They trained on reddit too hard. Everything is "Talk to a therapist, lawyer up, consult with your medical doctor". It's just used for deflection after someone gives (usually bad) advice.
Complaining that people giving bad advice are encouraging you to talk to a specialist? Wouldn’t it be worse if they encouraged you to listen to them and not ask a specialist?
I don’t see any other options: by definition non-specialists can’t give specialist advice. Specialists aren’t obliged to give free advice, don’t know your situation, and won’t want to prove their qualifications to comment on Reddit. Restricting free speech so nobody can talk outside their knowledge is rife with problems.
Yes- if they were using it for drone attacks and the service stopped/slowed, that was not Starlink, because it never would have happened in the first place.
Can we narrow down asking for a link to be some sort of legitimate news? These are links to forum posts linking to bluesky posts of "political commentators" that are factually incorrect.
Starlink != Starshield. Musk does not own Starshield. SpaceX does not own it. It's like blaming a flight route cancellation on Boeing.
> Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again? As your European customers, we are watching you. -- Radosław Sikorski, Wicepremier, Minister Spraw Zagranicznych (2:37 AM · Oct 14, 2026, 1.8M Views)
(Radosław Tomasz "Radek" Sikorski is a Polish politician, journalist and statesman who is the longest-serving Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2023, previously holding the office between 2007 and 2014, since 2025 also serving as Deputy Prime Minister)
Goal posts moving at the speed of light. Axios and Bloomberg are only not legitimate when you’ve already made up your mind.
As your comment said:
> Can we narrow down asking for a link to be some sort of legitimate news? These are links to forum posts linking to bluesky posts of "political commentators" that are factually incorrect.
Please prove this is “known misinformation” with citations. If you cannot, simply say you cannot.
Haha you really just can't win as a builder. Half the people despise him for doing anything for money, and the other half hate him because he cares for politics over money.
He was left wing cause that sweet tax credit for alternate energy... does anyone remember A123 and the amount the Obama administration put into it. Literally, Solar City and Tesla were to hit the sweet sweeet rebates. You can see the effects by companies like Ford canceling the F150 lighting cause the consumer breaks are gone, he was pillaging California and other Federal rebates to build his businesses, then does SpaceX to suck funds from the DoD to launch NRO sattelites. His affiliations go where the money gun blows.
Wow that's a wild world view to have. Not sure how it holds up to reality when all the engineers are completely free to do whatever they want, but his companies are massively more successful than any others. Even with the previous World's Richest Man Bezos trying to poach everyone he has and copying/funding pretty much all the same ideas. Dare I ask which multi-trillion dollar companies you've been able to steal?
“It’ll never work” -> “someone else can do it but not him” -> “if he does do it, it’ll bankrupt him” -> “well he did it late” -> “it wasn’t actually him” (we are here now) -> “fine but i still don’t like him”
The [flagged][dead] who replied to your earlier comment is an example of someone who reached the final, terminal stage.
Lots of quotes from Ukrainians about what they are accusing SpaceX of, and even misleading titles "NO WARNING BEFORE STARLINK CUTS", but the actual meat of it is pretty hidden.
Starlink never allowed use for offensive drone attacks, Starshield is what they were using, and it is a product fully controlled by the USG.
Yeah I've never seen this despite buying from amazon multiple times a month if not week. I assume they're living somewhere with weird regulations or something.
10 years ago the talk of hackers partitioning the internet to double spend BTC all seemed a bit far fetched. But now crypto has trillions in market cap and governments involved -- governments that sometimes cut network cables just to send a message. The "means" and "motive" exploded by 100x, did anyone find a way to close the "opportunity" or did people just stop talking about it lol?
No, you just have to give Elon a call and ask him politely to disable Starlink on your side of the partition. If he refuses, mention the size of your antisatellite arsenal. He won't, though, because he has already had this conversation and made this calculation and chosen to capitulate several times before.
It might be difficult for you or I to profit from double spend, but remember, the threat profile is entire countries, and if any of the heavy-hitters wanted to kill BTC the logistics of conducting a big gnarly double-spend would barely register on their existing cyber budgets.
Back in the day, these scenarios were fanciful because crypto was small-league and the viable threats were big-league. Since then, crypto made it to the big leagues, but I don't think it ever became capable of handling big-league threats. At some point it will have to reckon with that.
There are multiple satellite ISP companies and there are even Blockstream satellites that are fully dedicated to broadcasting Bitcoin blocks.
I'm not sure you really understand what a double spend is. It's not actually a big deal in the real world. An attacker capable of double spending is simply capable of reversing blocks, therefore reversing transactions.
So, for example, an attacker could buy a house with BTC, and then when the papers are signed, reverse the transaction to get their BTC back. But in the real world, the victim would just go to the police and get their house back.
The only plausible "big league" threat would be a government investing billions in ASICs to perform a 51% attack and grind the network to a halt. But the Bitcoin community would probably quickly move to a new Proof of Work algorithm and render their ASICs worthless.
I think offline work is increasingly impossible these days, or at least so hindered that there's no reason to optimize for it (especially with how reliable internet access is). Imagine working at Anthropic and not having access to Claude. Google has been online-only for a long time now.
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