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by beambot 5y ago
> According to IDC, the AR/VR market is expected to grow to nearly $140 billion by the end of 2024. That number seems wildly exaggerated... unless I'm missing something?
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by beambot 5y ago
What time horizon are NG plants capitalized over? Soon enough, that will be a significant factor in the economic equation...
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Except that one of them occurred at the time & place of the major transition of power and actively stormed a congressional session resulting in deaths in a core federal government building. But sure... other than that "not all tha
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by beambot 5y ago
Curious. I would claim that our current finance and legal system frequently does the very same for the impoverished or disenfranchised... Underbanked get hammered by fees with no safety net for emergency expenses. And large portions of our
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by beambot 5y ago
I once rode in an original Model T. Ride was horrible: super slow, very uncomfortable, and the handling was ghastly. But clearly we don't judge "ancient" developments exclusively by modern standards... Artwork of old was co
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The US still doesn't have wide-spread use of chip & pin on credit cards. Innovation & adoption of digital identity in this country is unlikely to be rapid.
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by beambot 5y ago
Are the decay modes (3% one way, 3% another, 94%?) experimentally determined, or does theory predict this distribution?
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by beambot 5y ago
Don't forget refrigeration and automobiles. 1885-1985 was an amazing century!
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Some of the technical details: https://www.science.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-aims-...
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by beambot 5y ago
> The good news is that general aviation flying is getting safer. Accidents through 2018 are essentially flat over the preceding four years: about 1200 accidents per year and 200 fatal accidents per year. https://landing.redbi
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by beambot 5y ago
Most recent advances: https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusio... I just figured the physics symposium lecture would be more interesting given the deep-dive details and allusions to why ITER "f
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by beambot 5y ago
Fwiw, net-positive nuclear fusion now legitimately looks to be less than 5 years out. See Commonwealth Fusion. Here's a technical deep dive: https://youtu.be/rY6U4wB-oYM
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by beambot 5y ago
It's important to keep in mind the average (or median) case rather than outliers. I.e. how frequently would an automated system outperform a human during an emergency. Presumably the checklists were created for a good reason. Had Sul
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by beambot 5y ago
Or they're transforming into McDonalds: A realestate company whose mortgages are paid for by {ads, hamburgers}.
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> If they start storing data they legally have to hand it over when being asked by law enforcement, which would expose that they stored it. Not necessarily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by beambot 5y ago
Didn't the big German auto manufacturers literally develop the hacks to bypass diesel emissions inspections? I'm not sure I'd hold anyone up in a pedestal on this score...
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Curious. My local government nationalized water, gas, electricity, waste removal, roads, bridges, trains, etc. Some of these were even for-profit private companies at one time or another. Seems common in the US... Clearly it's a spectr
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by beambot 5y ago
Purchased equity suffers the same dilution as earned equity (on the same grant date), but with the added benefit of liquidation preference.
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by beambot 5y ago
I still see $5M-$6M pre-seed rounds for first money, friends & family rounds with just an idea & founding team -- the type of deal flow you're most likely to encounter while embedded in FAANG? Post-revenue, post-YC seed rounds
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by beambot 5y ago
Here's an alternate way to look at it: You're at FAANG making $250k salary (plus equity). You love the idea of a startup, but dropping to $150k salary + 1% in equity over 4x years isn't entirely appealing. (Setting aside
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by beambot 5y ago
If only there was some way to collect money from car sales & use it to maintain local youth programs. Or better yet: A percentage of every transaction. We could call it "sales tax." ;)
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by beambot 5y ago
Can tribes create embassies? This sounds like a great boon to tribal economies: Buy land, turn into embassy (sovereign land), lease building to Tesla for dealership, profit.
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Because regulatory capture created viable, local small businesses for decades...
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by beambot 5y ago
From March 17th, 2021: "Toyota lobbies US government in its increasingly delusional effort to slow down electric vehicles" https://electrek.co/2021/03/17/toyota-lobbies-us-government-... Seems like
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by beambot 5y ago
Technologies mature at different rates. ARPAnet was created in the 1960s. www was created in 1989. Yahoo & Netscape were started in 1994. Foundational infrastructure is rarely explosive in growth. It's also unclear how you&#x27
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by beambot 5y ago
You familiar with McCarthyism?
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by beambot 5y ago
> You could argue that PoW and PoS tie wealth too directly to the "legislature" membership and we ought to use a democratic vote to decide the miners/executors. Hence the advent of the DAO for governance alongside the actu
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by beambot 5y ago
There are solutions to electrochemically produce gasoline in a carbon neutral way for cheaper pump prices than you get today from digging up & refining oil. https://www.science.org/news/2019/07/former-play
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Nope. GP said that storing money was expensive. I was simply alluding to the fact that (a) supply of physical dollars << assets on the balance sheet - i.e. fractional reserve, and (b) a trusted authority can 'print' money o
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Edit via comment: I was drawing parallels to the system of central banks & Federal Reserve (i.e. those that create monetary supply), not just individual banks. The point was simply that physical dollars on hand << assets on balan

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