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Comment I've been switching registrars recently... (Score 1) 20

I've been uses Name.com and Google Domains for years. The recent sale of Google Domains to SquareSpace incentivized me to look for alternatives. The advise I got mainly came down to Namecheap and Porkbun.

I moved some domains from Google to Namecheap and it went fairly easily except for one which was a total pain in the ass which required intervention from an online support specialist, and even then it sucked.

I moved some others to Porkbun and it was as smooth as glass. I moved the rest of my Google domains over and have started migrating my Name.com domains over there as well, due to it becoming so pricey.

Comment Re:OWLS (Score 1) 35

Would be pretty hard to get all that's needed. The metal 3D printer for the engines, capable of printing not just any metal but combustion chamber with one of highest chamber pressures in rocket history. Engine that can be relit at least 3 times and throttled down to 30%, and still provide the needed thrust. Software for guiding the rocket using the grid fins and gimbals of the engines to hit the pad; the precise relighting moment and thrust control to stick the landing (the engines even at the 30% have too much thrust to let the rocket hover, it must brake precisely to stop decelerating at the ground.) Sensors and telemetry systems calibrated to give the measurements needed for that. Logistics and procedures for fast turn-around. Damn complex mathematics to guide the descent precisely to the site without exhausting all the hydraulic liquid. Supercooled LOX infrastructure, plus logistics of fast fueling up so the LOX stays supercooled. Material engineering for the frangible leg inserts. SpaceX lost one booster due to supplier of bolts supplying them made of worse quality steel than usual, so the typical chinesium approach of China's manufacturers won't do, need to establish an entire new QA system to keep materials up to standard. And a good dozen failed landings before they get it right, in a culture where a prototype failure results in heads rolling.

People don't have the appreciation of how vastly different Falcon 9 is from all other launchers. It's only truly revolutionary in a couple respects, but it's simply made different in hundreds of others, and it just won't work if you don't copy them too. The organizational culture of SpaceX and their insane whackjob approach to engineering, more resembling Aperture Science than any aerospace corpo or NASA, are fundamental to their success, and completely incompatible with organizational culture of a dictatorship's government agency. In China a rocket engine blowing up means politbureau's cars taking a dozen of engineers to prison. At SpaceX it means lunch break.

Comment Re:OWLS (Score 2) 35

With launches from the US China would be unable to launch classified payloads, never mind transporting any bulkier payloads would be a chore and a half. Plus they'd be dependent not only on Musk (who'd probably take their business just fine) but also on US government which could sanction China by blocking them from launching from the US at a whim.

The alternative would be a SpaceX refurbishment&launch facility in China, which I don't really believe is on the table. Musk would be wary of losing industrial secrets, and China still wouldn't be in full control of the launches, as US could still sanction SpaceX. Although I'd find it a cool trick if SpaceX transported new boosters to the new facility by launching them across the ocean.

I think the only viable option would be China licensing the technology from SpaceX. Which would cost them an arm and a leg, because SpaceX would almost certainly create a much cheaper competitor to itself that way, and lose massive profits long into the future, so the deal money would need to cover all these losses.

Comment Re:Has censorship ever been right? (Score 1) 455

They were sourcing it from horse dewormer after CNN called it that when describing what Crowder was taking. Same situation with aquarium cleaner, and with inhaling bleach (Trump spoke about developing inhalant antiseptics. CNN called it bleach, got people hurt, blamed Trump.)

But no, it's not the CNN spreading medical misinformation... they didn't tell anyone to inhale bleach, they only claimed that Trump did.

Comment Re:Has censorship ever been right? (Score 1) 455

Except the details of the laptop having been given to FBI months earlier, and to this day FBI has no clue where the laptop is, nor acted upon information retrieved from it in any way.

And the FBI raid on Project Veritas due to allegations of theft of Biden's relative's diary? Once again, a Biden's family member abandons something with spicy data and the finder gets in trouble.

Comment Re:Has censorship ever been right? (Score 1) 455

And yet you keep repeating the same propaganda, "horse dewormer".

[Ivermectin](https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mayoclinic.org%2Fdrugs-supplements%2Fivermectin-oral-route%2Fdescription%2Fdrg-20064397) is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antiparasitic drug used to treat several neglected tropical diseases, including onchocerciasis, helminthiases, and scabies.1 For these indications, ivermectin has been widely used and is generally well-tolerated.

Yes, it's also used for deworming horses. Guess what? Lots of human medication compounds are also used in veterinary drugs as well.

You could just as well scoff at people drinking nuclear reactor coolant liquid, dihydrogen monoxide.

Comment Re:Has censorship ever been right? (Score 0) 455

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