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by mchusma 5y ago
I also think Dyson swarms are the future. But I think the Mars effort is helpful towards getting there. Elon's public motivation for Mars is basically a human backup plan. And for that, it probably may be the best shot of the next 100
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by mchusma 5y ago
I was looking to see if 80db made sense or not as a limit. Looking at these sources: https://alexonautos.com/cabin-noise/ https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/exactly-how-quiet-are-cars-... It looks a
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by mchusma 5y ago
This is why we moved to airflow vs lots of Cron jobs. Centralized place to look, logging, etc.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Svgo is so good. It's like a cheat code. I use that GUI too.
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I actually think requiring to give prices is consistent with libertarian approaches. I like good clear contract law. I think being able to give prices is basically required for good contracts. This is why every other industry does this, and
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Musk says basically this in his presentation. Very very hard.
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Space is much bigger than the ground of earth. So 30k in a larger volume than the ground. There are over 1.4 billion vehicles on just a small fraction of the earth. There is a long way to go before traffic in space is a serious concern.
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This person used VISA, a part of (debatably the worst tri-opoly) as example of something open? Insane. I was genuinely interested in where he was going but this was just a huge fail. New entrants who wish to take on credit card offerings ca
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't believe that is true. This famous chart shows funding levels versus requested since the 1970s: https://images.app.goo.gl/58YdLFt7R9uY8dyR6 The much maligned prediction that fusion is 30 years away was always an
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Don't know if this is accurate but the entire online stock brokerage industry revenue appears to be about $14B. That seems like a significantly lower upper bound to the market size here. That said, what seems interesting here is to com
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by mchusma 5y ago
I've been listening to the revolutions podcast (very good) and was really struck by the idea that having "skin in the game" was almost universally considered superior to universal suffrage for a long time. I think there is so
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by mchusma 5y ago
I couldnt really read this article due to the tone beyond the introduction where they talk about the business model. They talk very dismissively about the whole thing, but I believe the business model was clear for Uber. Build a new transpo
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I agree with this somewhat. I don't think you need a von Neumann probe, but colonizing mars is dramatically easier if you can have semi-autonomous robots working. At least enough to have on the ground or in orbit astronauts coordinatin
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by mchusma 5y ago
I like your thinking! A couple of points: (1) we don't really know the threshold yet to be beyond repair I think. It may be 1% but may be 20%. (2) as others noted, it's 15 years for 0.1% damage using your math. (3) your timeline d
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by mchusma 5y ago
Thanks! Good article. I didn't understand purchase orders in particular until deep into B2B stuff. It was just something I encountered until selling deals like $10k+. I still think they are a bit strange.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Can you say more about the crypto payments you use? I was under the impression that crypto payments had a very high transaction cost so am curious about your setup.
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by mchusma 5y ago
These GDPR banners have made the internet a worse place for most users IMO, there needs to be an easy way to consent to all tracking and skip the banners across all sites. I'm fine with this being opt in, but it should be easy to do on
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by mchusma 5y ago
I have 3 thoughts: (1) Amazing to see progress, lets make self driving cars a reality! (2) Oh, its another limited private beta like Waymo has been doing. I'd like to actually use these, and this doesn't seem that much closer. (3)
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by mchusma 5y ago
The PPP was designed to obviously benefit the businesses that needed it the least: 1) For any business that is fine or growing with COVID. PPP is free money. 2) Your business is in severe trouble with COVID, so you can't even have empl
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by mchusma 5y ago
Ah, the old Angular bashing. I don't get it. Meanwhile, it keeps steadily improving and working well for many teams. We really enjoy working with it.
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Most doctors and nurses do not work in emergency wards. So if it were truly desperate, it seems almost trivial to get more support. There are 200,000 dentists in the US. 115,000 veterinarians.
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I like this proposal overall. I like generally personalized ads, so this seems like a good way to give users more control over what they see.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I have seen this myself, by I'm unsure if it's just a "ad quality" thing. For example, I can target exact placements on YouTube for my exact niche, and broad Facebook matching will outperform. I have tried YouTube and di
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by mchusma 5y ago
I'm curious what is the cheapest decent ebike you can get is. I think you hint that $500 is possible, which would be awesome, curious if you have recommendations. I bought my current bike from Walmart for about $150, and would be inter
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But human support is not free, and that is the point. Yes, everyone wants 24/7 support in the channel they want, with someone in country, highly trained to answer all their questions. Can you have this? Sure! It's expensive though
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Know what will help the detection of near-Earth asteriods? Starship, with its giant payload capability and low cost. I'm surprised about how many astronomers seem to...not want us to go do stuff in space.
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I'll just note that I have no problem with all this information being public for health research. I'd take privacy hits all day long in return for better cures, health, and longevity.
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I think the level of effort we make as a society on medical privacy is backwards. All health information should be public except in extreme circumstances. Right now, it's almost impossible to get datasets on health data. Imagine if 100
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Thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Not OP but Good question! a big part of NIMBY is driven by how much people's net worth is tied into their residence. So IMO you need to reduce this. It starts with convincing people that real estate is on average not a great investment

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