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by nickik 6y ago
Tesla is literally the largest selling EV maker in China. And if CCP simply starts attacking foreign auto-maker based on pretences based on pretences. Then the US have a significant interest in paying back China auto and battery makers in e
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Partnerships with clouds are already happening. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/microsoft-expands-its-space-... Unfortunately storage or compute in space likely don't make much sense at least for now. It
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I understand people panicking about this, but lets cool your horses a bit. First of all, SpaceX will not sell Firewall circumvention in China. They are an ISP and need to follow the rules if they want to officially sell there. Second, even
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If we assume 10 as the max. The have at least 40-50 flights left in the boosters the have. Now some of those a reserved for NASA/DoD and while they can be reused, they will likely only be reused for those costumers. So in practice its
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Would be cool, but SpaceX is not gone finance something like that. The next decadal survival is happing pretty soon. Unfortunately its unlike a large scale Venus mission will be picked. That said, there very well might be a couple small and
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Interestingly we are now moving into a situation where producing the terminals seems to be the limiting factor. They seem to produce these sats at almost unbelievable rates. They are truly mass production. No like 'we build 70 over a c
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His father was a pretty wealthy engineer and they certainty were among the richer people in South Africa. However, his father didn't like him wanting to go to the US so he didn't pay for it. Musk had to work threw university. Late
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An easy argument can be made that advanced vision system is technologically more advanced.
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Or you know, they just want to make safe cars. If you go back you will see that Musk talks about safety as a core feature in every car long before they even had their own Self-driving team.
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Its aluminum die casting. This is the product that is produced there: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0173/8204/7844/articles/1_...
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This has literally has nothing to do with batteries.
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Nonsense, its not in a tent. Its a dedicated building to house the press. See it being constructed here: See: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0173/8204/7844/articles/3_...
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I didn't know about it either until I read: - Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 It has a lot of fun stuff about how the Abkhazia communist party and their interaction with the main party in Moscow. A lot of interesting history.
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This kind of organisation is quite common. Egypt is nice example where the military owns a lot of industry. In Iran the Revolutionary Guards also have a business wing. These are really hard to sanction because in case of sanctions it is usu
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Now its done with the Nanoracks Airlock: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Ex...
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Checkout out: https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/ Probably the cheapest way to launch things. However, SpaceX has no interest in dealing with everybody that wants to launch a cubsat so you have to go to an integrator.
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This is the case. Britain had learn that the Zionists were pretty insane group. It was them that started suicide bombing the British to make them leave, so they could start the exact war they later did.
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> A reason Iran is threatening to Israel is because Iranian leaders don't recognize Israel's right to exist. Neither do most nations in the region. Iran has stated multiple times that Iran would comply with the Arab peace proce
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Yeah so lets ignore international nuclear safety organization who have verified the situation and the US national and international intelligence agencies who have also said so. > ignore the ones that say Israel should be wiped out. Israe
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Israeli armed forces have been in control of these population for 50 years. The West bank is basically a patch work of Bantustan-style territories surrounded by Israel controlled territory. Israel controls most of the resources, like water
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> in famously the only democracy in the middle east. Except it isn't. Just because you draw an arbitrary border between the populations under your control doesn't mean those people don't exists. Israel is in control of th
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> You can call it whatever you wish, but to Israel it is basically a suicide If you just repeat something often enough people start to believe it. And in reality most of those people wouldn't want to come back anyway. And of course,
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> Iran is currently attempting to do so. You know what Israel is also good at. Propaganda and creating fake intelligence. Israel has for almost 30 years now argued that Iran is just a year away from nuclear weapons and the US must insta
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Wind and solar were not really a option for much of the time since nuclear was invented. And we have very clear evidence that the coal and gas industry have been fighting against nuclear since its inception. It was not uncommon even in the
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The institutional green movement from almost its earliest years was fundamentally against nuclear and they have literally spend the last 60 years fighting against it, consistently going again all scientific evidence. Funny enough some of th
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Its pretty well known that people don't remember the waste majority from school if you don't actively test them.
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It is a war that nobody except some Mid-Westerns wanted. Britain had already sent a group of diplomats to make offers to resolve the tension. The US declared the war before they got there. The Brits fought the war with the units they didn&#
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Their risk isn't zero but even the 60s the inventor of PWR said this was not very safe design and designing inherent safely systems are far better. Of course you never have zero risk. That literally impossible and not a standard you wo
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Surprisingly the delay actually happened because of the structures. Not the landing. It took them way longer then anybody thought to produce the large tanks. If you look at timeline when they started in Boca, they thought they could do hops
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First of all, Musk literally never said he would develop a Hyperloop. He literally said, here is an idea, I'm not gone do it, somebody else might want to try. Why don't people understand this? Tesla had a battery swapping but real

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