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> ...while member states of the European Union pay for development of the rockets, after reaching operational status, these launch programs are expected to become self-sufficient by attracting commercial satellite launches to help pay the bills.

I think the amazing thing about SpaceX is that they are constantly improving their stack. They don't finish designing a rocket, unless they're working on the next big rocket. The model of "build a rocket, and then sit back and profit for the next few decades" model is never going to take off again. A lot of the old launch providers need to reckon with this reality, and it's going to be really hard to turn these giant aircraft carriers of companies into embracing this new way.

Instead of calling OP ignorant, can you help us with world-leading tech companies that are not in the US?

I can think of Tencent from China in terms of company valuation, but my impression is that Tencent's dominance is confined to China instead of the world.

The money would only flow there if the services Silicon Valley is producing is worth the money to the purchasers.

None of these transactions are zero-sum and tech isn't the only thing in the world that matters.

I'm sure it's hurting CCP right now. Being closed off from the rest of the world does have its consequences.

It probably just doesn't hurt CCP enough to matter in the short term. It'll probably take closer to half a century before we can truly understand if the cumulative effects of the pain will amount to anything significant.

A half-baked plan that will screen out only some COVID carriers is better than the status quo where we screen out none of the COVID carriers.

In Hawaii, they have limited partnerships and Hawaii verifies the result directly with the labs. It says on the website they'll prosecute anybody that submits forgeries, but it's true that this is much easier to do when everything is within the same country.

Legal arguments aside.

If you believe strongly that your platform is used to organize something in two weeks that will result in the death of innocent people and you believe strongly that you can just flip a switch to prevent that, would you?

The definition of rideshare is that they ride with multiple other satellites. 60 satellites means that each are ridesharing with 59 other ones.

The ridesharing program is what SpaceX offers to outsiders, but the concept of rideshared rocket is whenever a rocket ferries multiple satellites to save cost.

From the parent post:

> they're now at least a decade behind.

The original claim was that competitors are a decade behind spaceX and Electron's capabilities are comparable to the technology spaceX had a decade ago. The Falcon 9 comparisons are to highlight the decade delta.

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In the context of space launches, ridesharing means that multiple satellites share a single launch as opposed to the traditional 1 satellite 1 rocket approach.

All Starlink satellites have been launched via ridesharing missions, with ~60 satellites per launch (and sometimes with satellites from other companies!).

I majored in philosophy and I think one of the biggest missteps in how I approached my degree was what I thought I would get out of learning philosophy.

I thought I'd learn about "truth" from my degree, and I was initially very disgruntled when learning about very incomplete philosophies. I learned eventually that the goal of a philosophy degree was not to find "truth", but to learn about the myriad arguments and models people had for "truth", and how to critique and understand truth.

If you're on your journey to developing your personal philosophy, then a basic understanding of philosophy will help you escape pitfalls and traps a lot of annoying armchair philosophizers fall into. A lot of people read a single philosopher and think they understand everything.

What is your goal for developing your personal philosophy? It might be faster and more meaningful for most people to start with theology/spirituality, books on justice (Rawls, Nozick, feminist literature), or carefully selected business books than to start from the basics because that road is long and full of fallacies.

I think it's very important that for every philosophy you learn about, learn the critiques of those arguments. You kan't learn about all the great critiques of Kant from reading Kant. This is where professors and peers are really useful with discussions to tease out nuances of particular arguments and models.

My personal favorite philosopher is Iris Marion Young. I think her work on intersecting democracy and feminism is wonderful.

Here's a real engineering youtube video about this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWiX2edcBoA

> I don’t think that’s the case.

What annoys me about this is that you can do the research instead of relying on your a priori thoughts, which are wrong. There are 5x more empty units than there are homeless people pre-pandemic [0] and it's the case for all cities with rent control because landlords don't want to be stuck with submarket rents for decades.

[0] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/3/20993251/san-francisco-bay-a...

The post states that 90+% of google's auctions are still second priced:

> It’s important to note that our move to a single unified first price auction only impacts display and video inventory sold via Ad Manager. This change will have no impact on auctions for ads on Google Search, AdSense for Search, YouTube, and other Google properties, and advertisers using Google Ads or Display & Video 360 do not need to take any action.

> The magnitude of that demand will never reach the same height.

I don't believe this; very few companies are okay with permanent remote work after the pandemic is over, even though they are very notable exceptions, eg Facebook.

This also assumes the population of people interested in living in destination cities is constant, but it's been growing every year the last decade except this one. COVID and the possibilities of remote work and COVID will dampen growth, but when we get through COVID, I expect demand to be higher than ever. It's not like SF will solve their systemic housing problems in the next 20 years, or our lifetimes.

Have you seen the remakes? Mulan and The Lion King live action remakes were insulting to the originals despite having the budget for the best. Somehow they still made money hands over fist....

