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by beambot 6y ago
Elon Musk's life is at the opposite extremum of "floating through life." The man works 90+ hours per week, gambled his entire fortune on two risky hardware companies, serves as a prominent public figure, and destroyed many o
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by beambot 6y ago
Chemical formula != Steps to synthesize...
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by beambot 6y ago
Ballmer peak for finance?
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by beambot 6y ago
Think that's crazy...? Look at PFOA: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
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by beambot 6y ago
I assume you're talking about the ELT. It's composed of something like 800 individual segments with their own position-adjusting actuators. I'm not intimately familiar with its construction (and the tolerances!), but I pres
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by beambot 6y ago
Reminds me of Frederik Pohl's "Chicken Little" from the book Space Merchants : """ He swung open her door. “This is her nest,” he said proudly. I looked and gulped. It was a great concrete dome, concrete-flo
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by beambot 6y ago
That is the bargain... IIRC, StarShip will result in something like 1 Million tons of annual launch capacity -- 3 orders of magnitude greater than today. Commercial applications are required, and satellites such as StarLink are a natural s
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by beambot 6y ago
Absolutely false. The earth has 200 million square-miles of area, so your portion of the 7.6 billion people equates to 0.0263 square miles. Do your part to keep that virtual area as clean as possible!
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by beambot 6y ago
Keep in mind: The average tenure for big-tech employees is less than 3 years -- and usually more like 2 years [1]. We were all abruptly pushed into WFH due to the circumstances. It's perfectly logical to embrace this status quo, and t
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by beambot 6y ago
Bitcoin isn't the only decentralized ledger system, just the one with the largest current market cap.
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by beambot 6y ago
Refer to "Practices Related to Naked Short Selling Complaints and Referrals" by the Office of the Inspector General: https://www.sec.gov/files/450.pdf > Our audit disclosed that despite the tremendous amou
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by beambot 6y ago
> before naked shorting was illegal It might be illegal now, but certainly not enforced!
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by beambot 6y ago
Autonomy is going to require a lot more than a CAN bus & some video interfaces. The specific sensors matter. The framerates matter. The field of view & mount points matter. The specific compute platform matters -- and it certainl
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by beambot 6y ago
How does this differ from Filecoin?
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by beambot 6y ago
I was once peripherally involved in a conversation about ML algorithms being used to determine credit worthiness. One of the bankers explained that race as a factor is illegal, but the algo partially reduced down to a handful of heuristics
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by beambot 6y ago
Let's be real: Everyday users just resort to credit cards, which have zero privacy. Only those with the time, resources, & incentives to transact away from credit cards get increased privacy.
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by beambot 6y ago
Already happening: "California Water Futures Begin Trading Amid Fear of Scarcity" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-06/water-fut...
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by beambot 6y ago
Indeed, it's more like molecular assembly & disassembly powered by renewables. Here's a good explanation for a well-tested ethanol process: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/former-playwri
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by beambot 6y ago
You might get your wish through IPFS / Filecoin...
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by beambot 6y ago
Why does that need a separate, dedicated fund? If the time is ripe, shouldn't the opportunities fit within the existing VC paradigm...?
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by beambot 6y ago
If we can improve lifespan by more than 1 yr/yr, then you may already be immortal...
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by beambot 6y ago
Up until recently with the sale of Spot robots, YouTube videos were Boston Dynamics' main product.
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by beambot 6y ago
You know who I would trust to administer the .org TLD for long-term public good... The EFF.
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by beambot 6y ago
50% x (-$65M) + 50% x $34M = -$15.5M You'd need better than 50-50 odds. ;)
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by beambot 6y ago
According to the press, Jeff's giving has historically been underwhelming: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-how-much-d... Do you have any examples to the contrary?
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by beambot 6y ago
To expand on this idea: Place the crawler under a non-profit such as the Internet Archive, so the results can serve the public & the commercial agreements can fund their broader archival efforts too.
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by beambot 6y ago
What was the actual ratio...?
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by beambot 6y ago
Slo-mo of landing portion: https://youtu.be/gBELXjq_X-M?t=17579
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by beambot 6y ago
Are you talking about the same EU regulators that barely gave volkswagen a slap in the wrist for dieselgate? EU regulations had approximately zero impact on Tesla's formative years -- and Tesla was the first auto manufacturer to meani
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by beambot 6y ago
You mean abatements & subsidies required to push "clean" vehicle policies that are among the most aggressive in the world? Without Tesla & CA's policies, auto electrification would be at least a decade behind what it

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