Environmentalism
…is a fundamentalist religion.
Yup.
The Student-Loan Disaster Continues
Thoughts on the perversity of the incentives.
What We’ve All Been Waiting For
Continuing Progress
History Taught Backwards
…and the educational crisis.
I think that our educational system lies at the heart of all of our other problems. We can’t expect to get good leadership when the people who vote for them are so ill informed.
On Starship Prices
The world has finally seen a launch system that can find out what the price-demand elasticity curve looks like. Elon wants to maximize flight rate and revenue, because he wants to drive costs down to make Mars more affordable.
Starship
[Afternoon update]
Starship has to work, or SpaceX is at risk of bankruptcy.
Surprise, Surprise
We now know that Danchenko was a paid witness for the FBI.
OK, some of us knew that a long time ago.
Light Posting
It’s going to be a crazy week. We’re redoing the countertops in the kitchen, and after they demo today, I’m going to run wire to add outlets and undercounter lighting, plus a new water line to above the stove so we have a spout for filling pots. Not to mention I have to do my corporate taxes by Thursday. So I’m around, but probably not at the computer much, other than to do bookkeeping.
[Wednesday-evening update]
Since everyone is having such a good time with that typo, I’ll just leave it as is. I ended up not running the water line, because time was short between demo and install, and it’s only three feet from the sink to the range.