echo64

echo64 , 5 months ago

Terrible headline.

He (rightly) sees the commercial aspect of space technology to be a deadend, but nasa is spending a huge amount of time and effort working towards enabling it in favour of doing nasa things.

Instead of saying we should go to the moon because it is there, we're saying go to the moon to try to generate new revenue streams for the private space industry that really can't survive without our contracts because of there being no real market or industry to build from.

echo64 , 5 months ago

The tos applies to their service, that is, they have a cloud service, and you have to abide the tos to use it. It doesn't factor into hardware or software specifically but their hardware and software might not work without the service

echo64 , 5 months ago

This seems a bit revisionist. Everyone had an amount of smses per month that were free in their contract.

People switched to whatsapp because it was better than sms.

echo64 , 5 months ago

its good to be clear that we are talking about a time period when people migrated to whatapp, and the reasoning for migrating to whatsapp. and how the 'text for free' thing wasn't a big motivator, (nor was it a new idea)

echo64 , 8 months ago

Sub currently has an ad for the new Mario game on it. I don't think it's moderated