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by nickik 6y ago
The US was just so much larger and so much more powerful then anybody else that its mistakes didn't actually fuck anything up. The whole thing with the US is that it is basically secure with friendly neighbors and before China was the
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by nickik 6y ago
US foreign policy is deeply illogical. There is no overarching long term strategy. Is whole bunch of legacy polices that persist depending on various lobbying interest, inertia and situational responses. Add on top each president has their
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by nickik 6y ago
Because its not about Cyber attacks.
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by nickik 6y ago
Equating all 'appeasement' and point to WW2 is tiered old argument. Arguably the US the aggressor anyway. The US made a number of promises to first Soviet Union to end Cold War and then to Russia. Pretty much all of them have been
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by nickik 6y ago
SpaceX tackled started re-usability before Starlink and they had figured it out before Starlink launches even started. Even without Starlink SpaceX would have done re-usability. The claim that they are linked is simply not correct. SpaceX w
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by nickik 6y ago
> The ESA analysis was perfectly correct, for the launch rates they were projecting. Can you prove that they were 'perfectly correct'. In my opinion historically ESA cost estimations have been utterly terrible. And those estima
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by nickik 6y ago
I hope you are joking, because if not you are totally misinformed. The sats are not detectable by human eye and are totally dark in the sky once in position. Even amateur astronomers would have a very hard time finding them. Maybe if you re
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by nickik 6y ago
You can increase the bandwidth on the sats by launching more. They have 40k planned. The actual practical limited is how much data they can get between sat and terminals. For one cell, all terminals in that cell receive all data sent to tha
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by nickik 6y ago
> They are simply working at a place where they can benefit from expensive government launches, government development contracts and VC money. SpaceX had far less government launches then ULA for most of its history. Not to mention extra
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That is true, they are reliable. But we shouldn't go overboard with that. It used to their claim to fame was 'we launch on time reliably'. The 'we launch on time' is now no longer true, they had lots of issue with t
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by nickik 6y ago
The problem is ESA/Arianespace rocket simply operate very differently. Because of solid boosters and hydrogen first stage, the first stage for their rocket reaches a far higher speed then SpaceX first stage does. And that makes it much
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by nickik 6y ago
ESA just spent almost 4 billion $ on their newest rocket despite it being basically a incremental improvement over the Ariane 6 will parts that have been in development for decades. I wouldn't trust their cost analysis. ULA did the sam
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by nickik 6y ago
What utter nonsense. Sure the investors are willing to invest so much money into a failing company at a high evaluation because they are such idiots? > Note that there's a very small world-wide market for satellite launches, which w
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by nickik 6y ago
I have a friend who works at local police in Europe, and they already regularly use commercial tools to analyze the blockchain and find what service people used to get the names and so on. This is a mid sized town in Europe, not some major
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by nickik 6y ago
> I’m not saying we punish the user, but rather find a way to minimize availability. In 200 years history of drug suppression literally everything has been tried. And yet, even in a high security prison, drugs are highly available. If it
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> 2) Those worst humans would still exist, still try to make money out of the drug business. They would undercut prices That's why we have all those traffickers and the mafia running super markets and bakeries, they are so good at r
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by nickik 6y ago
As far as I know, under the Taliban in the 90s there was by far the lowest amount of drug export from Afghanistan. Now its basically a pure narco/military state, far more then Columbia ever was.
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Also, no longer being under international blockade after 10 years might help.
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Yes, something like this should exist, but its very tricky to do as this is a global resource. There are few enough sats that it often still works as 'I know the guy who does operations at XY company or government and how to call them&
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Fredrick when in power acted lived more by Machiavelian realities then his moral principles.
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I have looked into this quite a bit. Non of the materials in the battery are really scares. Building up the capacity both in terms of mining and refining will likely be slower then demand growth however, so in the next 5-10 years its hard t
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by nickik 6y ago
Collusion is kind of a strong statement. There is a fair bit of competition, its not only China and only Japan, and in these places its not one company. There are cathode companies in Korea as well. There are also multiple cell manufactures
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by nickik 6y ago
Well, this is the argument against EV from the beginning. Literally people were shitting on Tesla because they started with a the Roadster. Now they have a much, much better car for significantly lower price produced at much, much higher vo
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by nickik 6y ago
You shouldn't believe every conspiracy theory you read. Basically one guy claimed lithium is the reason for a US backed coup. This is not proven and most expert don't believe this is true. Its neither proven that it was a US backe
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by nickik 6y ago
This is mostly nonsense. The majority of lithium in battery comes from West Australia. Its fairly conventional hard rock mining. There are some environmental concerns in the production of lithium carbonate from evaporation ponds in deserts
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The only thing they said is that in California its a Level 2 system for now. Their long terms strategy is the same it has always been. The idea that they believe it will never be more then Level 2 is factually wrong. You might believe that,
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Do you know how insanely expensive building cars is? Waymo is already bleeding money. If they were making their own cars, they would be bleeding billions, maybe billions per quarter. Are you following the car industry? Car startups get crus
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Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOezSxtL05E Great yt channel in general.
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Well, sure that is generally what is the case. But of course the designer can design it as he likes depending on the situation. Generally, of course this is more true when the stages are empty. If the tanks are pressurized, as they are duri
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I don't know if such a material exists. The problem is SpaceX operates with Deep Cryo fuel (only company that does so as far as I know). They are literally going to 66K on the LOX and methane. Helium was just temporary as well so once

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