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demure  ·  345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trip Report: Big Bend

hey dude, sounds like you had a great time. wishing you well.

demure  ·  407 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast

    Several breakfast staples saw sharp price increases due to a perfect storm of bad weather and disease outbreaks—and continued effects from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    Egg prices increased 8.5% in January from a month earlier and are up 70.1% over the past year, the highest annual rate since 1973. The deadliest avian-influenza outbreak on record has devastated poultry flocks across the U.S., leading the price of eggs to rise more than any other grocery item in 2022, according to Information Resources Inc. U.S. egg inventories were 29% lower in the final week of December 2022 than at the beginning of 2022, according to the USDA.

    Frozen, noncarbonated juices and drinks—a category that includes frozen orange juice—rose by 1.5% in January from a month earlier, and the 12.4% annual increase is the highest in over a decade. Florida orange growers are harvesting their smallest crop in nearly 90 years, the result of a freeze, two hurricanes and a citrus disease that is laying waste to its groves.

    Breakfast cereal increased more modestly in January from a month earlier—just 0.4%—but prices in the category were up 15% over a year, in part because of elevated global grain prices resulting from disruptions related to the war in Ukraine.

    Breakfast lovers might be better off just having a cup of coffee—but go with roasted, not instant. Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month, but instant coffee rose by a 3.6% monthly increase for instant coffee.

demure  ·  478 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 30, 2022

nor on that one!

demure  ·  596 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 10, 2022

rewriting history are we steve ?

> we've always been at war with Eastasia

demure  ·  750 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shackleton's Endurance has been found at a depth of 3000m

    The team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, owned by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment and under Master, Capt. Knowledge Bengu, using Saab’s Sabertooth hybrid underwater search vehicles.

Capt. Knowledge Bengu. What a cool name!

demure  ·  756 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 2, 2022

card-carrying carillonneur of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America :)

demure  ·  778 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 9, 2022

lol, no way. Recruiters are persistent dudes, I'll tell you that. But they use email now.

    I am emailing you because you are a competitive candidate for the United States Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Officer Program.

I'm glad there was no plutonium.

demure  ·  778 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial

NPuRgatory

demure  ·  858 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Midnight Pub

m15o is lurking around here somewhere...

demure  ·  1067 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Insurance Costs Threaten Florida Real Estate Boom

https://www.wsj.com/articles/insurance-costs-threaten-florida-real-estate-boom-11619343002?st=f2gd2yzhar93wgh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

btw bl00 now you can share links as a subscriber that automatically unlock the article for non-subscribers (share -> copy link).

demure  ·  1072 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: One in Five Americans Own Cryptocurrency (n=1048)

    Key findings

        22% of Americans own some form of cryptocurrency, and younger consumers are increasingly interested. About 35% of millennials own cryptocurrency (up from 30% in a July 2020 survey), as do 30% of Gen Zers (up from 25% in the same survey).

    46% of Americans say they regret not buying Bitcoin years ago. To that point, only 6% of current crypto investors made their first purchase in 2015 or earlier.

    62% of crypto investors think they’ll get rich off those investments. More than 1 in 10 current crypto investors have invested $10,000 or more.

    About a third (32%) of crypto investors don’t have their private key — which is needed to access their digital wallet — written down. Separately, 73% who own crypto are at least somewhat concerned about their cryptocurrency disappearing.

    71% of consumers with a significant other say they’d be mad if their partner spent a certain amount of money on cryptocurrency or NFTs. However, these consumers have varying thresholds for the amount their partner would have to spend to upset them. Just 23% would be upset if their partner spent any money on crypto.

    About 27% of Gen Zers and millennials are bidding on NFTs. Across all generations, 15% of Americans have bid on NFTs. 44% say they did so because they’re a dedicated fan of the creator.

    More than 1 in 5 Americans own some form of cryptocurrency — and nearly half just got started

    While cryptocurrency may seem “out there” to some, it’s becoming increasingly popular with Americans — especially younger ones. Our survey found that 22% of Americans currently own some form of cryptocurrency, and that percentage is higher among millennials and Gen Zers:

        35% of millennials currently own cryptocurrency, which is up from 30% in a July 2020 survey

    30% of Gen Zers currently own cryptocurrency, which is up from 25% in the same survey

    Why are people choosing cryptocurrency? While the majority sees it as a way to invest, a significant portion see it primarily as a source of payment or form of money.

    While 74% of Americans don’t own crypto and never have, it’s the older generations that appear to be the most leery.

