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> I stopped watching when the criticism of Falcon 9’s pricing came up. Why should SpaceX, a private company, undercut itself? It’s already the cheapest (relative to mass; PSLV gives it a run for some orbits), most reliable and most frequent launch provider in the world. It makes sense for them to capture the delta as profit versus cut prices for the sake of it. (There is also no inflation adjusting done.)

Exactly, this is such an egregious claim that it proves there is no way this guy is arguing in good faith.

He says SpaceX only saves a tiny bit of money due to reuse because the retail price for F9 expendable is only a bit more than F9 reuseable.

That's like saying because the Big Mac costs $6.29 and the Big Mac combo costs $11.69, then therefore the drink and fries must cost McD's $5.40 to make. Just ridiculous.
Oh, a big whopping plurality hits the "Nones" just fine. As it is not a religion, it avoids the plaguing morass of inchoate morality claims justifying a grift altogether.
> Why not?

Keystroke count and progressive computations.

Let me illustrate using an example from a YouTube video called "The hardest Exam Question : Only 6% of students solved it correctly" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgEPsm9Jzw), which is about a simplified formulation for (sqrt(2)-1)^10.

The first remark is that a CAS-capable calculator like DB48x can help with the symbolic part of the computation shown in the video. However, to be fair, DB48x still lacks some of the relevant HP48 interactive equation manipulation features to be able to demonstrate that. So let's focus for now on the numerical part.

The author shows that (sqrt(2)-1)^10 is the same as 3363-2378*sqrt(2). Let's evaluate that using bc.

Attempt 1: bc, then (sqrt(2)-1)^10-(3363-2378*sqrt(2))

Result: -985. Er... What?

OK. What is the option for precision again? man bc. Search for precision. Mentions the @ operator. Does not seem to do it. 5 minutes of search later, find that precision is called scale, that I need the -S option. I could also presumably use the -l option, which experimentally seems to set the scale to 20. Starting to remember why I am not a big fan of bc ;-)

Trying again. bc -l

(sqrt(2)-1)^10-(3363-2378*sqrt(2)) now gives me:

-.00000000000000000402.

Counting "bc -l" and ENTER keys, that's I believe 42 keystrokes.

Trying again with db48x: I need 23 keys using the most naive RPN data entry. The result is -1.57861 99E⁻²⁰ with the default 24-digit precision.

I can also enter the same algebraic expression as in bc directly in the simulator using copy-paste. I get a nice graphical rendering of the expression, which I can check, and then just one key (EVAL/=) to get the numerical value.

As another example, let's try to check if the Ramanujan constant in an integer:

bc -l

e(sqrt(163)*pi(20))

262537412640768743.98947654935272888605

That does not look like an integer to me. And it's way more than the 20 digits I would expect from scale. What is weird is that it gives me a false sense of accuracy, all the digits after "43.9" are bogus, as shown by switching the scaling to 100:

bc -l -S100

e(sqrt(163)*pi(100))

262537412640768743.9999999999992500725971981856888793538563373369908\
627075374103782106479101186073126534265238592035363

21 keystrokes, and a result that is a bit hard to interpret with the default precision (scaling). In other words, it's pretty easy to get bogus numerical results and not know it.

With DB48x, after selecting a precision of 100, 11 keystrokes including menu selection to get the pi constant, and I get:
262 537 412 640 768 743.99999 99999 99250 07259 71981 85688 87935 38563 37336 99086 27075 37410 37821 06479 10118 60730 76

> At least I can easily copy the results and the code to a document which avoids transcription errors.

This is also true with the DB48x simulator, which supports copy and paste both ways. This is how I copied the values above, or entered the exact same algebraic expression as in bc into the simulator.
>> There isn't a way to fix it and they actually aren't responsible.

"Google, how do you fix inflation?"

We know inflation is the consequence of many factors, but it can be controlled by different entities at each stage. The two groups most instrumental in the fight against inflation are The Federal Reserve and the government.

