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Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich (open.substack.com)

submitted 11 months ago by 4realz@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] n3m37h@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Starlink is trash too, come at me Elon

[–] themelm@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Starlink is shitty and yet where I'm at its still easily the cheapest, fastest, and most reliable option. Infuriating really.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, if he spent the money on laying fibre instead of using satilites that need to be replaced every at most 18 months and as little as 2 months, everyone would have been better off.

[–] themelm@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah and if my province hadn't sold of their public telephone company to private investors I'd be even more better off so I'm more pissed about that.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but he only has the one digger, so the fiber would all end up in hyperloop-sized tunnels, it'd be like the Underminer from the Incredibles.

[–] velxundussa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see that being said quite often.

Is there any actual proof of this or is it speculation?

In low density population areas, it seems to me that laying fiber would be cost prohibitive, but I'd like to be proven wrong.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Each satellite is worth 250k @ 5,500 units currently (and its still garbage unless its your only option). And this is just the cost of satilites

Worse case scenario for laying fibre is $80,000 for 1 mile

You do the shit maths and that is 17,187.5 miles (not km) of fibre for what is currently in LEO and excluding the price of launching these POS into the nights sky. So for best case senario every 18 months that is how much fibre lines Elon could be laying.

From Presque Isles, Maine to Sandiego, California is 3,305 miles