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richwater··on Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings
The SP500 (the index the article is using for their example) literally requires profitability. Tesla wasn't includes for years and years because of it.
richwater··on Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings
The only index that I know that float multiplied is Nasdaq which no one should even be investing in via their 401k anyway. Shitty index. Most consumers are utilizing some type of fund that tracks the CSRP, which float adjusts with no multiplier.
richwater··on Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings
float adjustment results in any CRSP tracking fund/etf having a $10,000 investment being approximately $17 worth of SpaceX. This isn't a real problem the media is trying to push it as.
richwater··on Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel
I see you've discovered California high speed rail
richwater··on TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants
Maybe you're right. Maybe we should just continue to burn coal and let people die of black lung mining it and millions of people living in the pollution zone. Safe, clean energy is overrated.
richwater··on Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore
The decade of zirp between like 2013 and 2021 created a lot of shitty realtors because anyone with a pulse could sell or buy a house with ease. The true value of realtors is in bad economic conditions where serious work is needed to market and negotiate.
richwater··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Like it or not he founded (sometimes in-part) but drove these companies to success by demanding deliverables others thought were crazy.
richwater··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> He has nothing good to offer anyone in 2026.

Falcon launches cost dramatically _less_ than comparables like Ariane. In Fact, Ariane had to beg europe of subsidies to keep the program competitive.

Meanwhile, Starship is well on it's way.

You don't know what you're talking about.

richwater··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Boom is not a serious endeavor.

They have not committed to an engine. There is no engine commercially available to buy and no engine producer has committed to creating one.

richwater··on Running local models is good now
Yes, because the bottom 50%, mostly impoverished or near impoverished folks were spending money on Claude Code subscriptions instead /s
richwater··on Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri
You can use the word fundamentally all you want, it doesn't make it true.

Explain _why_.

richwater··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Centralizing permissions via IAM is a seriously overlooked benefit.
richwater··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
The vast majority of index funds are float adjusted. SpaceX will not have that many shares available relative to the total value of the company. It's a negligible percent of the overall market cap of say, VTI. This commonly repeated trope is misinformation. The change in rules is more of a problem than the actual value.
richwater··on Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
Yet another completely un-implementable, insane take from someone who has accomplished very little in the way of legislation. I mean seriously? We're going to start to seize companies now? What even is an "AI" company? Google trains their own model? Are we going to seize Google? Give me a break. This is real life slop and would never get published if it weren't for the author's name.
richwater··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
You mean the "Accept Cookies" banner that has become a complete joke? Pass
richwater··on Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
white savior complex is rampant in these threads. Insisting they know better for someone else.
richwater··on Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
That's quite an unsubstantiated leap. The world has gone through plenty of digital transformations and the number of people in poverty has only _shrank_.
richwater··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
I think you would be surprised how many commits in OSS comes from paid workers of the various cloud companies and tech companies out there.
richwater··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
The faster people realize AWS hates the need for a UI, the better.

It should really be a read-only layer for metadata and logs.

richwater··on Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
This is willful (intentional) ignorance.
richwater··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
You don't seem to understand image stacking technology or the deployment procedures of starlink satellites.

> It’s a public resource that a private company is stealing from all of us

Just because the government can't accomplish what private industry is doing doesn't mean it's "stealing".

richwater··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
You argument seems to hinge on Starlink not being a massive improvement to how non-broadband connected folk get internet. Your crusade against "offgrid" idiots is intentionally dense as it ignores the millions of people who will be able to access the internet.
richwater··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
thanks :)
richwater··on World's biggest RC A380 [video]
For anyone not familiar, most of this channel is funded IIRC by Tyler Perry who absolutely loves the RC hobby. You can see his estate in some of the wide shots (especially in the air). He had a custom made RC plane runway and workshop built on the property.
richwater··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
This website, while cool data, is just awful for me who is very red/green colorblind. Unusable.
richwater··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
Some of the text is undereadable on the background.
richwater··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
I would say it was wildly successful in Valorant.
richwater··on Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
Absolutely ridiculous to make people do that. What you're proposing is not a real solution. The real solution is to not block wide IP ranges at the random desire of some private football league.
richwater··on Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
Yes, trusting Cloudflare to be the arbiter of the internet will work out great.

Just as trying to make social media be the arbiter of speech...

richwater··on Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
recent scotus decision will make that much harder (not that lawmakers respect judicial decisions. but most firearm bills are overturned anyway).
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