SpaceX_Tech

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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   Thanks again for the advice, I certainly value your point of view. This is the last time I'll post from this account, I'll go ahead and start a new one at some point. I appreciate your sentiment in my starting a blog but I don&#x2
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   To be honest, I hadn't considered the ramifications of using the company name as part of my username. You make a good point about the potential of being mistaken for representing the company in some official capacity and I will heed yo
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   I do work for SpaceX although I'm not in engineering or software dev. I work in the technician/skilled labor side of the house. I don't think I've posted anything specifically discussing the merits of the NRA, although I
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   Not sure why your comment was downvoted but this is true, there really isn't much open space around the SpaceX property. I wish we had a campus like Raytheon or Northrop have in El Segundo/Redondo Beach. The 60's & 70&#x2
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   Based on that FAA application it looks like someone will be losing their prime parking spot. In all seriousness though, I'm not sure how I feel about this monument. It's going to be really crammed next to the main building and I d
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   Thanks again for the thoughtful and kind reply. Your dignified response is again a reminder of the crassness of my initial comment and the embarrassment I feel towards having made it. I completely understand your unease with sharing such pe
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   Thank you for taking the time to respond and for sharing your experience. Prior to this post I commented that I regretted my initial response to you as being overly dismissive of your point of view. I had the opportunity to edit/delete
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   Great comment and it goes aptly with your username.
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   by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

   I understand this wasn't directed at me but seeing as I had a similar reaction I hope I can give you some explanation of my response. Firstly however, I'd like to apologize for the tone of my response below. While I stand by my po
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    I'm going to flatly state that while I currently live in a relatively high crime area I do not carry any weapons, firearms or otherwise, on me at any time. I do not harbor any kind of action hero revenge fantasies and my first choice w
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    I agree with you that on the fundamental level I don’t like the idea of rights being perpetually limited on the basis of being a convicted felon. As far as I’m concerned once a person has served their sentence, including parole, they have p
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    I've also heard the argument that having a national registry makes the possibility of future mass confiscation much more palatable. There are probably a good deal of people who wouldn't mind amending the Constitution to rid it of
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    Your question may be impossible to answer since I suspect that what is "profoundly important" varies enormously between individuals but I will try anyway. Speaking for myself I believe there is something incredibly unique in the w
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    They are extremely upfront about expectations. Sadly, whenever these discussions about employees leaving SpaceX come up, some commenters invariably come to the false conclusion that anyone who leaves SpaceX is a loser or somehow couldn’t ha
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    SpaceX is the only aerospace job I've held so I can't speak from personal experience working at any competing companies but from what I hear you are right in that SpaceX tends to have a pretty negative reputation within the indust
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    SpaceX’s reputation for not being an easy place to work is certainly deserved but from what I’ve seen management has been making a serious effort in trying to address issues of work/life balance. The situation today is much different t
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    I can imagine they are very popular in Marin and the peninsula. Surprisingly I've only seen one model X so far here in LA. I didn't realize these modern diesels still sound terrible, are they really that bad?
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    Thanks for responding, you make some good points regarding the i3 looking like an electric car while the model S just looks like a normal car. The i3, along with maybe the Volt, are still for me the first cars to get the "electric car&
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    From my understanding the final assembly of components into the finished product is still the most delicate/demanding and is still primarily performed by humans. What you say makes perfect sense that this is in many ways the part of th
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    I believe Apple, unlike most companies that contract manufacturing to places like Foxconn, actually owns most, if not all, of the equipment inside the Foxconn facilities. If what I've read is correct, Apple is completely responsible fo
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    This will probably be an unpopular opinion but I absolutely love the look of the i3 and don't understand the widespread derision it receives. I'm a big fan of industrial design/architecture/automotive design and try to s
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    I suspect the person you replied to was talking about the new Gigafactory that is being built, which I believe will be primarily owned and operated by Tesla, although Panasonic is an investor. Tesla does source its current batteries from Pa
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    Why? Do Apple and Google really have that adversarial a relationship? It seems like a small subset of their respective fans are the only ones that actually want a "war" between the two. Apple is the most profitable company in the
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    Thanks for the thoughtful response. You make an especially good point about being accountable when running a "public market" that I hadn't really considered.
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    That makes a lot of sense but just to play devil's advocate are we considering the OS/App market separate from the hardware market? If so, and considering Apple makes a not insignificant amount from the App Store and doesn't
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    You make a very good point and I certainly don't think that IE being tightly coupled to the underlying OS would be good for browser competition. At the same time couldn't I argue that a company such as Apple having so much power o
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    You bring up the exact point that I was just thinking about, namely why market share is used as a criteria for defining whether certain behaviors fall into the anticompetitive realm but profit share isn’t. Apple taking 90% of overall worldw
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    Thanks for the info, very interesting and troubling.
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    I believe in most, if not all, species of octopus the male dies after mating and the female dies shortly after the eggs in her care hatch. Also depending on the species, anywhere from 20,000-200,000 eggs will hatch and I've read that o
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    by SpaceX_Tech 10y ago

    A number of years ago I kept two octopuses in captivity and I always enjoy reading articles like this, I wish more people took an interest in them and I’m glad to see the audience at HN does. They really are remarkable animals and unbelieva