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by babesh 6y ago
Is the disease here city politics and government? Suburban governments seem more responsive to citizenry?
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by babesh 6y ago
That’s my understanding. Mars is smaller and lighter than Earth.
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by babesh 6y ago
Oh. I guess they are living underground.
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by babesh 6y ago
They can't launch directly to Mars. The idea is to have a 'fuel' Starship designed to carry fuel reach orbit. Then launch a 'crew' Starship into orbit and have the 'fuel' Starship refuel the 'crew&#x2
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by babesh 6y ago
Their goal is establishing a Mars colony (1,000,000 humans). That necessitates a fully reusable rocket that can get humans to Mars and back. That means being able to enter Mars atmosphere at high speed and landing on Mars. That also means u
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by babesh 6y ago
I think it would be useful to take Udacity’s machine learning class as well to provide an additional perspective. There are some parallels such as edge detection uses the same techniques as convolutional networks, regularization is a genera
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by babesh 6y ago
As usual, people approach a statement with their own biases. The issue is not between political affiliations which the statement made no mention of. It is between the government official we have elected versus everyone else. The officer hol
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by babesh 6y ago
There is no reason to give elected officials a free pass. It biases elections by giving them an even bigger microphone than the other people running. Apply the same standards to all.
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s only failed from the perspective of the acquirer and the employees. The founders made off. Sometimes it can still be considered a gain by the acquirer if it prevents a competitor from acquiring said talent.
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by babesh 6y ago
You already see that happening but not Georgia as much as far as I can tell. Also there is labor movement. If the labor can get better salaries elsewhere why should they move to your smaller, less wealthy location? Salaries there would need
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by babesh 6y ago
This article is badly informed and badly reasoned. Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ” It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich
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by babesh 6y ago
Lower minimum wage floor in those areas.
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by babesh 6y ago
You are right.
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by babesh 6y ago
Would it be exciting to terraform a planet or go to another star system and observe life there?
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by babesh 6y ago
You can invest in SpaceX indirectly and directly. You have SpaceX indirectly through some mutual funds and actually through Google since Google’s VC arm invested in SpaceX. I have a tiny bit in those two via a mutual fund and Google. The pr
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by babesh 6y ago
You just need to look further. You get access to rare materials that can be immensely valuable. Read https://www.amazon.com/Case-Space-Revolution-Spaceflight-Pos... Also with that short term outlook you wouldn’t have many t
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by babesh 6y ago
See. Gone from the first page already. Looks like it got flagged this time. The moderators don’t want social discussions.
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s self selecting because previous social posts rarely make it to the top of Hacker News. I don’t know if it is due to the population or the moderation. However it means that people who would otherwise post are less likely to due to past
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by babesh 6y ago
Fair enough. Unfortunately, the best potential neighborhoods are lower income neighborhoods that you can easily gentrify. It is sad that long time residents can no longer live in the neighborhoods they grew up in.
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by babesh 6y ago
I’ve seen the opposite from a company overcompensating. There was a remote office and some complained about promotion opportunities. There were promotions alright and then there were several complaints about the competence of some people th
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by babesh 6y ago
It would be only a little cheaper and you would save some time commuting. If it was that nice before covid-19, it would have been expensive already. There was just that much demand for housing. Where do you think all the tech people with ki
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by babesh 6y ago
Just you wait. I suspect that it will eventually be passed when no one is paying attention. This is just posturing on both sides.
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by babesh 6y ago
It actually worked in manufacturing but it had some negative externalized long term negatives for the US. The long term negative is that the country lost innovation ability in those areas. The countries that manufacturing was outsourced to
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by babesh 6y ago
What happened is that most IT never returned but the work that IT was doing is now done by cloud service providers. Because of immense software scaling, it made sense to pay for quality workers. You can sell each additional software product
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by babesh 6y ago
You mean you have never been part of an interview or supposed acquihire were you were brain picked? That’s happened to me at least five times already. There is far more to things than code. Examples: what is your ARPU, why didn’t you do it
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by babesh 6y ago
That's because there are classes of supermarket instead. - Go to a cheap supermarket and expect bruised stuff and pick out the stuff you like. - Go to a more expensive one and expect no bruising. - Go to a yet more expensive one and ex
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by babesh 6y ago
It's this dynamic that some people want to treat each other as peers in some ways. This is because they are stronger as a group i.e. united we stand, individually we fall. However they to exclude others since if you include everyone, t
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by babesh 6y ago
And if that is the case, then you have people taking both sides of the argument over a long period of time.... Pro economic freedom vs limits to economic power. It isn’t well recognized. It’s just a debate/fight people have been having
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by babesh 6y ago
Also the Boston Tea Party wasn’t anticorporate. It was against the tea tax to be paid to the government of England. “No taxation without representation”. It was anti government without representation.
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by babesh 6y ago
You have to go to other historical events to find evidence of that. French Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution.

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