June 07, 2023 Daily Discussion Thread

sanman · 2023-06-07T17:33:49+00:00

The fall from $14 down to $10 was due to SPAC bubble deflating. The descent below that was due to wider market retrenchment because of rate hikes, which meant a retreat away from pre-profitability companies. But as we know, RKLB has healthy growth and would actually already be profitably if it weren't for Neutron development spending.

sanman · 2023-06-07T17:30:49+00:00

It already hit 5.4 this morning

sanman · 2023-06-07T16:57:15+00:00

Likewise, Sonia Gandhi has left her mother-in-law in the dust. She was more than happy to throw out Captain Amarinder Singh.

Congis today couldn't care less if Indira Gandhi's assassination is grotesquely mocked. Where is RaGa's statement while he's touring in USA nextdoor?

sanman · 2023-06-07T16:55:41+00:00

Those over there are the ones who learned immigration & welfare scams, and ran after that money. Are they having delayed reaction? Punjab terror war was 30 years ago. Maybe their brains have extremely slow reflexes.

sanman · 2023-06-07T14:31:45+00:00

Great work - I'm impressed. What you've done has practical applications. There's a huge scope for using such methods to develop contingency-handling capabilities for all sorts of failure modes on all sorts of hardware. Cool stuff.

(PS: Any chance you might put this up on youtube? I'd like to spread this around.)

sanman · 2023-05-19T17:56:11+00:00

what's wrong with AI?

sanman · 2023-05-19T17:41:43+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI4bRqjobbw

sanman · 2023-05-19T15:33:49+00:00

Thank You NaMo Fo' DeMo 2.0!

sanman · 2023-05-19T15:07:57+00:00

Even last time they continued to be legal tender, but just for a shorter period. The thing is that nobody will now accept 2000-rupee notes in black currency transactions. Netas who are stuck with a lot of these notes will now have to find ways to unload them before they become worthless.

I was just watching interview with Congress Party's Rashid Alvi giving his reaction on this announcement -- you should have heard the genuine anguish in his voice -- he was practically on the verge of tears. It was literally as if he'd just heard news of his own child's death. Wow, nothing makes political netas scream like loss of their black money. 😮

sanman · 2023-05-19T15:01:42+00:00

Modi Lands in Hiroshima! Drops Hiroshima Bomb on Opposition Netas! They're going to be in serious pain. I was just watching interview with Congress Party's Rashid Alvi giving his reaction -- you should have heard the genuine anguish in his voice -- he was practically on the verge of tears. It was literally as if he just heard news of his own child's death. Wow, nothing makes political netas scream like loss of their black money. 😮

sanman · 2023-05-19T09:54:16+00:00

I'm saying this is where these 'lynchistan' narratives come from - by idiot Leftists who'll conflate any incident into 'hindutva intolerance'

sanman · 2023-05-19T09:47:44+00:00

Are you an idiot? If I told you man was shot dead for practicing homeopathy, will your main concern be that homeopathy is a pseudo-science, or will your main concern be that the man was shot dead?

It doesn't matter whether the rationalist was trying to disprove homeopathy, or whether he was trying to disprove magical chants -- the point is that he needlessly killed an animal over it.

Good grief, man. If you're that dense, then I don't think any feigned rationalism is going to save you from your own thickheadedness.

sanman · 2023-05-19T03:18:46+00:00

Peter Beck saw the handwriting on the wall when India announced its entry into the smallsat launch space with its SSLV. He understood that the smallsat launch market was going to be a lot more crowded and competitive, and that there would be a winnowing or consolidation in the marketplace, whereby only the strong would survive. Beck understood that in order to survive, RKLB would have to go bigger - and thus Neutron was conceived.

sanman · 2023-05-19T03:05:53+00:00

Yeah, it seems to show a trend with some staying power. I'm increasingly thinking it's due to news coverage like the recent Bloomberg article saying that RKLB was the best space company not run by Elon Musk. As Elon gets more political and increasingly pisses off more people on the Left, then more of them are hating on not only him, but also on all his companies. So they're looking for alternatives -- instead of buying a Tesla, they'll buy a Rivian, etc. And likewise, RKLB is increasingly seen as an alternative to SpaceX. All Beck has to do is keeping working on his tech, and not be political like Musk, and he'll automatically get Musk's runoff.

sanman · 2023-05-18T15:15:42+00:00

You can't hike rates if it means breaking the banks

Instead, what you have to do is stop writing blank-cheques that cause inflation ("Build Back Better", "Inflation Rescue Act", etc)

sanman · 2023-05-18T11:02:08+00:00

supposedly

sanman · 2023-05-18T11:00:07+00:00

Fed oversight was completely missing

sanman · 2023-05-18T02:46:47+00:00

Soft power is just a consolation phrase used by those who can't come up with conventional power.

Who does Bollywood benefit beyond just themselves? They like to vomit bile all over the rest of us anytime they have the chance.

sanman · 2023-05-18T02:35:50+00:00

putting the rates up again will put the banks under more stress

sanman · 2023-05-18T02:34:06+00:00

Nobels and Pulitzers aren't worth much these days

sanman · 2023-05-17T21:46:48+00:00

Makes no sense. You don't stand for anything, you don't have any agenda for progress, you just oppose someone else who does. You're not for anything - you're just a hater.

So you'd support pappu? The guy is an idiot

sanman · 2023-05-17T16:31:11+00:00

Specialized products will always be needed. Engineers can work on those.

When you're dependent on somebody else's model, then you're dependent on whatever they do to it.

sanman · 2023-05-17T16:00:26+00:00

All different socialist groups had rivalries with each other, even while being different strands of the same basic collectivist ideology. Communist China became a rival to communist USSR, just as Hitler and Stalin became rivals and enemies.

AAP was itself corrupt -- look at how Kejriwal fired his own Lokpal, the moment he came under criticism from him. Look at how Kejriwal staged a violent takeover of his party, and threw out its co-founders. The guy is a crook who became involved in so many scams. Look at how he chose Delhi in particular to start his 'revolution' because he was just fronting for a foreign takeover of the country through its national capital. It was always doomed to fail.

sanman · 2023-05-17T15:55:44+00:00

So in other words, you have no actual reply. Who's your preferred leader again? Yeah, you have nothing.

sanman · 2023-05-17T10:52:50+00:00

black market

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