I recently read that the sales price is $105M but the lifetime maintenance cost is budgeted at $300M.

yeah, that's why SCOTUS was not given Judicial Review powers in the Constitution and just declared fifteen years later that it had that ultimate power "because we have to".

The Legislature is supposed to manage this nonsense. It has been in a coma since 1995.

Given its small size it might be better to land a small mining module on the rock and then carve it up in situ to expand that module into a small space station.

We need to do this with the Taurus cluster to prevent another Tunguska event, but better to start small and practice closer. It's so much more profitable to not lift mass from Earth than it is to send it down.

Taurus has enough asteroids to build Space Station Alpha. Might be a nice vacation spot.

What if it's 299,792.458 km?

Do we send the SYN-ACK?

I particularly hate the elitism of the "perfect programmer" crowd. most of us are out there writing shitty CRUDs in the language of the day.

and the thing we always forget when we get such comments is that most of the time, issues with bad code and layers upon layers of crap, come from the business requirements.

software development is often criticized for lack of formality . but no one ever seriously starts building a house thinking of "refactoring" it into a skyscraper in the future. but with software development we're taught to focus on the house only, and if the time to build a skyscraper comes, we'll see. YAGNI, KISS, etc.

and at the same time if we go building thinking of an eventual skyscraper we end up with stupid, useless shit as "hexagonal architecture" and 32 layers of shit, navigating a sea of interfaces and making the developer experience terrible. (I recently had to add a single property to an API that was built by a "new architect". it took me 2 hours to figure out, and around 8 files changed, not Including tests -because the project had no tests).

It's surprising that the suicided whistleblower didn't leave an insurance file.

Or did he?

Also btw, your story here is irrelevant. You come from a high income country anyways.

Indians going to the USA aren't making money like you are in Europe, and Europe isn't as welcoming as the USA is to immigrants.

During a short time I worked for a german company and a part of the team was in India. Because German bureaucracy kicked them out of the country and they had to stay out while the company sorted their papers. There is a popular youtube channel about a vietnamese girl living in Germany that tells her story of how tough she had it there even after graduating, the stress she had to go through every time she had to renew her visa.

People on H1B in the USA don't really worry about that. It's their company doing the paperwork for them and they're not under the whim of a bureaucrat, like it's in the USA.

I don't want to be aggressive but i mean, you're really a case of "check your privilege".

Every coworker I've talked to (europe-based 30+ software developers) agreed that if they could change one thing in their careers, it would be to try to land a job in the USA in their 20s when they had energy to burn and FAANG base salaries were 150K+ a year. Then move back to Europe before burning out, but with several figures in their bank account, and get a decent job with the added bonus of "former FAANG" in their resume.

> Isn't capitalism great?

Capitalism doesn't let you buy laws, that's Corporatism, a subset of Fascism, which is in turn a subset of Socialism.

A proper Capitalist systems speaks to economics, not poltiics.

Reconstruction US, Post-Mao China, Post-Soviet Russia all embraced capitalist economics to lift the vast majority of their population out of abject poverty.

Societies which did the opposite mostly killed their middle class ans then half the population starved to death.

This one is rather significant.

I wonder which private repos were made public. This could be the main prize. Industrial espionage ops?

Having lived through the Dot-Bomb it's basically the same.

You're not going to get a valuation bubble without a hype bubble. And nobody is buying companies for that much who have zero infrastructure. And the stock price is what they use to buy the infrastructure.

These are inextricably linked, not separate phenomena.

This is what Austrian Economists call the 'malinvestment' part of the business cycle. It's caused by artificially cheap money (not set by a market) and will unavoidably be cleared.

Our Orwell is so strong the eggheads artificially setting the price of money call themselves "The Open Market Committee". Because an open market in lending rates is de facto prohibited.

They don't have to do this but most "journalists" are hacks that engage in Access Journalism (which is a type of bribery).

They aren't hard-driving gumshoe drunks like the legendary journalists of yore who sought to speak truth to power. They're mostly stenographers for the rich and powerful now (yay, journalism school!)

It will be interesting to see if any leave out of principle. I doubt more than 10% will. You can pretty much distrust any stories from the ones who stay.

Fewer foreign visa holders open up slots for US students and workers.

that's not how it works. companies care about talent, not nationalism. why would anyone hire dumb americans if they can hire very smart asians for the same price?

Because even if you're deported you already made a TON of money, especially if you come from India.

A PhD in america can easily get 100K+ a year, in India? Good fucking luck.

No other country on earth has that level of salaries. So yes, it's a very safe bet. If you do well, you stay in america and become a high income person. If you are unlucky, you get deported and already made more money that you would have made if you left for your home country.

lol "entra" means in spanish "[it] enters" or "[can] enter".

the service for "keeping unauthorized things out" is called "can enter"