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by rlt 3mo ago
Wow so much to unpack here. If SpaceX spent a ton of resources developing Moon and Mars base plane they’d be criticized for not focusing on the launch vehicle. The railroad company also doesn’t necessarily need to be the ones building the t
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by rlt 3mo ago
> won’t be Again, “What I find silly is the certainty that critics have that SpaceX will fail”. I doubt you’ve done enough investigation to conclude that. Watching a couple a YouTube videos about how data centers in space are dumb doesn’
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by rlt 4mo ago
I’m confident you could devise a way to ensure the verifying party doesn’t know which website requested the verification, and vice versa. I’ll have to think about it a bit more.
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by rlt 4mo ago
In general I'm opposed to this kind of regulation, but as a thought exercise, we do have the primitives needed to do age (or any other attribute) verification in a privacy-preserving and decentralized way. You could imagine a hierarchy
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by rlt 4mo ago
Honestly a little surprised the ticker wasn’t $XXX
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by rlt 4mo ago
SpaceX is critical to national security and NASA. A new administration isn’t going to change that.
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by rlt 4mo ago
Pretty much everything has a boot sequence of some kind, it just might be very quick.
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by rlt 4mo ago
It would be great for kids who you don’t want to give a phone to. I got something similar for my young kids and they love it. But also there doesn’t always need to be a “why” beyond it being fun for the creator to create.
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by rlt 4mo ago
If the price moves down when a Starship test flight doesn't achieve all objectives that's probably a good opportunity to buy. Many people think "rocket go boom, must be bad" but to some extent it's expected during t
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by rlt 4mo ago
What's that theory? Who are the "people getting out after the forced buying"? People who bought assuming there would be an increase in price due to forced buying?
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by rlt 4mo ago
No insiders have been able to sell yet, and won't for another couple months. Elon and some major early investors are locked up for a whole year.
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by rlt 4mo ago
The $2T valuation definitely depends on Starship working well. Orbital data centers have no chance of being profitable otherwise.
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by rlt 4mo ago
What's your point? If people were skeptical of Facebook even if it was profitable then it reinforces the grandparent comment's point.
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by rlt 4mo ago
250M people take it as an anti-parasitic, as they should.
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by rlt 4mo ago
Oh we're still doing the "horse dewormer" thing despite 250 million humans taking it each year?
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by rlt 4mo ago
Maybe it's not a coincidence an AI company is building this thing...
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by rlt 4mo ago
> every human body is a bit weird and there will almost always be something "wrong" that will be visible in a full body scan Would this be solved by routine scans, so you have a baseline you can compare against? Ignore anything
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by rlt 4mo ago
It's nice when articles lead with culture war handwringing so I know I can ignore the rest of it.
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by rlt 4mo ago
I believe the original commenter meant "The government should not be able to outsource things they are not allowed to do themselves."
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by rlt 4mo ago
> Everything I like about Space X is about doing things that you can't do on earth, because you can't do them on earth feasibly. I agree those kinds of things are more exciting, but the other angle is SpaceX needs an excuse to
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by rlt 4mo ago
Solar power is already one of the cheaper (and cleaner!) forms of power generation. In dawn dusk sun synchronous orbits where satellites are always fully illuminated the panels will produce around 6 times as much electricity as those on the
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by rlt 4mo ago
LMAO, ok, how about “precisely landing the largest flying structure ever built such that it could be grabbed by two mechanical arms attached to the launch pad”? That will make it clear it’s not actually a giant Mechazilla robot reaching out
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by rlt 4mo ago
> It offers no real advantages over doing the same thing on Earth Abundant solar energy, free real estate, less regulation, less backlash from NIMBYs, simpler (yes) cooling. > Energy is far cheaper and more abundant here than in space
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by rlt 4mo ago
It was also hard for many people to imagine a reusable booster, a belly flopping Starship, catching the largest booster ever built with “chopsticks”, a 10,000 satellite constellation, etc. Orbital compute is technically very feasible. We’re
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by rlt 4mo ago
That’s not how it works. There’s provisions to adjust the targets if there’s M&A.
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by rlt 4mo ago
That logic doesn’t hold. A and B are X, A is Y, therefore B is Y? Nope.
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by rlt 4mo ago
It seems like the index funds’ problem to solve. They should just have their own criteria for inclusion in the fund.
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by rlt 4mo ago
He called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, not 401(k)s.
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by rlt 4mo ago
That would be a fine bar if you could ensure your doctors or nearby drivers aren't distracted, stressed, tired, incompetent, or intoxicated.
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by rlt 4mo ago
Steadily starting about 60 days (Q2 earnings) after the IPO.

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