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by nickik 5y ago
They don't want to go to high or to fast. So they start out pretty heavy and as the fuel is consumed they turn of engines in order keep the TWR the same. They don't want to test supersonic flight profiles with this vehicle. This f
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Its not that high, because its designed from the beginning to be produced in the 100s per year. Its probably being produced faster almost every other rocket engine (outside of SpaceX own) and maybe some much simpler engines from Russia or C
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This is true but this happen partially over time and the more important function is the initial signal. And displaying the wealth that is mobile is also an important signal. Pure economics would suggest a small gold bar would make more sens
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by nickik 5y ago
Never understood diamonds. Practically in the real world, how would you know the difference between a diamond and a simply piece of glass or the cheapest possible fake diamond?
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by nickik 5y ago
This is partly a myth. More important was the non legal enforcement of engagements. Many couples in the past would start to have sex when engaged. If the engagement is not legally secure, the diamond basically serves as signal. That why 3-m
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by nickik 5y ago
1> So you like fish sticks? 2> yes! 1> So you like to put fish sticks in your mouth? 2> yes! 1> So you are a gay fish. 2> I'm not a gay fish, I'm the voice of a generation. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by nickik 5y ago
The engine rich exhaust has likely more to do with the fuel input being wrong because of pressure issues in the tanks. SpaceX can afford to continue to iterate. BlueOrigin needs to produced a fixed finished verified engine to a costumer for
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by nickik 5y ago
At a worse place? I really don't get your comment. LIDAR of the type used by Waymo simply isn't possible to be put into a standard car of the price of a Model 3 or even Model S. So these cars would simply have been delivered witho
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He also said that he thinks Tesla is ahead of everybody else, but that part is often not repeated.
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And IBM360 was software locked on performance, not exactly a new business model.
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The cable was never a product. It was basically R&D project. Battery swap works fine on early Model S but they changed strategy very quickly after showing it off. It was only ever announced as a pilot program. It just doesn't make
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> Even if the design is fully proved out and works flawlessly, the reliability numbers behind the Raptor engine just aren't there yet. The Raptor is very new engine, it will be mass manufactured at a large scale and will have 1000s
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They are of course designing it for Mars and do detailed simulations. But of course tests might show changes are needed.
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by nickik 5y ago
My great ant and uncle who were wealthy and lived in Zürich would put 300Fr in cash by the entrance area of their house. The idea being that if a junkie would break in, they would just take that money and leave. Before the legalization a co
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by nickik 5y ago
You misunderstand. Sure NASA has many contractors, but not for the exact same thing. Commercial crew and commercial cargo is one of very few programs that do. > The SpaceX bid wasn’t just superior to the other two bids, it also aligned w
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NASA usually only has one contractor. Having two is very rare. In this case, they would have liked two, but didn't have the funding for it. The competition was set up to provide freedom to the contractors. NASA wanted contractors to br
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BE-4 had years of delay and the initial version is way under powered compared to its size and potential and will not be reused. They had huge issues with it and that has likely delayed the Vulcan rocket considerably. Its only comparable to
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by nickik 5y ago
This is why I avoid news media pretty much completely. If you study everything a few years removed you actually get a much better picture. The problem with news media is that people have no context what so ever and often no sense of connect
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Taiwan China. North South Korea. Kashmir. Nagorno-Karabakh. I have not seen this much in the social media.
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The comment was kind of unnecessary and not complete right but please don't excuse the Soviet government complicity in the massive famines between the revolution and WW2. The waste majority of famines in pre-Communist Russia were limit
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This is factually incorrect.
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by nickik 6y ago
If they don't regret it they are absolute morons. The value gained alone is incredible. Literally nobody with half a brain would say no to this deal now. Apple has been working on the Apple car for year and years. Whenever that happens
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by nickik 6y ago
Just because sedans are not the biggest market anymore doesn't mean competition is over or that there is not still a gigantic amount of money in it. Tesla is of course also expecting to sell more CUV and Pickups in the future and we ha
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by nickik 6y ago
Their guidance actually indicates more then $40 Billion. 2021 was a down year for Tesla. Given that Q1 usually the worst Quarter they made $10 Billion I would expect significantly over $40 billion this year. And its hard to see how 2022 wil
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by nickik 6y ago
If the whole market declines but your share of the overall market raises and you overtake everybody else in that market that is clearly an achievement. Given that this is literally the first mass market car by Tesla, achieving leading sales
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by nickik 6y ago
> Problem ? In 2015 at the current rate of consumption 130 years of uranium left on earth ! First of all, this is nonsense. The same old peak-blabla nonsense. Second of all, thorium can be used in current reactors. Third, thorium is prac
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Before that Period Tesla had low share growth, after 2017 there was catchup. Also, revenue doesn't capture the whole story. Share price indicates something about longer run growth potential and margin development.
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Why don't they have a service contract so the cost of so many errors burns this 'Taylor' company?
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I'm not saying somebody like that would not be beneficial. The quote doesn't actually disagree with what I have said however.
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My point is that the eventual level 5 system will also be called FSD. And they sell FSD but they clearly state it in the Beta and you don't actually get Level 5 autonomy. When you buy it they are very clear on what features are include

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