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Evan Johnson
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Evan Johnson
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.@zebulgar says Varda Space will ultimately build the first industrial city in orbit. He breaks down how they'll get there:
"We want to build the first industrial city in low-Earth orbit. But we're taking it one step at a time. Building out the business, getting great unit economics, proving out one use case at a time."
"Generation 1 of what we're building is this two-part spacecraft — satellite and pod. The satellite has all the process equipment. The pod just has the finished good. When we're done, the pod survives, but all that process equipment and everything on board burns up."
"Generation 2 will be flying in 2029. Think of it as that heat shield material just envelops everything. So now the satellite plus the pod both survive. That'll probably look like a mini space plane."
"By the end of the decade, we'll start to invest into fixed pieces of infrastructure in orbit. Early on they'll probably just look like a satellite with a little docking port. Basically the space plane will come with the raw ingredients and it'll dock with that satellite up in orbit, and exchange them for the fabricated goods. But then we'll have like 10 of those satellites. We'll start to stitch them together, which basically looks like a station."
"One day there'll be so many of those pieces of equipment on board that we'll be able to economically justify someone with a wrench to go fix some stuff up there. Once we can economically justify one person with a wrench, we can get ten, one hundred, a thousand."
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@VaterOdinn @cremieuxrecueil Or that NBA guards are the best athletes.
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@cremieuxrecueil This also illuminates that NBA athletes are less impressive athletes considering the lopsided advantage tall people have in being effective in the game.
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@nic_carter @Cernovich Yes but Cernoviche is a very important journalist who knows things.
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@Cernovich That’s every VC who has raised CCP money which is half of the valley lol
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I have my suspicions that a VERY PROMINENT tech / VC guy was operating as an agent of the CCP. I’m not the only one. In due time, I believe it will come out.
F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli@USAttyEssayli
Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with violating 18 USC 951, acting in the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. Wang appeared in federal court this afternoon for her arraignment. She agreed to plead guilty and resign from public office. Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022. At the direction of the PRC government, she coordinated with individuals to promote PRC interests by spreading pro-PRC propaganda in the United States. Wang faces a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
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@curtis_yarvin @AlmostMedia In a future abundant world where half of people can afford a daily message, about 1 out of 10 people can make a living being a masseuse.
But not everyone will want a daily message so someone will need to do sales and marketing. And someone needs to build a better experience...
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@AlmostMedia Yes, you have a horse pull your carriage in Central Park. No, you don’t want a massage from Optimus.
How many such gigs are there?
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Capitalism inherently creates demand for human labor? How does this work exactly? Examples?
Is this a falsifiable assertion or a creed of faith? Does transportation inherently create a demand for equine labor?
I’m 30,000 feet over the Strait of Hormuz. Don’t see any horses
Julie Fredrickson@AlmostMedia
I think she has done an excellent job reporting on the mindset of what amounts to the Last Bourgeoisie. Knowledge workers so effective at disruption their aim was to destroy their own jobs But that’s not how capitalism works. It creates more jobs as we remove inefficient ones
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@curtis_yarvin @AlmostMedia To be fair you don't have a concrete answer for how robots are going to do all blue collar work. That's still an unknown.
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@AlmostMedia Pontificating is a tournament economy. I assume you’ve heard the term? Yes—I can still beat the clankers. For now.
Still not hearing any concrete answers
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@nic_carter @captive_dreamer If we boiled all politics into a single question they would pick the same answer.
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@captive_dreamer is there any meaningful difference, at this point, between these kinds of people and the most brainrotted blueanon leftoid? having a very hard time seeing the distinction
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I think the number of sane people on the entire planet may be a 3 digit number.
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@PhiloOfNYC @romanhelmetguy They didn't in the past. This didn't happen in Disny World 20 years ago but it does today.
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@romanhelmetguy "Singaporeans do a thing they call “chope-ing”: They snag a table by placing their iPhone or purse on it, then go wait in line."
People do this everywhere, including in America and Europe.
