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by rory096 7y ago
There's no indication that it's dead, it just launched prematurely (or early to create hype, charitably) before it was ready to scale. Powerwall 1 was similar.
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by rory096 7y ago
>Perhaps he's considering using the Delta for FHeavy as the first stage booster and building the upper stage{s} himself. Either way, its great to have someone pushing for more progress. In the past they've talked about launchin
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by rory096 7y ago
Is there reason to believe they're using old-growth trees rather than managed forests? I would guess the former are more valuable in actual wood products.
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by rory096 7y ago
>and of course, if the runway is equipped, land the plane. There is certainly no such thing as an auto-land system in which the pilots are not required to be ready to take full control of the aircraft at a moment's notice. It is L
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by rory096 8y ago
> Lyft now at $61/share, ouch, there just is no other way to put it. THey pulled a lot of financial engineering tricks to boost their IPO price and well the results speak for themselves:( I don't understand why this is seen as
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by rory096 8y ago
From another Bloomberg column this week: > I lived in Austin, Texas, in the mid-1980s when it was a comfortable town with a population under 300,000. During that same time, however, a college student named Michael Dell was building compu
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by rory096 8y ago
To Google Chrome's spellchecker. It's a bad vulnerability, but it's unlikely that it's really the attack vector here.
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by rory096 8y ago
Yeah that's a fair point. I actually originally had "Saturday at 07:48 UTC" and realized a few hours later it might be helpful to have a date in there... at which point I'd lost the ISO-8601 context in my head.
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by rory096 8y ago
OP is from a few days ago. SpaceX passed the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) in advance of launch NET Saturday 3/2 at 07:48 UTC. A better article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/02/spacex-gains-frr-gre...
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by rory096 8y ago
Whether or not it's a valid argument, that does seem to be the SEC's argument here.
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by rory096 8y ago
>there is not any concerted pressure to shut down existing nuclear plants in this country. It's making a comeback. The initial released documents for the Green New Deal called for phasing out all nuclear power within 10 years. [0]
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by rory096 8y ago
No, the rule is about labeling. Not what is allowed for human consumption. FTA: >As cattle carcasses are turned into steaks at a processing plant, knife-wielding workers cut fatty edges off the meat. These carcass cuttings, or “trim”—abo
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by rory096 8y ago
IRS Form 990s are publicly available. https://www.open990.com/org/020716277/the-lebron-james-famil...
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by rory096 8y ago
This phenomenon is known as convergence . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(economics)
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by rory096 8y ago
The US is the world's largest recipient of foreign direct investment and maintains a substantial capital account surplus. Capital in flows finance our current account deficits. https://www.cfr.org/blog/mapping-cap
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by rory096 8y ago
Primary heading indication is the directional gyro[0] anyway. And magnetic flips don't happen "suddenly" in the timescale of a plane flight. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heading_indicator
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by rory096 8y ago
Don't miss the assumptions they're relying on: >Emissions are considered per kWh of produced electricity (kWhel), including emissions that occur over the complete life-cycle of a technology (cradle to grave). We use the followi
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by rory096 8y ago
The problem isn't so much the act of driving, though society would likely see some benefits from that time being used more productively (even if for leisure). It's that the car is tied to you . Everywhere you go, it needs a place
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SpaceX will reduce its workforce by 10 percent(twitter.com)
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by rory096 8y ago
WSJ wrote an article about flaring this week: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-booming-oilfield-natural-gas... Natural gas is so plentiful that spot prices at the West Texas hub turned negative last month. In general th
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by rory096 8y ago
Note that the tax credit phases out over the course of a year, so for Tesla it'll be $3750 in H1 '19 and $1875 in H2.
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by rory096 8y ago
We've long known (since Mariner 9 spectroscopy in 1972) that Mars' polar ice caps consist of a combination of water and dry ices and grow & shrink each season through direct deposition of water vapor from the atmosphere (subli
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by rory096 8y ago
> it is illegal to have two or more people gather together in public while each wearing any sort of disguise or mask[2] Wearing a mask in public (or on private property without written consent) is a felony in Virginia punishable by up to
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by rory096 8y ago
This is why taxing carbon is better policy than patchwork regulations.
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by rory096 8y ago
Engines and avionics are manufactured in Huntington Beach. https://everydayastronaut.com/inside-rocketlab/
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by rory096 8y ago
Yes, the smallsat market has grown immensely over the last decade.[0] The propagation of larger CubeSat standards and the advent of rideshare in particular have driven growth. Many companies (Rocket Lab, Virgin Orbit, Vector, Relativity...)
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by rory096 8y ago
It's not clear to me that they'd be irrelevant if not explicitly specified as company communication in a shareholder letter. In any case, the past-tense "funding secured" is precisely what makes the statement lose the
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by rory096 8y ago
>So what triggered the recent reaction? >Surely he has powerful family members who are outraged and connected. >The only problem with this theory is that the same might have been said of Bin Talal and nobody blinked at his arrest.
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by rory096 8y ago
That's not right. The stage sep was the Soyuz strap-on boosters separating from the sustainer stage. It was already ignited.
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by rory096 8y ago
They will not develop powered landing. SuperDraco or not, one of the main obstacles was the difficulty and risk of putting legs through the heatshield. Smaller Dracos are used for in-orbit maneuvering. SuperDracos are now solely for launch

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