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Is sort of somewhat handling 10,000 by enabling them to make orbital adjustments more quickly. By the time you have a million, you will run out of prop way too quick.

A few additional items to rebut the lack of info in this Article:

- SpaceX just requested a license to launch up to a million satellites.

- the satellites already have some incredible anti collision software, which I believe Elon has now open sourced.

- the cost to launch 1 kg to space has dropped by a factor of 10 in the past few years and is currently less than $1000. It's perfectly reasonable to estimate that over the next 10 years the cost could drop by another factor of 10, if not more, particularly if the heavy rockets are reusable.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/31/spacex-seeks-federal-appro...

2. https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze

3. https://www.netizen.page/2025/05/cost-per-kilogram-to-low-ea...

Edit: added item 3


Elon has open sourced them, or the people at SpaceX who actually know or understand something did?

Open sourcing your company's secret sauce is probably the sort of decision that only the CEO approves.

The biggest indicator for me that this headline isn't accurate is that Lemonade insurance just reduced the rate for Tesla FSD by 50%. They probably have accurate data and decided that Tesla's are significantly safer than human drivers.

But that's not what happened...

Lemonade announced an entirely new product for FSD driving, which it says should cut rates for FSD vehicles And importantly, FSD driving is no longer covered by the regular policy, so FSD drivers now need two separate insurance policies if using Lemonade: the regular insurance policy, and another one just for when using FSD.

The actual combined cost of the two insurance policies is more than the previous policy was because they didn't reduce rates for the normal insurance policies.


Yes but they charge per mile, so the net change in price should be a substantial reduction.

Unless Tesla drivers were already paying obscene rates for car insurance, the per mile-based charge will still be as much as most people with ICE vehicles pay for their insurance coverage...and for Tesla owners this will still be an additional insurance cost on top of their original car insurance cost.

Also, important to note: Lemonade isn't actually available in the states with the largest population of Tesla owners, like California. So...basically this is a big nothingburger.


There will be stronger evidence if more auto insurance companies follow suit.

I find it interesting the Lemonade insurance just began offering a 50% discount for Tesla with FSD.

Insurance companies are known for analytics and don't survive if they use bad data. This points to your comment being correct.


Who knows the backend deals there, everything up to and including Tesla subsidizing the premiums.

Thats a completely different scenario than fully autonomous driving.

Arguably what's happening in Iran is so much worse.

The majority of people killed in Gaza were terrorists while in Iran they are mostly peaceful protestors.

I think the main reason is that propaganda really works! Qatar has spent $20B on US education alone, and Qatar Russia and China have launched a massive propaganda campaign to divide the US. The left was silent on Sudan, Syria, and Nigeria as well.

No Jews no news.


> The majority of people killed in Gaza were terrorists

Not true at all. Terrorist supporters != terrorists


Why can't they use starlink?


Starlink is illegal in Iran. Being a foreign journalist is a huge red flag in totalitarian countries, making it harder to smuggle in illegal devices than for the average citizen or visitor. And because journalists are probably under surveillance by the regime, it's harder for them to obtain Starlink terminals in the country than for the average person.


The government was ignoring Starlink until it was being used by western clandestine agencies & Israel to foment violence and burning down property. People were being paid for each act of violence they committed, by those spy agencies.

The Iranian government then used Chinese tech to block Starlink, shutdown the external internet and the violence stopped.


> People were being paid for each act of violence they committed, by those spy agencies.

Do you have evidence of this? At least in the USA, mobs angry at the government will conduct arson and property destruction without being paid a dime.


TFA mentions one reason: the "recent Iranian law that would equate the use of Starlink with espionage, punishable by death"


I kind of wish it had more examples. But I agree well written and thoughtful.


I've read most of the posts from that blog and shortness is boz's style without hesitations. Try looking for your examples in the another articles, the topic of each article typically overlaps with few other topics.


I've thought about this a lot. But my conclusion is that many times the base idea is valuable but the author spends time using examples and different use cases to show you the effectiveness of the idea and a wider range of uses.

Of course this isn't always true but it's true quite often.

Take one random example - Spark: The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain.

The idea is in the title. You don't need to read more than that to benefit from the idea. But all the different varieties of benefit and pathways and studies the author sites are still valuable.


another example

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

idea is also in the title,and it displays so many different scenarios of people engaging with specialized fields and interacting with them in ways that relate to their past experiences.


Let's not pretend that the Jews just appeared there. 800k Jews were kicked out of middle eastern countries. If we rewind the clock shouldn't those Jews also get their Middle East land back? Or did they not terrorize enough people and hijack enough airplanes to qualify?

Source: I was born in Baghdad. Father and other relatives were tortured and murdered there.


At this point, aren't we all descendants of Abraham with high probability? Maybe we should just give the land we identify as Israel to the world.


Sorry that happened to your family. The Zionist project has killed a lot of innocents.

> 800k Jews were kicked out of middle eastern countries

As a result of the creation of Israel.

As for Jews killed or terrorized into leaving Baghdad: Israeli historian Avi Schliem (whose family fled Baghdad to Israel after the Baghdad bombings) says Iraqi Zionists were responsible for some of those bombings in his latest book.

Finally, should Jews who had their lands stolen in the name of Zionism have their lands back? In a just world, yes.


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I’m saying the creation of Israel caused the expulsion of the Jews from the surrounding countries. No Israeli state, no expulsion.


It's harder than you think to manage all the devices especially if you aren't especially tech savvy.

There are also a ton of tricks and workarounds it's super frustrating.


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