Mike Hellers
@mikehellers
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From Luxembourg, living in London, working at an Internet Exchange. Views are mine. @mikehellers.bsky.social
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Joined August 2007
Now that we know that the mass of each Kuiper sat is ~571 kg (just so happens to have a similar mass to Starlink v2 mini-optimize), we can compare launch costs. Back-of-napkin launch costs: โข Starlink per sat deploy: $536K (ish) โข Kuiper per sat deploy: $2.4M (ish) Calcs ๐
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Seems very fitting to post this, based on Labour announcing their plans to invest 20 billion into Carbon Capture and Storage.
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Oops, we did it again ๐ค Three years ago, we shook up the networking space with the release of a freely available SR Linux container image. This was a catalyst for many great community projects, such as Containerlab, gNMIc, and many others. Today, we are announcing the
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Birmingham to Brighton ๐ซต๐ฝ๐๐ซฑ๐ปโ๐ซฒ๐พ Racism and pure hatred of Muslims is getting put back in the bin. Tommy the tit is going to jail for a long time and your nan is getting Samosas this weekend. We will figure out the issues. Thatโs our job as a society. A community. This is
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For days, I've wondered why the PM was so slow to call in the army to deal with these riots. Today, I've come to understand why; he knows what the far right is attempting to do. ๐งต
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Forget riots - why not compete in the The EDL-ympics! ๐พ๐ฅ๐ A safe space to express your misdirected hatred ๐
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It occurred to me earlier that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will open the next Summer Olympics. Choose wisely America.
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๐จWe just dropped in on Farageโs election rally with a beaming picture of Putin. Nigel was not pleased.
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Please don't suffer in silence. There is ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐๐ somebody that will listen.
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At a height of roughly 55m, Old Trafford Falls stands as Englandโs 4th tallest waterfall behind only Cauldron Snout (60m), Canonteign Falls (70m) and Cautley Spout (76m)
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Daily Express poll It will be a massive shame if you voted on this poll and shared it around "Should the UK pull out of the ECHR if Rwanda migrant plan is stopped?" As before you do not need to fill in any of your personal details, just 'next' & 'submit' click to continue
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Today we announced that we have been the subject of a complex cyber-attack, and our systems were accessed by hostile actors.
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Today seems to be a good day to finish this printโฆguess what it isโฆ
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The Official List Of Woke Things. As told by Colin from Portsmouth.
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AI created an alternate timeline where historical figures were not only aware of smartphones and Twitter but they were obsessed with them. Here are 11 incredible Viral Selfies of our History that you won't believe existed: 1. Freddie Mercury
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The Tories are saying the majority want to bring back the 'Death penalty!' OK let's put it to the test. Please retweet after voting for a broader range of people. Thank you. Simple question, 'Death Penalty' or 'Life Sentence' for murder? 5 day poll!
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