It’s truly sad that one of the most horrific conditions out there has so little sympathy and research. I understand why but it seems like this cartoon band-aid and strict defensive enforcement is as far as we’ll get with this issue for the foreseeable future.

facts

Satellite constellations could cut that down by 33%

Ok this is pure marketing bullshit. Source? The physics simply doesn’t check out.

Yes but aren’t people entitled to revenue of the brand they build? And I dont mean Nike here but something like a band selling their t shirts etc. The copying in chinese manufacturing is going too far to the point where it’s a net negative on our society and I say this as someone who’s generally anti copyright.

Making new tech innovation is such a gamble these days - you only have a few months to make back money you spent on your initial design because manufacturers just overpower you eventually unless you make it not worth it for them through explicit brand protection strategies. It’s such a waste of everyone’s resources and stiffles human effort overall.

That being said i think the most realistic answer here is in house manufacturing which is becoming more and more acessible but still a long road to go, especially in more complex niches like electronics. You either ship a competitively priced product and hope you make your effort back in a few months or build in house for 3x the market price and even then get only a bit more than those few months. It’s not a healthy, just environment no matter how you look at it.

No I dont think that’s true statistically speaking. My cousin works in brand protection and IP theft of contemporary creators is by far the majority. I’m generally a free software and anti copyright but manufacturing theft is really pushing me in favor of copyright here. Most of it is so incredibly blatant and bad faith - it’s not a good thing unless it’s actually a practical device like medicine or something.

Yeah but someone has to design the thing

They do own the IP though and I dont know how we feel about physical product IP rights? Those are kinda useful.

I can imagine some use cases for faster ping between two low orbit satellites could be important but my imagination begins and ends at rocket guidance. I don’t see that ever being useful for 99.9% of networking. The signal has to go down to earth receiver at some point and atmosphere and dish overhead will always lose to a cable.

It’s a boring answer - but cable will remain undefeated until some magic breakthrough in physics comes along. It’s simply just that good.

and what’s in those few kilometers? not atmosphere? Sure the signal travels a bit faster between satellites themselves but this is not relevant in modern networking. Almost everything is cached on edge in your regional server these days so only “the last mile” is what matters for latency. Even if you ignore all this the math would still favor cable every time - 66% reliable speed of light will always beat “potential 100% speed of light sometimes for some part of the distance”

yes, where else it would be?

Source? that’s obviously not true

done, bye loser

Are you implying there’s a large amount of people not connected by roads? How many you think?

Lmao rage more you fuckong weirdo. Straight to the block list. Bye.

How many people is that? Maybe a million in the entire world? Less? I dont think internet is on their mind that much tbh

I genuinely don’t understand you. Ok so they go underground next to a road - then what? They freeze and explode? Or do you imply we can’t afford to dig ditches but can afford to fire rockets?

Cables dont freeze lol

It’s significantly cheaper still. Cable is dirt cheap, technology of laying cable is mature and we already have roads developed to piggy back off infra off. Now think about satellites that only live a few years and are incredibly expensive and immature.

Basic all rural areas have fiber/cell towers in Asia. Depends how you measure it but like 90% of populated Asia is connected and most of these stats are only being held back by Russia too.

they’re not getting cable.

why not?