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by jordanb 2y ago
I think the silicon valley bros are playing checkers, not chess. They are succeeding because they're being allowed to succeed and if they get what they want their ultimate fate will be dying of polonium, falling out of a window, or d
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Yeah and these guys are actually friends with Jeffery Sachs, who was the economist pushing for shock therapy in Russia in the 90s. I strongly feel like these guys see what happened in Russia and see it as a success: the "weak" sov
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They're getting rid of things that stand in Elon's way. CFPB was actively investigating complaints about Tesla and financing, for instance. It was also reportedly seen as a roadblock to turning Twitter into a payments platform.
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> that requires congress Elon is literally closing agencies like the CFPB and USAID down, in defiance of congress and the law. They are working under a legal theory that the president can do that, and are expecting their stacked supreme
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This is it. What we're seeing is a Bourgeois coup: The silicon valley PayPal guys have become the wealthiest people in the country. Now they are trying to use that wealth to usurp political power.
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Stargate is a funding initiative by Sam Altman and principally backed by Softbank. It was announced at the white house to curry favor. Trump's stated commitment to the project is to wave environmental and possibly labor rules for all t
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Mostly they're friends with people who control large institutional funds: pensions, endowments, etc.
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One of many examples https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
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Earth is the only rocky planet in the solar system with a magnetic core so that'd be 1/4 at least.
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The problem is when the park exists just as negative space between the buildings, as a way to provide seperation. Towers surrounding a park, like Central Park in New York (or any decent size park in Manhattan) works well. Towers as a city w
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The resale value plunge that EVs take (especially Teslas) suggest that the market is skeptical of these longevity claims.
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Eddie took over in 2005. Sears was profitable before the KMart merger. KMart was already owned by Eddie and already in bankruptcy during the merger. Sears could easily have been Target or Wal-Mart. The company was full of people who knew re
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No I worked at Sears and it was driven into the ground by an idiot PE fund manager and his arrogant consultants. Sears had one big problem when Eddie took over: it was out of step with the then-current retail format (big box stores). Its st
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No the O-rings were essential to prevent blowby. If the seal the o-rings provided was lost, then exhaust gasses could exit the rocket not via the nozzle. This would cause a cascading failure where the exhaust gasses would erode the structur
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by jordanb 2y ago
I feel like a major thing that isn't really discussed is just the way the safety culture evolved (or failed to evolve) at NASA at the beginning of the shuttle program. The Mercury/Gemini/Apollo program was a crash program ess
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I question your read on what happens here. At most startups the investors control the board (there are a few where a charismatic founder manages to retain control, but that's rare). If the board thought the founder was just transferrin
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> classified briefing that made them vote together across party lines. Romney pretty much said it was Israel. They think that--but for tiktok--zoomers would be supporting the genocide in gaza. My guess is that Trump will negotiate with C
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Everyone I know in environmental activism hates hydrogen and sees it as green-washing the petrochemical industry.
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> Do you actually have experience with those programs? I was hiring manager at a "woke" (media) company during and after peak DEI. The only policy of DEI that really affected me was that we had to have a "diverse slate of
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No the Jackscrews would have been removed for reuse after the lift. By the way you can still buy jacks like these. They're considered safer than hydraulic jacks and are often called "house jacks": https://www.homed
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by jordanb 2y ago
To be fair Camacho was setting up Not Sure to be the fall guy. I don't think he really thought Not Sure could fix things. That being said, it is a society who elected the smartest guy in the world president, and then when a smarter guy
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I would much rather live in Sir Humphrey Appleby's dystopia than whatever this is.
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So with AI Google has cut out the middleman and insourced the content farm.
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It's basically a replacement for Stack Overflow, made possible by scraping Stack Overflow.
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The walled gardens would be. On the other hand it would likely drive interoperability.
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Technically "legal tender" doesn't mean shops have to accept it. "Legal tender" means that it can be used to pay a debt. A dollar being legal tender means that, if A owes B money, and they pay in dollars, then if B
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Should not surprise you on this forum. Many such examples. Why do you think there is so much excitement about AI art?
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Reminds me of that scene in Silicon Valley where Gavin clearly wants the protestors killed and he keeps dropping less and less subtle hints at his goons who clearly aren't having it.
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Coandă isn't a meaningful factor in the aerodynamics of sailboats. It is perhaps possible that it contributes somewhat to the slot effect, but that is controversial.
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From what I've seen, AI is used as an answer to the question: "how are we going to be expected to maintain the same velocity with fewer people."

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