If you think there is no papework necessary for launching satellites, you are very very wrong.

JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> If you think there is no papework necessary for launching satellites, you are very very wrong

I would be. And granted, I know a lot more about launching satellites than building anything. But it would take me longer to get a satellite in the air than the weeks it will take me to fix a broken shelf in my kitchen. And hyperscalers are connecting in months, not weeks.

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o333 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Swear that fella is like the Elon Musk of HN - when he talks about subject outside of his domain he gets caught out.

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JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> when he talks about subject outside of his domain

Hate to burst your bubble. But I have a background in aerospace engineering. I’ve financed stuff in this field, from launch vehicles to satellites. And I own stakes in a decent chunk of the plays in this field. Both for and against this hypothesis.

So yeah, I’ll hold my ground on having reasonable basis for being sceptical of blanket dismissals of this idea as much as I dismiss certainty in its success.

There are a lot of cheap shots around AI and aerospace. Some are coming from Musk. A lot are coming from one-liner pros. HN is pretty good at filtering those to get the good stuff, which is anyone doing real math.

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KingMob 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That actually confirms what the other commenter said.

Your assertion was "Every datacentre I know going up right now is spending 90% of their bullshit budget on battlig state and local governments" and you haven't demonstrated any expertise is building data centers.

You've given a very extraordinary claim about DC costs, with no evidence presented, nor expertise cited to sway our priors.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Your assertion was "Every datacentre I know going up right now is spending 90% of their bullshit budget on battlig state and local governments" and you haven't demonstrated any expertise is building data centers I confirmed "I’ve financed stuff in this field, from launch vehicles to satellites. And I own stakes in a decent chunk of the plays in this field." We're pseudonymous. But I've put more of my personal money to work around hyperscalers, by a mean multiplier of 10 ^ 9, over the troll who's a walking Gell-Mann syndrome. I'm engaging because I want to challenge my views. Reddit-style hot takes are not that.

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o333 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds very over-compensating that. Musk-type behaviour