I use starlink, it works pretty well, as good as cable. Not garbage.
I've ridden in Teslas. Some likes, but holy shit that drivetrain. Not garbage.
You however, have been consuming garbage media. Hint: if every other day (ahem Gawker sites) there is an outrageous anti-Musk headline or "crazy thing Musk said" headline, your media source is total garbage.
Is he a "good guy"? No. Is he "the worse thing ever?" No. What does it matter what he says or does? Nothing. Yet he is living in seemingly millions of people's brains as the sum factor of dozens of PR and advertising campaigns, in addition to the general anti-intellectualism of America.
Anyway, Starlink is a transformative data provider service that blankets virtually the entire world in broadband class connectivity, including massive amounts of third world countries and other areas.
It is not HIS garbage. He is involved in numerous companies. Starlink is a product of SpaceX and that is full of thousands of great engineers. To be disinterested in SpaceX technology because of Musk is to be completely dismissive of the amazing accomplishments and effort of those thousands of great engineers. Would you like to have your work dismissed because the head of your company was a bizarre jerk? By any rational measure, SpaceX is NOT producing garbage tech.
I'm immensely interested in people commenting how they are disinterested in X thing.
Please go on! I'd love to know the motivation of posting, it makes no sense to me.
Seems to be a self-fulfilled prophecy.
I guess I just wish the HN timeline wasn't so full of his garbage.
I use starlink, it works pretty well, as good as cable. Not garbage.
I've ridden in Teslas. Some likes, but holy shit that drivetrain. Not garbage.
You however, have been consuming garbage media. Hint: if every other day (ahem Gawker sites) there is an outrageous anti-Musk headline or "crazy thing Musk said" headline, your media source is total garbage.
Is he a "good guy"? No. Is he "the worse thing ever?" No. What does it matter what he says or does? Nothing. Yet he is living in seemingly millions of people's brains as the sum factor of dozens of PR and advertising campaigns, in addition to the general anti-intellectualism of America.
Anyway, Starlink is a transformative data provider service that blankets virtually the entire world in broadband class connectivity, including massive amounts of third world countries and other areas.
Calling it garbage is dumb.
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Do you have a specific qualms with satellites providing internet to remote areas or EVs or space exploration or is it purely personal?
In other words, what makes it "garbage" to you?
If it's straight up due to Musk being involved, isn't that a negative outlook for the sake of being negative?
You could just view it as humans advancing and be happy about that.
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It is not HIS garbage. He is involved in numerous companies. Starlink is a product of SpaceX and that is full of thousands of great engineers. To be disinterested in SpaceX technology because of Musk is to be completely dismissive of the amazing accomplishments and effort of those thousands of great engineers. Would you like to have your work dismissed because the head of your company was a bizarre jerk? By any rational measure, SpaceX is NOT producing garbage tech.
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Hate the guy all you want, but how do you expect literal space internet to be uninteresting to a forum of self-proclaimed hackers?
It's the intersection of space lasers and the internet, how could we not talk about it.
I hate his politics too but this is talking about planetary space lasers.
I don't think you can separate his ventures from him.
That’s a good point but I try my best because I love the ventures but hate racists.