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by TrevorJ 10y ago
Yes it is. The rocket costs 15 million. The Fuel is 200 thousand. Getting the rocket back is a huge potential realization in cost efficiency.
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I will make no argument relative to your opinion, but I do want to point out that many on both sides of the issue hold to this very same opinion of the opposition.
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He doesn't claim it was a finished product
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The way they are going with feature removal, Apple products in 50 years will be slate tablets. Made of actual rock.
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I too have ADD and experience this.
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In the absence of proof, I agree. I would not, however, put it past advertisers.
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Related to the first, a dramatic (and hilarious) reinactment of actual deposition transcripts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbqAMEwtOE
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You raise a lot of good points here for sure. My main beef with reddit has been the lack of uniformity in application of the rules. It's better for everyone if there are clear rules, and the enforcement isn't capricious.
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Because by definition that's what it is? There's a place for tailored and filtered feeds but there's also utility in seeing what the rest of the public finds interesting.
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I don't disagree, just reiterating my hope that the obstacles you point out don't lead to the problem being passed over as too politically intractable.
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I agree with what I believe is your central point, which is that the issue is difficult and there are no clear answers. This makes it all the more important that we continue to talk about solutions.
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I hope this doesn't remove public pressure for a sensible water conservancy policy in the west.
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With respect, technology is at the nexus of politics now, like it or not. What possible case can be made that questions of technology are not, as of now, central to the debate on many political fronts? Should we not be leading the charge
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Given that ycombinator does specifically involve themselves in issues of policy such as universal basic income and others, I find this move to be at odds with what ycombinator actually is. Once some ideas are too 'dangerous' o
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There are over 100 verified reviews, it doesn't seem like we re seeing the same thing.
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I don't think you are looking at the same thing I am. https://www.amazon.com/XFINITY-High-Speed-Internet-Exclusive... There are over 900 reviews.
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Amazon is a completely dishonest company. Go look at the Xfinity internet reviews on their site. fully eightfive percent of them are a single star. And YET... Xfinity has 4 stars overall. The problem isn't users creating fake reviews
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I'm not actually advocating for anything in particular, except perhaps school choice / vouchers. You do raise some good points here. I also want to say I really appreciate how HN is still a place we can debate political policy civ
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I we really prepared to say that a system which takes 12 years, 5 days a week to produce a 21% illiteracy rate is working? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3... >Public schools ar
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Why is it morally acceptable for the government to take money from you under the threat of force for a service that would dissolve into insolvency immediately if the public had any other economic option by your own admission? The government
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Why is it morally acceptable for the state to, by default raise children? "Sometimes people do it wrong when left to themselves" is not a sufficient affirmative moral argument.
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>I don't think the answer is "parents homeschooling" which can only ever address privileged individuals. My father became disabled when I was 8 or 9 and could no longer work. There were years when our christmas tree was a
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I think your viewpoint here is perhaps the most logical. Public education should be a safety net to ensure that everyone has access to at least a basic level of education in much the same way that medicare ostensibly ensures that no one fal
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What I am suggesting is that the true context is historical. Public education is relatively new compared to the amount of time humans have required an education. Mathematics, metallurgy, animal husbandry, architecture, construction, trade
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The argument that current life has some fundamentally different qualities which require wholly new approach to education is, I think, overly reductionist but let's assume I concede that point for a moment: Even in a situation where the
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From a historical perspective, the idea that the state should be primarily responsible for the rearing and education of children is a new, and radical idea. For the vast majority of human history, children were equipped with the skills for
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I was home schooled, and I have also been a teacher in the private school setting for a number of years. I am convinced that the number one (and perhaps only) thing an education should provide are the skills necessary to teach oneself. Lite
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Largely similar experience. I took the ACT having never taken a formalized test in my life or having stepped foot in a real classroom. Completed most sections with perfect or near perfect scores, but my math score was abysmal. It uncovered
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This is why I love hacker news.
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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They haven't changed their philosophy one bit.

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