If it cost more to dig up the ground for oil, than they’re not making a max profit and that’s just a bad investment

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to bother to respond since its clear that you're completely ignorant on this.

Check out Eric Berger's Lift Off. He's a very competent space reporter and he wrote this book detailing the early exploits of SpaceX. It's definitely worth a read and really puts into frame what SpaceX have achieved here. And no it's not a love letter to Elon. It's got genuine recounts from the early employees of the company.

In your first reply to my comment, you'd suggested that you might be "stupid tho". I can't confirm anything for sure, but there is a chance you might be. Good luck with that. :)

NASA has been given billions for a new rocket. It's called the SLS. That was the cheap option. Building a new rocket through the many private contractors that actually build it would have been a never ending nightmare.

SpaceX has made rocket engines more powerful and more advanced than any organization has done before. The Raptor is by far more than NASA would've gone for because those other companies would've said it's too hard.

I think you fail to realize how difficult it all is. More money to NASA wouldn't solve anything right now, we wouldn't be getting a new rocket, NASA doesn't even want a new rocket to maintain. They like having a private contractor with their own complete rocket with everything handled on their end, and NASA simply paying for a launch. SpaceX is the biggest reason and the biggest advocate of fixed price contracts compared to the old companies like Boeing and their failed Starliner still wanting cost+, that's another win for NASA and space progress as well

> Soldier

not immune at, drones are lready important and will be lot more, humans themself are squishy puny things, easily destroyable, there is no reason to replace human out of equation, robots are more durable and effective in killing, you would also not need long costly training of human soldier, just send drone right from factory into the battlefield

I never said he wasn't a toddler or defended the guy

Like Reddit and mods?

No it doesn't.

[removed]

Username checks out.

It's easy to write one file without bug. It's harder when there are 10 000 of them interacting and being maintained for years.

>If you can’t do the basics that owning majority share in a slave mine

That's exactly the part which isn't true.

Your particular social media bubble might tell you otherwise and will even link you dubious third hand info articles. But do yourself a favour and try to look up the name and location of that mine.

You will be very surprised.

> Maybe I’m just stupid tho

You said it, Redditor for less than 2 months.

1. the training & inference costs have dropped to triple digits and a phone app, respectively.
2. given the preexisting codebase for distributed training, some non-negligible fraction of the billions of GPUs are going to be volunteered in an exascale fashion not unlike Folding@Home.
3. given that many business processes have already been articulated & opensourced in natural language, effectively any SME has the means to finetune their own nuances & SOPs to drastically lower training costs and turnover for new employees. this is a multimodal trend, any apprentice in the world can snap a photo of what they're doing and ask an LLM what to do next. eventually, it will be video if that modality can be inferred on mobile hardware.
4. admission to the bar and license might be the bottleneck for lawyers, but it is no longer the same bottleneck for incorporation and other legal services
5. given how much operational budget in hospitals goes to administrative work, I'm curious to see how the people deal with their medical bills in the next couple of years.
6. we haven't even confronted garage-tier sentiment analysis. I genuinely wonder how many markets get arbitraged due to this, starting with social media dogfooding.
7. what's the necessary cost of mainstream journalism to the general public? I'm sure you'd agree that should be weighed. same as 6), what's newsworthy & why should it be published by a corporate media company?
8. on the tail-end to this, legislature & lobbying costs just got profoundly cheaper. also cheaper to pick apart pork-barrel or other inconsistencies therein.

these are just a few downstream effects. and I'm leaving out the parallel gains in manufacturing automation, machine vision, crowdsourcing, etc.

But connecting those chutes to old satellites/existing space debris can be a huge challenge. It's already challenging when both units are under full control and can communicate with each other. When the rogue object is moving without control it can be rotating in any direction.

Yeah but did the person not mean that gyroscopes could be used in vase thrusters are not working/out of fuel?

Once again proving my point

Anything else is fair game

The current basically world leading space exploration

Is led by a toddler who’s told he will get in trouble if he breaks it

And nobody sees issue from that because the people working on it are smart

It’s like having congress full of actual smart people every function of the government as a functioning intelligent person

Then having a literal toddler at the presidents office

Shit will definitely get done but it might get fucked up

They beat slaves to death and there was proof they starved children to death

I literally won’t even read past the possibly abusive labor practices

They starved kids

And beat adults to the point they couldn’t walk

If that isn’t abusive labor practices you need mental help

And half of these problems are literally being solved in your own comment

If the only issue is money

And we’re giving billions to a new player

Idk

Maybe the money going to old player

Would do more omg

NASA has asked for a new rocket for decades and the government hasn’t paid in

Your love boner for Elon has ignored the fact even NASA admitted if they kept their budget from the 60s we coulda had men on the moon 24/7 along with possible asteroid visits in the 2020s aka this decade

Your the one who won’t realize starting space over and over is dumb

Half of the rocket tech in space x ain’t even new their using old ideas with tens of billions to make new ones

Wow

Almost like someone else coulda done that for the public

2024 - industrial design

2033 - industrial design

2024 - industrial design

2033 - industrial design

Well it’s a well known fact so I wouldn’t

If you can’t do the basics that owning majority share in a slave mine = slave owner it’s pretty damn simple

You don’t gotta beat the slave yourself for it to be true he could walk in there and out with a slave

Orient the satellite different so the chute creates less drag or move even over the long trajectory slightly sidewards.

I'm saying we are many years and at least one business cycle away from these LLMs having any economical impact other than through pure speculation while you say it will be sooner based on what?

no, I'm the guy saying that books can easily sell online because they're nonperishable, dense, and can be packaged in a garage. and regardless of the chatgpt hype, we're literally days after the discovery that someone can package LLMs that hit the same benchmarks from their garage.

I am not making any independent statements. I completely and fully rely on opinion of experts in the field (Antonio is not an expert in the field). If I rely on experts' opinion I don't need to be a climate scientist to make correct statements.

Reports he gets from scientists are fine. Opinions he spits out in doomsday manner that are *nowhere to find* in those reports are full of shit.

So you're basically the guy that was saying amazon.com will change the world during the dotcom bubble

And I'm saying it will be 10 to 30 years before you will be able to say "I told you so"