Teever

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by Teever 1y ago
I get the impression from your comment that you did not read the first source that I linked above. If you only read one of the many links that I provided please read this one: https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites
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by Teever 1y ago
The House Select Committee on the CCP has been publishing the results of war games with China over Taiwan and the results are pretty dismaying.[0] They show the US narrowly holding Taiwan at the cost of dozens of ship, hundreds of planes an
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by Teever 1y ago
And what's the ratio of that to the returned payload mass?
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by Teever 1y ago
That's sort of a fallacious argument though because you could say the same thing about every part of a spacecraft that is used only for the return phase of its mission. It might be more accurate to say that the ratio of mass for re-ent
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by Teever 1y ago
Its because they're in a death cult purity spiral.[0] They suffer from cognitive dissonance so a part of them understands this stuff but another part of them identifies so strongly with their peer group and profession that this second
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by Teever 1y ago
While this doesn't apply in the scenario that the person you're responding to has given there are ways to get many more transfer windows between Mars and Earth using Aldrin Cyclers.
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by Teever 1y ago
Isn't starlink a revenue generating endeavor already?
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Tariff Simulator(tariffs.flexport.com)
4 points by Teever 1y ago|0 comments
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by Teever 1y ago
But it really is an 'us or them' situation. The US is treating everyone else like shit and isolating themselves from the world. The world is slowly esponding accordingly and reconfiguring to the new reality where the US is unrelia
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Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs(cnbc.com)
446 points by Teever 1y ago|253 comments
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by Teever 1y ago
Canada has a national 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST) that is offset by an income-tested GST credit that is paid out quarterly. Additionally there are a lot of goods that are GST exempt. Things like basic groceries, prescription drugs, fe
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by Teever 1y ago
What about sensors in a basement or pipe?
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by Teever 1y ago
Give me your definition of greed.
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by Teever 1y ago
No. Greed and competitiveness are two different motivators, and free market capitalism is driven by competition and not greed. People compete for many reasons and the collection of material wealth is only one of them.
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by Teever 1y ago
Profit seeking through competition isn’t the same as greed. Greed is the impulse to rig the game once you’ve won a little, so you can keep extracting more without competing. And that tendency from some kinds of people corrodes free market c
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by Teever 1y ago
Are you talking about the current transport costs or theoretical optimal transport costs? What do you think is the biggest part of the transport costs and why in your opinion can it not be reduced?
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by Teever 1y ago
Milton Friedman is wrong. The human emotion that drives free market capitalism optimally isn't greed, it's competition. People compete to produce better goods at a lower price to win acclaim and profit. Greedy people mess that all
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by Teever 1y ago
Can you elaborate?
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The last mid-1700s building in central Boston is for sale(happymuncher.com)
3 points by Teever 1y ago|0 comments
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by Teever 1y ago
Yeah, I agree with the idea that planetary colonization is not the best idea. I'm more of a massive spinning space station made from asteroid/lunar mined materials kind of guy myself. But if harebrained ideas to colonize a body wi
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by Teever 1y ago
Your comment is moot because the primary purpose of Starship is not exploration but colonization.
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Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space(livescience.com)
298 points by Teever 1y ago|136 comments
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by Teever 1y ago
What sort of results have you had from running it on its own codebase?
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Building an Airplane Factory From 75 Year old blueprints [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Teever 1y ago|1 comments
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Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet(mashable.com)
89 points by Teever 1y ago|150 comments
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by Teever 1y ago
You took the bait. The person you're replying to would much rather have a discussion about the well-documented atrocities of a waning American empire than the far less documented atrocities of a waxing Chinese Empire that has no democr
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by Teever 1y ago
Because consumers have a reasonable expectation that the foods that they buy and eat are called the words that they've come to expect them to be called and not some sort of laboratory grown facsimile.
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by Teever 1y ago
Probably not because America lacks the blue collar skills necessary to build and service the kind of manufacturing infrastructure needed to do what you're describing.
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by Teever 1y ago
Exponential growth in the fine value for reoffenders within a a 1-2 time period is also a good mechanism to ensure compliance.
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by Teever 1y ago
Then you don't know how to do it. Knowing how to do something doesn't meanings knowing how to get it done. Which means convincing the right people to get it done. If that isn't happening you don't know what you're

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