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by tristanj 5mo ago
You have no data to support what you're saying, you sound anecdotical, and on top of these flaws in your argument, you have shifted the goalposts, to the point that you don't even know what you're replying to. You asked about
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Several issues: 1) The short lifespan is intentional. There is no reason to keep satellites beyond a few years because older satellites quickly become obsolete. The first generation Starlink sats are now 4 generations old, and are practical
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As long as the money supply keeps increasing, excess money has few places to go (bank deposits, stocks, real estate, and physical goods). Most of it will go into the stock market, since it's quite liquid with and has good investment re
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> [SpaceX] is going to have competition in the future and will lose customers [to good low cost alternatives]. Okay, well who will offer a lower cost-to-orbit than SpaceX?
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The entire education industry, so many students ask ChatGPT to help with their homework, and lots pass it off as their own work. Many students have quit going to office hours & tutoring, and ask AI for personalized answers instead. The
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Passive investing funnels money into the market without accounting for business fundamentals. It simply allocates funding by looking at sector and market cap. It's the definition of dumb money. As long as companies can make it into the
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by tristanj 5mo ago
ChatGPT has 700 million users. What do you think they are using it for? It's upended entire industries. How many millions of emails do you think are composed using ChatGPT? How many legal briefs were reviewed by AI? How many businesses
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The number of lines of code doesn't matter any more. A better metric is AI-assisted commits, which has the same statistics.
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This is completely wrong. Passive funds don't buy at IPO price. They buy after the inclusion rebalance which happens weeks later, at whatever price the market has already set. Plus the S&P500 rule change hasn't even happened y
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One third of all software code is written by AI. At the frontier AI labs it's 80%+. It has completely upended the software industry. How is that not a massive adaption?
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It's honestly blown out of proportion. S&P 500 allocation is float adjusted, i.e. the allocation is based on the market cap of the floated shares, not the total market cap. SpaceX float is ~4% at IPO, and at a $1.75T valuation that
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Starlink Mobile (i.e. Starlink direct-to-cellphone without modifications) is already happening, and fast. Phones that have the recently announced Qualcomm X105 modem will support Starlink Mobile 5G at speeds up to 150Mbps, direct from satel
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Download the Bypass Paywalls Clean browser extension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean The project has been going on for years, it moved to gitflic after being banned from github and gitlab.
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by tristanj 5mo ago
As someone who uses Notion on the free plan, does Obsidian work better than Notion with local AI tools?
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There's so much wrong here, a ton to unpack. > A fully reusable Starship has a launch cost of around $75m - $90m No, that's the Starship build cost , i.e. the cost of an expendable Starship. A fully reusable Starship current
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> They are looking 10 years forwards. I am looking 10 years back. And that's your flaw. Companies are priced by looking ahead and projecting future revenue and earnings, not by looking 10 years into past. Your analysis is fundamen
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You mean Starship. And not it's not, Starlink is already extremely profitable, currently running at a 60% profit margin.
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I'll mention the ones no one else is talking about. The Golden Dome buildout will deliver $200-300 billion in revenue to SpaceX through 2040 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s... . Golden
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Threads is taking off in regions likely irrelevant to your interests (India, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, etc). The content on Threads covers national politics and local social issues, which would typically not be shared on a tech forum like this
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Threads? They have 400m monthly active users and 100m+ daily active users. Though, its userbase likely does not intersect with your interests. Meta Ray-Ban glasses are also a massive success.
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Starship in its current incomplete form (v3 fully expendable ship and booster) already has the lowest cost to orbit in $/kg of any launch vehicle ever. It's around $400/kg to orbit fully expendable. Add in booster reuse, whic
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by tristanj 5mo ago
I find it amusing to read comments like these, because they remind me of the massive awareness gap between people who understand SpaceX's product line, and those who don't. In your world, you only see and interpret SpaceX's e
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by tristanj 5mo ago
Agreed, none of these are specific to EVs. A new Ferrari suffers from half the issues the author complained about. This article is pretty much "Gripes I have with Tesla design that I see making their way into other vehicles".
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Impossible. The N1 rocket was far larger than New Glenn, and when it exploded, the explosion yield was below 1kT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear... If you want to see an actual 1kT explosi
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Macbook Neo is manufactured with leftover / binned A18 Pro iPhone chips, these chips have a defective GPU Core and Apple was sitting on millions of these. Apple does not have an easy way to dispose of these chips, the base iPads use 2
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by tristanj 5mo ago
> Bloat makes new software slower, not new features False. New features can make all other software slower. A clear example is Apple intelligence, a new feature which runs an LLM on-device and uses 1-2GB of RAM. The large amount of RAM
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Firefox is a terrible example for you to pick as their app size on iOS ballooned from 35MB in 2015 to 373MB in 2026. That's over a 10x increase in bloat. The developers of Firefox for iOS made the willful choice to bloat their app, not
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No, you pivoted to talking about your Linux phone, because your claim of "look at Firefox it's not becoming slower" is demonstrably false on iOS. The latest version of Firefox for iOS is pushing 400MB, over a 10x increase fro
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I asked Claude Opus 4.8 to estimate the size of the explosion in kilotons of TNT, and it estimated the explosion at 0.18 kilotons of TNT (with an ~0.13–0.26 error range). For comparison, the N-1 rocket explosion was around 0.5 kilotons of T
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SpaceX Starship also exploded during a static fire test on June 18, 2025. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-starship-upper-stage-exp...

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