Hypx

joined 8 months ago
[–] Hypx@fedia.io 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The "midas touch" is basically just securities fraud. Something he can't get away with forever.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Then it would be another Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, etc.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 112 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (17 children)

SpaceX, from a financial standpoint, is just an elaborate Ponzi scheme for Musk, who treats all of his companies as his private fiefdom and personal piggy bank. In reality, none of them are genuinely profitable, and depend on government subsidies and capital investments to survive. The goal is to just build a barely viable business and then scam people with bullshit promises. Any real cash flow is immediately converted into cash for his personal use. Though from time to time, he uses that cash prop up another of his ventures. Very likely, all of this will come crashing down at some point, and it will be revealed that his companies are nothing like what they seem.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Polling has become a mess, mainly because we can no longer rely on landlines for generating unbiased samples. Most attempts at fixing this issue, such as online polling, have their own massive biases. So it's incredibly difficult to figure out what's real and what's not. And no, doing a hundred bad polls or increasing the sample size won't fix it. Bias in the data can only be fixed by figuring out a way of creating truly fair samples.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago

The formal news section of the NY Post is not that different than the NY Times. It's just not the focus of the NYP. And the NYT isn't reporting anything beyond the most basic of news events. It's pretty much the same thing as reading the AP. I can't remember the last time they got a real scoop or any inside sources on anything.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I haven't read anything from the NYT that would constitute "actual journalism" in what seems like many years now. It's not much different than the NY Post, just with less bombast.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 7 points 8 months ago

I suspect even more than 30%, and by a lot. Nearly all of the communities that once thrived seem to be dead. It feels very empty.

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