The Fed using interest rate increases to make lending and investing more expensive is an example of monetary policy.

The Fed misread warnings in the spring of 2021 when it was clear to some that inflation was spreading. The Fed argued that inflation would be transitory and that it resulted from unusual circumstances, ranging from supply chain issues related to the abnormal demand that came from the end of the pandemic.

The government can use fiscal policy to fix inflation by increasing taxes or cutting spending. Increasing taxes leads to decreased individual demand and a reduction in the supply of money in the economy. As you can imagine, fiscal policy isn’t very popular because raising taxes is a difficult political move. The last thing that we want to hear when inflation is rising is that our taxes will also increase.

The government could use other fiscal policies to lower inflationary pressures. If Congress were to limit pandemic relief spending and focus on not making the deficit worse, that would assist in reducing inflation.

So no, there absolutely is ways to fix it and they 100% were responsible for it. The problem is when you constantly act like there isn't a problem, by the time they realized they had to fix it? It meant the cure is going to be worse than the disease - usually in the form of either cooling off the economy with interest rate hikes, or pushing the economy into a recession or increasing taxes or gasp cutting spending.

This is not graduate level economics we're talking here - its pretty common knowledge stuff. But if you say Biden wasn't responsible for the inflation on his watch, then by your logic you would have to excuse every president who had a poor economy because "its not their fault" and "there's no way to fix it."

Unfortunately, most people (like myself) know that's a load of poppycock and voted accordingly.
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I am just point out where we are on a road map, without making any claims about the territory itself.
What a great skipping-record case-in-point. I almost think this is satire.

> Have you considered the possibility his supporters know something you don't?

They literally considered that, it's a main point of the post you're replying to, they got answers that lacked actual details or hinged on hyperbole.

> A lot of what you mentioned is either debunked or is fraught with misinformation

See what I mean? "A lot" meaning what number of things? Either debunked or is fraught with misinformation? What does that even mean? Which things? Jan 6 is "debunked" or "fraught with misinformation" or both? Trump didn't release his health care plan, Trump called GA to find votes, Trump constantly complained about rigged elections. Those are sincere and unarguable facts. What are you speaking about in rebuttal?
No, because the resources are owned by the United States regardless of how much the people like/dislike the United States, to leave the United States you have to physically leave it. You can't just announce your land is part of some other country. Sure, you could try and fight Civil War 2, but remember all the might of the US Military soldiers/weapons/intelligence/etc. belong to the United States side. You have a 2nd amendment right to form this opposing militia but you'd have to outspend the US Military using your own resources.
I moved 1 hour north of San Francisco about 7 months ago so not even some remote red state. Over a few weeks this summer when I went to Safeway, three people ahead of line (assuming middle class, blue collar workers considering that this mostly the industry here) had their credit cards/debt cards declined, even when trying different cards. One was heartbreaking because he was buying a cake for his daughter's birthday. It definitely underscored how severe the economy is for people and why I thought Trump would likely have a 50%/50% chance of winning.

It is about the economy.
They took it seriously enough to change candidates. But again: why is a "just okay" candidate from the Democratic Party not better than a "threat to the free world" candidate from the Republican Party? The double-standard is absurd.
This is not destabilizing this democracy. The FDP has done that same thing before - twice! In 1966 and 1982.

Abandoning a non-functioning government and calling new elections is part of democracies. Just ask the Italians (68 governments in 76 years), or recently the French and the Brits.
a EU funded/developed browser would have a built-in blacklist. malinformation is the greatest threat to so-called democracies
OK, that's downright creepy. Especially that the singing starts with the lyrics "holding on" at the exact moment the booster is caught by the chopsticks.
Yeah vanilla was the second example I could think of.
My best friend (son of a session musician) tells the joke "what's the difference between a session musician and a pepperoni pizza...the pizza can feed a family of 4".
If he was paying taxes in US for 50 years while on Germany, it seems that he earned the check.
> You need to let crazy people do crazy things (within the law of course).

