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Social Security: 22% Interest on the Debt: 14% Medicaid: 14% Medicare: 14% National Defense: 13%
That's 77% of the budget in those categories.
Everything else is 23%. The Federal deficit is ~25% of receipts.
You could cut each and every function of the government other than the above and still be left with a deficit. And there isn't a lot of room to cut everything else, as they've already been squeezed for decades.
Wow, that's actually quite a lot. You can also just say "sort 3rd col nix."
The obvious choice that everyone uses is aluminum, or various alloys, like aluminum-lithium.
Now, it's true enough that he didn't literally _build_ these things. He is the CEO. Steve Jobs didn't build the iPhone.
But these programs are very obviously shaped by Musk to a large degree.
There should be no elected school board, transit districts, utility boards, assessors, sheriff, and so much more. No one is properly informed about candidates for these positions.
For that matter, the Board of Supervisors should have no power other than oversight and impeachment. The Mayor should basically be a local dictator, with the power to do anything the State authorizes the municipality to do, at their sole discretion, with the oversight of an elected board.
Of course, the oxygenated atmosphere only exists due to life. Otherwise, it would just rapidly oxidize everything else.
Would need a solar farm with about 50x-100x the land area.
The ideological framing of the degrowth movement is all around us.
It's not totally broken, it shows the first frame of the image, there's just no indication at all that the image is actually meant to be a video, there is no play control, and it just looks like a static image.
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/ \It's scary that people are taking these hallucinations as some sort of reasoned fact, or important opinion.
https://www.teslarati.com/fsd-distance-driven-training-musk/
Except this isn't the new FSD stack, it's the old one.
It's a fair criticism of the current offering, but it's not much evidence against a future robotaxi.
However, before that, a Starship will be launched into LEO. There will then be something like 17 (the actual number is not clear, but it is a lot) Starship tankers that will launch to re-fuel the original Starship.
The Starship then does a Trans Lunar Injection. The Orion docks with the Lunar Gateway, Starship docks with the Lunar Gateway, the astronauts transition to Starship, which does a propulsive landing on the moon.
In a perfect world where we had an unlimited supply of batteries, charging infrastructure, and all-renewable electricity, BEVs would be best.
But we don't live in that world. Plugin hybrids with smaller batteries are likely the best path until we can scale the battery and charging infrastructure.
But I could never do this if I was reading something. It's impossible to read something and sing something else at the same time. But it's perfectly easy to do while coding.
However, the NTSB says the bridge did have these barriers. There were large protective "dolphins" directly in front of the bridge piers, but the ship managed to careen in between them at an angle, missing them, but still hitting the bridge.
In addition, there were large protective barriers surround the bridge pier that was struck:
> In addition to the dolphins, pier nos. 17 and 18 were each surrounded by a 100-foot-by- 84.5-foot crushable concrete box and timber fender system , as seen in figure 12. These systems were comprised of hollow, thin-walled , concrete box structures attached to the piers. The timber portions of the fender were attached to the outer face of the concrete box and utilized a combination of vertical and horizontal members. Additionally, steel plates were secured at the base of the vertical timber members.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-key-bridge-s...
The analysis was flawed from the start, because it falsely assumed you could charge for every kg of capacity, but in reality customers are largely paying by flight, and much of the Falcon 9 capacity is unused.
But even according to their flawed analysis, they assumed there would never be a need for so many flights, and re-use would just eat into their production line productivity, raising the cost of each rocket.
These false assumptions caused them not to pursue any real type of reusabilty. Though they proposed a janky system where the engines would be recovered by parachute and helicopter, they never funded it, and the current Vulcan doesn't support any type of reuse.
Flash forward to today, and ULA has a contract for possibly 83 launches from Amazon for Kuiper.
What a terrible lack of foresight.
Okay, it was the McDonald's hamburger that seems to have been $0.15 in 1963. That is $1.53 in CPI-inflated 2024 dollars.
The cost today is $2.19. That's about a 0.6% difference in the compounding inflation rate over 61 years.
You think these guys have standups?
The statistics that have been released from Waymo are significantly different:
https://waymo.com/blog/2023/12/waymo-significantly-outperfor...