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> New Glenn will be flying at least half a dozen missions carrying payloads throughout 2025

12 missions is their upper limit of capacity, so it’s “at most 12”.

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1835610703174255074?mx=2

> That is what had made Falcon 9 so cost effective. Mostly because they get nearly 10 flights per booster.

You’re way out of date. Multiple boosters have flown over 20, a couple are at 23.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage...

I’m always amazed by statements like this. Starship is currently a test program and is rapidly evolving. They’re improving it as they learn.

What you said is akin to looking at the Wright brothers plane and saying “no way that thing crosses the Atlantic.”

It will improve rapidly until it does.

I agree 100%, though I guess holding onto the monster Power Supply in the Mac Pro has me hoping they're still working on something "big" that would justify it.

I do exactly the same with Apple laptops. Just replaced a 2015 MBP (that I bought used in 2019) with a 2021 MBA. Before that I had a 2011 MBA. New one is 16GB/2TB and was $700. It’s the fastest computer i have ever used by a wide margin - editing tens of thousands of raw files in Lightroom, editing 4K footage (which previous machines could not even do). I sold the old MBP for $200, so I’m spending around $500 every 4-5 years and getting thousands of hours of use.

No word on a new console…

That is exactly how the Silk Road guy was finally identified and caught.

Of course it does! Those higher crime areas are using up limited time and money that could be better put to use making your life better, but instead it's being used to deal with all that crime and criminals.

Your live is measurably worse because of it.

The strange part is the M MacPro still has the monster 100W power supply from the intel days. Why on earth did they leave that?

> I wonder why?

To learn.

Do we need a better reason to try something new?

> what would send all the criminality to that province?

Nothing would "send" criminality there, over time any place joining the USA would become the USA, and by definition it would become the average of the USA (because it will be a part of the USA)

A lot of people like to think a place will become the USA in all the perceived "good" ways like higher potential salaries, lower income taxes, more freedom, etc., but they fail to realize a place will also become the USA in all the ways that make the USA so vastly different from every other developed nation (healthcare, education, violence, crime, etc.)

I've always wondered if they'll do something for a true monster Mac Pro.. 128 cores, gobs of memory, etc.

I think it's reasonable to presume that any territory added to a country will become the average of that country over time.

So the better question is actually why is the average American such a violent criminal compared to the average Canadian? Answer that and you will have answered your question.

Likely lack of healthcare (desperation), lack of affordable education, debt, need to fill for-profit prisons, corporate lobbying to make regular people's lives worse, etc. etc.

> Violent crime in the US is not evenly distributed.

Neither is it in Canada.

If you want to cherry pick the "best" of the US and leave out the worst from any comparisons, you'd have to do that for whatever country you're comparing it to.

> recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Don’t we now know with 100% certainty the sugar lobby in America seriously manipulated the dietary guidelines?

USA vs Canada per capita

Rape: 16x higher

Total Crime: 5x higher

Murder rate: 3x higher

Prisoners per capita: 6x more

.. and it goes on

... would you want your community to change like that ?

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/Uni...

Keep in mind the EPA is cracking down HARD on businesses that sell any kind of "tuning" or "delete" device, handing out fines in the millions of dollars and shutting down businesses.

It's all well and good to say "you can get away with it", but the businesses selling these products can't.

Iceland is literally on the gap in the tectonic plates between Europe and North America.

I lived in Alberta for a few years.

While Alberta is often called “the Texas of Canada” there is not a single Albert a that would give up their healthcare to join the US. In many meaningful ways their standard of living would plummet overnight - healthcare, education, safety, violent crime, life expectancy, etc.

The US has much higher debt than any point in history, which is climbing rapidly, and are manipulating things as much as possible.

I wouldn’t hold them up as a shining example of “good” or “we should do the same”.

We’re not ok with it, but this is where unlimited lobbying has gotten us.

The rich and powerful companies literally make the laws they want.

Performance tunes are very often illegal in the US for messing with emissions stuff. The EPA have been cracking down HARD lately.

I can see a future where auto manufacturers lobby to make “unlocking” features highly illegal due to the DMCA or some other.

I think it more likely we'll burn the White House down. Again.

They'll never join because it would put an end to their horrific fishing practices. (I just spent a week there)

Good to hear there are more world leaders that are genuinely good people.

I hope we can make it "normal" again around the world.

> He sure seemed like a legitimately good man.

And I think this is where politics around the world has gone wrong.

A decade or two ago I would genuinely have been happy for the leader of a country, or mayor or whatever elected leader to date my sister or to watch my kids or something like that.

These days it feels like the most narcissistic a-holes get voted in. I wouldn't trust these people with my dog, and basically every country is suffering for it.

(Jacinda Ardern being the massive exception. I'm sure there are more exceptions too)

There will always be contrived bogeyman edge cases to scare us from doing something.

The only question that matters is would it result in fewer road deaths? I bet the answer is yes.

In the US every single day 100 families are torn apart by a death on the road. I’m sure you don’t want it to be yours.

The NY stock exchange will be successful right up until it isn’t, the only difference is that it’s backed by a very powerful military.

Absolutely yes. Ridiculous for you and me, and absolutely perfect for multi billion dollar corporations to “protect” their profit streams.

Pretty normal for a global traveller.

I delt with up to five extortion attempts a day for three years when I drove around Africa. Tons in Honduras too. I NEVER pay, because it makes it worse for those behind me, and now everyone has a cellphone worse for me too - if I pay $20 for them to leave me alone they’ll call the next checkpoint and let them know I’m an easy target.

You get used to it, and believe it or not I started looking forward to the game.

I visited a friend in Zurich recently who has such a bunker in their house. ( now a wine cellar)

Surely this was before nukes? After reading “nuclear war: a scenario”, I’m really not sure there’s much use surviving the initial blast anyway.