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Comment Re:100M is enough (Score 1) 106

Honestly, if you want to live in the mountains in bum fuck no where, you can't expect society to provide you a fiber connection. We don't even provide those people with sewer connections for precisely the same reason.

Well, no. The two things are very different. Data leaves down the same "pipe" it came through, while sewage systems and water supply systems are both separate (you hope) and VERY DIFFERENT. They have almost completely different considerations in every department. Also, if you live in the sticks, there's no real drawback to not having a sewer connection.

Comment Re:Time for another anti-trust investigation Googl (Score 5, Informative) 24

as evil is almost always necessary when the stated goal of your business is to maximize shareholder value at all costs

Don't interpret this as me having an opinion on this specific article (I don't), but that's a gross misrepresentation of what the law requires. As someone running a business, you *do* have a fiduciary duty to the stockholders, but that's not the same thing as requiring you to maximize shareholder value at all costs. Doing what is best for the company and the shareholders does not strictly mean more dollars.

For example, if a company had a choice whether to make a drone that would make a lot of money by selling to militaries, but would be used to annihilate the shareholders, no rational person would claim that the fiduciary duty requires them to build the drone.

More broadly, companies have a responsibility to behave ethically, for two reasons:

  • Perceptions of unethical behavior can impact a company's long-term profitability by discouraging customers/users.
  • Unethical behavior is often illegal, and when it isn't illegal, it often becomes illegal as soon as a company demonstrates that it is possible.

In other words, behaving unethically is how companies find themselves massively regulated in ways that negatively impact long-term profits. Every antitrust suit is an example of this, as the only reason those laws exist is because some company previously behaved unethically.

Comment Re: A Contributor to Science (Score 1) 29

No, but our aerospace industry learned a lot of useful things about how to operate in space. We can't be risk free if we want to make progress. In order to learn you have to fail sometimes; If we, the taxpayers, insisted on a refund that would likely put this company out of business and a lot of the learning would be lost.

So..what exactly are we learning for $30M?

How to fuck up a launch/deployment of a low orbing space craft?

Haven't we been in space long enough to learn those lessons?

Yes I'm a bit sarcastic....but seriously, what learning are we getting from our $30M.

If this company sucks....should they NOT go out of business and open bids up to more qualified companies for next shots?

Comment uh (Score 1) 106

At present, it is impossible to predict long-term technological developments and the evolution of consumer preferences.

Yes, they might prefer slower internet!

This guy has passed right by needing to determine whether people would like fire which can be fitted nasally and on to deserving to have it fitted rectally.

Comment Re:Is it ragebait, or (Score 1) 207

From the State House to the US House, Byron has a proven record of standing up for our values. From defending Second Amendment rights, to protecting life, and to keeping radical woke ideology out of schools, Byron will always fight the Left's agenda.

What's inflammatory about that statement?

Comment Re: Standing on the shoulders of giants (Score 1) 104

(remember the "90% of the brain is not used" pre-fMRI myth?)

Yes, but only in the same way as I remember there was a global cooling scare supported by a tiny minority of scientists but in fact perpetrated by media — which has always been sensationalist. The actual scientific statement was that most of the brain is not active at any given time. We found out that more of it is doing something more of the time, but some areas remain way more active than others so there's still a kernel of truth to that idea — the same as it ever was.

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