MattDamonSpace

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by MattDamonSpace 4mo ago
I just can’t imagine another computing device from a competitor company that 1) threatens the smartphone 2) apple couldn’t copy and mass produce at higher quality If there’s truly an existential threat to its device business, Copy Well
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by MattDamonSpace 4mo ago
Are they competing with Google?
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by MattDamonSpace 4mo ago
America is soooo big and soooo sparsely populated
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by MattDamonSpace 4mo ago
Went out of their way to show actual usage of these features on actual devices in actual people’s hands
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
You don’t service them, you let them deorbit and send up a new one You also don’t try to send a Data Center to space. You send smaller satellites that are essentially individual racks. Cheap, marginal, easy to decommission
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Eh everyone’s claiming to be an AI company these days
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Yeah but like didn’t it bankrupt them? Meanwhile the USA barely blinked at the Space Race spending
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Isn’t Collective Bargaining a cornerstone of the Union pitch?
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
A heavily unionized tech industry over the last 30yrs would be an interesting counterfactual. IMO the ability for individual employees to negotiate for themselves is a positive? As is being able to get rid of bad performers Unionization wou
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
The only reason the US Gov had the expertise and resources to fund DARPA in the first place was because it was a massive capitalist country with enormous wealth
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Idk… The original “revenue thesis” was that SpaceX, with landing orbital rocket boosters, can undercut all competitors and essentially have a monopoly on payload-to-orbit, and that their lower prices would massive increase the market. Seems
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Based on what?
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Yeah but “intelligence” is very valuable and people are willing to pay
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
I’ll be curious to see how many new vibe coded apps make it to a 2.0
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Have you noticed an increase in valid applications? Presumably AI is helping some-to-many reasonable candidates apply to many more positions
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Not even 4 years old yet. This tech curve has been insane
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Presumably this drug (like all the others) is dirt-cheap to synthesize and the only reason anything is expensive is a government granted monopoly that’s nominally encouraging innovation
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Someone doesn’t understand why we have nice things. “Increased productivity”, the thing you don’t give a shit about, is the only reason you’re not living in the dirt and dying of a tooth infection before 35. If you wanted to live with a QoL
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Capitalist competition at its finest
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
“Bubble”
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
they literally provide value Shareholders are investors who give valuable resources to business
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Oh wow that photo is from years ago but you’re correct, this is the first flight of that design
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Yes
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Half of people are below average, these classes raise the floor they don’t expand the ceiling
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
No, ads make them money. Users see the ads because they view their feeds. It’s been proven in other markets that removing News from the feed doesn’t decrease engagement. Meta will continue to make money, and Italian news sites will see thei
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Yes
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
You need permission to do that in Morocco
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
It really depends on scale. There will be enough terrestrial vetoes that if what we build is 10-1000x what people are already halting through legal challenges …
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
He’s talking about legal codes, read the article before commenting ffs
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by MattDamonSpace 5mo ago
Doesn’t necessarily but does sometimes unless you have a concrete alternative

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