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Cargo Airships Are Happening

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220 points elidourado | 3 comments | 14 Oct 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.591s | source
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Terretta ◴[15 Oct 24 12:59 UTC] No.41848106[source]▶
> Over the summer, Jim incorporated Airship Industries. He hired a team of cracked ex-SpaceX engineers. And he raised a large pre-seed round...

This typo is perfect.

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ralfd ◴[15 Oct 24 13:17 UTC] No.41848271[source]▶
I am blind. What typo?
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VyseofArcadia ◴[15 Oct 24 13:35 UTC] No.41848448[source]▶
"Crack engineer" means an engineer who is smart and capable. "Cracked engineer" means an engineer who is insane.
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1. n_jd ◴[15 Oct 24 13:49 UTC] No.41848585[source]▶
It's just how the kids and the terminally online are saying it these days
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2. brcmthrowaway ◴[15 Oct 24 17:21 UTC] No.41850813[source]▶
Cracked founders!
3. cthalupa ◴[15 Oct 24 17:25 UTC] No.41850857[source]▶
Not even particularly new. I remember seeing it used talking about Counter-Strike pros in the early 2000s