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Scarcity. It's becoming difficult to plan for new data centers. They will rent where capacity is available. Grok hasn't gain the expected popularity.

Its main business is connectivity. Starlink generated over 10B last year.

Becoming a broader infrastructure company with xAI.


That's only about 35% more than the main telecom operator here in Belgium (Proximus: $7.2B revenue in 2025, $2.5B market cap, positive earnings for 15+ years).

Obviously Starlink can and will growth. I'm just pointing out how insane the market cap is, when compared to similar scale "connectivity" businesses.


I'm with you the 5B loss for 18B overall revenue shouldn't grant a valuation anywhere near 1.7 trillion.

was just answering the question.


> Starlink generated over 10B last year

An entire one-hundredth of their proposed valuation!


Yeah, crazy for a company with nothing but the largest civilian satellite network and what amounts to a monopoly on space flight.

Profitability of space flight has a hard maximum. It’s not anywhere close to what their valuation would suggest.

There’s a reason Elon keeps trying to get investors to believe his “data centers in space” lunacy, because you need that sort of magic pixie dust to justify why any of this valuation makes sense, let alone have anywhere to go but down.


Starlink terminals are popular, they put them on drones to avoid jamming (Starling jamming exists but not that easy for now). It might be their sales are inflated due to its use at war.

The article mentions Google is heavily invested in it.

That it could create mugshots of myself better than I could have managed to take.

Aka handsome, confident successful, affluent alpha male on a boat, yet looking perfectly like me.


When deepseek found a fix for a bug I couldn't find in minutes.

When deepseek again produced an entire web app that somewhat looked alright.

When Gemini could finally produce json was I specified.

The issue is, all LLMs can do. When they do, is boilerplate and code a mediocre coder could produce if they cared to try and insist.

In a way we should praise the ability of these things, but at what (in) efficiency. Code still need to be reviewed as we can't trust these things and context got a limit to entertain the idea of possibly having them fix their own mess.


A problem is it doesn't load as fast. Could it be helped?

Yes, it can. I am having a major cache invalidation problem. One of the major blights of programmers everywhere.

Competitively authoritarian, so, democratic.

If Singapore isn't a democracy then the U.S is a dictature.


Merit remains the foundation of its ruling style, the other, whatever suits the mood of the ruling power behind democratic labels and institutions that ultimately have violated its own constitution.

People throw out the word democracy like they know what it is.


Not sure about Singapore but Malaysia's racism is not complicated. It is discrimination into law. It makes things rather clear. About discourse of course there is not discussion to have.

a major factor is the lack of societal assimilation.

with separate schooling systems, many Malaysians grow up in ethnic silos, which fundamentally hinders national unity even beyond any legal framework


The most amusing part of Malaysia's discrimination is in the term "bhumiputra," which is Sanskrit for "son of the soil," but today it's used for Malay muslim.

All these lands were Dharmic originally, all the way to Japan, before the various cults arrived.


Just look historicaly. Sorry of you feel entitled to whatever land.

I don't feel entitled to anything. I'm just pointing out facts. You reveal more about your mindset with your comments. And your downvotes.

We are all migrants. No exception.

In absolute, those are irrevocably pliable scientific facts.

Some non apple apps get access to accessibility APIs. What gives?

This API is sensitive. I imagine Apple is particularly stringent as to how the access is justified. Not how it uses it but how the reason for using it is explained.

It's not like someone tests the app and all api calls to deem them reasonable or not.


They do literally pay people to do that. Then one of those people chose to reject this anyway.

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