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Comment Claustrophobia (Score 1) 36

200 meters (650 feet) is waaay too thin. I get claustrophobia thinking about it. Their images show lots of greenery, looks like a forest or something. But it's all bullshit. You can't have a "forest" environment that is a mere 200 meters wide. I do like the idea of high speed rail and rapid 7 minute transit to places for shopping, hospital, dining, movies, water parks, etc. but a mere 200 meters width? That shit is dystopian.

Comment Re:Labor is your most important resource (Score 1, Offtopic) 71

Why would someone pay you based on what they "produce"? That's just dumb. We get paid according to the market value of our work, the highest that someone is willing to pay us because if we didn't take the job they could get someone else for $1 more. If we get paid based on the money our work generates, that would be stupid .. no society would function like taht. It means, if I take a cab to my job, the cab driver should get paid a percentage of my salary .. because their ride enabled me to make $100k or whatever? If a doctor prescribes me an antibiotic that saves my life, I should pay them a percent of my lifetime earnings?

Comment Is it hard to build? (Score 1) 33

I feel like Blue Origin wasted money on an expensive hard to build rocket.

Why is that wasted money? Because its main competitor SpaceX thinks VERY HARD about manufacturability. Compare the speed at which SpaceX hauls out new Starships and Raptor engines. The USA used to know that manufacturability was important. That's how WW2 was won. One example, the Opel Blitz truck built by the Germans versus the GMC CCKW (nicknamed "deuce and a half"). The problem with the Opel Blitz was that it was hard to manufacture, hard to maintain. The GMC CCKW had "simpler" design that was easy to manufacture and easy to repair. The bolts were all the same sizes, interchangeable, and things like that. While Germany struggled to build 27,000 trucks in 1943, America produced over 560,000 GMC trucks alone. Reference: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

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