ralphington

Hyperbole = strong opinions? If you're stating your 'strong opinions' as fact, then you deserve the push back. If you're stating your strong opinions as strong opinions, then fair game.

It must be considered false for all tech providers unless there is a verification mechanism. There will be big money for whoever sorts that out

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It will scale inefficiently until efficiency breakthroughs occur, but it's really hard to predict when those breakthroughs will happen. Plan on the worst, but be ready and capable of capitalizing when it happens!

I don't have a horse in the race, but these comments are remarkably toxic. This reminds me of the RTFM epidemic on early Stack overflow.

You seem to have funded your own demise

Sorry aboot that.

What kind of database auth did you have? Wouldn't they have had to access config files or related in order to obtain your passwords, usernames, etc?

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They mention in the article of being able to launch objects at 3,000 MPH. That's a tad short of the typical 17,500 MPH used for low earth orbit, and that's not counting the extra Delta-V required to resist atmospheric drag.

I'm very glad that this company exists, but this article doesn't help its case very much other than "Hey look, they got a load of funding".

The market cap of Netflix is 78 billion USD at the time of this writing. On top of that, they'd have to pay a premium. I suspect that you were thinking Netflix was an order of magnitude or two smaller than that.