    A whopping 94% of baby boomers said they’ve never owned cryptocurrency, compared with:

        80% of Gen Xers

    60% of millennials

    60% of Gen Zers

    There are two other important ways to look at this:

        26% of men currently own crypto, compared with 19% of women

    34% of those with a household income of $100,000 or more currently own crypto, compared with 14% of those with a household income below $35,000

    Going beyond age, gender and income, it was 2020 when they decided to dip their toes in the crypto pond. Of those who currently own or have owned crypto, 32% said 2020 was the year they first purchased it.

    About half of crypto investors only began buying cryptocurrency in 2020 or 2021, while only 6% of crypto investors made their first purchase in 2015 or earlier.

    Kapfidze said there were major increases in value with all types of assets in 2020, including stocks and real estate. Crypto was among those that increased, and that may have attracted a lot of new people, which then perpetuates itself upward. He said the risk is that the same will happen on the downside if people decide it’s not the great thing they think it is.

    Nearly half of Americans regret not buying Bitcoin years ago

    A good portion of Americans wish they acted earlier, with 46% agreeing that they regret not buying Bitcoin years ago. Still, the majority (55%) said they had no regrets.

    When you get into the crypto game, Kapfidze said, can greatly influence how well you do, as the people who join late often pay the people who came early.

    “It comes down to a question of where are you in the chain in terms of whether you make or lose money,” he said. “That’s the gamble you’re taking.”

    Why people are buying cryptocurrency and what they’re doing with it

    Getting rich is the name of the crypto game, as 62% of crypto investors said they think it’s likely they’ll get rich off it, compared with the 18% who said it’s unlikely.

    Men are the biggest believers in crypto’s potential, as 69% said they think it’s likely they’ll get rich off their investments, versus 53% of women who said the same.

    But most crypto investors don’t think it’s necessarily a get-rich-quick scheme. In fact, 63% see it as a long-term investment — including 100% of baby boomers who were surveyed.

    Keeping in line with that way of thinking, 50% of investors said they plan to hold their crypto and (hopefully) watch it gain value, but not everyone is on board with that.

    Other top uses for crypto investments included:

        Buying gift cards

    Paying off debt

    Buying other forms of crypto or NFTs (more on those later!)

    Just how much are people investing in cryptocurrency? Not a ton in most cases. In fact, 73% of those who currently own crypto have spent less than $5,000. Still, more than 1 in 10 (12%) have spent $10,000 or more on it.

    To use crypto as a form of payment, some crypto owners have crypto debit cards, but the majority (62%) don’t. Of that 62%, more than 4 in 10 (41%) are thinking about getting one though.

    Risky business: Nearly a third of crypto investors don’t have their private key written down

    Like losing a winning lottery ticket to a gust of wind, you may not be able to access your crypto funds if you lose your private key.

    You get a certain amount of tries to input your password, but you’re out of luck if you’re wrong. And it happens. In fact, The New York Times reported in January that (according to data from Chainalysis) about $140 billion worth of Bitcoin was apparently lost or in stranded wallets.

    So, it’s a bit concerning that of those surveyed, 32% said they don’t have the private key written down somewhere.

    Those who buy crypto tend to be a bit skeptical about its security in general. More than 7 in 10 (73%) of crypto owners said they’re concerned with their crypto disappearing.

    Different risk: Getting mad at your significant other because of crypto spending

    Beyond losing your crypto key, another risk of using crypto may be angering your partner. The risk is real, too, as 71% of consumers with a significant other said they’d be mad if their partner spent money on cryptocurrency or NFTs.

    However, the majority of that group would be OK with them spending a smaller amount on it:

        23% would be mad if their partner spent any amount of money on crypto/NFTs

    15% would be mad if their partner spent $100

    15% would be mad if their partner spent $500

    8% would be mad if their partner spent $1,000

    11% would be mad if their partner spent $5,000

    29% wouldn’t be mad no matter how much their partner spent

    While a lack of trust in crypto is the biggest reason people cite for not buying it (35%), others seem baffled by it. Another 32% said they wouldn’t know where to start and 24% said it’s too confusing.

    That doesn’t mean they’re dead set against it though. Nearly 3 in 10 who’ve never invested in cryptocurrency would consider doing so at some point.

    Willingness decreases with age, however, as 40% of Gen Zers who don’t invest in crypto would consider it, compared with:

        34% of millennials

    28% of Gen Xers

    21% of baby boomers

    NFTs are essentially digital proof of ownership and authenticity of digital collectible items, such as video art, original memes, tweets and virtual trading cards. They’re not extremely popular at this point, but perhaps more so than you might think — particularly with younger generations.

    They’re also slightly more popular with men (17%) than women (14%).

