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Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Post by emerged »

h0l0cube wrote: post #99
anonymouse008 wrote: post #78

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There’s an interesting trend I’ve seen where a lot of folks who were previously super health conscious, put on weight when they are in a relationship they enjoy. Anyone have a study or article of this phenomenon?

The chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. We are machines that work to attract mates, reproduce, and rear young. Once one has achieved the goal of attracting a mate, there's little need to devote energy to courtship displays - though perhaps more need to reserve energy in case of hardship. I might be being a little reductive though :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Being fit serves many goals other than attracting a mate. I wouldn’t personally even put it in the top 3, although admittedly most people probably would.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Post by emerged »

anonymouse008 wrote: post #78
_Microft wrote: post #23

I was a bit shocked how Jeff Bezos looked in the video [0] in which he invited his brother to go with him. He does not look healthy, even a bit bloated. Does anyone know if he is having health issues? [0] https://www.instagram.com/p/CP0MSOqnYEo/

There’s an interesting trend I’ve seen where a lot of folks who were previously super health conscious, put on weight when they are in a relationship they enjoy. Anyone have a study or article of this phenomenon?

I don’t think they put on more weight than people in a relationship they don’t enjoy. So the enjoyment factor seems irrelevant at best.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Post by himinlomax »

nabla9 wrote: post #160
himinlomax wrote: post #121

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> In addition to that SpaceX is government contractor. It's important to note that SpaceX is different from most space-related government contractor in that they mostly sell a packaged service, whereas other contractors before it had development contracts. Boeing / ULA etc were paid to develop launchers, SpaceX sells launches. (I know that SpaceX benefited from subsidies towards achieving that, but their competitors…

NASA has given seed money and development funding for Dragon, Falcon 9, engines and demonstration launches ($248M at least) https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/453605main_Commercial_Space_Minutes... I think this is the same way as Boeing and others get their money for development.

The difference is that Boeing and others are financed the way a public works would be, like a bridge or highway. They thus have no incentive to get cheaper / more efficient once they get the contract, and in fact make more money the less efficient they are -- as long as the government doesn't tire of paying them. SpaceX gets development subsidies, like the others do, but they sell launches, not an ongoing project. As a result, the more efficient they are, the more profit they make.

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Post by ben_w »

specialist wrote: post #189
ben_w wrote: post #130

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Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries. They’re also not very good at spending money on consumer goods when they don’t have any, which Amazon absolutely needs. (Tesla needs a lot of people above average income, given their cheapest offering). And these two giants aren’t the only places people can work. (Not enough by itself, but still a massive improvement compared to the situation leadi…

> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots https://www.history.com/news/bread-french-revolution-marie-a... https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/food-riots-and-revoluti... History. Read it. > but there is a reason we let them exist Please, do tell.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots

One revolution in that list (France). One government resigning (Japan). One major change of policy (Egypt).

Most of the rest end in some variant of “and then lots of rioters died when the authorities put them down”.

> Please, do tell.

Because we tried these two ideas, and while both had good points, one of them turned out to be less wrong than the other:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Post by nabla9 »

himinlomax wrote: post #193
nabla9 wrote: post #160

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NASA has given seed money and development funding for Dragon, Falcon 9, engines and demonstration launches ($248M at least) https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/453605main_Commercial_Space_Minutes... I think this is the same way as Boeing and others get their money for development.

The difference is that Boeing and others are financed the way a public works would be, like a bridge or highway. They thus have no incentive to get cheaper / more efficient once they get the contract, and in fact make more money the less efficient they are -- as long as the government doesn't tire of paying them. SpaceX gets development subsidies, like the others do, but they sell launches, not an ongoing project. As…

United Launch Alliance (ULA), sells launches. ULA sells launches for Delta IV Heavy and Atlas V. ULA is Boeing/Lockheed joint venture.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, New Horizons, Starliner crew capsule ... basically all NASA and DoD launches come from ULA.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Post by cma »

Isinlor wrote: post #180
HaggardFinical wrote: post #168

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I mean, Elon made the same claims about Starship Earth to Earth, Mars colonization, plus other outrageous claims about the hyperloop and the boring company and Tesla autopilot (in 2014 he said that in 5 years you'll be able to go to sleep behind the wheel). At what point does the genious marketing end and defrauding investors with false promises begin?

When they intentionally deceive. When you promise something without intention of delivering. In case of SpaceX and Tesla they claim outrageous things with every intention to deliver. Sometimes they are right, sometimes not. It's up to investors to know the difference.

The TED interview gives out strong Elizabeth Holmes signals.

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Post by ben_w »

luffapi wrote: post #161
ben_w wrote: post #155

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Books like this?: https://www.amazon.de/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Pol... “and” is pulling a lot of weight in your sentence, given I’ve not made a claim about general human rights on this thread. Also? “Common cause” is very different from “has a snowball’s chance in hell of succeeding”, which I consider important in this context.

No, not books like that. History books (not pop trash). Books like this: https://www.amazon.com/French-Revolution-Enlightenment-Tyran... Also, cf Japanese rice warehouses in early Tokyo and why they exist.

“Pop trash” sounds like you’re dismissing it out of hand because you don’t like the conclusion.

I mean, it might be, but as I’m not even claiming to be a domain expert I have to (argument from authority fallacy notwithstanding) rely on the author biographies as a proxy for how much they know.

Now, would you like to give me a brief summary of how, biologically speaking, you recon being malnourished fails to put a bunch of revolutionaries at a relative disadvantage to a non-malnourished bunch of revolutionaries?

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Post by ben_w »

ac29 wrote: post #185
mschuster91 wrote: post #173

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It ain't that ridiculous. Poor people can't afford high quality raw ingredients and so more rely on highly processed, high-calorie foods (especially HFCS) that leave them obese.

Food stamp payments might be more than you think. For example, for a household of two people in California, the minimum payment is $430/month [0]. That's not going to be putting fancy food on the table, but its more than beans and rice (or soda and chips). [0] https://www.getcalfresh.org

I’m not American, but my ex is, and she told me California has unusually good food stamps. Can someone here confirm or refute that?

Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

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Post by specialist »

ben_w wrote: post #194
specialist wrote: post #189

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> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots https://www.history.com/news/bread-french-revolution-marie-a... https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/food-riots-and-revoluti... History. Read it. > but there is a reason we let them exist Please, do tell.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots One revolution in that list (France). One government resigning (Japan). One major change of policy (Egypt). Most of the rest end in some variant of “and then lots of rioters died when the authorities put them down”. > Please, do tell. Because we tried these two ideas, and while both had good points, one of them turned out to be less wrong than the other: https://en.w…

TLDR: We tolerate the super rich because Adam Smith.

Illuminating. Thanks.

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