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by rory096 8y ago
See: @IridiumBoss and @ToryBruno for great examples of responsive social media savvy(ish) CEOs who've used Twitter to great (and no ill) effect - albeit both riding on the coattails of Musk.
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by rory096 8y ago
Make sure you change it to the "Slow: Natural Timing" transition speed so the shift is gradual. The faster speeds (which I believe are default) are jarring and too easy to notice.
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by rory096 8y ago
At least on my phone (LG G5), the lowest brightness setting is still incredibly bright in an otherwise dark room. I use Twilight[0] to dim it further, though unfortunately Google changed Android so it can't affect the soft buttons. (Wh
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by rory096 8y ago
Original tweet said "Funding secured." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776?s=19
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by rory096 8y ago
That sort of depends on your definition of "corrupt", and I'm not sure you can say that so definitively. Yes, Musk isn't running these companies to line his personal pockets. But he's been incredibly clear that his
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by rory096 8y ago
Pai worked at Verizon from February 2001 to April 2003 when he was four years out of law school. What evidence do you have that Verizon are his 'paymasters'?
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by rory096 8y ago
This is known as local loop unbundling and is mandated by the FCC... for phone service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
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by rory096 8y ago
No explicit reason, they just generally don't. When you're beholden to voters or a city council, your job is least threatened when you don't rock the boat. If you do rock it, you better make sure you're right or it&#x2
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by rory096 8y ago
Apparently released way back in 1988! Thanks for that, TIL. http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/3562-history-autoroute-streets... https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-ditches-two-map-sof...
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by rory096 8y ago
>"My favorite was maps from StreetLight that gave you turn-by-turn directions. Oh my God. That felt like an app everyone would love" This is interesting, since Elon Musk has claimed to have written the first ever point-to-point
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by rory096 8y ago
Their goal is 10k cars/week, so perhaps then. There's also (reported today) $5B planned for the factory in China, expected to be raised largely in-country but with some American/international investment. And, of course, some
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by rory096 8y ago
Unless you're using an unorthodox definition of 1% (e.g. 1% of demonstrated academic ability), you're mistaken. Rich people can afford to send their kids to private schools or live in economically segregated areas with high-perfor
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by rory096 8y ago
Regular public schools are limited to the curriculum prescribed by their school boards and generally can't deviate or experiment much. They're also, by definition, limited to students in a specific geographical area rather than an
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by rory096 8y ago
No doubt! I definitely don't mean to denigrate the project at all, it's an incredibly philanthropic move by LeBron and he deserves every ounce of the praise he's been getting. I just see a lot of people using the "public
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by rory096 8y ago
This "normal public school" line is bizarre to me. Yes, it's a part of the school district. But it accepts specific students and has its own expanded curriculum. It's a magnet school.
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by rory096 8y ago
Yes. It'll now be forex currency pairs instead of just an index - find them on your nearest exchange.
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by rory096 8y ago
From the video description: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sporange
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by rory096 8y ago
I guess my question is: what's the downside to not having those resources?
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by rory096 8y ago
Think it's actually this one (with postprocessing tweaks), but yeah. https://pro2-bar-s3-cdn-cf1.myportfolio.com/483775244caf67b7...
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by rory096 8y ago
Oh yeah, definitely. That's just the term I've seen other launch photogs use for it — I assume they mean underexposed relative to a normal photo trying to capture the rocket itself. (Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about photog
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by rory096 8y ago
>overwhelmingly dominant in all major outlets. You can find some niche science-heavy writing, but they are so unpopular that they don't have any of the resources of the major newspapers. What sort of resources? NASASpaceflight.com i
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by rory096 8y ago
I think calling this science coverage is a stretch (except for the cancer one). The new era of rockets lies at the intersection of business and engineering. I do tire of anecdotal journalism, but if it belongs anywhere it's in biograph
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by rory096 8y ago
I'm not sure if Kraus invented those underexposed exhaust shots, but he's certainly popularized them over the last couple years. He sells prints on his website: https://johnkrausphotos.com/buy-prints
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by rory096 8y ago
Shout out to the stunning issue cover photo by John Kraus (/u/johnkphotos), who got his start posting photos of launches on Reddit's /r/spacex. https://twitter.com/BW/status/102243073382932
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by rory096 8y ago
>god knows how much black budget money. Lots of people besides God know. It's 'black' because it's not specifically allocated in unclassified breakdowns. The total amount (per agency) is included in the appropriations
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by rory096 8y ago
Curiosity cost $2.5 billion. The next generation rover, Mars 2020, is based on the same design. Where is this technological leap in rover technology?
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by rory096 8y ago
>That's actually not true, if it's public information, then you're free to grab it. Er, since when? Auernheimer/weev was sentenced to 4 years for "hacking" AT&T by changing a URL parameter to access othe
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by rory096 8y ago
Why is Tesla so insistent on hitting cash flow positivity without raising any additional capital? They're sitting on a $50+ billion market cap, it shouldn't be that hard to raise. We're not even talking about increasing their
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by rory096 8y ago
Andy Pasztor published unfounded speculation that the highly classified Zuma mission was a SpaceX failure.[0] It certainly was not and is believed to be a Northrop Grumman failure.[1] [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-
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by rory096 8y ago
>If only 1% of people were allowed to move around with aided devices A lot more than 1% of people would be unable to function in modern society if you took their car and told them to walk and run.

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