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Not to mention the ethical questions about working for a company that is privately owned by a megalomaniac who’s demonstrated an interest in playing king of the world.
I can think of few things I'd wish for more. Although I'd settle for him being the CEO of Mars and then move there just to get away from all this nastiness on Earth.
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> the world leader in space science. I also want to add that science is a critical investment area for anyone interested in engineering. There is this common belief of "I just want to make things work" and that science is really unimportant here and are concerned with things that don't matter. The truth is that science builds the foundation for that other stuff. It is the very ground you stand on. Engineering without…
I don't know that this is a good argument for science. We should fund science because we want to discover new things, not because we can draw a dotted line to an ROI. Similarly, we should fund the department of giving poor people money for food. Not because there's an ROI somewhere down the line. There's never gonna be a return on that investment, but we should do that because we're humans and we want to lift our fel…
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What does this even mean? I literally cannot figure it out. Like, they’ll just put warm bodies anywhere, as if that’s a feature of naziism? That Nazis love rockets? Something else?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun - A major example of this
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Imagine if Google or Apple suddenly went bust. What do you think that would do to the job market in San Francisco?
Shit happens, what can you do about it? Do you think garbage men, teachers or doctors will care about the tough job market of SW engineers? Everyone's job and everyone's lives have challenges, nobody else will cry for you, it's still up to you to deal with whatever problems life throws at you.
What we do about it is educate the public and form institutions that are motivated to protect these people. We failed on the former and now it's disrupting the latter.
Deciding whether I should care about another group based on whether they care about my own predicament is a straight path to evil.
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What does this even mean? I literally cannot figure it out. Like, they’ll just put warm bodies anywhere, as if that’s a feature of naziism? That Nazis love rockets? Something else?
But haven't people wanted NASA to be more streamlined, and efficient? Not sure if that is reducing staffing, or changing its mission. SpaceX making such leaps and bounds over NASA had to be a shot across the bow.
repeated explosions?
They are in demand and moving will get them higher pay and a more stable life.