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by mlindner 4y ago
At the Apollo program's peak the US was also putting more than 4% of the total US budget toward the program. If the EU put more than 4% of it's total budget toward ESA I'm sure they could do something similar. But that's
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by mlindner 4y ago
Note: Even if there are damaged houses, part of the FAA launch license is SpaceX making sure to take out liability insurance to handle any damage claims. $500M for any damage claims. [1] [1] https://www.faa.gov/about/of
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by mlindner 4y ago
There’s no regulatory capture here. SpaceX hasn’t been around long enough to do so in the first place. Also regulatory capture is defined as putting in place regulations that you can handle but create undue burdens on competitors to prevent
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by mlindner 4y ago
Hydrogen in fuel cells isn’t used in any way similar to how lithium is used in batteries.
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Liquid or gaseous, and at what pressure?
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by mlindner 4y ago
Some people are confused and think the government is against Musk in some way like the public is. The government quite likes SpaceX.
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by mlindner 4y ago
It later became that but when MCT was first mentioned it was left up to the fan community to interpret what the acronym meant. Note also there was no images at that time, just a couple of fan artist conceptions on an imagined SpaceX made ma
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by mlindner 4y ago
That came later after the MCT and then ITS acronyms. There's a history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_development
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by mlindner 4y ago
That area is restricted during launch. If you head out there you'd end up canceling/delaying the launch. https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/16470015572111605...
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by mlindner 4y ago
I've been following it since even before that point when it was still called the "MCT", but without any explanation of what the acronym meant. A long time coming. This is the beginning of a new era in space exploration.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Amazing tour of his massive library of space documents by Jonathan McDowell ( https://twitter.com/planet4589 )
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Jonathan McDowell's Space Library: 2023 Tour [video](youtube.com)
5 points by mlindner 4y ago|1 comments
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When people make mistakes under him, he never names them and instead takes ownership of their mistakes. Naming and firing them would be in fact a bad sign and a sign of a bad leader.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not sure what NPR is complaining about, they themselves state that federal funding is "essential" (in bold) for them.
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by mlindner 4y ago
A couple of reasons: 1. I care pretty strongly about the truth. When I see people actively spreading incorrect information whether through malice or their own misunderstanding I think it’s important to correct it to prevent the deception of
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by mlindner 4y ago
At least for my case, turning on my receiver doesn't turn my TV on, though turning my TV off turns the receiver off, in such cases I just turn the receiver back on again, or never turn the TV on in the first place.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'd note that only high end TVs actually have that functionality, and only if it's relatively new. Though it's especially true for an OLED TV, where a black pixel is a pixel drawing no power at all.
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by mlindner 4y ago
BTW, if you happen to have an OLED device, when you display a black image on your display, other than the electronics that run to render the image, it's equivalent to actually having the screen functionally off. Unlike an LCD display w
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by mlindner 4y ago
There's no evidence to support that statement. Given he continues to talk with the man at times (he replied to one of his tweets the a few days ago) and there's no evidence to support the idea that he did it for monetary reasons,
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'll retract my opinion that "hate speech is down" as it's apparently difficult to measure but I am going to continue to say that "hate speech is up" is at the very least "highly misleading" as it giv
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by mlindner 4y ago
Look at the details of that report. They're measuring by _number_ of tweets rather than impressions. Hate speech impressions are down. i.e. if you want hate speech you have to go out of your way to find it using bots. Normal users are
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by mlindner 4y ago
All the data shows that racist content is down significantly following the purchase.
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Note: he did not insult a handicapped person. At no point did he attack his disability. That was a cruel twisting of facts by the media. Further he was misled by someone feeding him incorrect information and promptly apologized for the conf
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by mlindner 4y ago
Curious question I have. What makes you think FSD is a “dangerous scam”? It’s quite functional even if it doesn’t quite meet the advertising yet. Maybe slightly dangerous for now yes, but hardly a scam.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying, but the source is actually him denying it. > About the contention that he had a threesome with Ms. Heard and her friend Cara Delevingne, Mr. Musk said, laughing, “We did not have the threesome,
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by mlindner 4y ago
I tend to agree. By tearing him down as much as they can, and making his minor issues stick out more than his major good sides they can offset his "worth" per-se. Additionally there's the narrative that all people with lots o
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by mlindner 4y ago
If Elon was self-absorbed he'd be buying private yachts or private islands or massive mansions. He wouldn't be constantly talking about existential risks to humanity and trying to come up with ways of fixing them. Is Bill Gates se
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by mlindner 4y ago
Really? It's hard to imagine him doing anything at this point that would offset the good he's done for society. He upset and tore down the military-industrial complex launch monopoly saving the collective US tax payers billions th
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by mlindner 4y ago
Except nothing in SLS was strictly new. The engines are literally re-used, the solid rocket boosters are not new and are 5 segment versions of the boosters used on Shuttle, the tank design is a load-bearing version of the Shuttle. It's
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by mlindner 4y ago
The noise used in the toy isn't very pleasing to the ears.

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