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I need to talk about SpaceX’s IPO, the shaky foundations it’s built on, the fraud it’s being used to commit, and the consequences for you and your grandparents. Two cases to make: the engineering can’t be built on schedule, and the economics double-counts itself. Let me start with “orbital data centers,” a piece of their S-1 filing, alongside Anthropic’s recent announcements. Critics usually attack orbital data centers on launch physics. That’s the weakest argument. The energy to lift a data cen...
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
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