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by mardifoufs
891 days ago
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That's a completely arbitrary definition though. If it's only innovation when it's useful, most inventions wouldn't be innovative when they were discovered or created. Going by your definition, mRNA vaccines weren't innovative until they were used in COVID vaccines, even though they have been worked on for years before. Also, I don't want to debate the specifics of starlink or spacex, but starlink isn't really that much more expensive at all compared to average internet pricing here in Canada outside of the big 3 cities. Also, if SpaceX isn't useful for anyone, who is filling and buying all those launches (outside of starlink)? Are the satellite operators that use SpaceX also useless? |
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Unfortunately cancer and viruses will always be with us. The secular trend of people moving to cities will not reverse, that's because of technical realities such as industrial and transportation economies of scale, critical mass of intellectual power and problem solving, logistics in food processing and distribution etc.
People live in cities for convenience and go to the wilderness for re-creation.
> > but starlink isn't really that much more expensive at all compared to average internet
Because it's subsidised by the military AKA tax dollars and VCs AKA future pension dollars of pensioneers and policyholders who are forced at gunpoint to part with some of their wages because government think they are too stupid to administrate their funds on their own.