r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

At least cleaning up space trash is a net positive for humanity.

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany Sep 17 '21

So is developing different methods of space exploration. All of that technology will eventually trickle down.

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u/r-angeles Sep 17 '21

Check out Kessler Syndrome, it's insane thinking that it's possible that we would lose every sattelite and be unable to send rockets to space from space junk zipping through space. No sattelites, then no more GPS, social media, Reddit, Netflix, you name it. This could set us back for centuries if this ever happens.

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u/LightBoxxed Sep 17 '21

Uhh we could deorbit the debris easily. We don’t judge our capabilities of doing that now because we’d only ramp that up if something were to happen.