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  • I agree, this all seems way overblown and Linus’s reply was pretty level-headed. GN’s video seems pretty overblown in that most of it are relatively small errors. And I believe Linus that the auction was a miscommunication in his 100+ employee company.

    I fee like people are jumping on the hate bandwagon just because they love the drama, while also forgetting everyone involved are real people and shit just happens sometimes.


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    Watching his videos leads me to believe that he doesn’t.

    Watching his videos leads me to believe that he does, the random knowledge drops he has about hardware and the deeper levels of the software stack convince me of that.

    Even if he is parroting knowledge he’s getting from his engineers, and I don’t think he is, he still sounds very knowledgable. I think everyone’s simply jumping on a hate bandwagon for the fun of it.













  • Can you provide a source showing space exploration was “much cheaper” half a century ago than SpaceX’s current costs to getting payloads into orbit? It sounds like you’re just assuming it would be cheaper from your idealogical leanings than that actually being the case.

    A half a century ago the US and USSR were devoting a significant fraction of their entre GDP in the space race to blast people into space on some of the largest rockets ever built, mostly for national security and military concerns And that’s not even to speak of the “safety standards” they had and ignored in order to win.

    The later shuttle program itself was a massive MASSIVE expenditure and no one in their right mind would EVER say it was an efficient and cheaper per kg in LEO.

    You’re just straight up wrong.