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Bezos is definitely taking a non-trivial risk here -- 15 successful test flights of a novel suborbital vehicle backed by all the analysis money can buy, still isn't going to give high confidence of even 99.9% survivability.

Start your own company
Start your own community
Start your own currency
Start your own city

In the eloquent phrasing of one of my favorite Americanisms: Shit or get off the pot.

Protests against police brutality continue into third day in Minneapolis: | Surely headlines should say something about autocracy, questionable mental health of ruler, breakdown of society, and underdeveloped social institutions? No? That's just for Asia?

Given what we seem to be learning about outdoor transmission, this seems like a way to possibly erode public support for lockdown measures while not necessarily getting a huge amount of mileage in terms of public health.