Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by CivBase on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:08AM (#27422101)

Are you suggesting $1.8M for expansion of Starlink to deliver broadband to rural America is not a net win? As someone in the midwest US, Starlink is the first realistic opportunity for many people I know to access broadband internet. My mother-in-law has had to teach from home all year using her cellphone as a hotspot because that's the best internet she could get no matter how much she payed.

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Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by nabla9 on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:18AM (#27422209)

I'm not suggesting.

People are engaged in heated normative[1] discussion with little or no facts. I am not. Even saying Tesla is a great example of a government project does not mean it's good or bad. Just a great example.

I just wanted to add some facts to the discussion. Not enough, but some. I think it would be great to find out the total indirect and direct subsidies these companies receive, but I could not find it.

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1: Normativity is the phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good or desirable or permissible and others as bad or undesirable or impermissible.

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Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by CivBase on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:56AM (#27422643)

I appreciate the information. I did not have an opinion on the matter until you provided context that the subsidies were specifically for StarLink.

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Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by atatatat on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:02AM (#27422698)

We already paid companies to roll out copper to your area in the 90s, and they just didn't do it.

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Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by CivBase on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:31PM (#27424495)

StarLink has already rolled out.

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Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by atatatat on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:44AM (#27435837)

How are your speeds, horse?!

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