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GDP is a measure of the amount of commerce per year, while global wealth is a net accumulation of all the work that has happened in human history. Billionaires obviously get a disp…

I’m sure it would be fine if it was quoted, but it seems obvious the policy is to not represent AI generated content as human

They autogenously pressurize the tanks - they heat up the cryogenic propellants with the engines and use some of the gas to pressurize the tanks. In Starship’s case it’s methane an…

Reputational damage from this is going to be catastrophic. Even if that’s the limit of their liability it’s hard not to see customers leaving en masse.

> The primary take-away seems to be that, since 2015, Republican confidence in higher ed has dropped 36%, and Democrat confidence has dropped 12%. It’s a little hard to tease out h…

This is some serious cherry-picking. It's going private at a price below the initial IPO price of $48 from 3 years ago, and has generally significantly underperformed other tech st…

> Congestion pricing hits the lowest earning individual the highest. This is true for anything that you buy. I’m not sure why being able to drive a car into the Manhattan CBD deser…

You can attach pdfs of brokerage transactions to your e-filed return (and FreeTaxUSA prompts you to do so in the filing section)

This is absolutely a problem that interacts with scale. With 1M servers you’re almost certainly dealing with hundreds of service owners, and some of those are going to need additio…

Apollo missions were done at incredible expense, and didn’t provide any longevity. We’ve had humans in orbit on the ISS continuously for decades, sent probes to the edge of the sol…

If a state or local government wants to forbid tipping it doesn’t have to be this complicated. Pass a law that says it’s forbidden, that credit card merchants and POS merchants mus…

It would be a gross failure of an HSM to allow private key material to leak in any way.

If you’re paranoid the worst thing to bring is a personal phone. The best thing would be a burner with nothing on it. I’d be okay using someone else’s chromebook though, at least y…

Google actually describes an entirely plausible mechanism of action here at [1]. old content slows down site crawling, which can cause new content to not be refreshed as often. Sur…

According to this article[1] from 2022 at higher concentrations it has a reduced sweetness response and leaves a lingering sweet taste. Supplementing it with real sugar means they …

According to the flight plan published by SpaceX, the booster is going to attempt a hover in the gulf to simulate a landing, while the Ship isn’t going to slow down at all after re…

I mean, SVB did exactly this, and management got fired an equity zeroed out. Other banks aren’t looking at SVB and wishing that was them.

The author is right that treating housing as an investment is a mistake, but doesn't take their analysis far enough. In the case where no new houses are built and their house appre…

Agreed. _Someone_ has to deal with the drift between astronomical time and earth time, better the class of software that deals with space than every time critical system in the wor…

The rate of drift is so slow that people will never care. Even over thousands of years when an hour of drift is accumulated there won’t be a manual adjustment - people will have ju…

You can’t realistically argue that twitter will have as easy a time hiring as SpaceX and Tesla. They might have the same shitty working conditions, but without the risk of the comp…

You’d be surprised at how much you can fuck up a ship as a CO without life-changing consequences. Unless there’s gross negligence a CO is almost certainly not even going to get dis…

A major problem is that life in the Navy sucks too much compared to the civilian world, so that most of the competent Naval Officers leave, and you end up with a pretty small pool …

You're assuming that the people of Jackson have a voice in their government. The city is majority black, and in Mississippi that's more enough than enough reason for the rest of th…

The NASA contract model has already changed substantially. Even Bill Nelson, the current administrator and former senator thinks that cost-plus contracting is no longer the way for…