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Re:Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA... by lazide on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @08:47AM (#44887794)
It’s the definition of ‘too big to fail’, and it’s been a viable and effective strategy… for ever? Near as I can tell. He’ll, the Fed even got created because of the time the whole US economy cratered in the early 20th century and one man was the one whole bailed out the whole country.
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Re:Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA... by rickdeckard on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @12:28PM (#44890559)
'Too big to fail' is only said about companies that didn't collapse yet though.

Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom comes to mind. Even Blockbuster could be on that list...

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Re:Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA... by lazide on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:32PM (#44891322)
The take away is they weren’t big enough to have enough leverage eh?
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Re:Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA... by rickdeckard on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:04PM (#44891749)
> The take away is they weren’t big enough to have enough leverage eh?

This reasoning has some parallels to "everything that can't be explained by science must be god". It stays valid even when proven wrong...

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Re:Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA... by lazide on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:25PM (#44892693)
Eh, if they died and everything didn’t actually break in a terrible unsolvable way, then….

It’s essentially a form of market extortion though, so perception of ‘survivable’ matters as much as actually survivable eh?

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