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If you want to make a lot of money quick, take your business public. If you want a business that's around in 40 years or that you can pass to the next generation, keep your company private. That's the takeaway I've gotten from watching most companies the past few decades.

I think it's more important to look and see where I'm the USA the companies manufacturing is located. Does that state have a powerful senator or Congressman in the district of the facility(s)? If so then ULA just needs to be be so terrible or so expensive that even the general public starts to...

Both the businessman and scientist in me absolutely hates how true every single thing you said is.

If your forgetting how to brake then there must be no other drivers in your very rural area. Even if your a super boring and defensive driver your going to need to hit those real brakes when that light changes faster then expected, interstate traffic does what it normally does, someone cuts you...

While as a huge space fan I love this world view, the truth is far more cynical and grim. Spaceflight developed as an offshoot of a product designed to kill people at greater distances then we were able to kill them previously. Nearly every advance was backstopped by the need or desire to blow...

Reread that case, because that's not true at all. A machine can't copyright something it created, but they didn't rule at all on human prompted AI assisted works. And they likely won't considering the absolute nation sized volumes of money currently in the industry.

So funny seeing the techies turn into the luddites this time. First AI was garbage that couldn't do anything well. Then it was a thief that could at best only copy what humans did. Then the fear started. Now we have people demanding resources to "detect" AI in creative works to "punish"...

Radio? Isn't that the thing in old cars that mostly plays the same 4-5 tired old songs and a million terrible commercials? I'm nearly 50 and even I don't turn that slop on anymore (not that I did in my teens or 20s either. We had cassettes and CDs for that).

I used to work for the power company (as an IT guy) and would occasionally go to substations for stuff. Some of the equipment inside those substations were really unnerving to be around. Your skin would prickle, your hair would raise up, etc. The closer you stood to it the worse it got. I...

Im seeing these issues at home. Want to have a lan party a few times a year? Better drag cables across from other circuits in the house since everyones PC is pulling 800w-1kw all in now. Anytime I end up using a plug in kitchen appliance I complain how the US settled on 120v while nearly the...

The better longterm play would be the hire spaceX to design an expendable starship to hold the Orion spacecraft and plan on SLS never continuing on past when that becomes available. Comparing apples to apples, starship and SH already have a longer, more successful launch track record then SLS...

Wouldn't it be nice if it worked like this for those of us not on the government/military payroll? Their rocket has a failure that blows the customers schedule and forces the customer to find a new provider last minute and the customer compensates them?! 😆 🤣 ULA should pay a fee for the...

An 8k panel would make a useful large monitor for IT work. Say a 40-50 inch display, and just use it like 4+ panels with no seams. But thats really one of the few use cases IMO. It might also be useful for photo editing (without needing to be a 40+ sized display as well). But if your...

Ah man. Usenet! Those were the days. I kinda miss the old wild west version of the internet some times.

I suspect those days are quickly disappearing. Manual vehicles are a quickly dying breed. With thr various types of automatics getting better mpg and still holding pretty significant HP numbers, and EVs not using a transmission at all, I expect them to be gone outside commercial vehicles and a...

Even the idea of putting a russian spacecraft on a US rocket because russia couldn't launch it would likely get someone "suiciding" out a high window in russia. He would be way more likely to stand on a tank shirtless and proclaim that the great russia no longer needs the ISS because its...

This is why I believe people should be able to choose to die ahead of time. In this case it was a child so I don't even know what to say since they technically can't "consent". But putting that bit aside: When something is 100% fatal, and your doomed to decline to a vegetable either allow...

The slow trickle-add of commercials on streaming services have really killed it for me. I used to have Hulu, etc but they all raised their prices and then stuffed in ads (unless you pay even more) so I gave up. Now I watch NF, a few things on my buddies plex (ie bittorrent) and crunchyroll...

Well everything google does is based around tracking in all its forms. Tracking the developer probably does raise security some (maybe a lot) but more importantly it also continues to feed the endless data collection of information on every human on the planet. And since that is googles actual...

You missed his point. He was commenting about how their choice in weapons seems to be more a "troll" or psychological "attack" then a truely logical use of resources. Why target specific sats forever with you dozen or so launches a year when you know your "adversary" can launch hundreds per...