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They're not being held back by anti-progress haters, they're just straight-up ignoring the environmental agreement they voluntarily signed. When companies have complete disregard f…

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I fail to see how the percentage of foreign born citizens is a problem in any way.

Americans don’t want economic growth, or don’t want foreigners in the country? I feel like we should be honest - Americans are perfectly comfortable picking and choosing when laws …

Norms and goalposts aside, what’s the value in adopting a formal policy of harassment against non-criminal, non-violent workers? Congress can debate immigration laws on the books, …

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Maybe Musk should have done that review before firing all of those FAA employees last month. Maybe those jobs were important.

Compared to what, just rolling the dice? SpaceX isn't the only shop that can deliver against requirements. Procurement bids should be transparent and avoid the illusion of conflict…

The quote from Duffy indicates that the SpaceX team doesn't have any real knowledge about or experience with the FAA systems. Seems like they're being brought in just because they'…

seems like we're ok crossing the line of "some people need killing," we just have rules on who's allowed to do it and the paperwork needed.

In the last 50 years, over 1600 murderers have been murdered by the state. It's a question of authority, not justification, and I think that's a much less meaningful distinction. T…

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It's animating outwards. The article highlights how they're interfering with FEMA, sending death threats to meteorologists, and generally making things harder for disaster responde…

Blocks are (were) an easy line of defense for most of the lazy trolling. People could get around it but few bothered. It might have not been ideologically consistent but it was eff…

I feel like The Atlantic has really declined. Every once in a while they'll put out something interesting, but for the most part their entire model appears to be writing for an agi…

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I think this just pushes the unsolved part to the middle. We'll never have an undisputed definition of the real world, as it is. Clear cases like chinese NBA players aren't contest…