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Another example of the difference between low crime and high trust: Singaporeans do a thing they call “chope-ing”: They snag a table by placing their iPhone or purse on it, then go wait in line. This is low crime, low trust behavior. It’s something anti-social you have to do because if you don’t chope a table, someone else who walked in after you will take it. In a high trust society, you just wait in line and everyone sits down on a first-come first-seated basis, no one cuts ahead and takes a table before they need it. Singaporeans chope because it’s a way to take advantage of their low crime society to engage in low trust behavior.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
High trust doesn’t just mean low crime. Only 35% of Singaporeans say most people can be trusted. That number is 83% in Sweden. That’s high trust. Singapore can’t even have trial by jury because jurists always sided with their co-ethnics. It’s low crime, not high trust.
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@Yuri_Baranov @romanhelmetguy No you get your table after getting your food so the tables are used by people eating.
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This happens in food courts, aka hawker centers, because places get crowded around lunchtime and dinner. In the US, you find a spot and someone from your group guards it while others order and collect food. It has nothing to do with trust or its lack. We lived in the US (SoCal) for 12 years, and Singapore is by far a much higher-trust society, despite whatever some ratings claim.
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@Mockingbirddd1 @romanhelmetguy You are the problem. The seats empty out while you wait in line. Saving a seat is antisocial and makes everyone worse off.
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@romanhelmetguy Dude, what are you talking about? We reserve seats first because it's too crowded. If you buy your food first then seat, they may not be seats left. Are you going to seat on the floor and eat?
Don't speak about stuff you don't understand
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@eigenrobot It's one of those things that sounds weird but runs deep. Calvinism is compelling because it does have an explanation and a vision.
And to their credit Calvinist attempts at building cities went incredibly well. It's for boring but smart people.
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it's odd that calvinism got any converts
whats even the point yk. not like anything you do is going to matter one way or another. just wait to be dead and you can finally scratch off your lottery ticket
really takes the personal narrative drama out of religion
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@nic_carter @BNONews Because what he did endangered his fellow soldiers and the mission. And if this kind of thing isn't hammered the military and state department will turn into a casino.
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@BNONews This guy screwed up yes. But leftist DAs are giving rapists and murderers parole. Fraudsters that stole billions get a slap on the wrist. Why would this kid get 60 years in Fort Leavenworth?
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@Babygravy9 Any betting turns our foreign policy into a gambling scam meant to enrich a few at the expense of ordinary people's lives. Of course there are psychopaths who would have no problem killing a few thousand people to win a bet.
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Gonna be honest with you, I’m not entirely sure how this is wrong. It’s not as if the raid couldn’t have gone terribly wrong and Maduro remained in power.
If the dude actually participated, he was betting on his own skill and courage.
BNO News@BNONews
BREAKING: Person who won more than $400,000 by betting on Maduro's removal has been identified as a U.S. soldier who participated in the operation. The soldier has now been arrested, according to ABC News.
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@justindeanlee Many of us have decided that "challenging faith" is a waste of energy, because believers are so emotionally locked into their delusional systems trying to lift them out with rational argument is pointless.
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Our civilization is no longer capable of producing atheists intellectually curious enough to challenge faith. The arguments of the most lauded living atheist philosophers amount to the dreck below. None of these guys can even define "God."
All atheism is reddit-tier atheism.
christian@cxgonzalez
how do people actually believe in a literal resurrection without lobotomizing themselves? like the universe is causally closed and follows the laws of physics always except for that one time with very poor documentation and all the incentive in the world to fabricate?
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Lovable has a mass data breach affecting every project created before november 2025.
I made a lovable account today and was able to access another users source code, database credentials, AI chat histories, and customer data are all readable by any free account.
nvidia, microsoft, uber, and spotify employees all have accounts. the bug was reported 48 days ago. its not fixed. They marked it as duplicate and left it open.
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The inner party of AI doomerism is a Berkeley lifestyle grift fueled by unaccountable dark money. The outer party of AI doomerism is young people who believe the propaganda and ruin their lives.
Aella@Aella_Girl
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