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This is a great read digging into the team that I loved. I wonder how many of the core team are still there. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-lo
by palijer 3y ago
This is a great read digging into the team that I loved. I wonder how many of the core team are still there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engine...
>Over decades, the crew members who have remained have forgone promotions, the lure of nearby Silicon Valley and, more recently, retirement, to stay with the spacecraft. NASA funding, which peaked during the Apollo program in the 1960s, has dwindled, making it next to impossible to recruit young computer-science majors away from the likes of Google and Facebook.
- ianlevesque 3y ago> NASA funding, which peaked during the Apollo program in the 1960s, has dwindled, making it next to impossible to recruit young computer-science majors away from the likes of Google and Facebook. This problem can be attacked in a couple of ways, one way is to increase compensation sure, but another is to make it possible to have healthcare and housing on the salary they do offer. The chasm between pay and cost of living is huge and growing.
- macintux 3y agoI've long thought universal healthcare (& UBI) would enable more people to take entrepreneurial risks, but I hadn't considered that passion jobs like NASA could also be beneficiaries.
- zrail 3y agoUBI and universal healthcare would enable _so_ many people to take risks that they can't today. We would see an explosion in the arts, in fundamental science, in passion projects like this. It would be absolutely incredible. Except according to half of the people in charge it would mean The Wrong People would get money and all they would do is buy drugs. And that's why we can't have nice things.
- rrdharan 3y agoIs this about the US specifically? There are many countries with universal healthcare and a decent social safety net (Scandinavia comes to mind). Why haven’t we seen this explosion coming out of them?
- aklemm 3y agoGo there and look at how they live; that takes inspiration. The benefits of their social welfare are apparent in their lifestyle compared to US daily life. And the flip: Shouldn't Scandinavia be overrun with drug-addled do-nothings if social welfare is so bad?
- rrdharan 3y agoI completely agree and am generally supportive of universal healthcare and the welfare state and suspect the Scandinavian model would be an improvement on the current US state of affairs. I’m just skeptical of the parent poster claim that a Cambrian innovation explosion awaits us all if we would just welfare harder.
- gosub100 3y agoAnd reverse your flip: how do Scandinavians perform when they immigrate to other countries (vs the local population) ?
- gizajob 3y agoThey spend a lot of money on education, and almost everyone is multilingual – Finns generally speak both Finnish and Swedish natively given they’re the state languages, and many I’ve met have very fluent English and German alongside. So I imagine they do pretty well. Look at Linus Torvalds, for example… Oh btw, “Scandinavians” only includes countries in the Swedish axis of influence, so to include Finns alongside one has to say “Nordics”. Finland is Nordic without being Scandinavian (technically)
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- umeshunni 3y agoIf that were true, we would be seeing far more entrepreneurship from countries with Universal healthcare (most of EU) or UBI (most gulf countries).
- mvdwoord 3y agoEU taxation and regulation plays into this more I guess, outweighing the benefits of healthcare and other social benefits?