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You’re missing a few factors:

1. The US would’ve been paying Russia about 10x the cost if SpaceX didn’t exist.

2. Boeing was awarded a ~$3B contract within the Artemis mission and, so far, the outcome is that they can’t safely bring back the astronauts they sent to space.

Those two factors alone indicate that it’s more a mutually beneficial relationship between SpaceX and the government with, arguably, SpaceX providing more benefit relative to the government.

“Normal” and “common” would still be the last words on my mind considering the amount of planning and money that goes into sending people to space and back. The only normal situation would be they go there and then back alive on the same mission as originally planned. Any divergence from that is totally abnormal.

In this particular case, the person of interest published 800 widely cited papers. That seems like a considerable collapse.

“NASA considering sending FlossX to extract moss from teeth”

Maybe they meant to reference nix-direnv?

> Hmm. "We rub our Tubes with Buck Skin", he says in the same letter.

My immature brain didn’t get past this sentence.

Using the word “accumulator” wouldn’t be enough to differentiate batteries from capacitors, inductors, etc. which are also accumulators.

> So it scares me a bit when something like Ozepmic pops up and tons of people jump on it, without knowing the long term effects that might appear.

Test in production. YOLO!

One could also argue that this continuous feedback loop is the scientific process in action.

It helps though with remembering where you are in your codebase. Rather than cluttering my brain with the info that Nerdtree provides, I can instead use the extra brainpower for other things.

The problem with auto updates for daemons and services is that the maintainer cannot possibly account for all the different ways their software is used to be able to guarantee that the new version doesn’t break some critical service. It’s akin to a team outsourcing their CI/CD pipeline to some 3rd party who have no idea they exist!

I have a better idea. Let’s call it The Federal Reserve.

Too much idle cash is a wasted asset.

As for money markets, don’t those get invested in treasury bills/notes anyway? Why go through a “middleman” when one has enough volume to invest directly?

Short-term obligations may not provide the yield that their financial structure requires.

10-year notes, in certain situations, provide an optimal combo of yield and risk. Provided, of course, that nothing major happens to the economy which wasn’t the case here. Then again, who’s good at predicting that?

In the end, it seemed like, given what was true at the time the decision was made, SVB made a rational choice.

Ah. Excellent, thanks!