Recent content by Johand

Ha - have you seen the average transaction cost for bitcoin transactions? Hint: it is not free and higher than 99.9% of merchant fees on transactions I perform... Credit cards have the "hidden fee" that the merchant must pay. Sure some of the banks give a portion of that back to you in the form...

Want to make it about politics when it is not. Everytime somebody can't think for themselves they blame it on the ANC because they are an easy target. This has nothing to do with politics. Fact is that Section 12J has been used to avoid tax on companies that did not need the incentive, and it...

Glad they closed it. It became a tax dodge scheme for the rich. I doubt it could have been salvaged in its current form - "closing loopholes" would probably have created all other kind of drama. Better shut it down by not renewing it and replace it with something better. Every single 12J...

Well - I meant to say once Vumatel got going most of the metropoles were covered quick-quick. As in all things - people tend to overestimate short term change and underestimate long term change. Progress in the first 2-3 years will seem slow and frustrating but after 5 to 8 years people look...

Maybe for the well off in the short-term, but distribution for electricity is a lot easier problem to solve than for example hydrogen and logistically it will be a lot easier than the infrastructure than what was build up for petrol (distribution networks already in place for electricity!) The...

I can't wait for electric cars to arrive. I am holding onto my current car until I can go electric... Range is not a real issue - just require planning. And BTW the batteries charge while going downhill. And regenerative breaking is awesome. The most surprising thing for me about tesla 's was...

Because hopefully they take the site down...

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A lot of people talk out of their behind when talking about Starlink being a fibre or LTE replacement. Don't take make word for it. Here is Elon himself :

Number of rockets put in orbit: Bezos: 0 Musk: More than 100. It is the only flex that matters.

Still trying to decode this. You can only get one FBE voucher per month per meter. Does this apply when multiple meters are installed?

Long term maybe. Current v1 satellites doesn't have laser links. Lots of logistics and technical hurdles and testing and maturing needed for laser links. So MAYBE, in the FAR FUTURE. Probably only in 5 years at earliest as current Starlink satellites are replaced. Nope. Speed of light in...

I love both projects and both projects push humanity forward. Hopefully, the impact can be mitigated enough so that it is not a real problem (but a compromise will degrade both SKA and Starlink service. ) Super long term it would be great to have a square kilometer array in outer space...

Yes. Until satellite laser-to-laser comes into effect international latency will be MORE than we currently have on fibre. If however they perfect the laser links AND route long-distance that way (without hopping onto closest ground station) then there might be latency improvements. But this...

Well the problem is it would be changing all the time :-) So Starlink bounces you to the closest ground station and then it is fibre the rest of the way (currently). With more ground stations and in future laser satellite to satellite things will change a lot. The TLDR however is that old space...