CodeInvasion

Ultimately most of what you have said is right.

I've worked in business acquisitions and management, and I have a minor in business from MIT Sloan; folks at the top don't need to understand the technical details, they just need to find the best people. When I run teams, I try to make sure I am dumbest person on that team. My purpose there is seeing the bigger picture and managing timelines, not getting into technical details despite my desires to.

Humorously, this whole thread is full of people upset that the CEO doesn't know about great circle paths, but that's not the reason the flight path isn't straight in this case. I'm also a pilot, and aircraft follow ATC directed high altitude routes that generally follow great circle paths over long distances, but tend to be jagged along the way. This is one of my flights from [Boston to DC(https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ab38ea61-4a85-44d1-a916-b1d8fd44084a.jpeg).

Where I can agree with the vitriol of every commenter, is that this CEO is being very dumb presenting the question to the internet and that along might be a sign they are not fit for the job.

I do wish I could find communities with more even-handed discussion. These ideological hell cages make me never want to comment which hurts Lemmy over all. There just doesn't seem to be nuanced discussion on the internet anymore.

Why are people upset over a $109,000 contract from the DoD. That’s literally less than a rounding error. The DoD puts interns in charge of more money than that.

$109,000 is not even enough to pay for 50% of a single contract employee’s time (the going rate is $250k-300k per head). This article is just outrage for the sake of outrage. Don’t embarrass yourself by even bringing this up in a conversation with someone.

I’m honestly more impressed the DoD found someone to write a contract for this low of a value. Hell, the total cost of the FOIA request was probably more after all the bureaucracy it went through.

Except not, because only piston aircraft use leaded fuel. Turboprops and Jet Turbines use Jet Fuel which does not use lead.

I believe it could and should be made harder, but it is already a high barrier to purchase an investment property. For a business loan on residential housing, an investor needs 25-30% down payment for the property. Also I think the longest terms are 15 years and not 30, but I could be wrong.

All the small time landlords acquired their homes through primary residence loans which allows for PMI and smaller down payments that only exist because they are subsidized by the government. A primary residence loans either requires an owner to lie to the government and bank which puts them at serious liability in the sense they could make the loan due immediately if found out, or the owners have lived in that home for at least one year.

Maybe I want to move back into it... And selling has a 10% cost after realtor fees and closing fees.

Based on the amount of vitriol I've personally received on this site for renting one property while I am temporarily relocated to attend school, the answer is yes.

For some reason everyone views being a landlord as easy money. But in reality returns on investment are worse than the stock market for being the landlord of a single family home.

Edit: Isn't it funny how the critics below didn't even ask questions about a specific situation where it does make sense to rent out an owned home? Instead of trying to understand why someone might make the choice they make, they sling insults and make wide sweeping assumptions to reinforce their skewed world view. Honestly it's this shit that's why Trump won. Leftists can't see the forest for the trees and are willing to engage in ever escalating purity tests that only alienate other sympathetic voters to leftist causes.

I worked hard to be able to own my own house. Saved money and took out a loan. I never received a penny from my parents or some inheritance from a family member that died. A greater return on investment can absolutely be made by investing in the SP500, returns on investment for single family homes will be worse. The SP500 can be expected to rise an average of 10% per year. A single family home on the other hand will increase by 4.3% per year. With interest rates being higher than that level appreciation, there is effectively no profit from the leverage that can be typically seen by borrowing money. Renting is typically 37% cheaper than buying on a month-to-month basis. Owners don't expect to Break-even on a home until after 5-10 years of ownership (depending on the city). Over 2/3 the cost of a mortgage go towards loan interest and taxes. Now what does a house get you then if there are all these downsides? Freedom. Freedom to decorate how you choose. To remodel, to build a deck, install Ethernet throughout the house, add an extension. But most of all, it gives long-term stability. After that 5 year period where a homeowner is taking a loss because of buying, they are finally ahead financially of a renter. This is why it doesn't make sense to sell a home due to short-term circumstances, because owning a home is inherently a long-term benefit. Especially when one loses 10% of the the value of a home selling it when it would take 3 years for the home to even grow to the point where that cost is covered by increases in home value, which is not even remotely guaranteed, as evidenced by home values only increasing 0.12% after falling by 5% the previous year.

Ugh... This is all based on Dan Gryder's YouTube channel. He's not exactly the most trustworthy person. His channel is full of criticisms of pilots that have died flying that basically amount to "the pilot was dumb" and then when he causes a nearly mutli-fatal accident in a Lockheed 12A because he forgot to lock the tail wheel before landing, he feuds with the YouTuber that pointed this out.

He constantly derides the FAA and government in general, stating they are incompetent. He has stolen aircraft accident investigation evidence from a crash scene, a violation of federal statute. There's the defamation lawsuit he lost against a pilot in 2023 to the tune of $1 million. And he was arrested in 2009 at an airport in Georgia.

Dan Gryder is an attention seeker who will say anything to receive publicity.

Edit: here's the analysis on his Lockheed 12A crash: https://youtu.be/sQhA-R2kKbo?si=fWg9EwLirkXwBDOh

There are literally no other articles on the events of 25 November. The article doesn't even mention the day it took place and uses a photo from several months prior as the headline photo.

It's possible the poster isn't a native speaker.

In German, the above is how a comma used, and this type of usage might might be common in other languages too.

I don’t know why you are mentioning Starship when I made no mention of that. Starship HLS is also a dumb idea, but that’s beside the point.

SLS is horribly expensive for what it provides.

The Defense Production Act could be used to meet these ends. SpaceX is a defense contractor and exists at the privilege of the US Government for the US Government.