You do understand that SpaceX is - by far - the cheapest orbital company?
SpaceX $2600-6000/kg
Others today: $20,000/kg
NASA (Space Shuttle) $54,000/kg.
Should NASA deliberately be spending more by choosing a more expensive company?
You end your comment with a non sequitur about government wasting money, yet SpaceX - who *does* make a lot from gov't launch contracts, you're not wrong - is CRUSHING the competition.
SpaceX - $2500-$6000/kg depending on mission profile.
Others: ~$20,000/kg
NASA (Space Shuttle era) $55,000/kg.
I'm DELIGHTED the US gov't uses SpaceX. They're saving a HUGE pile of my taxpayer dollars.
How do you complain about the gov't 'wasting money' and yet insist somehow they shouldn't use SpaceX as the cheapest-possible orbital service? How do those facts fit together?
The market is a wet dream of manufacturers, of course. Already knowing that for all the forseable future however much you can produce will be sold at very good prices - amazing.
Until the house of cards comes down. Most of the stuff ordered is, as someone put well into a meme, money that doesn't yet exist buying chips that don't yet exist for data centers that have not yet been built.
That is highly speculative.
WHO is ostensibly a SCIENTIFIC organization.
Taiwan was a leader in COVID response practices, and whether they want to call it "Taiwan" or "Shangri-La" or "Brigadoon" IDGAF.
In fact, Taiwan expressed concern about human transmission of COVID 12/31/19 but WHO *refused* to acknowledge until China finally admitted it in late Jan 2020.
So fuck WHO: if we know that whatever they think/discover/recommend has to be run-by Xi before the rest of us can know?
The stock market is not gambling.
It absolutely is gambling. There may be a wealth of information provided; however, all parties are incentivized to lie. Is the board going to sell out to private equity? Is the next CEO going to be an utterly incompetent nepo baby? Is a hostile takeover going to happen? There is an infinite amount of information that the investor knows nothing about; therefore, it is ALL gambling.
"Buy index funds" Why? So Goldman Sachs can dump losing stocks into my portfolio?
It is gambling.
The Linux community still responds to Microsoft as it was 30 years ago.
As well they should. A parasite is still a parasite, regardless of its other behaviors.
Today, MS don't make the money on Windows, they make it on MS 365 and Azure. Which means they don't care if you use Windows or Linux, as long as you use their online service.
If you think it is about money rather than control, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you.
But seriously, there is no conspiracy here.
That is a possibility; however, they have proven over and over again that they do not care what the customer wants and only seek to enrich themselves and maintain the maximum amount of control, so it doesn't matter that there is no conspiracy here. Any gains they see absolutely will be used against the customer.
Look at their actual track record.
Indeed. They removed the ability to reorient the taskbar, an ability that has been around since Windows 95, merely because only a million people used it. You trust those people? Moron. Stop shilling for them.
No, we don't want to be tracked.
What we want doesn't matter. What people with money want is control of you and I, and might makes right, so they will get it. Enjoy.
Kind of weird how stealing an entire non-profit worth billions, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars only has a statue of limitations of 2-3 years. That has to be one of the biggest thefts in the history of stealing.
ROFLMAO. Not even close to the biggest theft in history. I am guessing you are too young to remember Savings and Loans and FSLIC? Trillions stolen. OpenAI is chump change. Or, how about Social Security? All of that money goes into bonds which moves that money out of Social Security accounts and moves it all into the General Fund. Trillions stolen and meager Social Security checks for the people. There will be absolutely nothing left for you in a few years.
Billions stolen. Largest theft in history. LOL.
as opposed to "What rules should American business have to operate under".
"Might makes right" is the national motto. Only losers care about rules.
They were playing nice until someone started bombing them.
In which alternate reality?
Iran is not "a", but "the" supporter and financier behind Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and a bunch of other militias and trouble sources in the region. So no, they were absolutely not playing nice, even if you ignore all the atrocities inside Iran.
I could make the same claim about Trump's regime, too.
Yes, but Trump's will go in 3 years by itself. The IRGC regime will not.
It seems to me they could redirect the 10 figures a year they are spending on building a VR world no one wants or will use. Or did they cannibalize that already?
Is WHO willing to admit Taiwan is a place, yet?
A master's degree in my personal experience simply denotes someone who was willing to pay an exorbitant amount of $ for 2 more years of "school time" (I'm not going to say learning) in exchange for the ability to claim a "higher" degree.
Aside from my own experience, I know many people with masters degrees. None of us can point to anything meaningfully learned in those 2 (or more) years. It's a ticket punch for cash.
Setting aside my own knowledge from inside, I have worked with *many* MBAs over the years. I've generally found them to be highly talented at presenting themselves and their ideas as brilliant, no matter how intrinsically stupid either may be. I've yet to meet an MBA that was successful, that (in my opinion) wouldn't have been just as successful without the MBA. Most MBAs I've known are merely the business equivalent of highly polished turds.
Note I'm not hashing on academics; I wouldn't say this about PhD's who have to work fairly-to-incredibly hard and demonstrate meaningful knowledge to earn that degree. I generally admire PhDs.
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work I will do it.
