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by joewadcan 4y ago
Nova Labs makes no money from onboarding hotspots. That goes to the Helium network. You're just counting network billings as Nova Labs, when they are two separate entities. I think Nova did the right thing by getting out of the manufac
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by joewadcan 4y ago
Revenue is a bad predictor of future value for a network effect business (here a literal network). VC is supposed to seek high risk / high reward investments over 5+ year periods - especially ones that have a self-reinforcing moat like
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by joewadcan 4y ago
Nova Labs makes no money when people buy hotspots.
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by joewadcan 4y ago
Exactly the reverse. Most IOT sensors suffer because of cost, battery, and engineering complexity for a cell based connection. Helium solves all three - even more important now that 3G is being phased out making thousands of IOT sensors obs
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by joewadcan 4y ago
The Starlink satellites orbit closer to the earth than other comms satellites (iridium, oneweb). Closer distance = faster times, in addition to laser links between sats and other spectrum differences. Downside to lower orbit means they won&
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by joewadcan 4y ago
whoa, you're right. thanks for the nitpick, I didn't realize Ethanol wasn't actually on the Federal Schedules.
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by joewadcan 4y ago
There was a requirement without training, so they're now making sure people know what to look for.
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by joewadcan 4y ago
In California you have do an economic impact summary for most bills over $50M in impact. They did one for this[1]. Summary below: Costs for the typical business: initially $2,121 with $1,060 ongoing for compliance Net benefits to state: Pos
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by joewadcan 4y ago
I disagree. Controlled substances should have some guidelines and this seems pretty low cost and low overhead on time. I do agree that most jobs are over licensed. From barbers to landscapers, there's generally too much paperwork. But
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by joewadcan 4y ago
Summary: The "certification" is a 2-hour course that can be taken online. It costs $3 and lasts three years. It's a certification to pour drinks responsibly (not some sort of mixology test). It was planned to go into effect l
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by joewadcan 5y ago
Or because it solves an incentive problem which has kept millions of people with sub par networks to choose from.
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by joewadcan 5y ago
Are they using Magma[1]? I couldn't tell from their sparse FAQ[2]. The Magma community is strong and they're making great progress on the open standard. 1 Magma - Facebook built 5G hotspot platform: https://www.magmacor
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SambaTV S1, Public Offering(sec.gov)
3 points by joewadcan 5y ago|0 comments
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by joewadcan 5y ago
Write offs isn't the right word here. It's a partial tax offset for purchasing manufacturing equipment. The tax itself is already high, so the partial exemptions on that tax isn't some give away.
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by joewadcan 5y ago
Baron Partners owns a good chunk of SpaceX as well. Especially useful if you're buying from an account that can only purchase funds. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BPTRX/holdings?p=BPTRX
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by joewadcan 5y ago
Which ones specifically? The only two I know of are: - The low/zero emission car rebate that Toyota and every other manufacturer has used. - The clean energy manufacturing tax write off that applies to over a hundred other companies.
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by joewadcan 5y ago
Yup agreed all around. How nice :)
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by joewadcan 5y ago
> It's still artificial scarcity. Unlike real swords, forging bits into magic swords requires no real work and requires no raw materials. I can make hundreds of similar digital magic swords with little effort, so there is no real sc
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by joewadcan 5y ago
> Do you really think someone else's "ownership" of a digital asset impacts my use of my local files? No I don't think so at all, but that's only a sliver of what is being discussed. > My copy of the bits are
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by joewadcan 5y ago
there's a difference between "having" and "owning" something. You may have it on your local file (aka access) but ownership implies a super set of capabilities that they're talking about.
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by joewadcan 5y ago
At first glance it might seem like that but the hotspots are measuring signal from eachother and are rewarded accordingly. The Proof of Coverage comes from actual measurements of RSSI against distance and power variations. This is one of mo
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by joewadcan 5y ago
Helium fan here. I think a deeper dive is warranted on what and how they are "paying" people. Helium tokens are used as an incentive to bootstrap a network, but in the future part of payment for network services like you mentioned
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by joewadcan 5y ago
I'd argue we do need a proprietary standard to make move the IOT market from a pipedream to reality.
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by joewadcan 5y ago
This will end up being a very good thing for Tesla. They were able to operate semi-autonomous vehicles for years while they iterated through software versions. They are faaar from done, but a likely outcome will be more stringent regulation
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Mars Helicopter now on Martian soil(twitter.com)
15 points by joewadcan 6y ago|3 comments
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Moving Design from Outputs to Outcomes(abstract.com)
2 points by joewadcan 6y ago|0 comments
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by joewadcan 6y ago
> enable accurate launch of the rocket from the balloon in the stratosphere. Even though Silverthrone is designed for launch from a balloon, its control capabilities were put to test in harsher conditions of the heavy downwash of the hel
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by joewadcan 6y ago
wait... a $2,000 bike that only shows does bike workouts is fine, but a $150 device to stream entertainment and now fitness is too much? You can always just attach a HDMI cable to your phone or tablet (via converter) if you really want to.
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by joewadcan 6y ago
Pathetic... why not take the ~20% of drivers who put in 35h+ a week and make them employees to keep their service running and help their customers? ... Oh right because they can instead inflict pain 75 days before the carveout ballot measur
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Spinnaker3 Satellite Drag Sail(purdue.edu)
1 points by joewadcan 6y ago|0 comments

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