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Why a Memphis Community Is Fighting Elon Musk's Supercomputer(nytimes.com)
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The last time I did the calculation, a Canadian is about 27 times more likely to move to the US than an American is to move to Canada. About one sixth of * all* Canadian scientists and engineers move to the US. (Not one sixth of Canadian s
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Of course. Children follow adults' lead on these things, just as toddlers look at their parents before they "know" to start crying after falling down. As Jerry Seinfeld says in the article, this is adults condoning, facilitat
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> Putting that into a diesel work truck seems like re-inventing the locomotive, with a massive battery pack. I was going to say, this sounds like a diesel-electric locomotive! That said, there is a reason why diesel-electric took over fr
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many
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On the Commodore 64!
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For those who enjoyed "Code Three", the author combined it and its sequel into a fixup novel, also named Code Three . * < https://libbyapp.com/search/lapl/search/scope-deep/query-Ric... >
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> For a number of years, a friend of mine has had a '99 Plymouth Prowler. If I were to base car popularity based solely on people coming up to ask about the car, his would win hands down and you'd assume (naturally) that Plymou
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>It seems like more on the left believe that if Trump is elected, we are unlikely to see another fair election. Don't listen to what they say, Look at what they do. Breaking Points back in July, while discussing the Trump-Biden deba
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> - Q3 Rev $25.18B, Est $35.43B > - so slight top line miss but nice bottom line beat How is this a "slight" revenue miss? I guess one of the figures is wrong?
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>It may very well be that the US government nationalizes both Starlink and SpaceX for security reasons. Don't confuse the SouthAfrikanManBad Reddit-driven fanfic in your head with reality. >(in latest news, a Cybertruck for Chech
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> Back in the day, people used to emigrate from Spain to Cuba (and Venezuela) in search of a better life. Cuba in 1959 was the wealthiest Caribbean nation.
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Headline reworded from "Unprecedented launches: Space Coast poised to break its yearly rocket record before Halloween" for a) length, and b) to clarify location
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Florida's Space Coast poised to break its yearly rocket record before Halloween(floridatoday.com)
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European space chief says Europe must be able to compete globally(reuters.com)
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> SpaceX is a perfect storm of a benefactor with unbelievable wealth being able to hoard the best engineers money can buy. Musk began SpaceX with $100 million of his own cash, almost his entire wealth from having been the majority owner
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The Washington Post piece I linked to (Permanent URL: < http://web.archive.org/web/20180326154159/https://www.washin... > discusses the Himmelstein article the letter you cited cites. As arpinum sa
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Kaiser is like the NHS in that it does everything in-house. Kaiser members go to Kaiser doctors, stay at Kaiser hospitals, and get prescriptions fulfilled from Kaiser pharmacies. I agree on "HMO" being tainted. Kaiser has a good r
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> I was asking about Switzerland, since you brought it up sarah_eu brought up Switzerland, in comparison to the UK NHS. I don't know what percentage of Swiss bankruptcies are because of medical bills, but can cite the statistic for
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>Is medical bankruptcy common in Switzerland? Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills < https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0... >. A tipoff that [insert la
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Studies have found that Kaiser Permanente (an integrated health insurance/care provider—basically a non-governmental equivalent of the NHS in comprehensiveness—that is available in many US states) is more efficient and effective than t
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Is Schwab known for being unusually low with its rate for this product? Vanguard is 11-13%, consistent with what mixmastamyk said. < https://investor.vanguard.com/client-benefits/margin?msockid... > In any case, my
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What taxman22 says makes me wish I kept my holdings in my Schwab account. (I guess there is nothing stopping me from doing an asset transfer.) But I agree with you about margin borrowing's interest rate not being that amazing, although
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>The Musk companies usually have a layer that protects their bottom line from their boy king. Musk's biographer tweeted the pages from his book < https://x.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1844870018351169942 &g
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>The media needs to stop blindly attributing this to "Elon Musk". Musk's biographer tweeted the pages from his book < https://x.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1844870018351169942 > discussing how
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Besides what 55555 said, in the near term SpaceX has indeed passed at least some of the cost savings onto customers. NASA administrator Bill Nelson quoted a member of the Joint Chiefs as telling him that SpaceX had saved the US government $
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My understanding is that rods from god are not easily detectable during reentry the way an ICBM's warhead is.
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>And as you note this argument is utterly wrong. Am I mistaken, or are there distance/payload combinations for which Starship is cheaper per pound on a point-to-point basis than air transport, even setting aside 30 minutes versus 12
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Yes, but for his History of the English-Speaking Peoples , and more broadly, for his lifetime as an author. (Admittedly, even more broadly, the prize was the Nobel Committee wanting to acknowledge his leadership in WW2, but still.)
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As an Archie comic a long time ago stated, "Money can't buy love, but it can rent a lot of affection".

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