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  • Alongside the EPA for constantly getting in the way of the FAA trying to slip his SpaceX flight licenses through with a wink and a nudge instead of properly following regulations, and the FAA for trying to keep a semblance of legality through the whole process.

  • no rocket as powerful as this one.

    So I'm confused on this because people still seem to be using Starships's old estimates of 100 tons to LEO orbit, which the SLS can put 145 tons to LEO.

    Then 6 months ago Musk got on stage and updated the specs to Say that Starships's current design can only do 40-50 tons.

    This feels awfully familiar for anyone that's seen early Tesla specs/presentations/promises and I can't help but wonder as to the validity of everyone saying SpaceX is mostly insulated from Musk's "influence."

  • SpaceX launched about 429,125 kg of spacecraft upmass in Q1, followed by CASC with about 29,426 kg

    Smaller satellites (<1,200 kg) represented 96% of spacecraft launched in Q1, 76% of total upmass

    So the way I'm personally reading this is 2/3 of this is starlink launches

  • I used to work for an algorithmic advertising company.

    The gist is that if you get one big spender it offsets the cost of losing a thousand or more other people because those large contracts usually last past the official sale

  • SLS is on track to be more expensive when adjusted for inflation per moon mission than the Apollo program.

    You do realize that Artemis III requires 15 Starship launches just to fuel the thing enough to get to the moon? Why are you comparing it to Apollo?

  • Hopefully between this and the mess they've gotten themselves into with the FAA and EPA and Texas Environmental authority, the US government will get their head out of their ass and take the Artemis contract away from this idiot and SpaceX.

    If the primary way they "save taxpayer money" per launch is skirting regulations and law around the environment and labor, we don't need to keep supporting them.

  • I don't think it would last long as a clean implementation.

    The problem with having a completely open algorithm for discovery, you give spammers an instruction manual for how to consistently get to the top of the rankings.

    Eventually these systems would always get abused and become completely filled with useless nonsense.

    An alternative is to have the discovery completely exist on the client side, but I'm not sure how that would even work given the way activitypub works.

    Personally I think any social media recommendation/discovery system is a dark pattern.

  • There's a major section of mastodon users who like mastodon because it doesn't have any recommendation algorithms. Both from the side of "I don't want to be told what to click on" and the "I don't want an algorithm surfacing my posts in a way I'm not in complete control of"

    This might curse it to forever be the platform with the smaller number of users, but the nice thing about activitypub is that there may be other services/clients that will be willing to take up that mantle for those that want it.