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"SpaceX, the private rocket company, on Thursday fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter criticizing the behavior of chief executive Elon Musk, said three employees with knowledge of the situation."

First paragraph of the article.

And of course there is also this, "In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”"

Looks like SpaceX should've kept those employees after all. Apparently they work for free!

Today, yes probably a lot of people participate in hiring decisions. But in 2002, not so much.

If you're actually curious there is a good book on SpaceX early days.

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53402132-liftoff

If you read the book I think you'll agree, desperate is the correct word in the title of that book and Elon did plenty.

I still can't believe they're landing rockets backwards. When I took control systems it was the canonical example of an unstable system. Guess those books need updating. :)

> But even with Air Superiority over say, Vietnam, USA still degenerated into an artillery slugfest.

I just finished James Holland's Normandy '44 and I'd say, according to his book, that sentence pretty accurately describes pretty much all of the WW2 Normandy campaign as well.

Do you have a link for this? I hadn't heard about the Russian language being banned. I did know about this from 2019:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-parliament-langua...

"The new legislation requires TV and film distribution firms to ensure 90 percent of their content is in Ukrainian and for the proportion of Ukrainian-language printed media and books to be at least 50 percent."

It also says civil servants must speak Ukrainian. It does not say they can't also speak Russian.

In any case, that's not a ban.

Are those properties exclusive? Someone has to write std::sort

The problem is not LC. The problem is companies not tailoring the interview to the position.

"For instance, in the 1980s several nuclear power plants in Washington were canceled after the estimated construction costs increased from $4.1 billion to over $24 billion."

That's not even 10x. I would say hitting the correct order of magnitude is "on budget" for civil engineering projects.

Here is what out of budget looks like:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-13/how-the-c...