“basically nothing back at all,” or, “ the time value of money.”

We must differentiate between capital and land. They aren’t the same thing. OP is saying that his landlord is profiting off land. This is indeed doing nothing, and has nothing to do with the time value of money, in the sense that the time value of money is due to capital, not land.

This is a common misunderstanding. Henry George made it very clear in the 1890s where the distinction lies.

> your most socially competent engineer

Unfortunately, he’s already two of our SEs and the CTO and we’re starting to run low on coders.

What are we going to do when we need a customer success manager or a profserv team?

> administrative subpoenas - i.e. not reviewed by a real judge

I have some bad news for you about magistrates.

And yet ICE can't be bothered to reach even that low bar.

To be completely fair, neither of us is even a magistrate.

malice aforethought

> the whole capacity

Wouldn’t something like half of the panels be in shadow at any time?

Depends where you put them. The current vogue option is a sun-synchronous orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit

polar orbit

There are only so many people who can make satellites; there are only so many things to make satellites out of; and there are only so many orbits to put them in. There are only so many reasons why a person might want a satellite. There are only so many ways of placing satellites in orbit and each requires some amount of energy, and we have access to a finite amount of energy over time.

Finally, if we limited ourselves to earth-based raw materials, we would eventually reach a point where the remaining mass of the earth would have less gravitational effect on the satellite fleet than the fleet itself, which would have deleterious effects on the satellite fleet.

Seven reasons are intuitive; I’m sure there are many others.

People can build a factory that makes satellites. And then a factory that makes factories to make satellites.

There is plenty of material in the solar system (see my other response), and plenty of orbits, and launch capability can scale with energy harvested so the launch rate can grow exponentially.

Lots of people will probably decide they don't want any more satellites. But it only takes a few highly determined people to get it done anyway.

>Just imbest[1] and it will grow exponentially.

That's how that argument sounds like, particularly when you hear it from someone who is as broke as it can be.

It's easy to type those ideas in a comment, or a novel, or a scientific paper ... bring them to reality, oh surprise! that's the hard part.

1: The dumb version to invest

> Finally, if we limited ourselves to earth-based raw materials, we would eventually reach a point where the remaining mass of the earth would have less gravitational effect on the satellite fleet than the fleet itself, which would have deleterious effects on the satellite fleet.

The Earth's crust has an average thickness of about 15-20 km. Practically we can only get at maybe the top 1-2 km, as drill bits start to fail the deeper you go.

The Earth's radius is 6,371 km.

So even if we could somehow dug up entire crust we can get to and flung it into orbit, that would barely be noticeable to anything in orbit.

Once you dig up the top kilometer of a planet's crust, what's under your feet? The next kilometer!

That would suck to do to Earth, but we can launch all of Mars's mass into the swarm.

> the lubricant

Are you absolutely, positively kidding me?

> the word "coaching" implies one party is superior to the other in one very concrete area.

The opposite seems obvious to me. After all, your manager isn’t writing the code. He’s not your boss because he’s a better coder than you are, but because he’s a better boss.

(If this does not fit your experience, I’d recommend quitting your job as soon as practicable).

You’re being pedantic. INS was rolled into the homeland security umbrella in the early 2003s. The poster was obviously using an old name.

It's far better to be pedantic than to constantly spout misinformation.

> Wait till you hear about a kid named Elian Gonzalez from 2000. One of the most famous examples

A brief fact check: Elián González was and is not a US citizen, nor was he the child of US citizens, nor was he arrested by ICE, nor was the raid that resulted in his capture performed without a warrant.

I might wait to hear about him until I encounter someone with more accurate information.