That’s a little different.

Items that can expire get marked down at some point during the day, but they aren’t changing the normal price of the item. If there’s 20 packs of chicken breasts on the shelf, 5 or 6 might get the sticker.

There’s no guarantee that the one you have would have even gotten a sticker, and if you’re savvy enough, you might have intentionally chosen the pack with the earliest most recent packed on date, or gone late enough to be after the mark down time near the end of the day (at least where I am)

They aren’t just going up and marking down the main price on everything, and its also always down, never up.

Haggling might be fine but they have to honor price tags.

If I’m in a grocery store and I see $1.00 they can’t change it and try to charge me $1.10, and when I object and say it was $1.00 it shows $1.10 now.

Should be against the law to change the price after the shop opens at something like a grocery store. Nobody should be able to shop anywhere where the price you pick it up at can change by the time you get to the checkout.

Edit: Maybe there could be some exception for mid day price changes if you emptied the entire store of customers first, but enforcing something like that seems difficult.

The coolant still needs to remain relatively cool to hold that silicon temperature, though. Practically it can’t be like 60C.

Ah, ya that makes sense, whatever the numbers the the chip can be the coolant will be less.

Ya, the economies of how much total space / material for the global network is similar, although lets say higher due to losses in efficiency in distributing it over so many dishes, but in terms of how big any individual radiator is and how much space each one is going to take, the smaller sizes make it easier to manage. Trying to figure out a 150-200m² solar panel radiator is a lot easier than trying to figure out a 1km²

The individual power of each satellite having to use a mesh network to train might not be fast enough, maybe they’ll still use land based ones for training, but no single person needs more compute than what a satellite can provide. So from the inference / customer computation side of things, it isn’t a problem.

edit: I meant radiator, not solar panel

edit: looks like blackwells can run sunstained at 88c, so that will help a bit more as well on size, the calculator now says 103m² instead of 127m^2

They aren’t making a datacenter like on earth. They’re putting up a ton of satellites that will each generate about 100kW.

Everyone keeps thinking they’re putting these massive things up there, they are not doing that.

Edit: Oh I missed your tool this time was a real calculator this time, thank you! That says 127 square meters, with black body, 70c and 1 (but no idea if those are good values)

For 100kW? I’m not going to try and figure things out from that massive site. A pre made calculator would have been nice if they had one.

edit: It is going to be LEO and likely connected to starlink with the same laser link they use.

Edit: Looking at orbits they might use sun synchronous orbits? It might not be in sun 100% of the time, but they are nearly always in sun.

Edit: I have no way to know if this is right, but a couple AI responses are saying for 100kW it would be ~150-170 square meters with temperatures around 70c

We already radiate heat away just fine in space, it’s just a matter of how much space do you need to use to do it and all the implications of what that would mean for any given satellite. I wouldn’t call it free, because you need the hardware to do it and the extra weight reduces the payload capacity of whatever you’re sending up, but we can do it.

Starlink also uses laser links to talk to each other which these satellites would also use. How they work can depend, but generally they bounce around in space until they can’t, and they might come back down to land, to move somewhere else over fiber to another ground station until they can go back up to reach you. But the more laser links the less they have to come down for technical reason, but they might still come down for bandwidth reason. I don’t really know how likely it is that any given connection is point to point.

Example of what could happen.

Your dish -> starlink -> starlink -> ground station -> Google -> ground station -> starlink -> ground station -> starlink -> groundstation -> starlink -> starlink -> your dish.

Fiber is still the better option on land if you can get it there, but there are a lot of places it’s never going to get laid, and will never be in the air, or on bodies of water.

Edit: Corrections on the laser links with an example.

This isn’t true for low orbit items. They will come down on their own in ~5 years.

At the absolute worst case scenario, we’d be blocked or ~5 years. Maybe 10 years if they put it a little higher.

Raditors. Starlink v3 can in theory already shed (edit 20) kW of heat. But they would need to figure out how to 5x that and keep things profitable.

Subpoena the ground stations if that was true?

the technology itself and mistrust of government are, at least partly, different things

I don’t personally think so when it comes to technologies like this that can be used to surveil and/or control a population (edit: and especially that are being heavily driven by governments)

It’s pretty much a given that it will be used against us as history has shown us its always the case.

Trying to separate them out, gives them the extra support they need to pass it through and then abuse it.

The basis is its how the world communicates and they become the gate keepers to communication and knowledge. Its like book banning on topics they don’t like but on a scale much more massive.

They’re already banning internet content from people that shouldn’t be about sexual health because its not about protecting kids its about controlling them and people.

You gotta be a good sheep and they’re going to do their best to make you one.

No, we still need to be against it. I said tracking and controlling, not just tracking.

They are already blocking resources that shouldn’t be blocked from youth, and even a privacy centric method would still let them do that, and then expand it to anything at a whim in the future.

We don’t want the internet built on this infrastructure, it would br a disaster.

Because its not about age verification, its about tracking and controlling you and making a privacy respecting solution isn’t compatible with that.