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Comment · 5 days ago
Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.

Nerds are independent thinkers, and adapt rapidly to change. Heck, we are in the business of change. If we thought switching to unions was good, we would have done it decades ago.

I can negotiate for my own future better than a nameless political leech, sucking me dry with dues.

You can cry oppressor/oppressed ideology, but in the end I'm content being the captain of my own ship (career).

Comment · 6 months ago
Time for Zambia to grow up and take care of their citizens.
Comment · 9 months ago
I love NASA, always have, but we all know that SLS is never actually going to the moon, right? NASA will get there, but SLS is just a fragile pork project that's launched once in 3 years. This isn't a serious attempt to go anywhere.
Comment · 10 months ago
>I have no idea of what it's like in the US

Why are you chiming in on another country's immigration policy? You deal with your country, I'll deal with mine. Opinion dismissed

Comment · 10 months ago
Yes- that's a big problem. The business owners are getting away with massive employment fraud, tax fraud, and any number of OSHA/employee law violations. They need to be arrested and brought to trial.

If you can't run a business without breaking the law (including illegal labor), then that business shouldn't exist.

Comment · 10 months ago
Wait- are you seriously arguing that everyone in the country illegally CAN'T be detained? That illegals are required to remain free, and stay illegally as long as they want?

That's a border control policy known as "no border control at all".

Comment · 10 months ago
> If you get hit with a traffic stop, you shouldn't be lumped in with violent offenders.

Yes, for whatever additional crimes they have committed.

Being here illegally, that's what ICE is after (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and they are fully in their prevue to send home people who are here against the law.

Comment · 10 months ago
Semantic games. ICE isn't going after people who have already been convicted of other offenses.

They are going after illegal immigrants.

Hence the name ICE - Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Comment · 1 year ago
Equality and Equity are vastly different things.

If a program treats people equally, that's a good thing. If you want equal outcomes (regardless of many very real factors), that by definition will require unequal treatment.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'd pay good money for a local LLM with no "content safety" at all.
Comment · 2 years ago
Company fears competitors that have gained success; calls for government to make them stop.
Comment · 2 years ago
The real question is what's happening to that staff & programs. Are they just getting distributed around the rest of the org, continuing at a department level?

Or are they getting rid of the concept entirely?

Comment · 2 years ago
They plan on launching a small 1st stage with the satellite. You need some delta-V to circularize & fine tune the orbit after the spin launch.

Time to break out Kerbal Space Program and see how well it works...

Comment · 2 years ago
They haven't. They have done scale model and simulations, but nothing actually to space.

Article from 2022 said they planned on having a real launch by 2026: https://www.space.com/spinlaunch-aces-10th-suborbital-test-l...

...however the company is struggling. No website updates in a long time, lots of C-suite staff changes.

Would love to see this work, but I think it's dead.

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