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by mlindner 2y ago
For some reason the main hacker news article keeps getting deleted and merged with this one. The link should be changed to: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798715759193096245 Also the title is wrong for the subject.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Everyone said it cracked, but it didn't look like cracking to me. It looked like carbon vapor deposition/metal vapor deposition.
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by mlindner 2y ago
I wanted to get ahead of things before things took a downward trend (just compare to the reddit posts on this subject and it's full of people mocking it and calling out people for being "deceived" and other such)
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by mlindner 2y ago
Ah ok. However I do think they assumed in-orbit refueling for the DearMoon mission. Starship was designed from the get go to only barely make LEO with a very large payload (or go a bit further with a smaller payload) and then anything highe
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by mlindner 2y ago
This is completely incorrect. Time synchronization across the entire US is done via GPS, not radio signals.
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by mlindner 2y ago
I agree it would have been a neat way to start things off. But I have no doubt someone else will come along to pick up that mantle. Also, I'll note: It is completely about the delays. That's what dearmoon says and that's what
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by mlindner 2y ago
Everyone should take the time to not just react and actually listen to some of the people who were affected by this. Let's all follow HN guidelines. Here's the comments by one of the people involved: https://x.com/
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by mlindner 2y ago
FYI, OP got banned from reddit for sock puppeting and doxxing (assuming it was the same person). He created a fake reddit user using the name of someone and registered it to their private email address. https://old.reddit.com&#x2
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by mlindner 2y ago
Mike Griffin has almost no relation to SpaceX. He's a footnote at best.
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by mlindner 2y ago
You're mixing things up. Elon Musk's statement was about the private funding that was initially used to _start_ SpaceX. That statement by Griffin was also made in 2013. SpaceX has had many many billions in private funding since th
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by mlindner 2y ago
People leave companies to go found other companies all the type. Just look at: https://www.alumnifounders.com/ Calling this "connected to Starshield" is pretty nonsense.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Let me repost what I posted yesterday the last time this was posted. Everyone should know that the original source of this is a random person from reddit. It's not backed up by facts of any kind so it's surprising that it's g
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by mlindner 2y ago
I don't see anyone catching up to SpaceX anytime soon. There are several possibilities on the horizon to catch up to Falcon 9, if Starship gets delayed for a number of years for example, but that seems unlikely. Competitors can continu
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by mlindner 2y ago
No it isn't. Starlink was funded completely with private funding until well into its operation when it started getting a few small government contracts. I've very recently seen numerous posts starting to show up on both reddit and
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by mlindner 2y ago
Starlink is designed to specularly reflect away from the ground. If the orientation isn't right (early mission) then they can maybe reflect to the ground instead. May also be more visible from aircraft at cruise.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Well there was decades of attacks against standardized testing, and well if you attack the only real metric, even if it wasn't a great metric, we had for judging schools, not surprised that suddenly we start getting schools that are co
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Starlink's disruption of the space industry(thespacereview.com)
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by mlindner 2y ago
Really good overview of Starlink's effects on the wider industry at large from satellite manufacturers/operators to astronomers.
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by mlindner 2y ago
I've been attacking Business Insider for many years. They're effectively a show biz tabloid, but business oriented. They frequently misreport things and write stories that are effectively "clickbait for executives".
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by mlindner 2y ago
Being deceived doesn't make you a bad person. Theranos deceived a lot of people. That's kind of the point.
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by mlindner 2y ago
That's a tautological statement. No man is an army.
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by mlindner 2y ago
You cant see those from a long distance away. Also factor in where advanced cultures evolved that were our ancestors.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Because straight forward language isn't scientific language and lacks precision.
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by mlindner 2y ago
I'm glad more people are thinking this. It's amazing that he got his way back into OpenAI somehow. I said as much that he shouldn't go back to OpenAI and got downvotes universally both here and on reddit.
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by mlindner 2y ago
The study you linked was about exposure from the environment where the chemicals were basically flushed into local drinking water systems and relatively high levels in people's blood streams. What everyone is freaking out about is them
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by mlindner 2y ago
> As for the law enforcement question, it doesn't matter. If they want to get info from your computer, they will and they don't need AI to help. This is a poor take. Law enforcement needs a warrant to seize your computer to ge
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by mlindner 2y ago
My only question is how much of the models is being run offline and how much is the computer just siphoning up all the actions you do and feeding it into the cloud. Microsoft has a very bad history with user privacy, especially lately.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Honest question, people keep hyping about these "forever chemicals" but the hype seems to be around the fact that they're "forever" rather than what the effects actually are. I hear tons of people talking about them
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by mlindner 2y ago
> The article clearly makes the point that nobody seems to know how many Starship launches the lunar mission will take. It varies from 4 launches (by Elon) to high teens (by Lakiesha Hawkins) and 15 (by Kathy Lueders). That's expect
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by mlindner 2y ago
> "why don't we use the same spirit when we were building these back then?". Isn't that just personal opinion? If anything, the current era of spaceflight has finally restored the Apollo ethos that had been dead for d

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