closedai.us redirects to https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everyth...

This is a clever piece of marketing by Vice!

They jumped the gun... April 1st is still 4 weeks away.

All the better for Vice to take advantage of it

I wonder if you'd see "bank runs" happen spontaneously as nervous fans see the number of available tickets start to drop, causing a spontaneous feedback loop.

That's not a bank run or a feedback loop, that's price discovery. Exactly the behavior you want.

Hmm, that actually seems quite likely to me.

Congratulations, you've found the market-clearing price.

Level's response: "No, no: our bar is lower than that."

I'm curious how much bandwidth these require. Antarctica has very, very little bandwidth.

Each simultaneous call costs you ~100Kbps. An SMS is 140 bytes, and limited by desired SMS throughput. I use a T-Mobile femtocell with a SpaceX Dishy, but VSAT (64 Kbps up to 8 Mbps) should be fine for SMS only.

https://explorersweb.com/starlink-in-antarctica/

McMurdo could run their own BTS and provide SMS access only to mobile phones if the desire and funding was available. This would give you a legit mobile network registration.

http://openbts.org/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/6/23389641/ukama-open-sourc...