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we could also have gotten who knows what tech by investing in health equipment or longevity, there's nothing unique about space tech research (except from being a priority for defense)
"caring about or not caring about it are treated equally - there are no forces that make them need to care"

I find this assumption that large organisations like Apple are rational, perfectly optimised economic actors very odd. People would never apply it to a government but give it to a nepotistic dictatorship like Apple without a second thought.

Apple has a culture problem re regressions which is only hurting them and not benefiting them.
Also prioritisation. Maybe you don't remember yesterday because it wasn't important.
I just can't believe this.

Almost every single person I knew back in the day who installed Limewire/Kazaa/Bearshare, bought an R4 cartridge or modded their Wii went from buying at least a couple of pieces of genuine media each year to never buying one again.

That being said, perhaps a more useful metric for calculating lost sales would be how many people acquired the technology used for piracy, rather than how many times they used it.
Not really accurate. Most people consider space to be above the Karman line, which both flights will indeed surpass. Virgin Galactic by NASA's definition (50mi+), Blue Origin by FAI definition (100km+).

Yes, neither are orbital flights, but achieving orbit is not so much about distance from earth as it is about your tangential velocity.

Said another way: both flights will be entering the same "-sphere" as the ISS, the thermosphere. This is above the other spheres you typically hear about, like the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere.
If I understand correctly, the GP asked specifically about this type, not space flight in general. And I think it’s a reasonable question: what will this edge-of-space-flight lead to? Is this an opportunity to reduce costs of getting to space even more? Will it be faster and/or safer?

For instance, SpaceX and the likes already go to space (proper), and the benefits are more obvious.
I hope these people get a proper slap on the wrists and a really high fine like $1000
New Zealand synthesized fuel like this in the 80's during an oil crisis, as did Nazi Germany in the 1940's. It's well-understood chemistry, just too expensive right now. Probably will remain that way until it's too late unless we can put a ~$200/t tax on carbon emissions globally.
Of course, they don't want to get in trouble with powerful American lobbyist groups. Same reason local authorities went after the Pirate Bay guys despite them not having broken any laws in Sweden.
The thing is, you answered someone asking if Virgin Galactic was a pointless toy for rich people with whether or not NASA was a waste of time. By the implicit metric you’ve set, Virgin Galactic is a colossal failure.
Wow that is fantastic. I did not know it existed. Only question I would have, is how much is spent on overhead. I know I am being a bit paranoid, but I have donated to too many charities that were just a money making scheme.
Am I in space on my couch right now? Like on a super-low geostationary orbit?
Pour qué no los dos?

I mostly agree in the long term, but in some ways analogously to the pandemic strategy of short term mitigation whilst long term solutions are put in place, I see few downsides to trying to stem the flow now by altering behaviour, in order to give us more time to fix the issue properly.

There's also a sliding scale - not all things people can do to reduce their footprint are really "austerity" but rather alternatives with a different set of tradeoffs. A sideways move that requires a culture shift.

I don't mean this to come across as an attack - I don't know your motivations and I'm guilty of this personally - but IMO most people I talk to who argue your position tend to be doing it as much as a rationalisation of their own behaviour than as a position they've come to from first principles.
> CSP (concentrated solar power) isn't on the same price reduction curve as photovoltaic solar though.

Esp if one ignores storage costs.

> But at grid scale there are lots of options for storage.

Agreed.

> Pump solar is the obvious option.

Disagree for CSP, but for hydro electric I'd agree.
Agreed, Prisma with TS is really nice. I’ve recently been using Blitz, which integrates Prisma and Zod (amongst other things) and it feels like so much of the old webapp plumbing is either now gone or is practically writing itself through autocomplete.
What we need it the technology. Once we have it, if there's interest and demand the price will eventually go down and it'll be available for the masses.
I think there's something to be said about simply supplying a superior service. While I would watch more TV and movies before, now I simply watch YouTube or Odysee. And that's it. I don't really have a need for much more. I wonder if more people have the same experience. Of course, it could also be my age and my strange interests at play though.
What a massively hypocritical article!
No doubt you're being paid by the CIA to post this.... dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
My experience with "hand drawn plans" doing IT for new retail locations in the US has been interesting. It's not my specialty, but we've had a few clients open 40+ new locations country wide between them with varying budgets, timelines, industries, and GC's.

I need to interface with the electricians, carpenters, HVAC, and the GC on every project. None of them have the same drawings and none of their versions are the latest from the architects and engineers. The architects or engineers are also very expensive, so they rarely get brought back in for updates to drawings once unless it has to do with code / regulatory approvals. This ends up with the client's latest real drawings being
a jpeg screenshot of the original plans that they just email blasted to everyone.

