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by Zigurd 7mo ago
Sorry, but I really have to call this out as pedantic and irrelevant at a time when the main risk is the US going fascist. The Germans in particular are sensitive to that trend. They're not motivated by an abstract argument. Any moment
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
More specificity would help. Cops, cop culture, incompetent and purposely harmful training, and the appalling nature of our criminal "justice" system is what ruins lives. Some other parts of government might be just as bad, but in
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
Because this is HN, and especially because it's HN's audience reading it, this is a perfectly cromulent question.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
The companies that make these tests need to be sued out of existence.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
That's some early stage Tesla optimism right there. What's really happening is that starship is the space cyber truck.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
It's the cyber truck of space. It's what happens when Elon jumps into the k-hole and convinces himself that because he owns a company that successfully did a thing, his genius will make those companies do an even better thing. He&
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
Don't laugh. This will double the paying customers.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
Starting the wrong war is faster.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
I've dragged starship since the very first day as an example of bad product leadership and bad project management. It's going to turn out to be the cybertruck of space. The inflection point for both Tesla and SpaceX is when Elon d
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
Read some Charles Mann. Tribal leaders if they can really be described as leaders had to work with consensus and cooperation. Modern society is much more coercive.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
I have yet to check the prediction markets for this proposition but I would bet on Peter Thiel being the first one to mistake a fancy cup for the Holy Grail.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
That's not how humans came to populate areas that previously were dominated by predators who would be obviously deadly to individual humans. Cooperation and planning are what made physically weak humans dominant. That cooperation and p
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
Before you demand more explanation on the spot, you know there's a Wikipedia page for that. It explains the components how they are legitimated and the mechanisms of the UK government that rely on it.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
It won't because of congestion. Terrestrial wireless infrastructure can be engineered for any level of user density. The TAM for space based wireless is limited to people who are out of range of terrestrial wireless, and have a high en
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
The SpaceX float is small in proportion to a ridonculous valuation.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
It's cute how some people think that a market, especially a securities market, adds to immunity against corruption, and corruption-adjacent fuckery. These are the same people who think the cybertruck of space is worth $2 trillion, whil
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
So Artemis is the one that can go places without 18 hypothetical refueling missions none of which has been demonstrated to work. But the cybertruck of space is worth 1.75 trillion?
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
You are technically correct. But the distinction between devolution and a Federation of states gets very blurry when you take a look at what's happening with voting in the US these days. You are technically incorrect about the UK not h
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
This is designed to create involuntary bag holders. The people who stay away from this IPO are betting that, while it may open at the target price, that can't last because there's no path to actual GAAP profitability. They are bet
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
The kindest thing we can say about SpaceX is that Falcon 9 is the best run space launch operation ever. But is it profitable? Are those five-year lifespan satellites really assets? Do they generate enough cash flow to be replaced or was tha
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
All those ketamine enthusiasts are going to have to admit that it does nothing for self-awareness.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
It's a failure of hiring, planning, and management. It's an off the books opportunity cost. It's an off the books cost of hiring a replacement. And if over hiring was done willfully, then yes it's straight up unethical.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
I'm glad I can still count on HN to come across the correct use of a lesser known definition of a word.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
This is an exercise in painting the bull's-eye around the arrow. What were we going to see this year is that Musk is capable of destroying the car company that he, against all odds, was able to scale up into a real new competitor. That
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
I was about to try to make this point: there have always been projects that attract more potential contributors than there are competent contributors. And there have always been techniques for identifying quality contributions from new cont
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
Trump has done them a favor by creating a generation of Iranian patriots who put their anti-fundamentalism at a lower priority than their disgust at the US and Israel.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
What's fascinating in the context of HN is that Trump is partly a product of the industry luminaries we talk about and occasionally see contributions from on this forum. They would get off too lightly if we write it down to cynical opp
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
A few years from now SpaceX will be studied as a business school case of how EBITDA needs a plausible path to GAAP profitability in order to matter.
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
I'd put this in the blind pig find truffle category. H1-B is perfectly sensible if you read the regulations and the law: if you can't find someone to do the job in the US, you can hire outside. Not "if you can't find som
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by Zigurd 7mo ago
We had allies. Now they are treaty signatories asking themselves WTF?

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