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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Certainly investor culture matters a ton. And US is a big place and certainly isn't monolithic. All the stories of early silicon valley speak of a clash with 'East Coast' investors who are viewed as being more conservative on
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Really confused on why you're critiquing the guy who's commercialized and popularized the electric vehicle (Tesla), setting up a crucial switch away from fossil fuel to save earth, for not saving earth? What am I missing here?
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Neither Crew Dragon, or Hydrazine, is on the rocket in question...
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Because there are a lot of other factors that are different. Other countries have different interest rates, tend to have much smaller markets to sell into, and tend to have much more tightly regulated labor markets. There's also an abs
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Historically, all three of the examples you site (Industrial revolution in the UK, Chemical manufacturing in Germany, and current commercial space industry in the US) are exceedingly rare*. The vast majority of both countries and time perio
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
There's a long and terrible tradition of western media refusing to expose Stalin's crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Please build more housing in SF!
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Realistically? 2011. As get global instability every time food prices spike from drought and commodities price spikes. That time it kicked off the Arab spring & Syrian civil war. Look at immigration into Europe across the Med. from Nort
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Two situations were it might make sense: 1) Person with non-programming stem degree who really learns a lot from what you describe. Basically a fancy 2nd bachelors. 2) Connections with jobs/employers. A good programmer from a 'no-
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Respectfully a Masters in CS is completely different from a masters in a 'creative field' because CS has an excess of demand for talent and tons of new opportunities. Writing, Journalism, Fashion, Fine-Arts, Film - all of these ma
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
I don't think it's easy winning a power struggle. But I do think winning a power struggle counter-selects for many traits that make it very hard to create a well functioning economy. In 'Designing a fighter' to win a pow
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Strongly agree. We're seeing legislation target the sector of the economy with some of the highest productivity ever seen in human history. Congress needs to look at the sectors with the lowest productivity growth! Home construction, i
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
I think you touch on the core problem. That 100% perfect categorization is impossible. Also, it turns out that items which are false or angry are more likely to go viral, be it in science or politics: https://www.usnews.com/
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Fascinatingly, a similar effect shows up in science. "Science Studies Most Likely to Be Wrong Are the Most Widely Read": https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-05-24/...
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
The 'abundance of revenue' is why banning reshares/retweets change will only happen if forced through via legislation. Tobacco companies would sell cigarettes to kids if we let them. Car manufactures fought mandatory seat bel
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
Excellent point. And also that shorter supply lines > longer supply lines and that more troops > fewer troops. Etc. Great read and I had never heard of these books. Though I found that to be the weakest part of the essay as Adam Tooze
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5y ago
I assume you've read it. But for other readers of this thread, Eric Hoffer's book The True Believer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer Is a great exploration of educated people becoming extremis
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
I hear you, in that since the smart-phone there has not been a new consumer platform shift, with all the value creation for new B2C companies that a platform shift implies. That said other parts of the ecosystem are having incredible bursts
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
Manufacturing the chip-lets independently appears to be an interesting approach to maximizing yields. If anyone component has a defect, you just assemble using a different chip-let, as opposed to it affecting the final product. Anyone know
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
E pluribus unum!
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
I'd be fascinated to see how the US states of California, Washington, Texas, and Massachusetts would score on that index.
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
Really cool idea! I'm curious to hear how you're offering financing. If you're able to speak about this part of your business - are you using Stripe or another charter bank?
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
Not sure whey you're being downvoted - so I upvoted you. The US has huge problems with regulation that prevent new housing creation. A lot of that has it's origin in segregation: https://www.epi.org/publication&#x2
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
I'd argue the opposite. The revenue potential of selling to the entire US government far outweighs the revenue potential of the rest of the world combined as Europe, China, and Russian already have national champions and closed launch
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
Appreciate your comment. Any thoughts about making the Magnet school program 'the standard' for every kid? As an alternate policy to ending it, as the article describes.
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
I think this press release is sneaky great news as it's evidence that Bezos is shaking up Blue Origin's culture. The announced delay was already baked in, everyone watching the space believed the delay, now announced, was already
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
If you're question is 'why can increased CO2 lead to colder weather in Texas?' There's a huge difference between describing average temperatures (what people describe as 'global warming') and describing the tem
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
26GW is the thermal capacity that the market would like have had, IF there had been sufficient natural gas . [1] And that ERCOT's extreme plan (worst case scenario) had only anticipating loosing [2] 14GW of 'thermal' (i.e. m
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
Strongly agree. Free markets often fail to adopt low cost protections to tail events. E.g. the free market didn't get us 100% of new cars having seatbelts and airbags, government requirements did. And those standards were fought by the
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by mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
Godmode2019, I suspect we're strongly agreeing. My point is that Texas didn't assume the 'weather' would ever be bad. So when it got cold they ran out of natural gas to run their electricity system. The reason I bring up

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