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2 is a multiple

At least blocking him still works.

(I wish the number of users who blocked an account would show up next to the number of followers)


There's also Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook.


That doesn't narrow it down. Who isn't on Facebook these days?


Reminds me of that quote from Paul McCartney and John Lennon (from The Beatles) about Jesus (from the Bible)...


To be clear, I was referring to the 1960's band The Beatles, and the religious text called The Bible.


They could pivot to being a wrapper around DeepSeek. That would also save a lot of R&D costs.


But drinking with coworkers is an important part of work culture in Japan. So seems unlikely.


good point, it's certainly more of a trend with the younger generation and in the west.

But even living in a country that is perceived as "beer centric", i noticed that people are starting to be much more conscious of their alcohol consumption after covid. For the young generation, alcohol does not seem to play as big a role anymore and i would expect that this carries over to their work-life once they enter the work force.


I come from a country where heavy drinking was extremely normalized and common. Then the society completely shifted. Bringing vodka used to be the default thing to do when invited anywhere, nowadays you can't get people to drink a beer with you.

I looked into statistics, and turns out, people didn't stop drinking, they actually drink much more, what changed is that drinking stopped being a social activity, and now is a solo introvert home activity. I think that's the real societal shift.


> (otherwise, I would buy no car)

Why not just do that? It's the best option.


What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?


The norm these days at Arsenal is to be sent off early!


That's a unfair comparison towards President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Didn't he give up his position in the end towards the more qualified main character of the movie?


After attempting to murder him first. But yes.


Arguably DJT consented to the murder of his VP, before cedeing power once the coup failed. So not too far off.


yeah but president camacho went willingly; DJT only went because his coup failed


It's just taxpayer money they're blowing up, so it doesn't really matter.


The taxpayer money is for r&d. We should be very tolerant of failure. Aggressively testing with real hardware is a key part of how we learn to make a more robust systems. Fear of failure and waste will slow down progress.


They're blowing up their own money, unless you still count it as being the taxpayer's after the government pays them for launch services.


R&D for starship has a several-billion-dollar NASA grant. Something like 30-50% of the money being blown up on this program is taxpayer money.


The savings Spacex has promise of delivering to NASA make every dollar given to them probably an easy 2x-3x ROI.

Without Spacex, the typical cohort of gov contractors would have been happy bleeding NASA dry with one time use rockets that have 10x the launch cost and carry 1/4 the cargo.


Sorry, Artemis carried more than one banana and actually made it to orbit. SpaceX has not provided any ROI yet. You can't compare the (very optimistic) promises of SpaceX against the actual returns of the rest of the industry.


Zero ROI?

Isn’t SpaceX the largest launch provider in the world and for the U.S. government?

Many times than the rest of the U.S. space industry combined.


*Starship has zero ROI and has sucked up a lot of federal funds.

Falcon 9 has had plenty of "ROI" but it wasn't really federally funded. Let's not get carried away though about "more than the entire US space industry combined," though.


Fair. I think that was for HLS rather than the launch systems, but I guess if it’s already been disbursed, it’s probably all commingled.

But that still means it’s not just taxpayer money, it’s mostly theirs. They’ve been raising equity rounds this whole time.


It hasn't been disbursed yet (entirely). They get rewards for certain accomplishments.


Starship program is funded in part by NASA as part of Artemis program. So some of this money is ours.


Thank god you're not building rockets.


This has been SpaceX’s methodology for a long time now and has gotten them to the point where they have the most reliable western launch vehicles ever launching record amounts of mass to orbit each year at record low prices.


Testing to failure is pretty common in rocketry. If you don’t push the limits you’ll never really know where the limits are.


I truly hope that if you ever design a rocket yourself, that you will test it. I have no idea why you'd think testing is a terrible thing to do if it has to do with rockets.


I think we all agree that you need to test eventually. I do think most of us would already be double checking for leaks. It just seems one of the obvious things that may go wrong when putting it all together.


They likely did test it, and it passed. The leak was probably caused by the somewhat violent environment of the launch, and that can’t be entirely replicated on the ground.


Why precisely? Can you elaborate?


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