> but then you cut the potential revenues too and have the same problem.
How many starlink clones are there really customers for?
Many people have fiber, and in an urban area you'll probably prefer 5G, if you can't get fiber or wired internet.
Starlink is great if you live in the middle of nowhere, but few people do.
Even if you could do a competitive launch cost, the number of customers is limited.
I think people sometimes forget how backwards the US is, when lived in SF 7 years ago, you couldn't do wire transfers online. Maybe some banks, maybe some people.
But I constantly had issues with debit cards being rejected, wire transfers having to be done on a branch, etc. I doubt there is a modern bill payment system yet.
Where as in Denmark, I've bought house, mortgage, wired >100k, bought stonks, none of it required me going to a branch.
I pay a manual bill maybe once or twice per year. I do it online or in an app, I hate the process. But automatic bill payment takes care of 99% of my bills!
There will probably be some yolo startups that deploy write-only code to production with unreviewed terraform plans -- who knows this could be disruptive -- but I'm also certain this won't be the last such story.
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All that being said: it's kind of sad because terraform is fairly declarative and the plans are fairly high-level.
Hence, terraform files and plans are the stuff you should review.
Where as a bunch of imperative code implementing CRUD with fancy UI might be the kind of spaghetti code that's hard to review.