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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by overfeed on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:17PM (#47430222)
In all fairness, it was a qualified statement: "readily available alternatives". That immediately disqualifies customers stuck in the boonies, or a few hundred feet away from service coverage.
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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by Wyverald on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:17PM (#47430892)
Just noting that the phrasing "readily available alternatives" by itself is slightly ambiguous: it could be read as subsetting ("the alternatives that are readily available") or just attributive ("the alternatives, which are readily available").
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Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? by mattmaroon on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:11PM (#47430818)
He has readily available alternatives, but they suck.

There are other, far worse forms of satellite Internet, so everybody has a readily available alternative. That makes it not a qualifying statement at all.

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