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by oskarkk 2y ago
Yeah, he made his first big money from PayPal (I think around $300M), and then invested most of that money in SpaceX and Tesla, and that's how he became a billionaire.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I assume the GP is talking about the fact that almost every rocket, except SpaceX' Falcon 9 and the Space Shuttle, is designed to be dumped in the ocean. Specifically the first stage of a rocket usually falls down into the ocean at a r
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Where did you get that Meta number from? Meta's revenue for the last quarter was 48.38B, and net income is 20.84B (and it was less in previous quarters). Tesla revenue was 25.71B. Revenue is better in comparing how "big" a co
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Also, under Obama SpaceX got it's first big contracts from NASA, without which SpaceX wouldn't exist today. That was a risky bet then, but the government got a really good return on that investment.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
This reminds me of paintings in Harry Potter.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Fixed link: https://web.archive.org/web/20100805234134/http://www.thehen...
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That doesn't explicitly say that it wasn't FTS. Activation of the FTS is never scheduled and it results in rapid disassembly. There's speculation that it flew for a significant time after losing telemetry. FTS is designed to
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Every rocket flight has to be approved by the government. No launch until FAA (and also FCC) OK's it.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
The business plans have some amount of data that has priority - I see on the website that it's 2TB/month for $500/month, and after that there's unlimited non-priority data. So on the busy day the business with priority d
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I think that you may have seen month-over-month inflation in Argentina, which is 2.4% for November (the lowest in a couple of years). That may seem low, but that's just the change in prices from one month to the next. In USA, the month
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by oskarkk 2y ago
>Is there any benefit, from Starlink’s perspective for them to sell ‘reseller kits’ for a single ground based antenna to serve a neighborhood? Or are Starlink’s radios so efficient that it doesn’t really matter? I think their antennas ca
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Low inflation doesn't mean that prices will fall. That would be deflation, and deflation is bad for the economy.
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GP meant that researching history necessitates doubting every claim, and never taking what any historical source says at face value.
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> ChatGPT confuses them with David Mayer de Rothschild as well, because it can't name Rothschild family members. What do you mean by that? When I asked ChatGPT "tell me about Rothschild family members" it told me about mem
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Strange that they don't seem to have any status page that's not only for "Meta business products" - some page with the status of FB, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram would be nice.
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Huh, that's an interesting paradox, I've never thought about this in this way.
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Even if they weren't able to talk to anyone at this particular event, they could write much more on the subject. I'm disappointed that the article "The PayPal Mafia is taking over America’s government" is just "ther
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by oskarkk 2y ago
But wouldn't denying less claims necessitate raising prices? I see stats like these: https://i.redd.it/7aa6zytdox4e1.jpeg If the company is denying so much claims (32%), and they have quarterly profit around $6B on $10
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Isn't there a totally separate TikTok for China? >TikTok, whose mainland Chinese and Hong Kong[3] counterpart is Douyin,[a][4] is a short-form video hosting service (...) >While TikTok and Douyin share a similar user interface, t
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I love many small features of Telegram. Telegram had replies to messages before Messenger, WhatsApp, and probably other similar apps (they said they were "the first" or something). Replies in Telegram are very nice to use. In the
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I agree, I think that paying based on usage encourages people to use less, use only if they are sure that it's valuable to them. With a subscription you feel the need to use more , just to not waste the money spent on the subscription
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I guess this doesn't take into account semiconductors that go to China to be used in devices manufactured there, and then sold to other countries? I'd have thought that wealthy and IT-heavy USA together with other countries in the
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by oskarkk 2y ago
And work of the WP Engine developers would be directed by Wordpress.org, which is just Matt, not the foundation. From https://automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-term-sheet.pdf : Fee. In exchange for the License Grant, WP Eng
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> Not surprising given the current administration opposes some of Starlink's "questionable" objectives. The current administration is pouring billions into SpaceX sats (Starshield, custom Starlink-like secretive sats for U
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Is that an exact quote? He says that he disclosed it now because there was a leak and "all vendors that bothered participating agreed on today at 20:00 UTC". https://x.com/evilsocket/status/18394331621681
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by oskarkk 2y ago
That's unrelated to these findings.
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A blog post dropped: https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems...
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> If something isn't blocked in Russia right now, it's because they have access to it. So WhatsApp is also controlled by Russia?
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I think that there were no reported cases of Starlink debris hitting the ground (they're designed to burn up in atmosphere). There was a case of SpaceX's Dragon parts hitting the ground lately, but that's a different thing. A
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Tesla's residential solar was falling since the acquisition (SolarCity before the acquisition deployed like 4x more solar than Tesla in 2023), and now they don't even mention it in the document we're discussing. But "ene

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