    The reasons people said they purchase NFTs varied:

        Dedicated fan of the creator (44%)

    Just to see what they’re all about (36%)

    Really into other forms of collectibles (21%)

    Predict its value will increase over time (19%)

    For clout or to look good on social media (18%)

    Because each NFT is unique, Kapfidze said their value depends on how many others are interested in them.

    As many of them are related to art, he compares NFTs to collecting art. Most art doesn’t appreciate in value significantly, but a few key pieces may, which is why art collectors often have large portfolios with hopes that those that gain value will make up for those that lose value.

    Of course, you don’t know that in advance, so it’s a game of odds. Kapfdize said that may be one way to approach NFTs — buying them in large numbers to try to mitigate risk.

    MagnifyMoney commissioned Qualtrics to field an online survey of 1,048 Americans, conducted March 18-24, 2021. The survey was administered using a non-probability-based sample, and quotas were used to ensure the sample base represented the overall population. All responses were reviewed by researchers for quality control.

    We defined generations as the following ages in 2021:

        Generation Z: 18 to 24

    Millennial: 25 to 40

    Generation X: 41 to 55

    Baby boomer: 56 to 75

    While the survey also included consumers from the silent generation (defined as those 76 and older), the sample size was too small to include findings related to that group in the generational breakdowns

demure  ·  1191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 23, 2020

classic or skate? I love cross-country skiing

demure  ·  1211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 2, 2020

I would argue that investing in BTC and ETH is not a good analogue for what you can expect from a stock exchange. Have more thoughts to add later.

demure  ·  1312 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sunday Pandemic Doomscrolling Roundup

I don't understand how out of one side of the WSJ's mouth they can talk about the K-shaped recovery, but also put this shit outside their opinion section

    During the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, some American cities closed schools, churches and theaters, banned large gatherings and funerals and restricted store hours. But none imposed stay-at-home orders or closed all nonessential businesses.

Oh wait, WSJ, you mean the 1918-1920 flu pandemic that lasted over two years and killed anywhere from 17 to 50 million people? Riiight.

    Covid Lockdowns: They’re Overly Blunt and Costly

Riiiight.

demure  ·  1315 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Husbki geeks: What do I do with the URL for my neighborhood?

Never used it, but what about https://groups.io/ ?

demure  ·  1444 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses

    Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats. The cables have fueled discussions inside the U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus — even though conclusive proof has yet to emerge.

    In January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing took the unusual step of repeatedly sending U.S. science diplomats to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which had in 2015 become China’s first laboratory to achieve the highest level of international bioresearch safety (known as BSL-4). WIV issued a news release in English about the last of these visits, which occurred on March 27, 2018. The U.S. delegation was led by Jamison Fouss, the consul general in Wuhan, and Rick Switzer, the embassy’s counselor of environment, science, technology and health. Last week, WIV erased that statement from its website, though it remains archived on the Internet.

    What the U.S. officials learned during their visits concerned them so much that they dispatched two diplomatic cables categorized as Sensitive But Unclassified back to Washington. The cables warned about safety and management weaknesses at the WIV lab and proposed more attention and help. The first cable, which I obtained, also warns that the lab’s work on bat coronaviruses and their potential human transmission represented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic.

    “During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,” states the Jan. 19, 2018, cable, which was drafted by two officials from the embassy’s environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists. (The State Department declined to comment on this and other details of the story.)

    The Chinese researchers at WIV were receiving assistance from the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch and other U.S. organizations, but the Chinese requested additional help. The cables argued that the United States should give the Wuhan lab further support, mainly because its research on bat coronaviruses was important but also dangerous.

    As the cable noted, the U.S. visitors met with Shi Zhengli, the head of the research project, who had been publishing studies related to bat coronaviruses for many years. In November 2017, just before the U.S. officials’ visit, Shi’s team had published research showing that horseshoe bats they had collected from a cave in Yunnan province were very likely from the same bat population that spawned the SARS coronavirus in 2003.

    “Most importantly,” the cable states, “the researchers also showed that various SARS-like coronaviruses can interact with ACE2, the human receptor identified for SARS-coronavirus. This finding strongly suggests that SARS-like coronaviruses from bats can be transmitted to humans to cause SARS-like diseases. From a public health perspective, this makes the continued surveillance of SARS-like coronaviruses in bats and study of the animal-human interface critical to future emerging coronavirus outbreak prediction and prevention.”

    The research was designed to prevent the next SARS-like pandemic by anticipating how it might emerge. But even in 2015, other scientists questioned whether Shi’s team was taking unnecessary risks. In October 2014, the U.S. government had imposed a moratorium on funding of any research that makes a virus more deadly or contagious, known as “gain-of-function” experiments.

