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That'd be cool. But bringing limited network access to certain sites, such as Facebook, is less cool.



wikipedia is a supoorted website. thats really cool


> supported website

Think about how terrible that is.


Is it better or worse than simply:

  NO CARRIER
I argue it's better.


People aren't even considering that once it becomes a solved problem, the next company that wants to do it gets the knowledge for free. Figuring out the engineering also has value.

Other uses for autonomous solar airplanes? Delivering medicine and supplies to remote areas?


> Other uses for autonomous solar airplanes? Delivering medicine and supplies to remote areas?

Or even, say in five to ten years when the cost of the technology drops, delivering unrestricted, high speed internet to hundreds of millions of people.


>Think about how terrible that is.

In theory, absolutely.

In practice, too much of the useful web is concentrated in a small number of fiefdoms. And that is ultimately our fault, not theirs.




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