If they kill grapheneos I’m switching to a raspberry pi zero 2W with a touchscreen.

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Cool beans, see ya soon, I’ll keep you updated.

In 2019, the U.S. invested $667 billion in R&D. The private sector is responsible for most R&D in the United States, in 2019 performing 75 percent of R&D and funding 72 percent

In some economies, the private sector overwhelmingly drives R&D. Israel leads the way, with the private sector responsible for 92% of total R&D, followed by Viet Nam (90%), Ireland (80%), and both Japan and the Republic of Korea (79%). The private sector also plays a significant role in the US, China, several European economies, Thailand, Singapore, Türkiye, Canada, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and others, where it contributes over half (50%) of total R&D. source

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The business sector is the largest funder of R&D in the top R&D-performing countries, with lower shares funded by government, higher education, and private nonprofit institutions. In each of the leading R&D performers in East and Southeast Asia—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—the domestic business sector accounted for at least 75% of R&D funding in 2021. source

In order to maintain a monopoly you have to keep innovating and offering a quality service, otherwise there there will be a 100 startups waiting to take your place if you ever give them an in. The most dangerous monopolies are created by government regulations, bureaucracy and bailouts.

Starship has ~150 tons payload capacity, if made fully reusable you only have to cover the fuel and operational costs, fuel is ~1 mil for a LEO launch so $6.66 per kg + operational costs, so the $10 per kg figure isn’t too far off.

Governments: spend 80 years developing space tech with public funding, allowing humanity to walk on the moon, have global positioning satellites, and essentially kickstart the computing industry from a necessity to build computers for orbital calculations

Yes, government funded endeavors are sometimes the only way to do things that don’t have a clear ROI but they are also incredibly inefficient and as such should be kept only until it becomes viable for the private sector to take over.

Private companies: *mostly disappear and waste shareholder money, like Virgin or like Bezos’ attempts at space

That’s the beauty of the private sector, pure meritocracy, if you suck - you die. If those were public initiatives they would have been kept regardless of the costs or the results, wasting the taxpayer’s money instead of the shareholders’.

one company with public funding raking in those 80 years of publicly-funded research to itself

If it was that easy NASA or all the failed companies you mentioned would have done it themselves. SpaceX has done an absolutely incredible job at innovating in the industry that has been in stagnation since the 80s, designing rapidly reusable rockets, lowering the cost per kg to LEO from $72k in today’s money, from the space shuttle days to $2500 and planing to reduce it to $10 with starship.

The public funding part doesn’t mean free money from the government, the government pays SpaceX for fulfilling contracts because NASA can’t do it themselves, at least not as efficiently as SpaceX. Right now majority of SpaceX’s revenue comes from starlink which mainly serves private consumers so it’s reliance on the government contracts is being overstated.

underpaying and exploiting its engineers

SpaceX $155K-$247K/yr ($117K - $175K/yr base pay + $39K - $72K/yr stock)

NASA $113K - $158K/yr

lowering the costs at the expense of safety due to cutting in safety measures thay will never be tolerated when humans ride those rockets

As of 2025, SpaceX is the only U.S. company with a human-rated rocket system certified by NASA for regular flights to the International Space Station. NASA completed the certification of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket in 2023, marking the first time a commercial system was certified for human spaceflight.

Dumbass liberal lemmitor: pRiVaTe Is ClEaRlY sUpErIoR

Yes.

Government agency starts multiple, multi-year, billion dollar projects, delays ensue, costs overrun, results are unimpressive. It has to rely on private contractors or other countries for the most basic things, spends $211 billion for a space shuttle program that goes nowhere and ends up costing $0.5 billion per launch.

Private company goes from nothing to a successful rocket launch in 10 years for less than $1 billion, half of which is private funding. In the next 10 years makes rockets reusable, lowers the cost to orbit by 30x, launches a viable commercial service people are willing to pay for.

Communists on lemmy:

Capitalists on Lemmy: private company is better just because it’s private

Have a government run space agency, government constantly cuts funding. Awards contracts to incompetent military company to build over priced rocket. Crony capitalism and money disappears.

That government guy sure seems incompetent, I hope no one puts it in charge of a space company.

Private guy steals all NASA talent from budget cuts builds talented team, innovates new technologies for rockets

That private guy sure seems like he knows what he’s doing, I bet he’d be great at running a space company.

and then goes full blown Nazi and you love him even more.

