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> our job is to earn money

Which is exactly why you wouldn't put it in a company with a ridiculous valuation.


I don't know the AUM of this pension fund but if the managers were doing their jobs they should have had at least a tiny bit of exposure to SpaceX years ago.


$XVV (iShares ESG Select Screened S&P 500 ETF) holds $TSLA


SRI and ESG advanced funds exclude Tesla.


Damn you're right.


Have you looked at http://www.geonames.org/ ?


I've used this for a place database and really liked it. They provide data dumps of the database (as well as diffs between previous dumps) so we don't need to rely on their web APIs, and still have the data in case geonames ever shuts down. They also offer a paid service, which should guarantee some sort of protection against a random shutdown.

AFAIK they don't have path/street data, just a massive location dataset, so you can't use it for directions by itself.


We're talking about the F-111, right?


I think the movie was about the Bradley, but the F-111 was an amazing example of "too many missions".


It's from Pentagon Wars, and it's an obligatory YouTube clip always linked in F-35 HN threads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA.


This is due to hard feelings from when the Navy abandoned the Marines at Guadalcanal. Also tradition and territory is so important in the military. They aren't really capable of making some monumental change like doing away with Marine aviation.


It's not so much that (Marine aviation existed before the U.S. entered World War I) and more to do with the fact that the Navy and Marines have entirely different aviation missions. The Navy specializes in fleet defense, naval warfare, and light bombing while the Marines specialize in close air support. Different mission specializations, unsurprisingly, call for entirely different technical requirements. Even if the Marines didn't have their own aviation, they would still need close air support from the Navy, and the requirement for a STOVL aircraft would still exist.


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