The problem is that bankruptcies, starvation, inability to maintain your car/house/children/job, and businesses collapsing due to the sudden demand shock are all extremely expensive for the economy in the long run. Those types of losses which these universal handouts are intended for are quick to inflict and long to recover from. As an example, if your normally profitable restaurant goes under and forced to permanently close due to insolvency, it'll take years to build back up a similar restaurant with a similar rapport, client base, efficiency and success. The long term economic impact of these handouts would easily outweigh the infrastructure investments you are proposing.

When times are good though, we should be increasing taxation and investing in infrastructure. Instead, the US Republican party sought to create a massive tax cut during economic boom, which means that we are in a worse financial situation when times have become rough.

I found YouTube's Legal Eagle's analysis of the legality of the ban interesting. Would be interesting to hear HN's take:

https://youtu.be/BnjhHPU-uRw

One important factor in deciding which buyer for a startup, especially for the founders, is which company will most likely carry out the vision and mission of the original startup.

For example, if the higher rival offer was from Yahoo/Verizon, then Amazon almost assuredly the right choice.

This sucks for those employees though.

I think having competing ads make sense because it shows consumers alternatives which is competition. Google does add a relevance factor to the cost which means Heroku would have to pay a lot less for the spot than its competitors.

I think you need to account for inflation, which from 2000 to 2020 is 50% [0].

So 175%/150% => 116%, or 16% increase in tax revenue for a 15% increase in population.

Which means inflation adjusted tax revenue/capita has not meaningfully changed from 2000 to 2020.

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2000?amount=1#:~:....

What are your top 3?

I wouldn't call it petty; these platforms control access to information and there's a huge ideological (figurative) battle between the US and China.

One interesting detail is that this describes 99% of internships in Tech. Interns are given to a single full time engineer who have never managed before because it is their first foray into management.

Yet I don't hear a lot of complaint about the program (or maybe I've not been listening hard enough). I wonder what the different about internships.

That's quite different from call screening, where it actually picks up the call for you and transcribes what they're saying live and you can choose to pick up the call or ignore it based on their reply.

I don't know if it's high end, but every FTE I know got a Portal.

Disclaimer: FB employee.

The company claimed that they don't see this necessarily as a cost-saving measure because they plan on providing for home office equipment for permanent remote workers, kind of like how employees going to the office have monitors and keyboards provided for them.

Cost of living and taxes are very real. CA income taxes are > 10%. Some states have 0% income tax. On that basis alone, CA employees should make 10% more than those places without income tax. Then there's cost of living, rent, etc.

You can legitimately earn more while being paid less by moving to a lower cost location.

I don't understand why people are characterizing his firing as political. If you read his memo, it should be clear that he was fired for being sexist. His memo included a section which stated that women are biologically inferior to men. This immediately makes it very difficult to work with him for women and their allies. I know tech skews male, but software engineers have to interface with many other teams and many other functions, especially at Google. If he actually left out the biological differences claim, Google might not have fired him, but that section left Google no choice. I support discourse in general, but from a business/society perspective, you can't immediately make it difficult for a large plurality of your peers (and vast majority if you include allies) to work with you.

This is only political because right-wing political organizations have chosen to defend someone's sexist memo AFTER THE FACT, to drive the narrative of how Google is anti-right and is a left-wing puppet company. Calling this a political firing is only coopting their ridiculous narrative that he was fired for expressing "conservative values" or their sexist narrative that those conservative values include the fact that women are biologically inferior.

Disclaimer: Used to work at a ride-sharing company.

It actually benefits the drivers to have Uber set prices. Uber's revenue is a percentage of drivers' earnings, so prices that maximizes driver revenue maximizes Uber's revenue. It's very easy for individuals to set prices in-optimally which means they either lose out on surplus (priced too low) or can't find riders (priced too high).

To me, the most important aspects of independent work is to set one's own schedules, hours per week (0 for as long as I'd like), and not bound to work for any single company. Though I might be biased because of the disclaimer.

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I'll bite.

> Maintain solid products? Google kills more products than they run.

Google Search, Youtube, Gmail, Google Maps are all amazing free products that have immensely benefited the world. Yeah, they kill a bunch of products, but that doesn't mean they don't maintain solid, if not amazing, products.

> Stewardship of customer information? They're the biggest advertiser and have had multiple scandals.

Do you have any evidence that Google sells non-anonymized customer data to advertisers? Can you cite a Google scandal about selling your data? Complying with subpoenas or government authority notwithstanding.

> Good customer service? Not in this universe.

Yeah, I agree with this one lol.

> Clear rules? Ask anyone that's lost their entire google account, email included, for a BS accusation of click fraud.

Yeah, I agree on the rules being opaque.

> I think I trust my phone company more than I trust Google.

I don't know what country you live in, but if you're in the US, do you mean the people making your phone (Huawei, Xiaomi, ... or you know Google) or the carriers who have been selling your location data [0]?

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/31/carriers-violated-federal-...