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Space.com's YouTube channel always has a mirror of the official SpaceX livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoFromSpace/streams Or if you would like additional commentary and ex…

Not sure why you picked 400km? All Starlink satellites are in orbits less than 600km where debris is naturally eliminated in 5 years or less: https://www.spacex.com/updates/#sustai…

AFAIK Starlink does not plan to put satellites in 1200 km orbits. All Starlink satellites are in orbits of 600 km or less, where any debris naturally decays in less than 5 years: h…

People are prone to either giving Musk too much credit or too little. Musk isn't Tony Stark, single-handedly building everything. But then again, that's not how most innovations wo…

It is telling, though, that the strongest argument against SpaceX seems to be whether they followed all the correct procedures rather than whether there was actually any harm. If t…

Though the area does receive many orders of magnitude more water from natural rainfall than the deluge system, so anything present in that water would have been washed away anyway.…

SpaceX did make changes to prevent damage to the launch pad in the future, true. I did not mean to suggest otherwise. My point is that the "mess" the original comment complained ab…

There's a user on reddit with a bunch of alts that keeps spamming the conspiracy theory that SpaceX is a front by the military and intelligence agencies to funnel money into buildi…

ESGHound has lobbed many accusations, most of which did not pan out. Some of his accusations, such as the idea that SpaceX's development was a front for their real goal to drill fo…

I am not the previous commenter, and your description of the video is inaccurate. The point that the launch did not cause major environmental issues remains true. The fact that sub…

> give stakeholders 60 days to comment I want to point out that while giving people time to comment sounds harmless, it's actually a systemic problem that's at the root of many iss…

The video is of cars parked next to the launch pad area, taken by remotely operated cameras. No one was endangered. Also, as dramatic as it looks, it is hardly an environmental dis…

All the claims about how OpenAI's board desperately wanted Altman back were based on leaks from "people close to Altman" which the press uncritically lapped up. If it wasn't clear …

Kiwix worked for me. IIRC there may be difficulties opening an archive that was downloaded outside of the mobile app, but archives downloaded in-app were fine. For the mobile app I…

> (allegedly) If this (very sparse and lacking in detail) article is true, is this a genuine attempt to get Altman back or just a filip to concerned investors such as Microsoft? Do…

I still prefer "hit button, tap TouchID, done". I also wish Apple would make it easier to switch to a different credit card for a one-off purchase. And stop forcing everyone in a F…

See also the discussion a couple months ago about a similar case in South Korea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28716665

Those other sources are mostly used for special results such as "Instant Answers". DDG's main search results mostly come from Bing, as the source for that Wikipedia statement revea…

The rationale given by /u/justin_chrome for the change appears faulty. Yes, keywords could be confusing if they're short, e.g. "r" for reddit or "w" for Wikipedia, and if users did…

Whatever definition of "executive" floats your boat, I guess.

Most of the "FAANG" companies do already have video conferencing apps. Netflix being the notable exception, but they're only included in the group for the sake of an edgy acronym a…

According to the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he... > Prosecutors said the China-based executive, Xinjiang Jin, worked as Zoom’s prima…

> That criticism escalated in January, when Google said it would phase out the use of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser within two years to enhance consumer privacy. But co…