Yeah, like stripping away LGBT rights or abortion? The far-right, no matter if we are talking about the US, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Argentinia, Israel or the UK, has clearly stated what they want to do, and they have shown in more than enough cases (Argentinia, USA, UK) that they are willing to throw the entire nation under the bus for their ideological bullshit! And the people have suffered horribly for the foolishness of their fellow countrymen.
We Need a New IfC Approach to Meet HPC Challenges
fun fact: the FL amendment requiring 60% supermajority only passed by 57%
All the fun stuff is happening out of frame.
Well, in WW2 we did manage to put working radar in artillery shells.
That's cool PR move. If they managed to light one then it's great success. If they don't people will think they just got unlucky. But if they tried to light all and only one would work or none, or one would work but some other blew up whole rocket it would look terrible. That last eventuality is something they want to prevent by trying to light just one.
> The first woman president

And that's why the blue folks lost, all about identity politics rather than realpolitik.
I'm not really arguing for or against anything. It just seems structurally similar.
My comment was written with a bit of rage, I might have missed some things. So I agree with wealth tax and tackling tax evasion.
Yes, I also should've added corruption to FDP, good catch! Mövenpick. Also look at the absolute dog shit minister that is Wissing.
I also agree with reducing spending on their side.
Space is for robots.
I think it more likely this election was rigged in favor of trump
No, I think there needs to be a culture of talking to and respecting people with different opinions.

And before you jump to the extreme of “but they don’t want me to EXIST!”, that’s not the point. The point is that we temper each other, partially by negotiating, and partially by simply making the “other side” more used to our ideas.

That just happens with repeated exposure. If something is scary, but generally not bad, people can get used to it, but only if they’re exposed to it regularly. You get used to public speaking after the ten thousandth time instead, because you’ve likely already confronted every fear you had in real life by now.

Ironically, this is extremely easy to fix. Politicians can simply get along in public. We’ve got studies showing that political extremism can die almost overnight when the opposing politicians simply explain that they do respect their opponent.

As for the people here explaining themselves clearly - that’s because dang has done a good job of fostering a community of high quality commenters. You won’t find this kind of discourse anywhere else, and it’s the main reason I treasure this site.
> I would hope that isn't true, an economy would function horribly if we only cared about the price change percentage and didn't care why it happened.

That isn't what I said.

The causes of inflation to matter, but we generally only care about them because they cause inflation. We don't tend to care nearly as much about the causes in and of themselves.

Thus as the argument about how much inflation there should be progressed, it is perfectly natural that the term came to refer to the part of the debate we actually care (how fast prices rise) about rather than factor that can sometimes cause it.
(I couldn't resist fixing a typo in your informative comment: s/consensus/census/. I hope that's ok!)
No, absolutely not! Almost exactly the opposite meaning was intended, and I didn't think for a second that it could be interpreted as you say there. I wrote the comment quickly, thinking the sarcasm was obvious, I apologise for not being more explicit.

The comment I responded to (which has now been removed, I think?) referred to how proud the commenter was that Musk is "American". I found this to be totally preposterous, as his cultural background is so immediately and obviously mixed.

Claiming him as "American" is a strange thing to do, is what I was thinking. Anyway, again, I sincerely apologise, and shouldn't have thrown out the comment when I was in a rush.
Is that just due to his association with Trump?
I don't find this kind of cynicism accurate or particularly helpful as a life philosophy. I've personally had the luck to meet people and be a member of organizations that do care and have power to make some difference.
> Playing sports is not a constitutional right and I think sometimes its ok to say "I'm sorry but no."

The problem is that the left has really painted themselves into a corner with the whole “trans women are women” thing. To say that they ARE women but CAN’T compete in women’s sports would be to admit that trans women are not, in fact, the same as biological women.
> It's easier to sell it as being a one-off thing versus sell them on voting in all future elections.

