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Comment Re:Spoofing from address? (Score 1) 14

Yea, I have gotten a few of the "I lost my wallet/phone/etc. can you send me xx cash via WU ..." email spoofing scams

I have had two variations of this over the years, in both cases the legitimate senders had lost control of their email addresses after falling for phishing attacks. With their address books Online, what could go wrong? Anyway, what happened there was not what I understand as spoofing.

Comment Re:Not including Chinese vehicles (Score 1) 112

I checked a few different analyses and they said that comparisons are challenging because Chinese tests are generally much milder and less "real world" than US test regimes. (Not to mention that the Chinese micro ev is sort of a China only vehicle type).
Generally Tesla are ranked extremely well in Chinese "real world" tests too.

Comment Re:It could still be that bad (Score 0) 41

These Cassandras have been insisting on the worst cases in every possible alternative for 50y.
Their careers, reputation, and funding is all predicated on worst case scenarios.
Polar bears gone, glaciers gone, North Pole ice free, the Manhattan parkway underwater.

Mountebanks require spectacular claims, or nobody listens.

Comment Re: It's a scary future (Score 1) 153

Most of those big companies were indeed split up by political will, but likewise reigned over industries that barely exist any longer anyway.
Microsoft, Amazon, space x/Tesla, etc are not only the largest firms, they exist in industries that themselves weren't really even imagined 50y ago.

Comment Re:Color me skeptical (Score 1) 39

"Hubris" ?

So you're just ignoring that this is an experimental vehicle still making test launches, and setting aside the almost complete dominance SpaceX has brought to the privatized launch industry?

https://spacexstock.com/spacex...

Company Launch Cost (LEO) Reusability 2025 Focus
SpaceX $1,500â"$2,720/kg Full booster reusability Starship, Starlink, high launch cadence
United Launch Alliance (ULA) $4,044/kg (Vulcan) Partial (future Vulcan updates) U.S. government contracts
Arianespace $9,167/kg (Ariane 5G) None European sovereignty, GEO launches
Rocket Lab $19,039/kg (Electron) Partial (Neutron in 2025) Medium-lift launches
Blue Origin $60Mâ"$90M/launch (New Glenn) Planned for New Glenn Heavy-lift market, satellite services

Oh, I get it. "Politics"

Comment Re:Investing = Polymarket betting (Score 1) 120

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?

Comment Re:Brilliant 4d chess! (Score 1) 160

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?

Comment Re:Fear (Score 2) 69

I had to look "G Suite" up because I had no idea what it was, it turns out that the only component I've ever used is gmail and that became necessary when I bought my first Android device after the "Email of death" killed Nokia's Symbian. I don't actually use gmail, it's the hook used for Android App updates.
Charging for Gmail is unthinkable, that would have so many knock-on effects.

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