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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by rpeden on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:31AM (#33705540)
I get the impression that some government contracts are used as stealth subsidies. And SpaceX, Tesla, and Starlink have benefited from plenty of actual subsidies, too.

To be clear, I'm not implying that's a bad thing. These companies seem like an example of subsidies working as intended, i.e. driving innovation.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by kortilla on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:11PM (#33710768)
Can you give specific examples? Diluting the meaning down to “the government is also one of this company’s customers” just makes it meaningless. That will cover nearly every large company.
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