No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
1d ago
Israel was not borne of Jewish self-pity.
Surely as a well read Jew, what did the Zionist think was going to happen to the Palestinians living on and around the lands they were buying and settling on ?
Because to me the whole idea of 'Israel' placed in the historical region seems extremely stupid. Surely in the 19th century, you could have foreseen that the same factors that caused population explosion in Europe - sanitation, medicine, better agriculture - would eventually spread to the mid East.
You also had a rich history of nationalist strife in Europe at the time. So settling a land in a situation that was virtually guaranteed to end up with a worse version of the Czech / German issue was just nuts. And we all know how Czech / German relations in Bohemia were eventually settled.
No_one
1d ago
Pretty sure you could do it these days with eugenics. You'd need someone very smart who's not susceptible to narcissism and cults.
No_one
1d ago
What % of contractors are they not paying ? What's the total amount they spent on contractors and the % disputed?
No_one
1d ago
That seems unlikely. Their pace of development is anaemic. SpaceX also developed Starlink - so they're the guy who are probably best at making large amounts of satellites.
No_one
2d ago
Why?
Because that means SpaceX and its customers will be able to orbit 100 tons to LEO at a very low cost. In addition to satellite internet everywhere, this will enable spy satellite constellations, ballistic missile defence, orbiting telescopes, relatively affordable flights to the moon and much other stuff.
No_one
2d ago
I mean, you might be right on Tesla, but .. even if the company goes bankrupt, worst that could happen he'd lose Twitter. (that'd be bad) because the debt collateral are Tesla shares iirc.
No_one
2d ago
I think that's BS. For one he clearly understands the stuff and loves it - you can see it in some of the interviews he gives where he talks about the most minute details. He's not 'just a guy who studied engineering and then decided it's not for him and got an MBA' which is imo the stereotypical manager with engineering degree.
He's a guy who earned money in internet, then staked it all on an absolutely insane idea, hired great people and succeeded despite everyone making fun out of him. (the mocking comments are all out there, archived).
People who don't work for him anymore, so not on the payroll (Cantrell, Mueller) said he's extremely smart or a genius, learns very fast.
Mueller said that Musk hates everything that detracts from the mission: office politics, bureaucracy etc. Also hates hearing "can't be done".
No_one
2d ago
Politically the blob has turned against him.
State department hates him, but I highly that is true is of the rest of them (people at DoD etc).
they find an alternative the gets ejected.
He's not critical for the day to day running of SpaceX.
No_one
2d ago
No, his employees and former employees say understands rocket engineering to a very high level and is responsible for the very ambitious engineering that got done by insisting it's possible.
Even the entire insane approach: it's just a rocket, just metal, and not a precious one, so it shouldn't cost like it's made out of silver is his approach.
No_one
3d ago
none of his innovations have shown to be game changing.
Are you for real?
You're joking. They ate the launch market, slashed prices majorly. Game changed.
If BFR works, total game changer.
No_one
3d ago
A fundamental problem for SpaceX is that there just isn't all that much demand for space.
DoD wants a spy satellite constellation.
Your argument is invalid.
No_one
3d ago
Yeah, but it looks like in biotech you can get exclusivity for 2x long as for anything else.
Not that patents have any point these days - Chinese just copy everything and DGAF.
No_one
3d ago
You're not going to be dead, you're just going to be extensively controlled.
Dead - that's a few more decades after that. After all when people are no longer indispensable to have around but optional and there are far more useful and reliable laborers and tame thinkers, why'd the people with power keep the riff-raff without power around ?
Some nice memes will be cooked up, screws will be tightened, perhaps a few pandemics. All just do cut down on liabilities.
No_one
5d ago
I also don't see how you could copyright a GMO, as at least to my non-lawyer eyes, it's not a form of expression.
First they patent the modified genome, then they patent the novel protein derived from the modified genome. That alone doubles the timespan. At least that's what I recall reading a long time ago..
No_one
5d ago
Nixon did find a way of turning a vast electoral victory into a way to lose - but that was staging the Watergate burglary in the first place. That is what I don't understand - why did he do it?
Is there a reason to rule out the possibility the burglary was staged on the orders of someone else-probably someone high at CIA since the people involved were CIA in order to frame Nixon ?
Were the rest of the books good?
If there was a fall-off in quality it to me seemed only like a slight one. There's a slight bit of 'woo' in there and of course the 'science' aspects are very, very soft but it's still good stories. Last book I read was 'Cemetery Dance' published in '13. Shit, now I remember I read 'Still Life with Crows' which is a bit of a doorstopper on a 320x240 Nokia phone. There was an app for converting e-books into standalone java(iirc) apps the Nokia could run.
Still wonder to this day whether reading with one eye leads to you to process the information in a different way than when you're reading with both.
I enjoyed all of them about equally. Maybe the couple of the last ones that I haven't read aren't as good.
And which Gould was this, now?
Stephen Jay Gould, obviously. Who can forget him committing scientific fraud and fabricating data to show a 19th century anatomist mismeasured brain volumes because of unconscious bias [1], his crusade against sociobiology, his treatment of his colleagues like E.O.Wilson.
spoilers for the novels:
(not here, I can't get the fricking tag to work )
[1]: in a somewhat funny development, several sets of scienists are still engaged in what's basically an academic flamewar. The Morton skull saga (started 1988) is still going on.
No_one
6d ago
That'd take months, at the very least.
And significant investment. The political will clearly is more amenable to crime increases in many places, and I'm honestly glad it's not a problem I have to solve.
No_one
6d ago
Using Minutemen ICBM for Urban renewal is very bold but rather too expensive.
No_one
6d ago
Can't get rid of the dollar..until you can.
For your information,Iphones are kind of rare elsewhere. ..and..green text? Wut?
Iphone is just incredibly bad value. I
No_one
6d ago
I was never too fond of the genre, though I did enjoy the mystery/thriller Agent Pendergast series a bit too much despite it being slightly Reddit.
But it had a character clearly inspired by the despicable Communist Gould turn into a sewer mutant cult leader. You love to see that.
Bit of a guilty pleasure.
Was he pandering to the clueless masses or expressing elite opinion of the day?
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