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by rory096 8y ago
>You completely excluded (sg&a) operational and (r&d) research costs. The grandparent ignored these, but didn't exclude them. Neither line item is included in gross profit. >I don't see why gross margin is enough
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by rory096 8y ago
But Tesla limits supercharging after too many cycles: https://electrek.co/2017/05/07/tesla-limits-supercharging-sp...
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For what it's worth, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was upheld by the Supreme Court in South Dakota v. Dole (1987), a case referenced extensively in the more recent NFIB v. Sebelius , the Obamacare challenge. [0] htt
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by rory096 8y ago
For what it's worth, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was upheld by the Supreme Court in South Dakota v. Dole (1987), a case referenced extensively in the more recent NFIB v. Sebelius , the Obamacare challenge. [0] htt
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by rory096 8y ago
Launch times are determined by the Earth's position around the Sun, and the overall transfer window is only a month long due to Mars' and Earth's relative positions. Unfortunately, they don't have much choice in the matt
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As she said, it happens in the last milliseconds . You can see the cloud of dust kicked up just before impact at 49:00 in the video — that the speed reduction didn't make it to the on-screen indicator is probably more a reflection of
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by rory096 8y ago
>it's been a long time since Miles per hour and feet were used to talk about rocketry Falcon 9 is built on the imperial system, as are Atlas and Delta. SpaceX is only switching to metric with BFR.
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by rory096 8y ago
>If that's your takeaway then I think there isn't much point starting a debate with you but on the off chance that that is what you are looking for: You may not know this, but the user you're responding to has historically
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by rory096 8y ago
The webcast was removed from Youtube when it ended — we'll have to wait for them to recut and reupload it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUV53Nn3PhA
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by rory096 8y ago
Yeah I know, I just didn't feel like going through all that while lying in bed at 4am. In any case I was thinking a cropped one would be better (hence the 'snip') — so here it is in all its desktop-edited glory: https:/
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by rory096 9y ago
It's at the top of each page - click the icon directly under the article title (on the left) that looks like a Chinese character next to an A. I'd snip a screenshot, but I'm on mobile...
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by rory096 9y ago
>That's no different for the pilot at that moment, you fly the airplane exactly the same. Disagree — I find it hard to believe the flight characteristics wouldn't change with this level of leading edge damage: https:/&#x2
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by rory096 9y ago
>there are over a dozen engine-problem incidents within the past week. Shrapnel flying into the fuselage causing depressurization and major wing damage, on the other hand... The unique thing about this incident isn't that they blew
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by rory096 9y ago
>Who’s behind the $112.5 Million In fundraising for The Boring Company? >Over 90% came from Elon Musk, with the rest from early employees. No venture capitalists or outside investors are involved according to the company. https:&#x2F
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The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees(sec.gov)
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As far as I know, solar bonds are the only type of SolarCity bond that SpaceX owned. [0] http://fortune.com/2015/08/07/this-is-why-elon-musks-spacex-...
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by rory096 9y ago
Tesla paid back (almost all of) SolarCity's solar bonds in 2017. Only Musk personally (and his cousins) still hold that debt. [0] https://electrek.co/2017/04/14/tesla-solar-bonds-elon-musk-s...
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by rory096 9y ago
On the contrary, Musk reportedly took out loans against his Tesla shares in order to participate in this round - to the tune of $100 million. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/16/spacex-is-making-big-money...
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by rory096 9y ago
s/demonitize/demonetize
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by rory096 9y ago
The most recent GAO report (for which Northrop resisted requests to interview project staff[0]), blamed Northrop in part for the delays, citing “a manufacturing error and manufacturing process mistakes.”[1] [0] http://spacenews.c
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by rory096 9y ago
This is a great analogy! To add a little color, all of those satellites that are geostationary (most of them used for communications to date, with the exceptions of Iridium and o3b) are like vans laid out along the equator. Starlink's
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by rory096 9y ago
As do (on the manned side) carrier-borne aircraft and banner planes.
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by rory096 9y ago
>Turning a complex system into a binary, as you are doing, is not an optimal form of analysis. It introduces significant risk, because you are constraining your ability to consider possible outcomes of various policy decisions. Furthermo
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by rory096 9y ago
>The US existed, and was prosperous, before the Second World War. How the US economy functions in the postwar period really has no relevance to how it got to the position it was in before that. I do hope you’re not suggesting that a sing
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by rory096 9y ago
>It would be quicker to just look at the US, where protectionism has resulted in it becoming an economic superpower. This is laughably false. The postwar US hegemonic sphere is built on trade liberalization. Please read up on GATT, the
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by rory096 9y ago
>It started 24 years ago with the Clinton administration granting China "most favored nation" status. This is wholly inaccurate. China has had MFN status continuously since 1980.[0] Clinton renewed China's MFN waiver in
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by rory096 9y ago
If you're referring to the 2016 ILO report[0][1], that was a short-term trend partially attributable to the refugee influx. Overall, global poverty has been on a steep downward trend for decades. [0] http://www.ilo.org&#x2
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by rory096 9y ago
>You really think you can improve the living standards for 90%+ of the world population? Yes? Why would that not be possible?
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by rory096 9y ago
>There is no urgent need for self driving vehicles. It is not like they are going to solve some of the pressing issues that humanity is facing right now. It is just a curiosity, and can may be boost the profits of some corporations. That
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by rory096 9y ago
http://www.nber.org/papers/w7557 http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10070.pdf

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