Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo...
by Peanuts99 on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:34PM
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Are they actually worse than businesses though? The internet, jet engines.. in fact whole swaiths of technology have been created under governments not enterprises. This just feels like an economic concept people blindly accept.
Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo...
by digitaltrees on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:44PM
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Except that they aren’t. In fact they do most of the basic research that isn’t commercially viable that lays the groundwork for business to later commercialize. There would be no Waymo without the darpa self driving prizes. No uber without GPS. I could go on and on.
As a broad generality, governments are utter crap at inventing/building/operating bleeding-edge technologies at giga-scale. Exceptions are generally narrow-focus military hardware, plus flood control, aqueducts, and other "obviously needed for the nation's welfare" stuff.