The sources are just people who know saying it, like me. The designers wouldn't publicly admit it or anything.
Cell phone range is impacted by ground obstruction, the curvature of the earth itself getting in the way, atmospheric effects
The closest satellites are about 160km up, where a 3G transmitter can reach when it's looking straight up with no Earth and less air in the way
The companies that designed the 3G standard and manufactured some of the phones also do military contracts for stuff like the radios in spy satellites, they knew what they were doing
It also stands out as intentional because making the range go beyond the curvature of the earth is just crippling infrastructure, wasting battery and putting millions of people in danger (can't call 911 with a dead phone)
Lower-power devices with mesh networking would have made more sense with the powerful processors and high usage phones were getting by the middle of the 3G era, but the "cellular" design is much more convenient to monitor
The authorities are trying to crack down on user freedom to decide what software we can run on our own systems, especially on mobile devices. Later in the road map, this project should be trying to replace app stores. A large portion of GitHub users today are just downloading Android APK files, but that demographic will probably be an even higher percentage here. So the CLI will probably end up being for the power users, not most users.
If mainstream users are given an easy way to download before they're given an easy way to seed, they'd make it hard for the network to distribute the load. So it seems important to start out beating Radicle's desktop app with easier seeding, not let that be a weak point. This is also why I didn't mention future mobile app plans sooner (desktop is inherently better for seeding)
There should be no built-in wallet functionality, just a built-in profile data field to enter wallet address links. A lot of Monero dev bounties call for the wallets to be built-in for ease of use, but I wanted to have that internal complexity avoided here by linking to external wallets.
It's definitely designed to be able to send signals to satellites, and there are satellites designed to pick up signals from devices that aren't designed to reach them.
But, they can also just see where your car is going visually, and get any audio/video from inside with your phone that connects directly to cell towers, so you might be right that no satellite is actually ever spying on your car's 3G modem.
Sure, in the prime timeline. But in the pocket universe alternate timeline where time travelers went and executed the perpetrators, I'd say the instructors' concerns were addressed
It could be an OK idea that just wasn't explained right. Maybe he just wants regen braking but with one wheel for charging and the other wheel + separate battery for power at any given time. Energy would come from pedalling and hills. None of that was explained though
You can power lights or a phone charger with a dynamo connected to the wheel and minimally noticeable drag/resistance. You can recharge a drivetrain with regenerative braking which requires high end motors to use the motor like a dynamo
It's not free energy, but there's at least one bike called the Pi-Pop that works this way in order to spread the energy demand from hills across more distance for the rider. It's an electric bike you can't plug in, it only charges from moving
Cars are all spyware now but if you choose a bike to avoid that, the spyware in the cars will not be used to blame the person who kills you instead of blaming you for riding a bike
There is a tiny number of cars available (mainly certain years of Nissan Leaf afaik) from right when batteries were getting kinda good but this stuff wasn't all added yet
Top ranked for the people inside the cars. Not so safe for the people mining the material to replace cars that get totaled, etc. but most people don't give enough of a fuck to count anyone but the occupants of the car
The sources are just people who know saying it, like me. The designers wouldn't publicly admit it or anything.
Cell phone range is impacted by ground obstruction, the curvature of the earth itself getting in the way, atmospheric effects
The closest satellites are about 160km up, where a 3G transmitter can reach when it's looking straight up with no Earth and less air in the way
The companies that designed the 3G standard and manufactured some of the phones also do military contracts for stuff like the radios in spy satellites, they knew what they were doing
It also stands out as intentional because making the range go beyond the curvature of the earth is just crippling infrastructure, wasting battery and putting millions of people in danger (can't call 911 with a dead phone)
Lower-power devices with mesh networking would have made more sense with the powerful processors and high usage phones were getting by the middle of the 3G era, but the "cellular" design is much more convenient to monitor