I've dragged starship since the very first day as an example of bad product leadership and bad project management. It's going to turn out to be the cybertruck of space.
The inflection point for both Tesla and SpaceX is when Elon decided he's the genius and he must make his mark on the next big product. He stopped listening to his own experts.
I have yet to check the prediction markets for this proposition but I would bet on Peter Thiel being the first one to mistake a fancy cup for the Holy Grail.
That's not how humans came to populate areas that previously were dominated by predators who would be obviously deadly to individual humans. Cooperation and planning are what made physically weak humans dominant. That cooperation and planning developed and flourished without authoritarian structures.
A brief look at certain native American tribes might show quite a lot of talking and consensus building, like if some war chief wants a war he needs to drum up support for that. Hours of talking ensue! Not to say that ancient tribes didn't have the worst of what modern corporations have to offer as far as leadership goes, but a claim "basically every village" is basically wrong, or "bascially" is carrying a heck of a lot of weight.
Read some Charles Mann. Tribal leaders if they can really be described as leaders had to work with consensus and cooperation. Modern society is much more coercive.
It won't because of congestion. Terrestrial wireless infrastructure can be engineered for any level of user density. The TAM for space based wireless is limited to people who are out of range of terrestrial wireless, and have a high enough value need to connect.
It's cute how some people think that a market, especially a securities market, adds to immunity against corruption, and corruption-adjacent fuckery.
These are the same people who think the cybertruck of space is worth $2 trillion, while the rocket built by those bumbling space bureaucrats at NASA is actually going places.
So Artemis is the one that can go places without 18 hypothetical refueling missions none of which has been demonstrated to work. But the cybertruck of space is worth 1.75 trillion?
You are technically correct. But the distinction between devolution and a Federation of states gets very blurry when you take a look at what's happening with voting in the US these days.
You are technically incorrect about the UK not having a constitution. It's just not all compiled into a single written document.
Technically correct only if you accept "vague set of traditions" as a valid definition for "constitution". This both contradicts common usage and enables tyranny, so I recommend rejecting it.
Where can I find the official list of which acts are part of the constitution? And what additional obstacles exist to changing those acts beyond the obstacles to changing non-constitutional acts of parliament? In common usage, a constitution is something that restricts changes to ordinary law. If a "constitution" is made entirely from ordinary law it cannot function as a constitution.
Before you demand more explanation on the spot, you know there's a Wikipedia page for that. It explains the components how they are legitimated and the mechanisms of the UK government that rely on it.
This is designed to create involuntary bag holders. The people who stay away from this IPO are betting that, while it may open at the target price, that can't last because there's no path to actual GAAP profitability. They are betting that this is an EBITDA fairytale of satellites with a short lifespan as valuable assets. But putting the company into indices right away holds all the passive investors hostage to this rug pull.
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