IDK where that’s coming from, I never said that, you’re just making stuff up now.

have a government run space agency

a private company shows up

does everything better at a fraction of the cost and actually innovates

commies on lemmy: We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

The K5 is pitched as an “Autonomous Security Robot” and was unveiled in 2014. K5 units have made the news for various incidents like driving into a pond or running over children.

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Base 0.

Imo a just works, deb based kde distro with nvidia drivers, flatpaks and no snaps is what we need to bring forth the year of the linux desktop.

It’s not even theft, it’s piracy.

Enhance.

To prevent spam and to allow people who already know each other’s number to easily contact over signal. If you want an anonymous account use an online sms activation service paid with monero, personally I recommend smspool.net .

I’ll stick with monero.

No conspiracy involved, I’m just saying what I think will happen.

Most of the values of today’s eu are the polar opposite of the values that made Europe a global superpower back in the day. Things like freedom of speech and thought, freedom to assemble, engage in commerce, own property, the right to privacy, to be secure in your possessions, to bear arms, rules like volenti non fit injuria, equality, meritocracy, self determination and individual sovereignty are all severally limited or downright non existent. eu chose to replace the liberty of Europeans with a promise of security ensured by self proclaimed elites and the result of that is a techno-bureaucrato-etatistic master/nanny state that tries to ban math (encryption), ban foreign and domestic news outlets and opinions that disagree with the establishment because you’re too stupid to make up your own mind and even political candidates just in case you make the wrong decision.

oc btw.

This overregulation is detrimental to the economy too, in 2008 eu’s economy was 8% larger than that of USA, now its 23% smaller even thoe more countries joined it since. Since 2008 the powerhouse of the eu - Germany’s GDP per capita grew by only 14% Italy’s decreased by 9%, Spain’s decreased by 7%, the French are still poorer than they were in 2008 while GDP per capita of China quadrupled and USA’s nearly doubled. While China and USA are busy building and innovating, eu is banning and regulating. Out of 1300 startups valued at over $1b 600 is in the USA, 300 in China and 60 in the eu, even less than in India.

eu claims to be this shining beacon of democracy everyone should be learning from while the eu’s president Ursula von der Leyen wasn’t democratically elected and the only democratically elected body, the eu’s parliament (that holds almost no power because the eu commission decides what it votes for and can withdraw the proposal if it doesn’t like the amendments it makes and because it’s decision can be overruled and bypassed by the council of the eu) most of the time doesn’t even count the meps’ votes. Instead most votes are done by raising ones hand and the parliament’s speaker eyeballs the result (yes really, look it up).

If Europeans don’t come to their senses and return to the true european values, immigrants will simply outcompete them, because their values, while not ideal, as it stands are superior to the values of the eu.

The cryptowar was an attempt to limit the public’s access to encryption. This attempt largely failed and most of today’s internet traffic is encrypted. Right now we are at the dawn of the cryptowar ll and cryptography is under attack once again through things like backdoors, client side scanning, ban on E2EE, cryptocurrency regulations etc. Cryptography in combination with blockchain technology has potential to revolutionize many aspects of society, like the monetary system through cryptocurrency, property rights and contracts through onchain deeds and digital signatures, decentralized cryptographic identities and direct/delegate voting with zero knowledge proofs. Historically this things required a central, trusted authority but soon™ that may no longer be the case, and at that point there will no longer be a need for a central trusted authority and without it many avenues of abuse of power will disappear too.

Why?

I think it also bans any payment gateway from accepting it so businesses who want to support it will have to accept it directly, but even if that’s the case all you have to do is swap xmr -> btc to a new wallet and pay with that.

X fucking D, good luck. eu will collapse by the hands of Europeans or immigrants before the midpoint of this century, they can’t even keep up the appearances of democracy anymore. Everyday more and more people are waking up to their bs. You can only push people so far before they stop complying. They can’t kill monero, most they can do is push it underground but that will only make it stronger. Since the dawn of history people have killed, died and sacrificed everything for freedom and putting a surveillance brick in their pockets or a propaganda box on their wall is not gonna change that, and since monero is the money of freedom everyone who wants to be free will follow it, rejecting the tyranny of the self proclaimed elites. Once the cryptowar 2.0 is won, and we will win it as we did before, there will largely no longer be a need for a centralized power or authority in our monetary, property, identity or even legal system and the need for a government - the tool of choice of the psychopaths and tyrants will go with it.

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