    As many have pointed out, there is no evidence that the virus now plaguing the world was engineered; scientists largely agree it came from animals. But that is not the same as saying it didn’t come from the lab, which spent years testing bat coronaviruses in animals, said Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley.

    “The cable tells us that there have long been concerns about the possibility of the threat to public health that came from this lab’s research, if it was not being adequately conducted and protected,” he said.

    There are similar concerns about the nearby Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention lab, which operates at biosecurity level 2, a level significantly less secure than the level-4 standard claimed by the Wuhan Insititute of Virology lab, Xiao said. That’s important because the Chinese government still refuses to answer basic questions about the origin of the novel coronavirus while suppressing any attempts to examine whether either lab was involved.

    Sources familiar with the cables said they were meant to sound an alarm about the grave safety concerns at the WIV lab, especially regarding its work with bat coronaviruses. The embassy officials were calling for more U.S. attention to this lab and more support for it, to help it fix its problems.

    “The cable was a warning shot,” one U.S. official said. “They were begging people to pay attention to what was going on.”

    No extra assistance to the labs was provided by the U.S. government in response to these cables. The cables began to circulate again inside the administration over the past two months as officials debated whether the lab could be the origin of the pandemic and what the implications would be for the U.S. pandemic response and relations with China.

    Inside the Trump administration, many national security officials have long suspected either the WIV or the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention lab was the source of the novel coronavirus outbreak. According to the New York Times, the intelligence community has provided no evidence to confirm this. But one senior administration official told me that the cables provide one more piece of evidence to support the possibility that the pandemic is the result of a lab accident in Wuhan.

    “The idea that it was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there’s almost nothing on the other side,” the official said.

    As my colleague David Ignatius noted, the Chinese government’s original story — that the virus emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan — is shaky. Research by Chinese experts published in the Lancet in January showed the first known patient, identified on Dec. 1, had no connection to the market, nor did more than one-third of the cases in the first large cluster. Also, the market didn’t sell bats.

    The Chinese government, meanwhile, has put a total lockdown on information related to the virus origins. Beijing has yet to provide U.S. experts with samples of the novel coronavirus collected from the earliest cases. The Shanghai lab that published the novel coronavirus genome on Jan. 11 was quickly shut down by authorities for “rectification.” Several of the doctors and journalists who reported on the spread early on have disappeared.

    On Feb. 14, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a new biosecurity law to be accelerated. On Wednesday, CNN reported the Chinese government has placed severe restrictions requiring approval before any research institution publishes anything on the origin of the novel coronavirus.

    The origin story is not just about blame. It’s crucial to understanding how the novel coronavirus pandemic started because that informs how to prevent the next one. The Chinese government must be transparent and answer the questions about the Wuhan labs because they are vital to our scientific understanding of the virus, said Xiao.

    We don’t know whether the novel coronavirus originated in the Wuhan lab, but the cable pointed to the danger there and increases the impetus to find out, he said.

    “I don’t think it’s a conspiracy theory. I think it’s a legitimate question that needs to be investigated and answered,” he said. “To understand exactly how this originated is critical knowledge for preventing this from happening in the future.”

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demure  ·  1457 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: demure attempts to make piroshkis

I think the next filling I'll try is potato / onion / leek.

Respectfully, I disagree.

    Last week I stated publicly my support for bishops who, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, decide “for a designated period of time . . . to cancel in-person gatherings for public worship.” I write now concerning the need to suspend in-person gatherings for public worship, in most contexts, during the sacred time of Holy Week and Easter Day. Because this is a global health crisis, the principles in this letter apply throughout The Episcopal Church, including beyond the United States.

    On March 15th the Centers for Disease Control recommended the suspension of public gatherings in the U.S. of more than 50 people for the next 8 weeks. On March 16th officials of the federal government asked persons in the U.S. to “avoid gatherings of more than 10 people” for the next 15 days. It is reasonable to assume that some form of recommendations restricting public gatherings will continue for some time.

    Considering this changing landscape, I believe that suspension of in-person public worship is generally the most prudent course of action at this time, even during Holy Week and on Easter Day.

    It is important to emphasize that suspension of in-person gatherings is not a suspension of worship. I very much encourage and support online worship.

Says Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, current highest leader of The Episcopal Church here.

That's like, 1.5-1.8 million congregants he's speaking to.

