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Recovering and reusing something that went up and down

And something that went orbital at supersonic speed

Is not even remotely the same universe

McDonell Douglas have done up and down since 1992

SpaceX is the only entity that have recovered and reused any rocket parts after sending payloads orbital

Wake me up when someone have done even a test that resembles orbital recovery

Until then all the EDS in here has zero power over reality

He's finding it applicable more than the narrow historical context and using it here. You can disagree with it but its not a 'misuse'

Arrest Telegram channel mods then

Apple literally won a case against the FBI on this. That's the US tho of course with First Amendment and everything...

So all implementation of encryption is illegal, that's basically your stance? Because that's exactly what encryption does.

Because 'we' want to. Who is this 'we' you are speaking about? Globalist authoritarian elite that you are somehow part of? Democratic voters? Communication application users? Whose this 'we'?

I agree. You are free to start one too~

Profit has not been the goal. If profit is the goal, one'd start another eyeball catching internet application. As the joke goes, the way to make a small fortune in space, is to start with a big fortune. SpaceX is the exception, not the norm. It worked only because of the unwavering, perhaps maniacal drive of one man. The man being hated on all over the place here that shall not be named.

I'd suspect the space industry will slow down drastically again if somehow that man stops putting space as a priority (or at least one of his priorities). Currently I don't think there's any one or company that is able to push the envelope AND still turn an operational profit at the same time. Even Starship program is not. Making it work is the exception, not some inevitable norm as others are making it as. Aka - "just because of government money".

Wouldn't you wonder why then that it seems, at least according to you, society have went backwards and not forward in this time frame?

"We have to have a collective look at what 1st-world governments, the media, and most "ordinary" people have been focusing on since the late 60's." still applies. Fixing the everyday problem is part of the problem-set to get to the "civilization advancing" goals.

Also donors. They received a ton of donations when they were a pure non-profit from people that got no board seat, no equities, with the believe that they will stick to their mission.

That further centralizes, makes matter worse.

Government is also extremely inefficient. To build the service it'll cost them 10x more than private companies doing it. How much do you want to pay in taxes? There will come a point that even if the government actually is trying, that even if the entire GDP is converted the taxes that it'll still end up with a worse quality of life for the rest of us. Governments is easily corrupt and extremely inefficient. Its almost never the answer.

This assumes thew birth rate holds steady at what it is today (1.1 or something?).

My suspicion is that the birth rate will actually trend lower...

Mice utopia

Tesla cutting prices aggressively at the expense of both their own margins, but also of other automakers having their market share and revenue shrinking massively, puts this WSJ theory immediately to bed.

Because the ability to influence others is more important than 1 or 2 standard deviation in more intelligence.

However if we are talking about 10x more intelligence, then that'd be a whole different ball game.

Check Alpha Go -> Alpha Go Zero. Gaining orders of magnitude in capability only with slight change to the model, along with a lot of more resource (we can easily throw 100x more compute and data to these models if someone seriously wants to and don't care about ROI. Or maybe if AI starts to be hugely profitable, 100x in investment is almost a rational outcome) is not uncommon in AI research.