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Don't know why you're down voted, good question :-)

There are only a few industries where being absurdly far ahead of everyone means you get a 13 figure valuation though.

Global space launch market is 6.5B in 2026. Even the total global satellite market is only 23B in 2026.

You have to assume some pretty large numbers for YoY growth, market share, and profit margin to get to 2T valuation.

I'm not an expert and it's been a long time, but I recall reading articles at the time that they were dumping chemicals in the ocean that basically bound to the oil to split it apart and make it sink. Out of sight out of mind.

The implication was they could have contained it at the surface, sucked it up and treated it to remove oil from the water.

> Probably more Paxton/Talarico than the governor race though.

I've always wondered about this. Do that many people just vote for one or two races? If you're there why not vote the whole ballot.

Simple not morbid at all example is me buying an EV instead of a gas car and leaving the heat at 68 instead of 70 this winter. That destroys some demand for oil.

fwiw I thought it was a good analogy. Sure splitting a company is possible and scrambling an omelette is not, but it sure takes a lot more effort to effectively undo entropy.

In a merger you can take as long as you want to go from

1. Two separate companies except at the end of the quarter we add their revenue and expenses together in a spreadsheet to transition to

2. One fully integrated organization

And usually you are becoming more efficient and saving time and money as you integrate.

Splitting a company needs to happen quickly or you'd get all sorts of weird effects where coworkers are ostensibly competitors whilst sharing resources during the transition. And you have to expend a huge amount of effort. Just a couple random complex systems that need to be untangled off the top of my head: physical property and leases, IP space for every IT service you run, multi-year contracts with every vendor from janitorial to SaaS, multi year contracts with customers depending on how the split goes, and of course all the intermingled finances and HR and spreadsheets every company in the world lives on. I'm sure there's thousands more considerations.

I agree antitrust is a big problem that needs to be solved. But "it should be the same amount of effort to merge and split a company" is just fantasy.

Well I mean someone killed them. So whoever did it is who OP is talking about.

I can't think of another regulated utility that doesn't provide service to (essentially) all humans directly in their homes.

Everyone knows what water and electricity are, the vast majority couldn't explain what service AWS provides.

The market will more efficiently settle on a price if market participants can push the price up (buying) and push the price down (shorting).

How is shorting a stock gaming the market?

You feel a stock is overvalued and you short it. You feel a stock is undervalued and you buy it. What's the difference?

I know plenty of line level engineers (mostly non-software) who's main interaction with unions is things like waiting for a week to move their desk to the other wall of their cubical because that's a union job and they're not allowed to touch the Ethernet cables.

Notice the story has cubicals, how nice! Most these stories are pretty old. I suspect because there are less jobs in some big F500 campus with colocated engineering, accounting, etc and a unionized manufacturing plant all in the same place.

Even if I do accept your claims that cooling in space is not insurmountable, you still would grant that launching and cooling (and shielding??) a data center in space still cost more dollars than building a data center on earth right? What is the use case that people will spend money to rent servers in space? I think nations have a strong enough grip on the internet now that the customer use case of "evading my country's laws" won't generate that much revenue.

Is the hope that power will be cheaper because solar panels have direct and continuous exposure to the sun?

I don't really follow the politics and GPU drama in this space, but I'm surprised GPUs owned by SpaceX are going to Claude instead of grok or whatever AI stuff Tesla is trying to do.

Most algorithms doing this charge lower prices to the wealthy since they are more valuable customers.

Total spend is higher. And if your $20 tricket breaks you're less likely to bother to return it if $20 doesn't mean that much to you. Plus other reasons I'm sure.