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by carbine 3y ago
No amount of poor decision making changes the fact that several precious human lives were lost. Frustration over the company's potential negligence and sadness over the loss of life can coexist.
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by carbine 3y ago
yes I believe in one interview the CEO said carbon fiber provides buoyancy but is much cheaper than syntactic foam, which other similar such vessels have used
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by carbine 3y ago
Yeah. IMHO this thing should have gone unmanned to the bottom a gajillion times, and exposed to all variety of stressors, before a paying passenger was on board. Maybe that's not possible? Maybe it was in fact prohibitively expensive?
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by carbine 3y ago
SpaceX has explicitly very different approaches for crewed and uncrewed crafts. Uncrewed rockets are pushed to the limit over and over and over again, to drive innovation and thoroughly test them. As soon as a single person is on board, the
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by carbine 3y ago
Regulation in areas of extreme innovation is by definition difficult. When you have people onboard any space or deep sea craft, you do have some level of moral obligation. Whatever you feel about Elon Musk, I appreciate his distinction in a
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by carbine 3y ago
Watched this too. I am alarmed by the CEO's assertion in the CBS video segment that only the hull was critical, everything else could break and you'd be safe. We know for a fact that other submersibles have gotten caught in wrecka
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by carbine 3y ago
Sincere question: if this did in fact implode (hopefully not), would there be identifiable wreckage? Would we be likely to find it? And how likely is it that the Navy or some other group picked up the audio of the implosion via hydrophone,
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by carbine 3y ago
I try to have a generous read of everyone's intentions, but that anecdote is alarming.
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by carbine 3y ago
According to David Pogue (journo who did a dive on this vessel last year), at least as of last year there was no beacon to transmit location. One would hope radio would be working, in that case. Source: https://twitter.com/P
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by carbine 3y ago
I'm hesitant to speculate but just sharing -- an earlier version of this submersible was scrapped: "OceanGate will take advantage of lessons learned during the construction of its carbon-hulled Titan submersible, which was origin
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by carbine 3y ago
I think you might be over-extrapolating your own POV. I have a mediocre soundbar and can afford the Vision Pro. I'm not likely to upgrade my soundbar anytime soon (I don't really care), but I'm very likely to buy a Vision Pro
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by carbine 3y ago
that's just mathematically incorrect as a generalization. it depends on the market, the price-to-rent ratio, interest rates, transaction fees, maintenance fees, taxes, and how long you're actually living in one place. if your burn
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by carbine 4y ago
don't be too quick to assume, i'm a woman and that sounds great ha
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by carbine 4y ago
I'm a woman and have had long serious relationships and long-ish stretches of being single. Took me a while to filter through all the social pressure BS and realize that, on balance, I have been way (WAY) happier single. Maybe this cou
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by carbine 4y ago
So much good advice here. Just want to say as someone who has gone through this, burnout takes so much longer to recover from than you think. The sooner you make changes to start to address it, the sooner you'll get through to the othe
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by carbine 4y ago
yes great point, without a doubt he put together $44B and never once thought about what he would do once he acquired it.
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by carbine 4y ago
or they were anchoring the price at $20 so $8 feels like a deal. not rocket science. :P
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by carbine 4y ago
this is such a cynical take
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by carbine 4y ago
checkmarks ALSO mean you are who you say you are. making them a feature of Twitter Blue (note: one feature of Twitter Blue) eliminates any status that might have been conferred in the past, yes, but it also goes a long way to sorting legi
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by carbine 4y ago
how's that going for them
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by carbine 4y ago
yes: https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption
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by carbine 4y ago
I agree with this. If you're a regular social drinker it requires quite a bit of self-reflection and lifestyle adjustment to stop drinking entirely, which is the hurdle a lot of people face. But anecdotally/personally I find that
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by carbine 4y ago
> The majority of their original, promoted content is watered down crap designed for mass appeal. this has 100% been the reason my time spent on Netflix has gone down. seems like everything they make is algo-optimizing shlock designed to
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by carbine 5y ago
Would you prefer a monopoly where only Williams Sonoma can advertise on WS keywords? I’m sure if you wanted to start a little premium homewares brand you’d feel differently. Bidding on competitor keywords allows small and big brands to comp
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by carbine 5y ago
It’s all well and good to claim that PPC offers little to no incremental benefit to brands like Airbnb and Williams Sonoma. But the gaping hole in this argument has to do with small brands. If you wanted to found a new cast iron skillet com
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by carbine 5y ago
Worse: they all want botox and filler because it’s so heavily promoted on IG. A f@*king travesty.
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by carbine 5y ago
Any woman with an instagram account could have told you this. Doesn’t matter how confident or healthy you are at a baseline, spend enough time on IG and you will start to feel like shit about yourself. I refuse to use these godforsaken prod
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by carbine 5y ago
Yes, two things: [1] it taught me a lot about how to present information and conduct discussions dispassionately without being rattled; and [2] past a certain point, people like that are toxic and they stifle innovation, productivity and we
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by carbine 5y ago
It’s easy to cheer this since ad tracking and FB are both deeply unpopular. But not enough people are talking about who’s left holding the bag here: thousands of small businesses whose very existence is only possible because of the affordab
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by carbine 5y ago
Dunno who you’ve worked with but in 2021 that’s patently false. Optimizing Facebook ad performance for ROAS is a precise science. Marketing budgets are heavily scrutinized and hard to defend precisely because of dismissive attitudes like th

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