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That deal had more to do with national security concerns being addressed and Broadcom's shitty business strategy rather than market share concerns.

I'd think it would be because SpaceX probably argued that the trajectory with Startship launching 10s of thousands of satellites that it would meet the program requirements.

It's because Ford hates the dealer markup they've started charging in last couple of years.

Cheaper than developing their own solution and Germany has very good relations with Israel.

Don't worry their listings on Taobao will be accurate because they actually enforce standards.

>Amazon use off-the-shelf vehicles though.

Not for long, they even invested in Rivian, an EV manufacturer, who is going to build vehicles to their spec.

It was also keeping the manufacturing process and technologies, specifically stealth secret.

And also that the US Fed Gov's role in funding Signal. Hopefully, the best outcome will probably be seeing how stupid the backdoor and encryption debate is.

No way they could get that by regulators. There would be too many anti-trust concerns.

Or that Bush realized the folly of his foreign policy and dramatically changed it in the later part of his term after the shitshow in Iraq.

The Kochs are the 21st century Kochs. Peter Thiel hasn't had any major success as a political donor, while the Kochs have been wildly successful as political donors and furthering their political agendas.