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Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

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Re: Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

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Its not bonkers if you have a ruthless win at all costs strategy. You dont become the richest man in the world by being nice.

Ergo being not nice is necessary to success. What a wonderful world.

Indeed, as we can see with the Sackler family getting away with murdering millions of Americans.

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~2d was intended to imply effectively 2d for human activities, even airspace is probably closer to a layered 2d cake than true 3d like deeper space. LEO may be closer to an extension of airspace due to orbits and gravity. Still, due to the exponential growth with respect to the radius, there is significant room in LEO compared to anything terrestrial.

Quadratic growth, not exponential growth.

I think it's cubic because they sum, polynomial either way, without considering other factors like potential for increased density the further out

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We got used to companies abusing processes and not being punished. Just look at how all Big Tech companies systematically break laws and happily pays the fines for these crimes.

But if they pay the fine, haven't they been punished? Whether punishment was sufficient is a different question.

We live in a society where it is important that people follow the spirit of the social contract. Acting in bad faith is bad even if you pay your punishment or if the action uses a loophole keeping you on the right side of the law.

The world is too complex to fully codify in rules and punishments, abusing loopholes (or taking punishment as cost of business) is still reprehensible. I do agree we should try to increase punishment/close loopholes when possible, it’s just always will be a losing battle.

Re: Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

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Note that Google has invested in SpaceX around the time when Starlink was starting out, and that they're putting starlink ground stations at Google data centers.

Also, Starlink continues to show up as AS36492 (One of Google's AS).

AS?

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Its not bonkers if you have a ruthless win at all costs strategy. You dont become the richest man in the world by being nice.

Ergo being not nice is necessary to success. What a wonderful world.

> Ergo being not nice is necessary to success.

It’s not necessary, but it probably helps. It’s also a great american tradition (though by no means unique to american), and so is calling for the state to help you not being nice (and then people wonder why US unions are antagonistic…)

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Its not bonkers if you have a ruthless win at all costs strategy. You dont become the richest man in the world by being nice.

Ergo being not nice is necessary to success. What a wonderful world.

Wealth ≠ success

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Also, Starlink continues to show up as AS36492 (One of Google's AS).

AS?

Autonomous System, it has to do with internet traffic routing. Some real networking person might come and give a better definition than this, but my understanding is basically that where the "internet" is a series of connections between networks and protocols for routing traffic between them, one AS is (as bgp, the routing protocol, views it) one of those networks.

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I could care less about the attitude or acumen of Jeff or Elon personally. From a business perspective though, it's absolutely bonkers to see Amazon wasting such an immense amount of resources in an attempt to slow the competition down, rather than speed their own up. It's like watching a child flip the monopoly board after realising they can't buy any more properties and remain on top.

When you and your friend are running from a dragon, you can survive by running faster - or tripping your friend

Re: Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

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Its not bonkers if you have a ruthless win at all costs strategy. You dont become the richest man in the world by being nice.

Ergo being not nice is necessary to success. What a wonderful world.

Being the richest man in the world is not the only form of success, luckily.
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