Daughter of Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer, says what?
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Ian Betteridge
Daughter of Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer, says what?
Ian Betteridge
Listening to the latest "Sharp Tech" podcast with Ben Thompson, and they're talking about how governments can't build things... I had to stop it when James asked "why didn't the government build SpaceX?" Mate, you never heard of the Apollo programme?
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Michael Gemar
@ianbetteridge Musk is a horrific person, but SpaceX is nothing like Apollo. You want Apollo, look at the current NASA Space Launch System, which is eye-wateringly expensive, hugely delayed, will launch at most once every 18 months, and will cost so much to fly it won’t be sustainable. (Those are the views of the GAO.) SpaceX puts more mass in orbit than the rest of the planet combined, and at a vastly lower cost. It’s nothing like Apollo And Musk is a horrible person.
Bruno Nicoletti
@ianbetteridge Capital doesn’t do stuff until it’s been derisked and there is a good chance of return on investment. Years of government funded research and development is the only reason SpaceX had a chance, along with huge wodges of cash from the government.
Peter
@ianbetteridge Jeez. Crap like that confirm my decision to cancel my stratechery sub earlier this year. I had been a subscriber for years and there was always something that I had to roll my eyes at, but a lot of the writing was really good and informative. But now it feels like the whole project has become (always has been?) about arguing for the existence of monopolies and the primacy of "the tech industry" to keep his theory valid.
Ian Betteridge
The “town square” analogy for social media is another one of those crap ones that somehow got traction. No one actually wants a town square. They want a cafe at the edge of the town square where they can chat to their mates and watch the world go by. They don’t want some bloke with an amplifier in the middle of the square screaming about how Jesus saves.
Ian Betteridge
And they definitely don’t want another group coming over and screaming at them about how gays are groomers, trans women are really men, and Trump should be president for life. |
@ianbetteridge im just losing it at the fact that her name is Money Coutts. Lord Money Counts thinks the peasants need a lesson in accounting
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Things going on culturally in England presage what happens here in the US. Oh woe is all of us.
Phone: please stop spell correcting woe into wow.
Even the phone is on on it.
@ianbetteridge ‘like most of my peers’ has never been more literal…