To be fair, he did do that for kilos to orbit via reusable rocket, so there was a moment when everyone went "hmm maybe there is a TBM equivalent of the Falcon 9".
But presumably it turned out that actually Herrenknecht and Hitachi aren't stupid, whereas, say, Boeing had been leaving opportunity for radical cost reduction on the table.
There existed a well known path for reducing costs to orbit, and the market was non-competitive and highly non-optimized for decades. One single company made a single experiment in that path, and it was somewhere on the middle between success and failure.
That's not the case for drilling. The Boring Company has no clear proposition about how they would reduce their costs.
This but on the other end. I've had literally thousands of pounds of material delivered for free from Home Depot. Sheet good weight adds up very quickly.
Look at what China does to protect its citizens against social media. You see China enacting many of the social media protections that many HN enthusiasts demand, yet Sinophobia makes them reframe it as a negative. "Children shouldn't have access to social media, except when China does it then it's bad!"
It's starting to seem like green submissions are an overall net negative. Free open signups just invite trolls and low value content, but HN seems to have no desire to change ever.
Tons of morons bought the Trump administration lie that Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets. Their problem isn’t real. They are complete idiots with zero critical thinking skills who have more influence in elections than more rational populations due to this stupid ass country’s prioritizing empty land over actual citizens. Isn’t it funny how when “centrists” compromise with conservatives it always seem ruin things for decades if not centuries?
I had some hope as a millennial youth that we were “evolving” past the conservative mindset. It was insane to me that an ideology that has been consistently wrong from supporting slavery to opposing women’s suffrage would continue to have any support. But here we are still talking about gay marriage again because fucking conservative bigots cannot let anyone live in peace. But I’m sure you consider their “concerns” to be very valid and worth entertaining.
well, the concerns do need to be addressed. it is important that everyone gets an opportunity to voice their grievances and not be ignored. but grievances that come from lack of understanding the reality can only be addressed with education.
you are missing the point. addressing people concerns doesn't mean conceding that they are right about the cause of those concerns. it means listening to them and work with them to find the actual root causes and then fix those. it means taking people seriously with the fact that they have concerns and not ignore them.
ignoring people because you consider their concerns illegitimate doesn't wok when they make up more than 50% of the voters. it doesn't even work when they make up more than say 20% of the voters.
but as i keep repeating, addressing concerns means educating people, not letting them have their way.
I demand to be able to share porn on HackerNews. Moderators who delete my content are censoring me and contributing to the increase in violence and radical behavior! This is the America and here we have the Freedom Of Speech! That means I can post whatever I want wherever I want and anyone who censors me is stealing my freedoms and increasing radicalization!
"I demand to be able to share porn on HackerNews. Moderators who delete my content are censoring me and contributing to the increase in violence and radical behavior!"
I suppose you are fine with the religious right deciding what books kids should learn in school? You would be the first person to complain about it. How about we ban anyone that says something negative about president Trump?
Squashing any opposing political views is dangerous in a country that claims to to have Democratic elections and freedoms. It amounts to election interference on a massive scale.
To be honest, I see so many people that have your attitude, I have no issue with someone in power censoring any opposing views to the government, just so you get a taste of your own medicine.
Nope. My position is entirely consistent. Platforms don't have to host content they do not agree with. Any more weak ass "gotcha" questions up your sleeve?
The visibility and comfort on road trips is why I'll probably continue to own a minivan even after I don't need it to haul kids around. I can throw 8'x4' sheet goods onto the roof rack and anything smaller fits inside with the seats down.
They seem to fail to capture a whole lot of things. Supposedly $1 in 2000 is worth $1.88 in 2025. So 88% inflation over the 25 years. Meanwhile the median home price has increased by 150%. Family insurance by 350%. Median college tuition by 225%. Childcare costs have risen by 200%. But sure. We can buy super cheap 65" tvs now. Hurray for us! Literal kings who lived hundreds of years ago couldn't possibly imagine a world with cheap large screen tvs. So the poorest among us should rejoice at the wonders they are able to enjoy while they skip meals and ration their insulin.
A dozen eggs is up over 350%, but a 6-pack of Budweiser is only up 60ish% since 2000. So you know, it all balances out. Maybe drink a few extra cans of Bud with your next meal.
This explores the ideas behind your post: important things, like education and healthcare, have disproportionately risen in price while not-so-imortant thing have gotten less expensive.
The inflation basket only represent a hypothetical average person, who doesn't even exist.
It's more useful to construct multiple separate inflation measures that represent different types of people. Like a "typical renter" inflation figure vs a "typical homeowner" inflation figure. It wouldn't be hard to do and would shine a light on inequality and help explain the rise of populism in certain segments of society.
An even better measure would somehow appropriately normalize the figure by the average disposable income in each of the segments to come up with a figure that measures the felt impact better.
The figure would be negative for wealthy people (who actually benefit from inflation because of asset price inflation) and positive for poor people (whose disposable income mostly goes to rent).
You can go one step further than that and calculate a fairness measure using something like the Gini coefficient (*) and analyze how much it has changed over time.
What a ridiculous statement. We have a massive number of people in the USA relying on financial support for purchasing food. Not every single American is fat, especially those who literally can’t afford to eat.
There are lots of Americans who go hungry, but mostly outside the USA. Starvation deaths inside the USA are almost entirely secondary to medical conditions that interfere with eating.
Generally there is a hidden starvation (I'm not sure the exact term), when one consumes just enough calories to survive a bit longer but almost no vitamins and minerals to live normal life.
Similar to polluted air/environment such deaths will hardly be backtracked to the true roots.
The most recent were deaths in conjunction with COVID. Was it due to COVID directly, indirectly or it was so bad that COVID could not really make it worse...
Sounds like the sort of idea a con man would pitch. Oh wait...