>arguing it unfairly advantages startups

Way to say your dealers suck.

They have a king and a quasi institutionalized class system. What do you expect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Simplify. The best part is no part. The parts omitted never fail. They don't require maintenance, supply chains, continuous improvement.

I have to click through a half dozen popups to get anything done.

No surprises there.

The Moon is target practice. We need to get away from innovative bespoke engineering, into industrial mass production with continuous improvement. To do that we need to fly often. Mars just doesn't have the launch window availability. The biggest part of the challenge is that we were born in the bottom of a deep well. To toss enough stuff out of the well for a long journey is critical. Boosters that reliably fly on time often and cheaply enough to get ships and fuel out of the well. Ships that carry fuel into orbit and return over and over since the vast majority of the material we need to send out of the well isn't payloads or ships, it's fuel. Kilotons of fuel. Once the factories and processes are set up for that going far beyond the Moon is fairly easy. But with a narrow opportunity every two years that's not going to happen in a human lifespan. It's not enough refinement cycles per year.

I see this accelerating the Mars objective, not deferring it.

I say take the cash and open a new company under different management and build more offshore wind turbines, now that you have a billion.

you know, living is harmful to your life, every day is getting you closer to death. Eating many foods is harmful, drinking many things, breathing the air in many parts of the world and during different weather conditions. Having sex may be harmful, it can degrade your quality of life in the long term.

There are millions of harmful things, you will die and everyone else as well. I am not proposing for everyone to do everything, I am saying - if you enjoy it, don't allow people to dictate to you, do it.

you do understand we live only once, what's wrong with porn, gambling and drugs? Enjoy it if you want it.

is that a serious comment?

the wrong passenger and end up dead.

For what?

Would you pick a fight with a random person driving a car? No? Because of decency or fear for your own safety doesn't matter. This isn't civilized behavior and onesie twosies get ignored as outliers but on a regular basis and people will take their own safety into their own hands and retaliate.

Maybe the blue state blue city DAs will prosecute like they tried to prosecute Daniel Penney. Maybe Seattle will elect a Republican DA.

Quien sabe?

ever heard of team drivers? they exist to avoid sitting idle for half a day due to regulations.

Bari Weiss is literally a San Francisco liberal.

She's just somewhat less batshit crazy than the MSM baseline and will occasionally question her own side out loud.

This is not right wing; this is as close an approximation to honest journalism as you will find in big media.

We build many professional Android and iOS apps for the trucking, logistics, shipping and related industries. It is a complete disaster, what Android app store has become over the 11 years we have been dealing with them. Things are only getting worse, more complicated, longer, more expensive. I don't know what they have achieved with this but they haven't made it safer.