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by avmich 1y ago
> That's assuming it can carry the payload envisioned, which seems iffy at this point. Envisioned payload? What do you mean?
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by avmich 1y ago
> Starship is such a fantastically dumb idea I'm sure there could be better rocket configurations than Starship - but so far Starship is better than other existing schemas. Starship is really good comparing to others - getting the c
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by avmich 1y ago
I think you're wrong saying they are cash flow negative. Both Starlink and payload launching business are profitable in SpaceX.
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by avmich 1y ago
It seems lately a lot of comparisons are with Nazi Germany. And there are many questions, they repeat, if people can do any other comparisons. Can those asking stop for a moment and think, why we have such a situation? One of the reasons wo
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by avmich 1y ago
In wars it's important who started first. In Russia-Ukraine war this is quite clear.
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by avmich 1y ago
It's like tipping somebody on wanted list versus resisting masked government official, something like ICE. We absolutely need to level the playing field here.
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by avmich 1y ago
I have an issue with "stupidity" suggestion. Clicking "Agree" without full analysis is tried and true Internet tradition, it's so sad somebody assumes it's serious and attempts to use it. We should have legal p
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by avmich 1y ago
Piracy is when your digital assets disappear from providers' locations available to use.
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by avmich 1y ago
What about nick RickJWagner posting on HN?
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by avmich 1y ago
What's that fairness issue?
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by avmich 1y ago
SpaceX did Falcon-1 a few times cheaper than assumed, and that was the first aerospace experience for Elon. Turned out impressively good...
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by avmich 1y ago
Is there an HTML version? This one is hard to read, especially on a vertical screen.
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by avmich 1y ago
In general he's not particularly good with having ideas, and this particular might get too hard as well.
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by avmich 1y ago
Ideally that should have been started by Bush in 2008, or Obama in 2014.
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by avmich 1y ago
> See also the four years of the Biden administration. That's WSJ, what can we expect.
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by avmich 1y ago
> No one wants to teach bad students That's not true, but maybe there are too few good teachers who do that...
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by avmich 1y ago
I'm working on a project of next generation large manned space station, to replace aging ISS. Looking for cofounders - technical (aerospace, mechanical, electrical, software etc.) or business (skills in market of ultra-high net worth i
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by avmich 1y ago
Yandex's Alisa will probably disagree, but AI's opinions might be not too popular.
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by avmich 1y ago
My company recently started working on one.
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by avmich 1y ago
> The way fluids redistribute themselves in space is also why astronauts can’t burp without throwing up — the contents of their stomach become evenly pressed to the sides of the organ instead of settling at the bottom. Interesting. Is it
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by avmich 1y ago
Can it be a negative-sum - the bigger inequality, the smaller the total?
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by avmich 1y ago
People built houses for millenia. In America the small scale builders were here pretty recently - even now, I suspect, you can find them all across the country. I would be surprised if people completely forgot how to build houses all by the
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by avmich 1y ago
It surely wins if the other side just walks away from the problem.
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by avmich 1y ago
> But probably, first some homebuilders who use the current model have to go bankrupt. I think it's not necessary. The different model homebuilders should pick up the orders, that's it.
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by avmich 1y ago
> True, the current culture on X and other social-media apps is perhaps less immediately destructive than it was during peak woke (circa 2017 to 2021). Pardon?
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by avmich 1y ago
> They don't want to be in that position. Then where are the builders which do what they're asked to? Is the problem with the banks which don't do this operation? Then it looks like a financial opportunity. You're eff
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by avmich 1y ago
Oh, that's good. Those are institutionalized builders who hold inventory. Let them go. Let builders who are paid workers to do the job, whose income doesn't depend on house price but is described in contract between owner, bank an
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by avmich 1y ago
> Builders are walking. Why? Builders are supposed to be doing the paid work, why would they walk out of it?
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by avmich 1y ago
> Why would a homeowner send 1-2 paychecks... Can't the asset holder - the homeowner in this case - get rid of the asset which stopped performing? Why such a strange financial behavior? If the houses are financials - why not to deal
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by avmich 1y ago
Most student can not afford the expertise necessary to have AI patient etc. I think the original phrase was made with the assumption "as it is right now". I do share concerns of undersigned, even though don't necessarily agre

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