Your amount is way to low, multiply whatever the yearly contract gross amount is by five and add 2 million. That for the smallest of companies will fund the replacement effort over 18 months. It is called the CA Acquisition poison pill.

In the 55 years of Western Space Programs, every cutting edge launch system had a run of 3 to 5 failures over the course of a few years outside of manned flight. Do not attribute deliberate action when simply non manned space launch until very recently was cheapest with a 3-10% failure rate design criteria hopefull being minimized by 50 to 90 launches of the same system. Lets face it the cost of most payloads is not in the mass that gets to orbit, it is the design to QA before production item 1 is produced.

Education is Software Development for the human brain. That there is are collections of 10k to 200k K-12 educators under a single regulator per state that need to buy course materials suited to their need is insane. That the spend is hundreds of dollars per student is insane for e-learning, your buying the wrong subscription model. Produce your states own open source course materials, have it up for review for a month before it enters the lesson plan, every other layer of education does this now. And once mature, stop messing with 90% of API interfaces. Woke speak was hidden versioning the API every 3 months. All the components of K-12 have to show that they have trained for their job every year. Spending 40 hours a year editing an assigned martials will take the repetition out of the day. US History for a state --- Have basic non wiki materials that can be forked, GIT American history, overlay state history, add some local flavor per district, what is the rusting iron, why it is there....then review the AI slop over a long weekend, let the 3 interested parents and grandparents review, respond to pull requests. Have a few edit/flame wars before it because untenable.

One thing about higher education following a published cores plan, if you are three chapters ahead on the beta, your note taking is educated, focused and not a firehose. If you parent, tutor, leaning coach knows what is going on they have a chance to help. Assignments that are returned that are not a piece of shit can be integrated into the materials.

Lets get it through everyone head, rural communities are not finance centers, they are about turning land that would otherwise be empty into a employment and some wealth creation..... that is universally true. Omaha and Tulsa are economic centers will make millionaires, the rest of the state wealth is concentrated in Ranchers and Farmers who wealth is in land and not taxed to an extent more than the cost of supporting farm roads and drainage. Every time ranching and farming go bust in an area you have a chance to buy in, so lets not talk landed aristocracy quite yet.

Got to ask, do you also not see the point of cloud?

Deliver the cheapest solution hour by hour, chase the sun and the Solar Surplus.

How long have you been on Slashdot?.... because this has been covered before. There was a push about a decade ago for the true users of compute to be agnostic to what cloud provider and what datacenter your apps were in, that mobility seeking least price is now table stakes in the cloud/AI space, managed by whomever you buy your AI spend from.

Datacenter follow cheap power, that is their number 1 reoccurring cost, they will chase clear sky and cheapness around the globe daily and up and down the latitude ladder by season They are attempting to build where daytime power can be taken from the grid at near zero cost. If your a MAG seven provider, the cheap commodity load is shifted to another data center when costs go up. A ton of AI work can wait until the power is free when the parking lot becomes liquid 10am-4pm. Sure every cloud/AI/compute provider claims they want to deliver low latency and ultimate performance, but their customer wants it cheap and stacked high so they can do unintelligent thing with cheap compute. We know compute delivery is in late stage of early maturity, after 30 years, the data center expansion is to put energy providers in a place where they have no choice but to commoditize and give away 10am-4pm and follow that around the world.

So release just enough of a hot model but turn it off and not actually deliver the computer intensive and costly product to your customers while sitting on subscription dollar. Sales still pumps out we have the most intense product, the 50 cal rifle of AI. The customers line up to hand over dollars for the less compute intensive model. Might be a signal the grif is up, or AI found a really concerning bug that is still unaddressed.

Same with standard oil. Story as old as time.

All of this talk about a wealth tax is listening to illiterate economic trolls under a bridge. Thought experiment.... Say something went sideways, 86 rockets blow up on the pad in a row, President Harris prevents Space X and Tesla from shipping product or providing services and Elons wealth went to zero the next year, does he get tax credits or money back for overpaying his taxes in the past? There is no taxable value that is accurate other than the day it is bought and the day it sold on real estate, stock, bonds, gold, silver. Elon companies, that he owns with many other players, pays employees to generate future money at market rates...their income is taxed, the employees all have a mandated health plan, they all have 401ks.....isn't that enough? He is making 10,000 millionaires a year, all to be taxed for the rest of their lives on things that have been taxed for decades. His impact is taxed, it is considerable part of GDP so care must be taken because he is very mobile. How much more greed can politicians and their socialist useful idiot minions express without being called trolls?

Except the battery is under the flesh bags in the seats who dislike a 40C ass baking in all but the coldest of conditions. A 100HP motor can move a shit ton of air over itself with a 45cm fan at 1800RPM stealing 3HP, and it is 5% of total aero drag while moving at 5 to 100km/hr with the fan turned off.

You induce someone to commit a online flame war crime with a payment from the Center for Countering Digital Hate to the bot farm that amplifies it. They learned it from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Got to ask.....

So why does the right think Zuck tanked trump in 2020 with the cutting off the NY Post, remember bogus laptop, just before the election?

Could it be programmers racing to fulfill the whims the DOJ, UN, FBI, USAID, the media, the Defense Complex, The Pharma Complex, and the actual customer Ad buyers in the Online part of the Marketing company's for every industry under the sun.

So Zuck floats in the wind between 2016-2024... that is not his reported personality, he seems to be the Billionare GOAT of a grudge.

What the fuck, is this the site for Nerds..... AI is not bandwidth intensive, its agents can be, it is really memory scan, compute intensive, quite honestly solving large linear equations for the best fitting result. Anyplace with a fiber bundle has multiple TB/sec of bandwidth and laying fiber is a ton cheaper than laying a foundation in permafrost.

Oh shit, Advertisers held to this standard? Because German Beer just isnt that good.

From what I see here government programs are never allowed to die if anyone has their congressman's phone number and a x account of a journalist. Have we not seen enough from childcare grants via he state and medicare home care to know that not every government program spends money efficiently, or has protections from the tax payers.

What I do know is remote sensing from very cheap platforms that float in the ocean and report in via starlink or other cheaply avaialbe platform are part of the past 20 year changeover to moving to moving to cheap disposable platforms that float the worlds ocean currents. Every year programs and their umbrella organizations must be forced to audit suitability of the current platform vs data that readily avaialbe from other sources. Send programs to commercial weather companies, their are many and see if they want to continue on with the collection or if they feel it has been superseeded by another generation of sensors.