As a person of Chinese descent in America during this time, I know a thing or two about sweeping generalizations. They're generally not favorable. Or true. Or helpful.

demure  ·  1478 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everyone’s a Socialist in a Pandemic

    michael barbaro: But I wonder, how much would things potentially have been different, Sheri, if, thinking back to the start of our conversation, those government programs — the National Security Council’s health program, for example — hadn’t been cut? I mean, how much does that reflect an overall approach to this epidemic from the people currently in charge from the Trump administration?

    sheri fink: I think you can trace it back further than that. It is a pattern that these programs, when there’s a crisis, they get really well funded. And as soon as Ebola recedes into history, we start cutting those parts of government. You can look back after the anthrax attacks and 9/11. And there was all this money that went into bioterrorism preparedness and hospital preparedness. And then you look at the numbers, and they go down over time. This is a reaction of humanity and society and government, is to sort of like — when it’s in the news and it’s fresh in our minds, we invest in it, and then we turn away. So I feel like this is a pattern. And when this happens, and we have these gaps in our preparedness that the government always seems to have, what I have found over and over again as a reporter is regular people step in and fill some of those holes. And I’m thinking — right now I have this image of Hurricane Katrina and government officials not being able to rescue everybody who needed help all at once. People waving towels off of rooftops and people stuck in hospitals. And then it was these regular people who had airboats, who were fishermen from western Louisiana. And they show up, and they just take people to dry ground. I’ve seen examples like that over and over.

From today's NYT Daily

demure  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My attempt to deal with an art scammer

even the footer of the page is italicized!

demure  ·  1562 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 18, 2019

    There is only one Pubski left in this decade.

Woah.

demure  ·  1578 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Sunday Paper 2019.12.01: petrichor

I guess I never did tell ya, huh? I ended up training for and running two half marathons this year! Set a time I was really, really, happy with on the second one. So yeah, even though I didn't train nearly as much as you do, it did resonate with me in certain ways.

demure  ·  1579 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Sunday Paper 2019.12.01: petrichor

I finished reading it a couple of months ago. Really, really enjoyed it. It was sharp, witty, amusing, thoughtful, and I enjoyed the journey. Also has a hilariously evocative (and accurate) scene where he describes the kinds of people who run along the Charles River in Boston.

I also read it as an audiobook, which I don't do too often but I had a decent-length commute this summer, so it worked out. Would say I still prefer reading print, but it was convenient!

In terms of other Murakami, I've only read 1Q84 and I can't really say that I quite understood it. Suggestions for what Murakami to try next? The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?

demure  ·  1579 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Adventures in Batshittery

mk got another one

demure  ·  1584 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Sunday Paper 2019.11.24: the color of dawn

Thanks! Hasn't been a regular weekly since 2015 so hopefully I keep it up here for a bit.

demure  ·  1857 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Rise of the WeWorking Class

The steady march towards work-is-life, life-in-work concerns me, even as I take part in the problem...

"Job stability" -> "Office drone" -> Office Space

"New wave" -> open office plans, company culture -> Google, IDEO, Silicon Valley

"The hustle" -> gig economy, independent contractors -> Uber, Instacart

"The hustle 2.0" -> company culture but you don't work always work for a company (or that company lacks the former) -> WeWork

    When I met McKelvey a few weeks later at WeWork’s Manhattan headquarters, he made it clear that the long-term plan was not just to make IBM a bit more like Google but something much more grandiose. The company’s CultureOS was about being “supportive to openness and conversation” and the “obligation we create to each other to be good humans to each other — to share a smile and some warmth.” We’ve learned the hard way from social media, he said, that “alignment along ideological lines is a shallow way of creating a human environment.” This, McKelvey said, is what he tells his team: “You’re not building work space. You’re here building a new infrastructure to rebuild social fabric and rebuild up the potential for human connection.” It was, he conceded, a “big leap.” But the company existed to give it a shot. “Who am I going to need in a disaster? The person I took a yoga class with versus the person I’m in the same Facebook group with?” The enterprise product could scale up that social infrastructure to unite millions and millions of people. On a hard-hat tour of WeWork’s new West Coast headquarters, in San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, Adam Neumann told me: “Assuming we keep up our personal growth as a company, as individuals and as a company, there is no limit. Businesses, neighborhoods, cities — there are new cities being built around the world, and we want the call from those cities.”

Company/work culture as culture culture. Frightening.

demure  ·  1914 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Happy New Year!

🎉

demure  ·  1958 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Space and Space Launch Updates

Awesome updates!!

Don't mind if I follow-up with a couple more routine missions:

An Antares launched today early morning East coast time carrying a Cygnus supply vessel to the ISS.

Spaceflight Industries' SSO-A mission is launching 64 satellites (49 cubesats, 15 slightly larger) on a Falcon 9 out of Vandenberg on Monday, which would set a new record for number of SpaceX launches in a year (this will be #19 for 2018).