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echo64 , to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

Shockingly, you don’t need to dig. And handwaving away the cost, including the environmental cost of infinite rocket launches forever because “oh magical technology will save us some day” does not help your case.

echo64 , to pcgaming in In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

Yes, it’s all massive profiting, driving the cost of everything up, or putting less money into the hands of the people who make the thing you like.

When I really love a game, it bothers me that valve, or apple, or Google, or Sony, take 1/3rd of the money. They don’t deserve it.

echo64 , to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

You might have a point if launching rockets was cheaper, but launching infinite rockets forever is not cheaper. The rockets fall out of the sky. So we’re talking about one upfront cost or a cost forever.

echo64 , to pcgaming in In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

What’s the efficiency in taking 30% of almost all game sales on a platform? I know we all love valve, but the efficiency here is having a store that everyone has to use if they want to make sales at all.

echo64 , to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

The alternative is not “higher orbit satellites”, it’s “put wires on the earth”.

Firing infinite rockets that fall out of the sky in a year is a bad, wasteful option that only exists because the American government is not under enough pressure to fix its infrastructure problems.

the rest of the world, even the big countries with lots of remote citizens, they used wires not infinite rockets.

echo64 , to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

They got subsidies and were recently denied some. Don’t pretend they never got any thank you.

echo64 , to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

It is quite literally how it works.

In addition, Starlink is not a good solution. It requires an infinite amount of rockets sent into low earth orbit forever, at a heavy subsidised cost paid for by American taxpayers.

You should be pushing for long-term solutions, not ones that literally fall out of the sky six months after the subsidies stop.

echo64 , to world in House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App

It’s funny that the only app being banned, is the app that young people used to have a dramatic effect on American politics recently, first by blocking the red wave, then by tanking democratic polling thanks to their support for genocide.

It’s funny that Twitter or Facebook, which is absolutely full of outside influence on America, isn’t banned. The Russian and Chinese bot networks can live forever there, that’s fine.

echo64 , to world in House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App

They aren’t banning a thing, they are banning a kind of a thing.

If they were banning social media you may have a point, they aren’t.

echo64 , to games in Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard'

Star citizen exploits its userbase with a never-ending drip feed of bite-sized consumables, just as long as you keep feeding the machine.

This is not some poor little indie dev. They have taken over 600 million from they’re users, and have nothing finished to show for it. I treat them with the same distain that I do companies that trive on lootboxes and live services, as they all work from the same base template. At least the live service people made a game before squeezing every penny out of people.

echo64 , to world in House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App

Sir, this is a discussion platform. People leave text to have a discussion.

if you don’t want to, that’s okay. You don’t have to continue. Just don’t reply, you don’t need to leave a message like that, that’s just weird

echo64 , to world in House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App

Just at the cost of setting up the American version of china’s firewall, right?

It’s going to be weird for the rest of the world to have access to tiktok, but just America bans their citizens from accessing it. America really just isn’t so far from what it hates.

It’s also strange to see people championing a path towards this, it’s all good until they decide to ban the thing you don’t hate though right?

echo64 , to world in House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App

I would argue that this is the opposite order. You want to take care of the people who actually hold power over you now, China has no power over you.

Look at what the eu has done. First control and regulate the local companies.

echo64 , to technology in Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change

There are so, so many shitty things about Apple’s implementation here, but this isn’t one. I believe the EU should blast Apple as hard as legally possible for the rest of their implementation which is intentionally terrible.)

echo64 , to technology in Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change

What’s your logic here for this not being terrible?

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