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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Yeah, planes are noisy enough without making them into a call center cubicle farm.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
But a significantly different makeup than plain old rock dust.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> How much do you want incumbent multi-decade culprits to pay? https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/... "Elon Musk's company has now lofted more spacecraft than the rest of huma
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Also, fuel is just part of the cost of a rocket. Sure. But if you blew up a 747 at the end of every trip, it'd be a small part of the total cost, not a major part. Starship's reusability makes it very clearly not like t
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Economic viability is not the same goal. They're close enough, functionally.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
https://x.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1251155738421899273 Tory Bruno saying "no one has come anywhere near close to demonstrating these economic sustainability goals". https://www.teslarati.com
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
There's an unavoidable physical cap here. It's fueled with methane and oxygen, and its size is known. It can't be, say, $50m/flight in fuel for the same reason a 747's flight can't be; there's not enough s
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Yes, the MP, former MEP, and founder of a significant political party is closer to being “the establishment” than the comedy candidate dressed up as a rubbish bin.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
ULA was openly skeptical about the viability of landing at all. Then reuse. Then the goalposts moved to this, repeated reuse.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
> People doubt the timelines, not the claims. People doubted the claims, too. Particularly landing and re-use. Concrete example: https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/04/13/ula-plans-to-introduce...
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
> I just don't see how the fuel costs of getting things up to space winning out unless production is located up there. Starship's in theory targeting something like a million bucks in fuel for a launch. For a military that spen
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FanDuel sent personal message from Phillies star to gambling addiction(inquirer.com)
4 points by ceejayoz 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Ah, there it is.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Did you try hitting play? https://imgur.com/a/A5ajnwy
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
> More impactful than prison? Class-based systems get pretty weird at the top.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Sure they can. That's how they got this government.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
> Price Andrew got a name change, but hasn’t had any real penalty to date. For the British Royals, I suspect becoming persona non grata is more impactful than a jail sentence.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Because it's not enough to just simulate things. https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/28/boeing-says-thorough-t... > Both errors could have been caught before launch if Boeing had performed more thoroug
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Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in feature(bbc.com)
2 points by ceejayoz 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-pen/part-1/titl... > Any person who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any child
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
I'm aware. Start one.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Has to be a pretty decent sized fraction. https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/whistleblower-pro... > The Commission is authorized to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
They're all doing it, and they all need consequences for it. Per the article: > Meta is one of several social media companies facing mounting legal pressure. Snap, Alphabet-owned YouTube and ByteDance-owned TikTok are also battling
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Because the real link now won't even let you watch a video without logging in.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
> So now we can deduce what this is really about. The fact that he can't keep his own story straight? In either instance?
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
I would expect the Russians to monitor for active electronic devices.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
Quite a few got public defenders, so nah. Some presumably lived near and didn’t have jobs.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
> You expect Putin of the KGB to presume the person he's speaking to doesn't have a recording device… Yes, I absolutely expect that sort of security at such a meeting.
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/us/politics/trump-putin-i... > Only Mr. Trump, who has alternately contradicted his own narrative of what was said and complained about a lack of fair coverage
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by ceejayoz 4mo ago
> If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else? Why not? The only other person in the room doesn't speak Russian.

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