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by davidu 3y ago
Surveillance cameras on the right corners are a really good idea. Excellent way to make policing more objective. I wrote about that here: https://a16z.com/2021/07/13/investing-in-flock-safety/ Turns out,
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by davidu 3y ago
Drone as first responder makes a tremendous amount of sense -- Police already use helicopters, which are exceptionally expensive, limited in coverage capability, and have disastrous consequences when they crash. But there are huge benefits
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by davidu 3y ago
DNSSEC is easily the worst upgrade, multiplying complexity and brittleness, with the least amount of net benefit (without even adding encryption), that could have been solved in much simpler ways, that the Internet has ever attempted -- and
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by davidu 4y ago
The world hates that the US is the world police, but then constantly demands the US be the world police.
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by davidu 4y ago
Anywhere to get this kind of pie in Manhattan? (also, Kenji is great!)
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by davidu 4y ago
The economy and stock market impacts similarly positioned companies all at the same time. And in this corner of the Internet, that seems like "everyone." There are other companies doing great -- Stryker (NYSE: SYK) is near their a
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by davidu 4y ago
There are wide swaths of the US airspace that do not have strong radar coverage, certainly not at 80,000 feet. Most of the ocean is unmonitored, too. Remember MH370? We lost it in the air and we couldn't find it in the ocean. :-)
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by davidu 4y ago
Not sure where your info is from, but this balloon was seen by the naked eye and all over social media. As someone who lives in Montana, many many people could see it. The idea that the USG prompted the publicity is unlikely to be accurate
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by davidu 4y ago
Alternative take, we face population collapse: https://www.acruisingvoyage.com/p/vanishing-people-the-popul...
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by davidu 4y ago
Giving someone $500 or $2000 once and measuring the impact of that, and then extrapolating it to UBI makes no sense. A one-time cash payment isn't a psychological safety net. It's winning a slot machine once. In fact, you probably
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by davidu 5y ago
A tremendous achievement in an incredibly short period of time. Congrats to the absolutely stellar Anduril team and to America and her allies for getting better technology to save lives.
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The Architecture of Tomorrow: An Interview with Ben Horowitz(sotonye.substack.com)
3 points by davidu 5y ago|0 comments
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by davidu 5y ago
Really great v1 -- nice job. Ignore the haters.
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by davidu 5y ago
Additional mitigations started to come in to play after that to make it both impractical, detectable, and improbable. It's just shy of impossible now, and in the very unusual scenarios where it's possible, it's so easily dete
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by davidu 5y ago
I will miss him terribly. He was the guy who let me crash in his room at Defcon when I was a minor and was too young to book my own room. This kicked off 20 years of friendship. He was brilliant, zany, ADD x 1000, and always endearing and l
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by davidu 5y ago
If this is Peloton's choice, it's a bad one, and potentially fatal. Not supporting Apple Health was what killed FitBit, so hopefully Peloton avoids learning this lesson the hard way.
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by davidu 6y ago
This is the argument made against all software stack advancements. Nothing to do with industry. But when the benefits outweigh the the hurdles, change happens. And if I was starting a new insurance company (which I've considered) I&#
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by davidu 6y ago
Quite a few. Anduril, Epirus, and others. Google “counter UAS” for companies that do this with a wide range of techniques from kinetic (hit it) to microwave (emp like).
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by davidu 6y ago
This is quite neat!
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by davidu 6y ago
https://beta.rive.app/ (OSS runtime, xplatform, native rendering)
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by davidu 6y ago
I appreciated this write-up. The line between "mildly interesting story with some great photos" and "we made a wrong turn or wrong decision and died" is a lot thinner than I think this post makes clear. There are very fe
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by davidu 6y ago
lol, no, that's the future of democracy.
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by davidu 6y ago
I have no idea if it's true, it was just one of those comments that you don't forget reading.
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by davidu 6y ago
Tim Ferriss had this amazing comment once in one of his books that if you want to know what the future of human health is in 5 years, look to what bodybuilders are doing today, and if you want to look at the future of human health 10-15 yea
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by davidu 6y ago
It's too hard to fully explain how wrong this is, so just leaving the comment in case someone else reads it and thinks it might be right. The investors are engineers. Full stop. They write code. The code makes trades. Everything else i
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by davidu 6y ago
I don't disagree with this more nuanced framing.
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by davidu 6y ago
No, but they have a lot of technical content on their corporate blog. They recruit from all the topcoder kind of competitions for those interested in meeting people who work there.
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by davidu 6y ago
The investment side is engineering. If you're talking about IT that makes the printer work, sure.
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by davidu 6y ago
I know people who work there. That comp data excludes bonuses -- and most importantly -- that employees are able to invest in the proprietary funds themselves, which generate insane returns.
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by davidu 6y ago
For those who don't know, Jane Street is one of the best performing algorithmic trading firms on Wall Street. Probably the largest Ocaml shop on earth. It's a lucrative job for strong programming talent. Engineers there routinely

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