So a promise to permanently and irrevocably change the country? If it is truly one off that is what it would have to be, which is not possible via normal legal mechanisms in the USA.
I think they will want to deal with heatshield first. As of now, it hasn't survived deorbiting.

SpaceX can launch satellites using Falcon9 and do it routinely. Starship needs to be developed and reach milestones, so they can get paid by NASA. Having a payload is a complication (unless it's a fun payload, remember the roadster car :D)
You're 100% right, my comment was definitely not meant to imply that the Nazi party's takeover was a simple affair that was as cut and dry as Hitler winning the vote and turning the country into Nazi Germany.

However the way I see it, people (not you, I just mean in general people who seem to believe Trump will bring about the 5th Reich) are probably out of ignorance of the history there also massively oversimplifying and overestimating how much power the president ultimately wields, especially when compared to Weimer-era Germany. People aren't aware that there are safety mechanisms in the US that didn't exist in the Weimar Republic, and as such simply bringing up that "This is exactly what happened with Nazi Germany!" is massively oversimplifying things as well from the other side.

The comment my comment was replying to did this exact thing, in fact, where they equated the election of a charismatic leader to what happened with the Nazis.

I do agree with you though, I personally tend to align with Frank Herbert when it comes to people who want to wield power and rule over others, in that they should be studied and watched closely and carefully and disposed of swiftly if they pull any Hitler-tier shenanigans
Is the war with Iran more or less likely with Trump in office?
Sure - it's an easy mistake to make if you are dealing with data that don't mean anything to you. But anyone with even a tiny bit of experience reading macroeconomic data should be able to tell that something is very off with that number and question it before parrotting it in a podcast.
>less talking behind someones back because maybe he/she made a non-PC remark

it's still a workplace. There will always be people talking behind others' backs
Most people are completely innumerate. It's an impossible task.
Cheaper rockets also mean cheaper payload in that the payloads don't have to be engineered to such high standards of reliability.
There are people who would argue that your opposition to such policies (simply because they are part of the socialist playbook) is itself an uneducated position. It's certainly possible to go round and round calling each other uneducated because of diverging opinions on various labels, but I don't think it's a very helpful approach to take.
> lol, yes you are as important as the US president.

That’s besides the point. The recent wars didn’t start because Trump wasn’t president, and that wouldn’t have prevented them.

> Exhibit A of how libs now are against free speech^

That… doesn’t relate to what I said. Well. I don’t think I want to continue this discussion.
People won't have to vote for him again because he can't be voted for again due to the two-term-limit.

!RemindMe in four years
> They're not going to just make stuff up that's not in the law,

The mechanism is that Trump makes up the law, then it's sent to judges and they say "yup, this law is fine and just and in line with US law system".

> Justices told him to pound sand

He learned. Now he selects for loyalty alone.
Always nice to see content like this come up. It's a struggle to do self care. Wrote something about this last week because I've been struggling for awhile too.

https://www.dandigangi.com/blog/self-care-is-really-really-h....
Ask Dang: Remove the Downvotes?
@dang can we remove the downvote system? Over the last months, I’ve had multiple situations where I tried to say something positive about either Elon Musk or something negative about the democratic party and in most cases this just resulted in a bunch of downvotes. This led me to stop talking about it to not loose karma.

The problem is that it makes this website more of an echo chamber than it should be. If anything non-conformist could mean the loss of karma, then people are incentivized to just conform to the prevailing opinion.

