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Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by Communitivity »

bko wrote: post #25
Communitivity wrote: post #8

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> All postings for software engineers are on-site, in Texas. Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. what does this mean?

Some of the other commenters hit the nail on the head. The reason is the removal of women's rights previously taken as a given. Also a consideration is the negative view/actions of some police in these states toward anyone who is considered non-standard or non-Christian in any way (e.g., at one point my daughter was close friends with a Muslim African-American).

This is America, so according to the current laws those states have the right to do that. I personally think it's wrong, and would never subject my daughter to that, but my only option is to vote with my money and my feet - so I don't go to conferences in those states, and will never live in those states.

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.” ― Winston S. Churchill

As a parting thought, I admire Nikolai Tesla, and Alan Turing. Tesla was suspected of being a communist and was in love with a pigeon. Turing was homosexual.

How do you think either of these legendary minds would have fared had they been born in and lived in Texas? Would they have survived to do what they did?

What would our world be like today if it had none of their publications or inventions?

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by sandworm101 »

ethanbond wrote: post #28
bko wrote: post #25

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> All postings for software engineers are on-site, in Texas. Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. what does this mean?

That these states are antagonistic to women's health. See: Alabama's ruling that frozen embryos for IVF are actually children with all the rights thereof, immediately ceasing IVF procedures. See also: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/us/texas-woman-high-risk-preg... This woman in Texas having to sue to avoid a very dangerous birth of a child who will she will end up having to watch die within a few days. > It states Co…

>> Texas has an exception for births that would threaten the mother's life

I saw an interview with a political appointee in charge of exemptions, I believe in texas. He was a hardcore right-wing Christian republican strongly against abortion. He lasted a week. After seeing all the various horror stories, the stuff that obgyns learn of at school, he radically changed his mind and was asking to let doctors again make the decisions: "Please, I don't want to see any more of those ultrasounds."

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by azinman2 »

rossdavidh wrote: post #43
CartyBoston wrote: post #4

The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing. We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.

The US flag on the early moon landings, was absolutely an advertisement; the whole thing was done as a propaganda riposte to the Soviet Union's Sputnik. Doesn't mean it's not awesome.

There is a meaningful difference between national pride and 2 for 1 at Dominos.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by silent_cal »

sandworm101 wrote: post #41
bko wrote: post #25

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> All postings for software engineers are on-site, in Texas. Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. what does this mean?

There are some horror stories coming out of certain US states, mostly surrounding woman's reproductive rights. There are crackdowns on old ways of doing things such as driving your daughter to another state in order to have an abortion. That can now be a very serious felony for all involved. Many people with kids, and many young women, are starting to actively avoid moving to these states. This is growing problem for…

I'd say killing your daughter's child is a lot more horrific than not doing it.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by silvester23 »

azinman2 wrote: post #93
rossdavidh wrote: post #43

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The US flag on the early moon landings, was absolutely an advertisement; the whole thing was done as a propaganda riposte to the Soviet Union's Sputnik. Doesn't mean it's not awesome.

There is a meaningful difference between national pride and 2 for 1 at Dominos.

True, for instance no wars have yet been fought over 2 for 1 at Dominos.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by deeth_starr_v »

Communitivity wrote: post #8

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Not limited to having a daughter. My extended family has a trans son. Luckily they are in California. That’s a difficult thing to navigate in itself without living in a state where the fad is to elect the worst people possible.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by nlarew »

alan-hn wrote: post #13
Loughla wrote: post #11

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I get where you're coming from with the AD on the spacecraft. It's gross to see an ad for a clothing company on the moon. But, NASA is predominately displayed on all of the original moonshot crafts. That's an advertisement for that organization. . . And, I'm 100% sure ego had nearly everything to do with the original space race. Beating the Russians and what-not. That seems, in hindsight, to be very ego driven?

I think saying "this organization built this craft that went to space" is a bit different than "buy shit from this other company"

The Columbia logo on this craft is both. They're advertising the brand in a very cool and unique way AND they contributed significant heat shield technology to the craft itself.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by jeremiahbuckley »

tijtij wrote: post #70
jeremiahbuckley wrote: post #50

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I’m confused about this from an economic standpoint. Assume you could put aside an additional $5k while living in these states, wouldn’t that provide a hedge for the medical needs of your daughter? If needed, you could then travel to a location that provides what you are concerned about. (Not to get hung up on “$5k”, you could substitute any arbitrary number for this cost-benefit judgement) If move opened the possibi…

There was (or still is?) the abortion bounty-hunter law which would allow any private citizen in Texas to sue him if he did what you are proposing. There were also some counties that made it illegal to use their roads to transport someone for the purpose of getting an abortion. In Texas, there is a clear push to criminalize the act of going out of state to get an abortion.

Seems like laws against crossing state lines for a medical procedure wouldn't withstand a legal challenge because it involves out-of-state commerce. I'm not a lawyer, but that intervention seems to be aggressive and exactly the place courts/congress would step in. Also, in a scenario where it would does hold up, then CA/NY would start doing the same w/gun stuff. And then FL/TX would respond with something else against CA/NY. So... MAD should prevent states from being too aggressive in this area.

Again, my concern is trying to figure out the statistically best way to navigate the various political landscapes and future political possibilities. It just seems too focused on one particular area of risk. I wouldn't categorically close out a good company / good career just because of this risk. This seems like the right place to recommend a hedge.

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by abetusk »

arrozconcosas wrote: post #49
midasz wrote: post #36

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Women die because they're not allowed to abort nonviable fetuses that would also likely kill them. Seems very unsafe, I wouldn't want to be a woman there.

That is terrible. How often does this situation happen?

It's hard to tell what you're actually asking but the Louisiana department of health claims it's about 1 in 10,000 die from pregnancy complications [0]. University of California San Francisco claims 6%-8% of pregnancies are high risk [1].

The World Health Organization claims a global rate of 4.3 mother deaths per 1000 live births in low income countries versus 1.2 deaths per 10,000 live births in high income countries [2].

[0] https://ldh.la.gov/page/pregnancy-risks

[1] ucsfhealth.org/conditions/high-risk-pregnancy

[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mo...

Re: Private company landing on the moon today

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Post by hazmazlaz »

arrozconcosas wrote: post #49
midasz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Women die because they're not allowed to abort nonviable fetuses that would also likely kill them. Seems very unsafe, I wouldn't want to be a woman there.

That is terrible. How often does this situation happen?

Here are some statistics about Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR): Pregnancies with major congenital fetal abnormalities: Most pregnancies with a major congenital fetal abnormality end in TFMR. The percentage of pregnancies that end in TFMR can range from 70% to 95% depending on the severity of the abnormality. Stillbirth: TFMR is almost twice as common as stillbirth. In 2018, Tommy's statistics reported 2,943 babies lost after being stillborn, while the DHSC reported 3,269 TFMR during that same time period. Down's syndrome: 20% of TFMRs are due to Down's syndrome. Pregnancies with Turner syndrome: Turner syndrome leads to the highest rate of pregnancy termination (100%). Pregnancies with Klinefelter syndrome: Klinefelter syndrome leads to the second highest rate of termination (73.9%). In the UK, over 70% of congenital anomalies are detected during pregnancy and, of those, around 37% will result in TFMR. In Europe, the prevalence rate of TFMR is 4.6 per 1,000 births. Seven percent of women cited health concerns for themselves or possible problems affecting the health of the fetus as their most important reason in 2004, about the same as in 1987.
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