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Meta to launch subscription service for Facebook and Instagram

ft.com
2 points·by duhast·3 ปีที่แล้ว·0 comments

Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options

ft.com
10 points·by duhast·3 ปีที่แล้ว·2 comments

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duhast
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Phones, laptops, GPUs and many other modern highly integrated electronic products are repairable. Look it up, there are tons of videos on YouTube of people doing component level repairs. Leaked schematics make a huge difference here.
duhast
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Retaking of Kharkiv and Kherson is marginal diminishing returns?
duhast
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You lost me at "can be coded in few days".
duhast
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
They can levy fines on campaigns.
duhast
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Citation needed.
duhast
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
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duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Care to elaborate?
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Can you give me some examples of SpaceX innovations that disrupted the industry?

Here are some of my issues with SpaceX marketing:

  1) Cost to NASA/DoD seems to be similar to ULA.

  2) SpaceX continues to fly expandable boosters for missions above LEO and for heavier payloads. Reusable boosters have lower lift and range and require extensive refurbishment between missions. Upper stage is not reusable.

  3) SpaceX hasn't flown a single mission into deep space or Mars despite this being the stated goal of the company. In the same time, others have flown multiple rockets to Mars and to other planets. We have multiple rovers roaming the surface of Mars and satellites orbiting other planes all while SpaceX has contributed nothing to these efforts.
I personally see SpaceX contributions to the industry are mostly incremental:

  1) Booster reusability to LEO and for light payloads.

  3) Human rated capsule for space station resupply missions.

  3) High quality video content from launches.

  4) Increased interest in space exploration at the expense of unrealistic expectations in relation to cost and timelines.
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Twitter is private. There is no stock to drive down.
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Is there any actual public evidence of Twitter being management heavy outside single statement made by Musk?
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
His company X.com was acquired by PayPal.
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Entrepreneur, salesman, celebrity or populariser? Sure. Definitely not an engineer.
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Why do you think so?
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Here goes nothing to hide nothing to fear argument.
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Can you please elaborate on this more? What are the major differences between SLS and SpaceX?
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Why SLS should be cancelled?
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
House prices will adjust once air taxis take off (no pun intended).
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Bonds are a form of lending and pay coupons. Shares experience capital appreciation from business growth and pay dividends from profits. Houses bring rent. How does Bitcoin create wealth?
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Bitcoin solves inflation with deflation and transfer of surplus from labour to Bitcoin holders. Add inelastic coin supply, low transaction rate, no anonymity, high energy consumption, whales owning most coins, tendency to concentrate mining capacity in the hands of few players (7 pools own 50% of mining capacity), undemocratic governance and it looks even worse. Bitcoin is not money. At best it's a digital collectable. After a decade of trying Bitcoin's only application appears to be facilitation of ransom payments, speculation for rich and insecure middle class and evasion of sanctions by the likes of Iran or North Korea. Hard currencies simply don't work in practice and are fundamentally undemocratic. We tried this with gold and it didn't work.
duhast
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Users are consistently choosing locked down Apple ecosystem over more open Android. How are you going to explain this?

You also need to realise that you’re not an average user. You’re in 0.0001% of the population when it comes to use of technology and your preferences might not reflect the average Joe.

Most phones would quickly fill up with apps doing malware, phishing, spam, crypto mining and DDoS attacks.