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by joefigura 4y ago
It's not really the SECs job to just decide that Americans cannot own many crypto assets, which is de-facto what they're doing by refusing to regulate crypto assets that look like securities. That ought to be a legislative decisio
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by joefigura 4y ago
That guidance is about ICOs that are investment contracts. Lots of tokens appear to meet the definition of an investment contract, but not everything called an ICO is an investment contract. The whole point of that guidance is to help peopl
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by joefigura 4y ago
Coinbase claims that none of the crypto assets it lists meet that test. For the coins Coinbase lists: - Criteria #2 is debatable - They don't meet criteria #3 - Or they don't meet criteria #4 Lots of coins look like com
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by joefigura 4y ago
Yeah, it's like a stampede in a crowded theater - once the panic sets in everyone's fleeing for the exit and telling everyone else to go too. You could call that coordination, but it's more like once the panic starts it will
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by joefigura 4y ago
Brex could offer loans up to 25% of the borrower's funds stuck in SVB. As long as depositors receive at least 25 cents on the dollar, the loans would be paid back in full, and the borrower would have gotten significant working capital
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by joefigura 4y ago
reddit.com/r/askengineers tends to be heavier in conventional engineering / industrials. IDK if they allow recruiting posts. But I think CS people tend to be much more online, since they build the internet and all.
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by joefigura 5y ago
YC has funded multiple companies drone delivery companies - Volansi, Pyka, Flirtey, etc., and they've also funded a jetpack company (Jetpack Aviation). Being too ambitious or too difficult is not an issue, and if you want to apply to Y
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by joefigura 5y ago
Cool stuff! A low-noise low spam alternative to Google is desperately needed. Excited to see where the product goes! How do you plan to make money? Found a bug on one search result - searching "chicken salad recipes" produces a so
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by joefigura 5y ago
Awesome to see your progress! Good luck deploying more solar!
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by joefigura 5y ago
This doesn't remove CO2 from the ocean, right? It instead mixes the ocean better to increase the total CO2 absorbed in the ocean, reducing atmospheric CO2? It sounds like a cool idea but is not really related to what AirMyne is trying
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by joefigura 5y ago
Very interesting work and it's cool to see glimpses of the future in biotechnology. How would this technology get to gigaton-scale carbon removal? It seems that the options to use the trees to sequester carbon are to #1 leave them as l
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by joefigura 5y ago
Agree, the societal benefits of 5G are far higher than the cost of retrofitting aircraft with radar altimeters that are compatible with 5G.
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by joefigura 5y ago
I've been using Shortwave in Alpha for about five months and I think you're reacting far too strongly to one line in the blog post. The product does a bunch of things that encourage an Inbox-zero workflow. Emails are organized as
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by joefigura 5y ago
Very exciting product, congratulations on the launch!
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by joefigura 5y ago
Buoyant Aero | Mechanical, Controls, and Aerodynamics Engineers | SF Bay Area | Full-time | https://www.buoyant.aero Buoyant Aero builds small, unmanned airships for cargo delivery. We'll use our airships to deliver goods f
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by joefigura 5y ago
The development you're describing is the whole goal of upzoning, and the intended effect. Where you once had a single family home, you now have multiple units. The brand-new townhouses sell for many millions because they're brand
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The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias(gq.com)
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by joefigura 5y ago
Yep, this is a pretty accurate. If you have a full truckload of stuff, small air freight cannot compete. But if you're trying to move a single pallet, the airship is the best way to do it. The one thing I'd add is that we delibera
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by joefigura 5y ago
Thanks for linking! Cool to see this on HN again
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by joefigura 5y ago
The full company name is "Buoyant Aero" for that reason! We often shorten it to Buoyant, but may use the full name more if it's a recurring point of confusion.
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by joefigura 5y ago
Yup, this is basically it. It's impossible to compete with a truck that's fully loaded, but there are tons of short middle mile trips where trucks aren't fully loaded (LTL or less-than-truckload freight). This type of freight
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by joefigura 5y ago
One clarification, the full-scale version's max speed is ~75 mph, and typical cruise speeds will be 50-60 mph. The 35 mph number in the article is our subscale prototype. We loose range in a headwind, but on most days the aircraft has
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by joefigura 5y ago
That's not the case. The energy per mile depends only on the L/D ratio and the mass of the aircraft. L/D is a ratio of forces, and work = force times distance. Going faster at the same L/D decreases the travel time but i
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by joefigura 5y ago
Very cool! I struggled with this exact problem at a previous role to generate reports from the results of a simulation codebase. Ended up learning and using Django, which always felt overpowered for a simple static report. Excited to see ho
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by joefigura 5y ago
We're planning to do this! Ben is a big fan of flight simulators and we'll build a model once things calm down a bit post YC
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by joefigura 5y ago
We built the current prototype on the YC investment. Before that, I self funded. The current prototype's 20 ft and cheaper than you might expect. We've found YC enormously helpful and worth the dilution, providing structure, advic
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by joefigura 5y ago
Definitely. This is a longer term market and hard to quantify so we talk less about it, but we think that vertical takeoff aircraft that don't use the road or rail system will enable tons of new routes.
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by joefigura 5y ago
On 1, It was surprisingly easy to get started. We fly under Part 107, which basically says as long as you're flying low, in line of sight, and not over people you're unrestricted. And we found a local municipal airport that has a
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by joefigura 5y ago
Our primary value proposition is cost, but we're also faster on most routes because we fly point-to-point. To start off with, we're selling to customers who already fly cargo aircraft in areas where roads aren't an option. Ou
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by joefigura 5y ago
The two most important efficiency metrics are Lift to drag ratio (L/D) and energy per payload mass per distance. Lift to drag ratio describes the aerodynamic efficiency of the vehicle. Typical values, depending on flight conditions, ar

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