All the vendors and boots on the ground definitely have a version of the CAD floorplans, but it was whatever they decided to print out 3 weeks ago when they got this job on their calendar. The workers have just been marking it up by hand since then. This is where a lot for the confusion, delays, and change orders come from. I don't know if this is just what to expect with budgets less than a few million, or maybe it's just retail style projects, or maybe my clients attract poor quality vendors (I guess that says more about me). The only time with no major problem was when one client stuck to one GC over the course of 20 new buildouts. They eventually figured out how to wrangle all their subs together.
The study mentioned in the article notes the only downside to piracy is for recently released blockbusters, where 10 pirated downloads leads to 4 fewer cinema visits. I wonder how much of that would be offset if streaming of blockbusters was available from day 1. No one would expect it to be included in Netflix subscriptions but available as an additional one-off purchase equivalent to say one month of subscription. The only losers here would be cinemas, but after decades of price gauging I think plenty would have little sympathy.

It'd be interesting to find out of film companies have studied this idea. Presumably there is some limit where blockbuster "viewing parties" with N or more people would make less money for the film than some fraction of those N people going to the cinema. They can't (yet) DRM living rooms.
> but they are not a part of the Artemis program as we speak.

They are almost certain to be one of the winning bidders on NextSTEP-2 Appendix N BAA [0], which is part of the Artemis Program. However, Appendix N is just providing $15 million each of funding to Blue Origin and Dynetics to keep their bids alive for the next phase of the HLS competition. NASA really wants a second HLS provider and they are going to send BO and Dynetics just enough of a trickle of funding to stop them from walking away, until such time as Congress gives NASA enough money to actually pay for one.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/nextstep/humanlander3
For all that people are having a go at Branson and Bezos's dick-measuring contest, let's not forget that the original "space race" was to a large extent a dick-measuring contest between the USA and USSR. Yeah, there's been quite a bit of interesting science that came out of it, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that it was all, or even primarily, about lofty scientific goals.
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> I really don't understand all the cynicism around a private space race considering all the potential good it could do.

Just factor in the tax evasion of those flying into space, and the fact that both society and infrastructure is crumbling left and right, then you might get there as well.

Leaving the orbit as a collective effort of humanity to show such a thing is possible is something entirely different to tax evaders doing it for their private pleasure with money they owe to society.
Winged TSTO used to be seen as the most viable path to reusability before Musk started casually toying with VTVL.
Hmm... I built a pond last summer as a pandemic project, and just got koi in it a couple months ago. I haven't really thought seriously about aquaponics, but I seem to have most of what I would need right there already if I wanted to start growing something. (Maybe lettuce?)

Right now, the pond has a lot of regular pond plants, including azolla (aka mosquito fern or fairy moss) which about every week or two I cull about a bucket's worth and feed to the roommates's chickens so it doesn't take over the whole surface.
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> Comparing a successful space company with hundreds of orbital flights to two vanity projects that have never gotten a payload to orbit.

No, the comparison is between three wildly public-visible executive 'personality' billionaires that all seem to be goading one another; not their holdings groups.
The internet is only a medium. It's just used by businesses and businesses are all about profit.
Businesses want to be able to choose where they produce and where they pay taxes, but customers should be able to choose where they buy their goods.
If you hear the term "free market" it's always about the companies not about the customer.
There's lots about the human experience that you can't control, and advertising works on those levels too. You are affected by the mere exposure to it. You're not just sold a product - you are told about the brand, values, how they approach the world, how it's acceptable in these times to express yourself, lots of stuff. And you see it and you learn it. It doesn't really matter what you think about afterwards, you are already affected, because that's how humans work, and advertisements are exploiting how humans work. The solution is to not be exposed to it in the first place, and because you can't really block them all, to accept that you are affected and work with that. Denial will bring you nowhere. But, it can be a good milestone to realization.
The examples taken from instagram are probably very region specific and further matching a profile.

However, I must agree that IG ads got worse and worse. So what is very common here:

1. Take a stock picture of Americans lining up for petrol at a petrol station because of an extreme situation/limitation.

2. Link to a website that looks like a normal webshop (the ad is done by an account that only exists on facebook and its page is empty, not promoting a shop)

3. The user gets redirected from the shop website (that actually exists and can be loaded manually from desktop) to a fake website, that looks like the website of the largest local news outlet.

4. There is an article about how to get rich with crypto and some celebs promote it. On the bottom of the page you can register with your phone number. You will get redirected to a trading platform that most likely rips you off.

