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Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

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softwaredoug ◴[29 Jun 25 20:01 UTC] No.44415931[source]▶
The problem of important projects surviving political change is a tough one.

A lot of these important projects have a single point of failure - who is the president every four years. I wonder how we build institutions and resources resilient to that?

I realize privatization is an ugly word, but could some of this stuff be provided by the private sector?

Can we make it possible to fund initiatives in a multinational manner where countries contribute to these efforts, but if one country blinks out, then you still have it go along?

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1. e3bc54b2 ◴[30 Jun 25 04:26 UTC] No.44419364[source]▶
> who is the president every four years...could some of this stuff be provided by the private sector?

A president cares about election every four years. Private sector cares about it every quarter. I doubt privatization is improvement if you want to focus on long term.