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by beambot 5y ago
While I don't know of any dedicated space funds off-hand, there are hundreds of venture funds that dabble in space endeavors: https://signal.nfx.com/
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by beambot 5y ago
And then when you try to go self-sufficient with EV, PV, & Batteries, the state of California attempts to pass legislation to tax your PV array. Goofy.
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by beambot 5y ago
Apparently we'll never know... My comment was entirely too prescient: just today the FAA pushed decision back by another month: https://www.space.com/faa-spacex-starship-review-delayed-mar...
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by beambot 5y ago
According to Archive.org [1], it costs roughly $2.00 per GB for perpetual hosting. ARWeave is meant to do this: Permanent hosting on web3, with the benefit of persistent URIs (i.e. you don't need to rely on DNS for name resolution). [1
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by beambot 5y ago
OK, let me be more clear: The gating factor is FAA clearance, but it's not a delay yet . More specifically: Nominal date for FAA clearance is X. Actual clearance will be >X (these agencies are never complete early; it's alrea
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by beambot 5y ago
Can get the latest updates directly from horse's mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N7L8Xhkzqo TLDR: Delay at this point is mostly regulatory (environmental study approvals) to launch out of Boca Chica. If they h
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by beambot 5y ago
IPFS or ARWeave...?
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by beambot 5y ago
Financially, YC's decision made sense regardless of balance sheets or business plans: YC was investing at a $1.5M valuation (7% for $100k). By selecting a pair of smart engineers, the acquihire potential often exceeded the invested va
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by beambot 5y ago
Pioneering spirit, without the colonialism.
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by beambot 5y ago
China is supposedly doing it: "China’s New Winged Rocket Can Soar From New York to Beijing in 1 Hour" https://interestingengineering.com/chinas-new-winged-rocket-... And SpaceX won a contract to transport cargo: &
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by beambot 5y ago
This technical deep-dive by Dr. Dennis Whyte goes into the scaling considerations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6U4wB-oYM TLDR: Tokamak economics scale in size with 1/B^5 -- so doubling the magnet field strength r
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by beambot 5y ago
You wrote them down - where do you store them? Seems like bad opsec if you are at risk of search and seizure...
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by beambot 5y ago
PayPal was founded on this premise in 1998: Contactless payments through Palm Pilots. Wasn't a new idea at that time either.
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by beambot 5y ago
Search for "ice ribbons" on Google images.
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by beambot 5y ago
Yes, the protocols have been around for a very long time. However, do you know of a LoRa network with as much area coverage as Helium...?
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by beambot 5y ago
They need to switch over to Helium's LoRa network, which has vastly better coverage...
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by beambot 5y ago
Just to be clear: This appears to be mechanical storage (i.e. Hooke's Law) rather than electrical storage. They're embedding magnets into elastomers to create a programable "metamaterial" that has controlled non-linea
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by beambot 5y ago
Confounding factors matter. E.g. I would not be at all surprised if drivers of high-end BMWs have lower deaths per mile due to older population, more affluent, etc.
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by beambot 5y ago
It's entirely falsifiable in multiple ways: (1) a voluntary share recall triggered by GameStop would force an accurate share count; (2) an extraordinary action triggered by shareholders for a formal accounting; (3) a special dividend w
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by beambot 5y ago
Not exactly apples to apples. A $200k hardware device depreciates in value over time, whereas the taxi medallion was a fairly liquid, appreciating asset.
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by beambot 5y ago
No horse in this race, but I do find the abstract idea of a purely on-chain digital reserve currency with community governance (i.e. Olympus DAO & offshoots) to be a fascinating idea. It's easy to point to early price fluctuations
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by beambot 5y ago
It would take hundreds or thousands of lectures to go deep on a subject as vast as mathematics. Even cooking would require hundreds -- there's a whole lot of dishes, cuisines, styles and techniques. May of any subject is likely a years
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by beambot 5y ago
This type of loan is really just a form of margin -- the same thing you can get at most stock brokerages (e.g. Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers, etc). It seems almost impossible to distinguish the purpose of the loans -- e.g. I k
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by beambot 5y ago
Wealth != income. What you're advocating isn't changing a loophole, it's developing an entirely new tax (wealth tax) to supplant the old (income tax). It helps to be explicit.
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by beambot 5y ago
Perhaps, but your desk can be located anywhere.
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by beambot 5y ago
Wasn't meant to be an argument for or against -- merely a relevant & entertaining piece of science fiction.
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by beambot 5y ago
Should watch "Altered Carbon" if you haven't already...
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by beambot 5y ago
"TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash" - https://www.eetimes.com/tsmcs-arizona-culture-clash/ > Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) faces challenges managing employees at its new fab in Arizona who are u
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by beambot 5y ago
Bingo.
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by beambot 5y ago
> And somebody needs to do those things. Or some machine ...

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