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by jordanb 1y ago
Yeah I'm sure they could walk out the door and get a job at the other rocket company across the street.
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by jordanb 1y ago
"Benzene is what anti-nuclear people think nuclear waste is."
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by jordanb 1y ago
I'm kinda weekly in agreement too but I can't really square the idea that it's all Section 174 with what I've been seeing as a tech worker. 1) At my company they already were capitalizing most of our time. We have to fil
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by jordanb 1y ago
Facebook couldn't beat them on merit because it's not very good at what it does. It does, however, have money because it was good at one thing one time, and therefore it could solve its inability to execute with M&A.
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by jordanb 1y ago
> it was a waste of money and that FB could have just beaten their competition instead of buying them. Correction, people were saying that FB couldn't beat their competition and had to buy them.
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by jordanb 1y ago
> often pay off alrite > laughed at for overpaying for Instagram and Whatsapp That's not how it went down. They were laughed at for screwing up so badly that these apps were drinking their milkshake, and then they panicked and pa
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by jordanb 1y ago
Probably chickens coming home to roost on the 2000s-era "flying is ultra-safe now, time to deregulate, disinvest, and capture value from efficiencies"
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by jordanb 1y ago
Except fireworks "code Chinese" I kinda forsee drone shows getting so extravagant that they make fireworks shows seem quaint: "why don't the fireworks make any pictures?" Then the drone shows get oversaturated becau
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by jordanb 1y ago
Not only that but Musk was able to successfully argue in court that he's such a well known liar that a reasonable person wouldn't take his accusations of pedophillia seriously
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by jordanb 1y ago
> Hey, at least it looks more entertaining! :/ The revolution wouldn't have been televised but the polycrisis will be live streamed.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Earhart seems to be a story of someone pushed beyond their capabilities by a runaway media narrative. She was a good stick and rudder pilot in an era where most of them were male military veterans. This made her famous but her fame coincide
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by jordanb 1y ago
Track quality and maintenance by US mainlines are more Ukraine/Poland camp.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Actually there used to be a lot more electrified track in the US but the freight railroads tore it out to reduce capital ratios and allow tall-stacking containers.
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by jordanb 1y ago
I believe bird strikes went down when they made the windmills much bigger, and the angular velocity of the blades much lower. Not building them on open truss towers encouraging birds building nests under them also helped.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Yes kinda, although even very large wind farms are small compared to: 1) the total height of the atmosphere and 2) other natural obstructions like cliffs and hills What happens in surface level winds (which is where windmills operate) are a
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by jordanb 1y ago
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by jordanb 1y ago
I tried to go to AS&S a few times working on projects. They never had what I needed in-stock. It honestly feels more like a toy/knicknack store rather than a place where you can get things you need to build or repair things.
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by jordanb 1y ago
It exploded at the start of the landing burn, not on impact. This was the first attempt to re-use a booster.
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by jordanb 1y ago
I'm on the other side of the fence in BigCo and from where I'm sitting we're not hiring any Americans because we're in the middle of the biggest outsourcing push I've ever seen. The take seems to be "if your jo
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by jordanb 1y ago
Fundamentally any retirement plan that doesn't involve canned food in a celler is pay-go because the retirees will be consuming resources from the economy they retired into rather than the one they were workers in. Their retirement sav
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by jordanb 1y ago
Hong Kong operated as a highly independent special economic zone for doing business in China (at it was very close to the Shenzhen SEZ). Its success was due to the way China partially opened up, and the role it played as a crossroads into C
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by jordanb 1y ago
Turboprops also run on jet fuel. Only reciprocating engines use avgas.
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by jordanb 1y ago
You're assuming that the competitor has better distribution but think in this example distribution is similar but the competitor owns the channel and can capture revenue you have to leave to your channel partners. A concrete example is
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by jordanb 1y ago
Because lying about having "full self driving" is easy if you have no shame. Making a product that works and can pass regulatory muster to create a no-driver robotaxi is hard.
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by jordanb 1y ago
Literally the phrase is "unlocking brand value" "brand value" -> trust people have in the company/product "unlocking" -> betraying that trust in a bustout
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by jordanb 1y ago
Globalization was a policy! There was always this doublespeak that came to trade deals where they say "globalization is inevitable and uncontrollable and therefore we must make these trade deals to facilitate and guide it to be good.
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by jordanb 1y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/very-stable-genius
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by jordanb 1y ago
They haven't gotten to orbit because they haven't achieved the preconditions to enter orbit. And yes, rocket science is hard, but getting to orbit and getting their second stage back again is the easy part. The Space Shuttle did i
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by jordanb 1y ago
> the Starship - which at least in expendable form, is ready now After 8 tries starship hasn't successfully gotten its second stage to orbit. The starship-based plan is the most bonkers part of Artemis. They haven't gotten the
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by jordanb 1y ago
The upside is that executives are cowards (also there's no way in hell I'm going to prison for my employer and most people I know feel the same) so even one high profile successful prosecution will have enormous deterrance effec

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