lemming

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[–] lemming 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I actually don't know. I didn't dig into it, I just read an article about Russians praising Starlink bought through third parties used at the front. It seemed similar enough to other captured communications previously shown as accurate. But it doesn't definitively prove anything for sure. It could've easily been propaganda from any involved party.

[–] lemming 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Based on some old tweets, I think Musk believes Putin wants to use nuclear weapons. Then, the army put some pressure on him to keep supporting Ukraine, but he is still also working on his own. I'm sure he could block the Starlink terminals Russian army is using, if he wanted to try, for example.

[–] lemming 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't, Musk is too influential. And honestly, I don't think there needs to be much concern about space launch part of the business. I'm under the impression that it is already regulated enough to be relatively safely under control. And I would be sad to see it taken away from SpaceX and probably even Musk specifically. He is an incredible idiot and dangerous person, but the progress they did and triggered in others is undeniable and I'd like to see it continue.

But Starlink is a completely different matter. Private company strongly lead by a single, somewhat crazy person, is very dangerous. I think few people expected it to be such a game changer in the beginning, I certainly didn't. But it is important and very influential. Maybe ideal would be if it was controlled by the government, if it had the final say in geopolitical decisions etc., but the profits (or some part), development and such remained in the hands of SpaceX. Well, some international body as isolated from political influence as possible would be even better, but there's no chance of that happening.

[–] lemming 3 points 3 weeks ago

To get an extra boost from the homepage sorting algorithm. More people will get a recommendation, of a newly released game is selling well.

[–] lemming 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's probably quite a few people who couldn't play during the week. There were hudnreds of thousands copies sold in the last few days, not everyone could play right away. I got lucky and managed to squeeze maybe 10 hours in...

There also might be people who bought it from Steam, since the word got out it's better for Wube, but then went to factorio.com and got a copy unconnected from Steam. But yes, even before, there was a surprising number of people who didn't get any achievement ever.

[–] lemming 3 points 1 month ago

Then I suggest that you don't look at achievements.

It might also be dangerous to browse research tree, but it isn't based on anything specific, as I didn't do so myself. Yet.

[–] lemming 4 points 1 month ago

Oh, thank you. I stopped reading when it started to talk about someone else 9 years later, I thought it would be some other controversy. I wish he crowdsourced the $150 though. I wonder how many citations it could have gotten...

[–] lemming 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And how did it end? Was it published? Did they get off the fucking mailing list? Wikipedia doesn't say.

[–] lemming 8 points 1 month ago

I think pokemon used to be an oncosuppressor gene, but since its mutations caused cancer, Pokemon owners threatened (or mayvbe even sued), until the name was changed.

[–] lemming 1 points 1 month ago

You're right, somehow I managed to miss the tunnel completely... But still, it's all very clean, neat and lacks any fixtures, machinery, velcros etc. It looks very nice, but not very realistic. But I admit I'm not the target audience.

[–] lemming 15 points 1 month ago

The reason for the 50 years of oil, as I heard it explained, is that this is how far ahead the oil companies plan. They look for enough oil to cover the timeframe they plan for. When they have that covered, they don't look, until they need more. When they need more, they go and find it.

[–] lemming 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I seriously doubt it will look like that. Where is storage? Where is research equipment? I don't think it will be nearly this spacious.

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