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by jryle70 4y ago
How do you know they are all family and not child labor working to help their families? After all child labor isn't a foreign concept in Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1143143252/afghani
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> Most Americans ... endure what I would generously call apathetic care from their medical providers. I call BS with "most Americans" or "apathetic care". Feel free if you want to share your anecdote. My personal expe
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Ban? Are you in the US? can you access this? https://www.rt.com/
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I know bashing Musk is all in vogue and a pastime here on HN, but at least check the facts. Pixar was spun off from Lucasfilm in 1986 when it had been in existence for several years, with many employees. It was an established company changi
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You could try to be clever, or you could read what they were talking about: https://archive.is/PE0AZ
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von Braun didn't run US space program. He was in charge of rocket development. And why mention von Braun without mentioning the similar effort by the Soviets? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
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> Spying on them back in 2010, germany included News for you: Everyone is spying on everyone else. Always have, always will be. Germany was also spying on the US. Spying, a.k.a having inside knowledge, is always a preference by all regim
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> During that time, the dissidents in the US were persecuted harder than any dissidents in the Eastern Bloc Bullshit. As bad as McCarthyism was, nothing in the US could compare to the Great Purge [0], or Culture Revolution [1], or Cambod
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You are going in circle here. SLS won't have many launches because it's too expensive, and they can't build more than one per year. The cost and the tendency of its launch being scrubbed makes it a risk for any time sensitive
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> It's not fair to compare the cost of something that is an incremental improvement on a huge body of engineering knowledge to what NASA is doing, here. Just to be perfectly clear, are you saying SLS development also results in a lo
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And here we are, a post that defends the Soviet in 2022. Something I thought was impossible, talking as someone who had the (mis)fortune of living under the communists.
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Such a textbook example of confirmation bias. You have certain conviction, and you dig deep until you find some references to it, and then declare that your conviction is vindicated. My conviction is that the growth in corporate profits is
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The Sky Thief(rollingstone.com)
1 points by jryle70 5y ago|0 comments
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by jryle70 5y ago
You should be concerned if you're China's neighbor. In addition to the ones listed above, China had a border conflict with USSR in 1969 in Far East - [0]. China invaded the contested Paracel islands which was under South Vietnam&#
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by jryle70 5y ago
California is the most populous state with 39 million people. Currently 8,000 hospitalized. The peak was 14,000 in Jan. Florida has 21.6 million people. 14,000 currently hospitalized, all time high. New York state population is 20 million,
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Highly Vaccinated States Keep Worst Covid-19 Outcomes in Check as Delta Spreads(wsj.com)
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Non-paywall: https://archive.is/iVeJa
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Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading(msn.com)
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> The US supported their coup and gives the regime billions of dollars in military aid a year despite a law that specifically forbids giving military aid to juntas that overthrow democratically elected governments. Egypt was supported by
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Allied? more like convenient partners. Both side needs each other. But Egypt doesn't hesitate to get cozy with Russia: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/03/egypt-us-tensio...
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by jryle70 5y ago
> SpaceX planned to achieve a turnaround time for F9 of 24 hours. So far, the best they could do is 27 days. They didn't plan to achieve this. It was an Elon's tweet when they only started recovering F9 booster, even before B5
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Who are they and how much they contribute compared to millions visiting Russia every year?
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Both Thailand and Vietnam have been devastated economically, and even with various levels of lockdown both country is currently experiencing the highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic. Also, the vaccinated population in
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by jryle70 5y ago
Not sure which country you're from, but it's very possible that your country is a signatory of the Outer Space Treaty [0] that defines basic framework for space activities. Basically it says every country is free to conduct peacef
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> With everyone coming online in the next couple years, Tesla is going to have very real competition. This is true, but BEV sales is currently only 3% or so of the total automobile market. There is so much room for growth. Tesla, VW, GM,
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by jryle70 5y ago
Let me rephrase it as "Premium sedan segment would be in free fall if not for Tesla Model 3, a car that didn't exist 4 years ago". People flock to Model 3 despite it being in a less trending segment. They could have got a SUV
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> This demonstrates that an electric vehicle can be a category leader and outsell its gas-powered counterparts. ICE is currently 97% of the automobile market. A BEV taking the lead in any vehicle segment is a major milestone. Nothing is
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The beauty of luck is that it can be used practically any time as explanation for success. Tesla bet big on vertical integration. Who knows what they took into consideration but it was surely bold since they were not as flush with cash as
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> The other option, that you conveniently ignore, is that cities build a good infrastructure that attracts talent and the businesses come to either serve the talent or employ the talent -- no subsidy needed. How do cities pay for that go
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Years? Both Italy [0] and France [1] are considering open to vaccinated visitors, Europeans or Americans, in May. [0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-20/italy-tar... [1] - https:/&#x2F

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