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by api 10y ago
So create a Kickstarter and then just watch Alibaba for the product to appear. Now no need to worry about design, fab, production, or delivery! It's like a magic AI that makes your product for you. :)
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by api 10y ago
Find Thiel's RNC speech on YouTube.
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by api 10y ago
No, which is also why I would not vote for him. It's a tough complex issue and Trump just has populist drool. That never works. See: Chavez, Hugo. (Populism tends to work out the same regardless of whether it's left or right. This
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by api 10y ago
An alcoholic might seem like the life of the party, but only if you leave before they transform into bad drunk. Same goes for narcissism in leadership. Superficially it can seem effective until you hit an issue that makes the narcissist cho
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by api 10y ago
Given how cheap drives are I think upstream bandwidth for that storage will quickly eclipse the storage itself.
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by api 10y ago
Saying the Chinese invented Global Warming is batty, but it is certainly true that they have become more competitive in manufacturing by game theoretically "defecting" on it -- going crazy with cheap coal power to undercut all the
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by api 10y ago
I wonder if launching this media outlet is the real purpose of the campaign. It's at least more plausible than the Trump is throwing the election for Hillary conspiracy theory.
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by api 10y ago
Can't speak for others, only myself. To me he's an obvious off the charts narcissist... so much so that his narcissism actually seems extreme against the backdrop of Washington politics and the media. That's kind of amazing.
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by api 10y ago
Are you referring to his thesis that globalization without significant technological advance will lead to a Malthusian catastrophe? I have considered this in wondering why he would support Trump.
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by api 10y ago
As much as I admire SpaceX and am cheering them on, I can't help but wonder if they would have had two rockets blow up were it not for their fabled workaholic culture.
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by api 10y ago
It's also pretty common in startup and executive culture to lie about how many hours you work. It's a machismo thing. In reality people rarely actually work 80+ hours. Even if they are physically present that much they are not rea
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by api 10y ago
Someone who once specialized in breaking the GFW for NGOs and activist groups, and who worked a lot in China. Censorship is still a motive, just not the only one and maybe not even the primary one. The GFW is just too porous to be an effect
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by api 10y ago
Even worse: the EMP from an Orion launch would fry a lot of satellites. It's not a practical design for use anywhere near... anything. You could launch one from the far side of the Moon, but if you have that kind of space presence ther
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by api 10y ago
But since you already used a bunch of your pulse propellant during acceleration, this is partly compensated for by the vehicle weighing less.
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by api 10y ago
But it's enterprise! Not totally kidding. There's a subset of the market for whom being more expensive both in complexity and cost is seen as an obvious sign of a more "serious" "enterprise" product.
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by api 10y ago
I've been told that this is the primary purpose of the whole thing. It's a back door protectionist tax on foreign Internet services done in such a way as to not trigger taxation provisions in trade deals.
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by api 10y ago
Tangent but: Is anyone else noticing that bare metal is getting unbelievably cheap? OVH is well known but there are now many vendors also offering crazy cheap bare metal hosting with <1hr setup times, etc. Compared to the popular virtual
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by api 10y ago
Soylent doesn't replace good food. It replaces the crappy food we eat when we're in a hurry and just need some fuel.
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by api 10y ago
Food is a commodity. It would be very very hard to accomplish the same kind of lock-in. Lock-in is easy with software because of its brittleness.
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by api 10y ago
Legislation would only be used as a vehicle to achieve monopoly control by large tech companies who would have their lobbyists write the law. The Internet would become a true oligopoly with other uses of the wire forbidden. The only answer
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by api 10y ago
That may be true, but in any case the DDOS usually arises from outside the ISP's network so forbidding local traffic would have little effect.
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by api 10y ago
I'll say this on inflation: housing, tuition, health care, and several other things are insanely expensive relative to wages and the rest of the economy. You can't have a market with no buyers. Two possible outcomes: (1) these def
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by api 10y ago
Yup. Your last point on inflation could dovetail with the increased employment "crazy thesis" I suggested. A bull labor market would flood a lot of the QE cash on the sidelines into the economy. Another factor would be the emergen
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by api 10y ago
Whenever I read such things I like to think about what a seriously contrarian investment thesis would look like today. My guide is always what I, personally, would consider completely insane. Here's a few: - Bet on large-scale increas
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by api 10y ago
Most cloud servers do this too. Spam has basically destroyed smtp as an open federated protocol anyway. Network reachability is the least of the issues you'll face trying to run your own mail. Lesson: any distributed or federated proto
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by api 10y ago
Its only purpose is to force businesses up to business class. You might see it enforced if you ran a public for profit site from a consumer connection. In any case the encrypted p2p protocols run by dapps (decentralized apps) are opaque, an
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by api 10y ago
Not having a static ipv4 ip is not a show stopper. Nat traversal works fine across most carrier grade nats. I agree that ipv6 helps.
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by api 10y ago
ISPs don't do that. That's your NAT/firewall. Has anyone ever actually seen an ISP network that filters local traffic to other ISP endpoints? I'm not even sure why they would do that. DDOS almost always targets big thing
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by api 10y ago
If anything I see the public and businesses going the other way toward the cloud to avoid the hassle of IT. For the average person a PC is a broken piece of time consuming junk that accumulates malware. Edit: There's another comment in
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by api 10y ago
Yeah it feels like they died right after getting everything right.

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