Way to go instagram. Allowing scammers to their platform.
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At some point you get old enough to not want to bother with piracy because of the hassle if you have a decent first world income.
From eastern europe: piracy cannot hurt sells when: 1. The title is not available in your country and 2. When the title is too expensive for the people to buy it. Piracy however helps sells. When i like some movie or music that i pirated, chances are big that i will buy it. When i don't know about it, the MPAA can keep it.
Marketing failure all the way.
During my undergrad and masters (~5 years) I was fully using paper notes and keeping a bullet journal.

After transitioning to a remote role and writing code for a living all my notes are now in emacs org-mode.
So space exploration should go back to its roots and what it's really about? The military conflict between two superpowers? A race to beat each other to the moon for propaganda purposes. Nice.
Also see how maps of "X by population" are actually mostly just population maps.
> The Internet never delivered on its promise.

The commercial internet never did. Don't forget about Torrents and lib gen rus. They're part of the internet too.

> The fact that e.g. Netflix offers different movies for every country is something that honestly does not make any sense yet everyone accepts it.

People "accept" it because it's convenient and they are not aware that there are other options. How would you suggest people reject it?
Price gauging thanks to the movie companies that want an ever larger share.
No, the govt will not look to the FDA to see if it works, it can do it’s own assessment. The FDA determines if the benefits outweigh the risks. Benefits can be marginal and not worth paying for. That’s not the FDA’s job.

And odd you’d call the US out when QALYs can be very subjective and the QALY thresholds in the UK create hard limits to price that don’t always make sense (as QALY doesn’t capture all benefits).
There's several factors at play here. Some people view piracy as the opportunity to "try something out" before buying. This means they only buy the thing they actually liked. On the other hand, services such as Steam—which has made getting games both cheaper and easier—is probably capturing a lot of those guys who would previously do piracy, simply because it's a lot less hassle to just buy it on there. And also the price isn't horrible either, unless the game is brand new (though the matter of ownership is still an issue, though not very relevant to this discussion). Also, I know more than one person who resorted to piracy, simply because the thing wasn't available in their country yet, or because the site that sells the authorized thing either has a prohibitively expensive price, or because the service is just prohibitively bad, thus making it comparably more easy to simply pirate the thing.
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> it was only hate and violence between neighbors

You mean, that the German an Italian neighbors helped support a failed fascist coup in neighboring Spain while the rest of the world watched? At least some brave men like Orwell had the presence of mind to be on the right side.

If this is not what you mind by "neighbors", I find your interpretation of the events extremely offensive. Like saying that jews and nazis were "neighbors" that sadly hated each other.
Interesting, given the examples in this article and [1] of confusion and miscommunication caused by differences in how different platforms depict the same emoji.

So in the context of online dating, does that mean that humans are now selecting for the best compatibility between users of the same mobile platforms? :)

I can see how some apps decided to switch to their own emoji sets...

[1] https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojipedia-lookups-at-all-time-h...
So cinemas are the Ticketmaster of movies?
If we’re going with maximum cynicism: how are nationalist bureaucrats and bloodthirsty generals any better?
It doesn't matter if something is true or scientifically proven, if that is what policymakers/interest groups/lobbyist believe and act on.

In an ideal world everyones belief would be rationally motivated, and be able to change if new evidence comes up, but that is not often the case.
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I think the US should subsidize NASA instead of Musk and Bezos. I think the privatization of space and the fanfare related to it is a huge problem. I don't even know what to say about Branson other than I just wish he'd chill out and go kite boarding with young models strapped to his back or whatever.
That has been for a thing for a long time in large commercial skyscrapers:

https://www.foxnews.com/story/new-york-skyscrapers-use-ice-t...
...and yet there was never a comparable public outcry about the dangers of roofing. And the lax safety regulations in some countries.
And then came Spotify and they recognized people are willing to pay.
Storong from summer to winter doesn't sound practical to me. Better just to overprovision generation (and do some strong load shifting away from low-generation periods for non-essential energy use)
No. There might be the perfect suiting product to me. There is, however, a huge red flag for all these companies and products. This usually drives my buying decisions (against them).
https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2

https://github.com/keithito/tacotron

https://github.com/NVIDIA/WaveGlow
It's all fun and games until Musk locks us in with tons of Starlink debris. I think public funded organizations (which these private orgs operate with a lot of public funds) are more incentivized to not launch their car (stolen from their ousted business partner) into space.
> as long as their dick contest contributes to human knowledge and technology, let them have it

Both New Shepard and SpaceShipTwo are basically dead-ends on the technology tree. In themselves, they don't really get us anywhere useful. The best that can be said is that New Shepard may have given Blue Origin's engineers some experience which may have helped them towards developing New Glenn. On the other hand, maybe New Shepard has been a distraction which has held back progress on New Glenn.

