With continued refinement of the tech they expect to eventually make the plane an order of magnitude longer
With continued refinement of the tech they expect to eventually make the plane an order of magnitude longer
That’s cool. Am I reading right that this wouldn’t run on consumer grade hardware though?
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This is one reason I’m especially interested in worker cooperatives.
You’re right, people spend 8+ hours a day at work, strengthening business owners, who are essentially working against them. Then some small fraction of people have/take the time to learn about issues affecting them and volunteer a couple hours a week for their chosen cause.
Even those in a union are negotiating from the standpoint of “the company owns the equipment/processes/customers and we own our labor”.
What if instead the workers also own the business? Now you’re spending eight hours (or less) a day working on something that directly benefits you, and with which you’re intimately familiar. It’s possible to make democratic decisions because it’s not some abstract issue or far away politician. And every successful worker cooperative reduces the money going to some micro-king, and in turn reduces the distorting effect of corporate money on our electoral system.
“yeah…no” isn’t an argument.
To be clear, I’m not saying the basilisk is a real concern, and I’m not saying we’re anywhere close to being able to transfer consciousness. It could be a thousand years or a million years. But we don’t have any basis to say it’s impossible. It’s not saying anything new to announce we can’t do it currently. Obviously!
(Also the book “A City on Mars” by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith does a great job addressing why trying colonize Mars right now is a bad idea. Which isn’t to say it’s impossible or we won’t ever colonize it. Just that we need more research and capabilities before doing it)
Just because we don’t have the ability now doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Consciousness isn’t fully understood, but unless we want to introduce magical concepts like an immortal soul, our brains operate on cause and effect just like everything else.
I wasn’t aware until reading this that 2,400 people died in a stampede in 2015
Something else they (and a lot of other coops) do is set a max ratio of executive income vs lowest paid worker income. So for example I think at Mondragon an executive can’t make more than six times the lowest paid worker.
I think market based mechanisms for calculating pay would be very hard to get away from.
That said, Mondragon (worker cooperative) has a base pay rate and then all positions are assigned a multiplier to determine an individual’s compensation.
Big deal I eat berries all the time
That’s a good visual
Interesting, I hadn’t seen your earlier posts but went back and checked out your profile. Neat idea
Sorry, who gave you a curfew?
I’ll tell them
You can tell because the Math mascot, Venom, is also in the image
Hey I also eat ferns when I’m sick
With the space shuttle they observed an issue on launch, looked into it and decided the shuttle was ok to return, then it blew up. Not saying that’s what will happen here, but has to have occurred to the astronauts that it’s happened before.
Got to be nerve wracking as the astronaut waiting to ride back.
What’s the margin of safety for plane fueling? I assume they plan to put x% more fuel in a plane than the trip takes. I’m just wondering how long of a route this first generation electric plane would actually service with an 1,800 mile range