about deliverables and take illegal actions because there's been no punishment.

    Here's punishment.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you are expanding the deep state to include regulatory bodies, you are just talking about the state.

    Can you provide an instance of the state ever hiding the fact that they regulate businesses, or did you just find out that was one of their powers?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago*

    Well he never won in the first place. This is the original final decision of him losing in the first place. What was "won" previously was SpaceX getting short listed as one of the companies to be seriously considered for award. Then followed the actual final full decision checks and SpaceX failed to meet criterion for the subsidy.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it's not a scam, then they don't need that money.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have you tried gaming on satellite internet?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yea starlink isn't geo sat. It's Leo and has ping around 20-30ms, basically the same as cable. If you're trying to compare starlink to sat internet of the past, like vianet then you're confused, as they're completely different.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you personally have starlink and experience those ping levels? Reports from people online claim higher ping times.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Yes, I did, but now have a wired connection through my coop electric company. I don't know where your getting that ping is higher, go look at the /r/starlink subreddit, tons of people post their speeds there.

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  • [+] -15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People will keep down voting you, but I just wanted to stop in and let you know that there are other people like you who can read.

    People on Lemmy are leftist AF and their seething hate for Musk clouds their ability to think.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yea I know, literally SpaceX has helped NASA out a ton and do a lot of ground breaking work, but because musk is involved, they want all of his shit to fail

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It is genuinely concerning the mentality round here, anything with musk must be bad and no one wants to even consider the possibility it's not. That's certainly not the only subject like that either, people are very clearly basing options on what suits their personal beliefs rather than what is baked up by fact.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well you know we get that mentality by observing what he does, listening to what he says, seeing who he keeps company with, and paying attention to the demeanor of the people under him. It's not very complicated.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    but you don't pay attention to the actual impacts the companies have. SpaceX gets bashed a lot which is hilarious. There is no argument that SpaceX is bad. Like what, ULA was better? Throwing boosters in the ocean and charging $500 million+ per flight? SpaceX is objectively an amazing achievement that we should all be proud of.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yep, waiting for all the bashing of AWS since bezo runs Amazon...the level of hate companies get that are tied to musk in anyway is insane. Musk is a mouth piece and a shit one at that but musk isn't making these companies and doing the work, hundreds of thousands of people are.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    And yet HE gets all the money and glory for doing nothing but acting like an asshole.

    What should happen is that he be removed from all of these compenies and replaced with a competent leader...and no, Musk is NOT a competent leader.

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