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by DaniFong 13y ago
It's not possible to economically power the world with non-fossil fuel based sources based on current prices. We are between a factor of 2 off, optimistically, and more likely a factor of 5 off (floored by extraction and processing costs.)
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Are you claiming that it's the true reality? If you want, you can trek down to specific parts of Kabul, or the Tenderloin, or South Bronx, or San Quentin, and see horror upon horror that bespeaks the devils within our phenotype. But you can
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by DaniFong 13y ago
Silicon Valley certainly outperforms Germany in new energy tech. It's not even comparable. Germany just spends more on deployment.
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by DaniFong 13y ago
I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I think natural resource constraints and tribalism / nationalism are the greatest chronic threats we face. Energy tech and communications tech try to solve these, respectively; most funding, research and
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by DaniFong 13y ago
I was trying to figure out why it was that I disagreed with so much of what Michael O Church raised here. Not only is Michael O Church clearly smart and well spoken, but it is simply statistically unlikely to be so often anti-affirmative by
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by DaniFong 13y ago
I think the most interesting thing about this whole experiment is that it took this long for someone to do it. You would assume there'd be a wealth of information from military studies of battle-ready rations, or something.
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Camus for Founders, Abridged(blog.davidad.net)
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There is no scenario under which that wouldn't happen eventually. Tesla needs cash to fuel its next vehicle programs and growth. If it didn't get it, the growth story Shareholders should be glad, as I am, that they were able to raise at the
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by DaniFong 13y ago
Bret Victor ‏@worrydream: An MIT prof after my talk: "It's as if you showed us how to climb Everest, and then at the end you say, 'We need to go to the moon.'" He changed his Twitter bio to say "to the moon."
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by DaniFong 13y ago
If you find an awesome person, who you know will be great for your company, why should one have to beg the government to let them come? Finding another such person might take months, and might actually be impossible.
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This is not actually true.
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I think it's fair to say that the hope is to combine the state of the art technology to discover more scientifically than has been before known. Additionally, this pushes technology. The hope is to push the technology far enough a system su
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by DaniFong 13y ago
You might learn more from the first person you looked at from a random employee at a random company. The second person, you might not. The 100th, you wouldn't. There is only so much you can learn from failure, when it is the rare, immense s
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by DaniFong 13y ago
The physics aren't bad; the fuel requirements for the same payload for point to point suborbital travel are about the same as a full tank for a 747 from Sydney to Istanbul. You spend a lot of energy getting up to speed, but you have much le
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by DaniFong 13y ago
The temperatures you're comparing are between the core of the earth and the radiation temperature of the surface of the sun. It's way hotter in the sun's core (20 million Kelvin IRRC)
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by DaniFong 13y ago
The meta-cheat is asking why you should be shilling for grades in the first place.
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by DaniFong 14y ago
But you can invalidate the patent with an IPR suit. That would be an effective deterrent against patent trolls.
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by DaniFong 14y ago
God damn; PATO is exactly my proposal. I shall sue him, having come up with it 15 years after his publication... ;-)
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by DaniFong 14y ago
You could be right but it sounds to me like you're back fitting a story. 3d printing has a much more convoluted history than that. It's not trumpeted as something for hobbyists to make fun plastic prototypes. It is being heralded as the fut
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by DaniFong 14y ago
Apps don't just assemble themselves out of family wealth. If they did, where are the apps from Qatar?
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by DaniFong 14y ago
Two things: 1) Awareness is not knowledge 2) The inventors of the technology are not who I meant by the enthusiasts. I am not trying to reproach the technologies developers. I am simply trying to warn off the over-impressionable, and calm t
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by DaniFong 14y ago
It's hard to prejudge that, and things might change for future LightSails. More are getting into hardware these days. We applied to YC at the time as a flier. The money would have helped a bit at that point, but also I felt it would be good
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by DaniFong 14y ago
We were in a related field but not there yet. We were still honing in. Also, we were pre-prototype, and I'm not even sure if we had revealed our secret sauce yet (important, because we had to patent it). At the time, it was a compressed air
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by DaniFong 14y ago
I wish the 3D printing enthusiasts would spend some time learning about the fantastic capabilities we already have in making useful things. We have CNC mills and lathes and grinders and cast makers and mould makers, we have industrial robot
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In case it saves anyone some headaches, I was rejected from YC 3 times (though with useful feedback and connections arise from the experience each time). Our startup (LightSail Energy) is currently among the best poised to change how the wo
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by DaniFong 14y ago
Anyone who holds up Nick D’Aloisio and Andrew Hsu as examples of people who are not the real deal is going to look very very silly in a few years.
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Roadblocks are a given; guts implies being crafty enough to overcome them ;)
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This is, in my opinion, a very very good idea for someone with the guts to crack it.
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Every era has its pyramids; this is far from the first or worst severe misallocation of human effort and resources. It absolutely is happening, however. So if some tiny fraction of this current era's chosen realize their good fortune and po
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by DaniFong 14y ago
I think YC is great.

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