This is important because as we’ve now seen, Trump has won even though (almost) nobody here on HN expresses anything positive about Trump. This is a big problem for HN because apparently it’s disconnected from reality. Yes I’m here to talk about geek stuff, but I am especially interested in a reasonably unbiased opinion of what other engineers think. I don’t think the downvoting system helps with this.
I had my photo taken by an employee at the post office where they submit the application. It would have been fun to walk in and start duct taping myself to the wall without saying a word.
oh, you mean like actual flaps of pretty much any aircraft. doh! i was thinking it was like the folding of the wings for planes on an aircraft carrier. sometimes my brain, boy, i don't know
The fact that "Dutch English Canadian American" isn't used as a demonym by anyone anywhere is the reason I thought the joke was "obvious" (this isn't meant as a justification for the comment, just to elaborate in the hope of making it more clear).
Yep. Developers leave and when they go, dev resources are often left running. Sometimes, it is whole environments. This junk adds up.
They're Russian troll farms. If you go on their profile, that's all they do. Post about immigrants, how the EU is turning people gay, and how Trump will save the world. It's quite simple to tell them. Like who the hell posts 2000 political memes on their profile without taking about anything else. It's so obvious
But if you had heard people saying it like this for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whassup%3F
This was a pretty heavy lift for us to get out which was why it took a while. In addition to writing new image processing routines, a vision encoder, and doing cross attention, we also ended up re-architecting the way the models get run by the scheduler. We'll have a technical blog post soon about all the stuff that ended up changing.
> And this is while their education system is fine. Young German engineers are great I think.

German education system is not as fine as it used to be. It might still be fine at the later high school and university levels, but earlier school classes now often have a majority of kids that don't speak German, holding the whole class back. In parts of problem cities like Berlin there are even classes where no kid speaks German. We don't have enough teachers and the ones who are still there are frustrated and overworked.
Not only pro but going to put your tax dollars in:

>US Senator Lummis reaffirms Bitcoin will be become a national reserve asset following Trump's victory
I don't think we agree.

Trump likes to win. I have a feeling he wants to "win" over Putin. The man is shallow, it isn't rocket science.
Sounds like the government had been subsidizing your life for quite some time.
Is it? Because between part time job, gigs, and people falling off unemployment benefits from receiving them too long I don't trust unemployment figures, they are measuring the wrong thing. It seem people work longer hours, for less disposable income overall.
This is an interesting use case! We've heard similar stories from people dealing with pensions. Today we are ready to solve out of the box the extract data from a factsheet into excel or CSV step. Shoot me an email at max@midship.dev!
It REALLY depends. There's as many factors in if you are being ribbed or bullied as there are in friendships. YMMV immensely.

But yes, the best way to bond has often been by putting down others.
RISC-V makes the most sense. It means they wouldn't be locked into one CPU supplier. Requiring a GPU based on RISC-V (or a separate open GPU ISA) could further insulate them from the current AMD lock-in.
> And claims like this are why you lost this election, will never win elections, or win anyone over to your side.

Interesting!

1. I didn't run for an office

2. I am a political independent

3. I am not a political party in a first-past-the-post-system defined by the reverberations of the 3/5th compromise.

I'm genuinely curious why you paint more than half the nation (though not half the presidential 2024 voters) with a broad brush of negative antithesis regarding a relatively different claim ("Nones" exercise morality individually, rather than externalizing their moral decision making to an inchoate morass of morality-derived alleged religious authorities).
That's really interesting. For me, I very much do NOT enjoy the taste of truffles in restaurant dishes because it's often so overbearing. I just don't find the flavor interesting, and it's very singular.

Perhaps I would enjoy the "real" experience more...
3rd term of Donald Trump seems very low percent chance, but appointment of Donald Trump Jr. to president (through some means) seems much more likely
What's the cheapest core routers available?

I'd assume a core router has to support autonomous systems via bgp and handle heavy traffic probably at or exceeding 400G.
I'm not, Ross Perot played a big part in getting Clinton elected so it'd be weird for them to take issue with him. More recently the democrats blamed 2000 on Nader running third party on the assumption that all of his votes would've gone to Gore otherwise.
Hotdog stand!

https://nielssp.github.io/classic-stylesheets/?theme=win3x&s...
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Trump's followers raid the capitol last time (with his approval)? Seems unstable from the outside
Hard Cases for a Handle Theory
I didn't know this - why is this the case?