What SpaceX is doing is completely different. Starship is giving us a whole new level of capability in terms of going to space compared to what we've had before. No other vendor is anywhere near as close to achieving the same capability level. New Glenn comes the closest, but the capabilities it offers are less and we don't really know how close Blue Origin are to delivering, their development process is much more opaque than SpaceX's.
As someone who grew up in the UK in the late 90s, with a taste for American media, especially scifi, and the Internet a widespread thing, it was infuriating waiting for TV shows to come to the screen months or even years behind the rest of the world.

I do remember one site that allowed me to do download SG1 episodes (about 128kbit, and this was probably cinepak or some form of mpeg1 compression) over a modem, and that was a lifeline.

When I got to Uni in Oct 2000, I could use BitchX/IRC on the lab irix machine to use a massive 10 MEGA bit connection to get voyager episodes. Compared with downloading on a 33.6kbit connection over a phone line that cost at least £2.40 (about $5-6 in today's money) that was an amazing experience.

Even recently they decided not to bother releasing Lower Decks internationally. Had to get a Bittorrent client to watch it. That's not the case with things like Discovery and Picard which were released pretty much simultaneously.

If a media company won't sell me what I want to watch, I'll go elsewhere. I paid $6 to my phone company to get a shocking quality copy of Voyager. For me, Piracy is not trying to avoid paying for it, it's about trying to get it.

They've mostly cottoned on to the fact it's a global market now at least.
Getting to the moon does seem to provide some interesting stuff for some future and science: being able to regularly set foot on another planet (which was already achieved a bit but has way to go, like the current/new launcher reusability vs Apollo), set a base on another planet, somehow live on another planet, ... at least there is a clear next-step with Mars after that and for science to understand how humans would live in other environments, how to provide or produce stuff there, ...
There's also an option (maybe it was by adding them to favorites) to make it so you always get a friend's posts.

You can also do the 'see less of this' on ads.

Alternatively you can also just install FB Purity or a similar extension to tweak what you see better.
Maybe what was wasn't good enough and this new thing is still also not good enough. It's a big question, probably one of the biggest.
If it wasn't Tesla someone else would, most likely Rimac.
That sounds good. What's the alliance called?
I had a small one in my backyard for a few years. My goldfish would ofen simply disappear. One day they were there, the next day they weren't. They also died often and there were a few causes.

* a good number jumped out as the water level was close to the top of the tank when the water was cycled. Of these, some were found me and others by something else.
* birds found and ate them. I was completely okay with this. I never actually confirmed this but it seemed the only plausible reason
* illness. The goldfish I bought were feeder fish meant for turtles and were never meant to survive long. Disease was a big component. I would replenish often, but on two occasions within a week or two, all would be dead, old and new.
* temperature. We had a deeper freeze than typical for my area in the 20s F. It froze in the pipes and much of the tank. And in the summer we had over 100F

I would have cared more were they fish for consumption. When you can buy goldfish for 10 cents a piece it was too easy to simply replenish than to fix the problems. A more humane, and likely cheaper solution would have been to put a small amount of ammonium chloride in the water regularly. I had a giant bag from setting up the system.

I got a ton of lettuce and tomatoes from the system though and learned a ton.
Stop using "straw man" inappropriately. That's just not what it means.
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Just random brands. I think it was something like Yehboom and Sunfounder or something.
This was supposed to be according to Swedish copyright law but you may very well be right.
Pedophilia accusations might be just a tad overescalated as a response to "your sub sucks"...
Emojis are awesome, some of things are very difficult to express in text. I like how ancient Egypt wrote in diagrams.
I'm not asking anybody else to do anything, man. I was totally happy with my work and life before the lockdown, and the lockdowns changed that for the worse, much worse. You may say that I'm "crazy" if you want, but it's just my natural desire to want to be back to what it was like before.
> This ends up with the client's latest real drawings being a jpeg screenshot of the original plans that they just email blasted to everyone.

Just ask the client to go ask for the DWG, 9 times out of 10 you will get it. Might be different in the USA but that’s my experience in the uk. If there is only paper, we have a CAD guy who can quickly transfer it into CAD in about an hour (there is software specifically for this).
They get a lot of public funds to do this shit. There are plenty of reasons to be critical of them. Maybe a bit of bureaucracy could be useful. I'm just sick of the worship of these guys like they built the damn things with their own hands or even out of their own pocket books. It's a playground and anything they do achieve is now their IP even though they've leveraged the resources of the greater population to pull it off for just some whacky stunts.

Space tourism is ridiculous.

I saw your edit. It's ok. Just so you know, you'll never get to space.