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Starlink plans to deploy 12,000 - 42,000 satellites. What if two competitors want to do the same? Can the low earth orbit handle 150,000 satellites that turn into space debris at some point?
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The space industrial complex would pollute a whole lot more than today, and let’s hope space tourism it’s not something too feasible, aside from stroking egos it wouldn’t do much, space is very human unfriendly after all. I for one hope we move slower not faster.
It’s not just stroking egos; if you read any accounts by astronauts, there’s a profound effect on people that get a chance to look back at earth, and see how it’s actually not infinite. I hope every powerful person gets the chance to do that, I think it’d go a long way in reducing the petty bullshit we engage in.
It seems that most of our most powerful leaders (so-called) are sociopaths or psychopaths.[1] Are people who are pathologically incapable of basic empathy and compassion going to be moved by a joyride to watch the Big Blue Ball? I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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What about high frequency trading shops?
They should be banned anyway. The more we can do to make their operations impossible the better. Their mere existence makes a mockery of the idea of the stock market as a considered reflection of value of companies and explicitly makes it into a gambling den for dead-eyed people competing to have the fastest card counting systems under their suits. If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes.
> If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes.
That’s not necessarily true.
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What about high frequency trading shops?
That is completely different definition of HF. And if they use radio (lower latency than fiber, in theory and in right circumstances ), it is somewhere between SHF and EHF (C through V in the IEEE nomenclature), ie. what sane person would informally call “microwave”, not HF.
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Yes that's right, also known as shortwave radio. https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/wall-street-tries-shortwave-ra...
Well, the article itself does a pretty good job of describing why it is not an exactly good idea. What it does not say (and what probably nobody suggesting that ever though about) is that the sky-wave propagation mode is either about reflection off the ionosphere or refraction effects of the ionosphere, both of which means that the propagation path is significantly longer and in the refraction case over “slower” medi…
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They should be banned anyway. The more we can do to make their operations impossible the better. Their mere existence makes a mockery of the idea of the stock market as a considered reflection of value of companies and explicitly makes it into a gambling den for dead-eyed people competing to have the fastest card counting systems under their suits. If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes.
HFTs provide a lot of value to everyone by providing a lot of liquidity and reducing bid/ask spread giving a fairer price to everyone. > If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes. That’s not necessarily true.
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HFTs provide a lot of value to everyone by providing a lot of liquidity and reducing bid/ask spread giving a fairer price to everyone. > If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes. That’s not necessarily true.
It just so happens that those who advocate and benefit directly from it are the ones who already have the power to make markets. The product of a company is based on its labor utilization, which doesn't change materially in the (very) short timespans of HFT. Liquidity aside, five minutes isn't going to make much of a difference when most people generally wait weeks or months to make major asset purchases like a car o…
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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Glad to hear it! Because I know a large family that doesn't have a computer. I'll send you their address so you can mail them yours!
These families surely own a smartphone? You know the powerful computer in your pocket you potentially used to browse this website.
You think that all government, education, banking, employment, and healthcare web sites work on phones or have apps? That's adorable!
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They should be banned anyway. The more we can do to make their operations impossible the better. Their mere existence makes a mockery of the idea of the stock market as a considered reflection of value of companies and explicitly makes it into a gambling den for dead-eyed people competing to have the fastest card counting systems under their suits. If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes.
HFTs provide a lot of value to everyone by providing a lot of liquidity and reducing bid/ask spread giving a fairer price to everyone. > If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes. That’s not necessarily true.
I think we are going to have very different views as to what the terms "value" and "everyone" mean
because HFT's provide no value at all to the everyday person on mainstreet just looking get by and maybe put 10% of their wages into the stock market for retirement.
if by everyone you mean "the top 1%" and by value you mean "make lots of money at the expense of mainstreet investors" then sure.
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They should be banned anyway. The more we can do to make their operations impossible the better. Their mere existence makes a mockery of the idea of the stock market as a considered reflection of value of companies and explicitly makes it into a gambling den for dead-eyed people competing to have the fastest card counting systems under their suits. If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes.
HFTs provide a lot of value to everyone by providing a lot of liquidity and reducing bid/ask spread giving a fairer price to everyone. > If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes. That’s not necessarily true.