kashkhan

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by kashkhan 4y ago
Everyone dies. Better to live free and die young then have a long life as a slave.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
The system of employment is the problem. Drug dealers and police are employees and they cannot win. While the system has power employees have none. Mike, Bubbles, Bunny, Omar, Hauk, etc are not employees or get out and they win or at least
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Have done several migrations from PHP to Java and iOS apps from Objective-C to Swift etc.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
yes some markets take longer times and sometime tech changes so we never reach the end. but the end result is always the same as long as firms are involved. It's a feature of capitalism.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
look at market shares over time. initially you have innovation. then many entrants fight for it. then one wins. google is search monopoly amazon has ecommerce and AWS. netflix was innovator, middle period. apple is taking 80% of profits in
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by kashkhan 4y ago
competition (winner takes all) naturally results in oligopoly or monopoly in any market. The market is unstable. You can fight this by unending regulation/antitrust. Or by finding better ways to distribute scarce resources.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
For envelope (floor, walls roof) key metric is $ per sq ft. Its possible to do <$10 per sq ft in most of USA. So for a 100 sq ft room it works out to 6 sq ft envelope per sq ft of floor so $60 per sq ft of floor area. for a 500 sq ft stu
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by kashkhan 4y ago
yep. typical program takes 10-20 years after launch.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
biggest problem is finding good battery packs at scale. Maybe one day we can have a co-op gigafactory.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
slowing down 5% adds 10 minutes flying time to a 3 hour flight. Drag varies with square of speed except when you get close to Mach 1 where it gets much worse. Its also possible to fly 20% (36kft vs 30k) higher where drag for the same speed
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by kashkhan 4y ago
https://inhabitat.com/mit-team-unveils-airplane-that-uses-70... https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100042401/downloads/20...
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by kashkhan 4y ago
MIT already has aircraft designs that use 50% less fuel per seat-mile. If more of the plane is empty there is higher incentive to reduce seat mile cost especially if average seat mile revenue is lower.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Actually the opposite might happen. Airlines would keep empty seats to sell at a premium at last moment. A business that rejects customers willing to pay top dollar is suboptimal. The startegy today is to make artificial scarcity. If the cu
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Sure you do. Airplanes should be at least 10% empty on average. High load factors are bad for the travellers. If you want to save fuel fly 5% slower and save 10% fuel.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
and that would make the service better, and eventually cheaper, instead of flying 60 year old designs.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
this for people learning things that have been already discovered and done. You can do it as slow or as fast as you want, because really you're just copying information to your mind. Creating new things (research or art) is what takes
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by kashkhan 4y ago
ipad. Industrial human machine interface/HMI, Swift/XCode/iOS with single app mode and remote MDM.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
land use must be fair. You should tax excessive ownership of land. Most old do not live in assisted care. ANd healthcare is independent of land ownership. CA is extremely screwed up on how it taxes. I used to live in Cupertino where some pe
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by kashkhan 4y ago
The traditional (neoclassical economics) view is that taxes pay for services, but that's not how it really works. The federal government buys these services with money it creates, and then only later does it tax it back. For state an
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by kashkhan 4y ago
property taxes are terrible for old people. you should be able to buy a reasonable amount of land tax free. USA has about 2.5 billion acres. 1/4 acre per person in an average area tax free is reasonable.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
i like instant coffee. It tastes better. To me. A lot of fancy coffees taste terrible. But we aren't allowed to say that because how can it be you spent 10x more to get a far worse product?
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Inevitable like robots driving cars, colonizing mars, flying cars, clones, AGI... Assuming the sun doesn't engulf us first. Reality is VR will always be distinguishable from reality.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
survive.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Whenever a company pivots to another tech without publicly proving the original tech, i get the heeby jeebies. If laminar flow tech worked as they claimed, you wouldn't need hydrogen to be a market success.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
"Afghanistan" is a western colonial construct made up of many groups. Most states are western colonial constructs. We might need to move past that.
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by kashkhan 4y ago
The US has far superior military now than 70 years ago, and military power imbalance is more in favor of US than ever before. But the world has changed faster. All use of military now is misuse and futile. We don't look at veterans now
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Transporting wins in the short term. Extermination wins too. The europeans exterminated the natives on many lands and took over. They have many lands for centuries now. Not many Ohlone on hacker news. The US tried exterminating the Taliban,
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Anyone pointing a gun at me is not my friend. Anyone that chooses a gun to get their way is not my friend. I don't trust people with guns. They are the same because they all choose violence to get their way. "Democratic" gun
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Yes. Be very persuasive. But restrict yourself to persuasion. The way is for the antiwar people to be more successful than warriors and turn war into the losers' choice. I refuse to arm myself, refuse to serve in militaries and refuse
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by kashkhan 4y ago
Right. When did the US last win a war? Even with unlimited weapons, nobody wins any more. Sure you can destroy governments like Saddam and Gaddafi, but you don't win the hearts and minds, and eventually you lose.

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