Post At0E1aEDFOPUyyPW08 by codefolio@ruby.social
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(DIR) Post #AbW5d3PTjV8WYgtW3U by Matt5sean3@rva.party
2023-11-05T21:53:54Z
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@chrisisgr8 There was that time the government just gave money to scientists and engineers hand over fist at NASA which gave us people on the moon, space blankets, the microwave, better computers, and a lot of other things. And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons?
(DIR) Post #AbW5d6SmNgYk1nSh7I by Polychrome@poly.cybre.city
2023-11-06T03:04:14.139864Z
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@Matt5sean3 @chrisisgr8 reasons been the moon landing happened and the Soviet threat of a military platform in orbit ended so they shifted funds to "problems at home".
(DIR) Post #AbWLDofuyhzWt0ZUnY by gilmae@aus.social
2023-11-05T21:32:38Z
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@chrisisgr8 it’d help if so many tech people’s goals weren’t secretly to join the coked up fascists. I wish more people wanted to become thousandaires instead.
(DIR) Post #AbXHXc01buJWhr7VU8 by crzwdjk@mastodon.social
2023-11-06T00:12:36Z
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@chrisisgr8 you could also just... make stuff. Retvrn to the days of making stuff in your garage, the tools are more accessible than ever.
(DIR) Post #AbXHXcydyWnrjrTuyG by esm@wetdry.world
2023-11-06T00:28:24Z
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@crzwdjk @chrisisgr8 computing is still an expensive hobby and few people are willing to pay unless it's something huge
(DIR) Post #AbXHYGZAmeCEWRs8p7 by luke@mastodon.macneilmediagroup.com
2023-11-06T16:48:18Z
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@esm @crzwdjk @chrisisgr8 it was an expensive hobby in 1980. Today you get a free amazon micro instance, 500GB of cloud storage across 8 providers, and you can get a powerful laptop for about $150, so - I mean it’s objectively never been more accessible.
(DIR) Post #AbXHYHdSoBDrq2t59M by adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl
2023-11-06T16:52:23.284Z
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@luke@mastodon.macneilmediagroup.com It can get "expensive" insofar as time. @esm@wetdry.world @crzwdjk@mastodon.social @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt
(DIR) Post #AbXIUZwYthsJPpcMfQ by luke@mastodon.macneilmediagroup.com
2023-11-06T16:59:36Z
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@esm @crzwdjk @adiz @chrisisgr8 okie dokie.
(DIR) Post #AbXIUafwB0AfgYqbOS by adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl
2023-11-06T17:03:10.917Z
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@luke@mastodon.macneilmediagroup.com You can't even convince the normie to use Fediverse software or things like NextCloud, IRC, or Matrix because it's "too confusing". Good luck getting normies to get seriously involved with computing. Very few are willing to exhaust the time necessary for learning and understanding a new thing to competency. Fewer still are willing to pay money towards exhausting that time. There are barriers to entry, but the barriers to entry are primary self-erected by the cattle-class foundations of society. @esm@wetdry.world @crzwdjk@mastodon.social @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt
(DIR) Post #AbXRMLnaVE08ojZV0C by danjac@masto.ai
2023-11-06T06:52:33Z
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It's interesting *why* the VCs are becoming ever more right wing and "anti-woke". Partially it's because they live in a bubble and breathe each others' farts, but it's also the realisation that the easy gains of the early 2000s internet are gone, the easy money is no longer there, and they need an authoritarian government to enforce the monopolisation, surveillance, tax avoidance and regulatory capture to keep them rich in perpetuity.
(DIR) Post #AbXVGQlPWvLSIKzBse by feld@bikeshed.party
2023-11-06T19:25:40.934231Z
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@Matt5sean3 @chrisisgr8 > And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons?because NASA is really fucking inefficient at using their money> A report from NASA's Office of Inspector General released in November 2021 outlines just how much development costs increased for SLS between its first iteration and now, and revealed how expensive each SLS launch will be. According to the report, NASA will end up spending a total of $93 billion on the Artemis program between 2012 and 2025, and each SLS/Orion launch will have a price tag of about $4.1 billion.
(DIR) Post #AbXVTkQNk7Jp2JV3mS by adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl
2023-11-06T19:28:43.188Z
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@Matt5sean3@rva.party Because we had to give that money to defense contractors instead so we could make bigger and better murder machines. @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt
(DIR) Post #AbXWANNbIaWC13Wesy by lain@lain.com
2023-11-06T19:35:37.660829Z
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@feld @Matt5sean3 @chrisisgr8 pretty unsafe, too. NASA lost 2 of 5 space shuttles to completely avoidable failures of equipment:"While the technical details of the Challenger and Columbia accidents are different, the organizational problems show similarities. Flight engineers' concerns about possible problems were not properly communicated to or understood by senior NASA managers. The vehicle gave ample warning beforehand of abnormal problems. A heavily layered, procedure-oriented bureaucratic structure inhibited necessary communication and action. "Imagine over half of all airbuses would have a catastrophic crash, nobody would ever board a plane.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_program
(DIR) Post #AbwVdRc0eh64As12n2 by Mrw@hachyderm.io
2023-11-05T22:21:46Z
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@Matt5sean3 @chrisisgr8 That money was spent when the top income tax bracket was 70% and there wasn't an entire international industry dedicated to tax evasion.All the money that took us to the moon? The rich just keep that now. Thanks Reagan.
(DIR) Post #AbxJbPTgcBRsgTLWN6 by seeyouinrayman4@wetdry.world
2023-11-06T01:05:46Z
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@chrisisgr8
(DIR) Post #At0E1aEDFOPUyyPW08 by codefolio@ruby.social
2023-11-07T12:06:00Z
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@danjac@masto.ai @jwcph @benni Eh, Bill Gates is trying to cure malaria. We're not getting zero. But like the last Gilded Age, not enough to be worth it.