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by netman21 7y ago
I got back from a big conference in SF on March 28. Came down with a sore throat on the 30th. A huge percentage of the people I know who attended the conference plus two of my three kids in SF all came down with the same thing at the same t
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by netman21 7y ago
3M just doubled its production to 100 Million a month. That should do it I think.
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Collapse Left for Writers(forbes.com)
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A US Bill from 1974 shares so much DNA with the GDPR, it could be its ancestor(medium.com)
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by netman21 7y ago
I get all that. But keep in mind that nothing has ever been manufactured on the Moon. Nothing. I love the idea of using Lunar regolith to make stuff. But the first Moon bases will be shipped there. Just like the first space bases. Baby step
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by netman21 7y ago
Gravity is easy to simulate with spin.
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by netman21 7y ago
Nice.
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by netman21 7y ago
Actually, establishing any self sustaining space colony would do. No need to build it at the bottom of a gravity well.
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by netman21 7y ago
Old person here. I was 13 in December 1972 when NASA talked abut a permanent colony on the Moon by 1984. That drove me to graduate college with a BS in aerospace engineering. I attended one of the top three universities for aerospace. In or
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by netman21 7y ago
This. I used to work in automotive engineering. I marveled at the lack of security around drawings for mechanical components. Ford, GM, and Chrysler all used the same design shops to create blueprints. When I went to get the latest drawing
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by netman21 7y ago
Put me in the No Way! column. NASA budget for exploration including SLS is about $3.5 billion. The Apollo mission cost $145 billion. Just not going to happen. Best guess: double budget to $7 billion and spend that much every year for 20 ye
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by netman21 7y ago
But at what cost? WashPo, NYT, Bloomberg, even Medium!, are paywalled to the point of exclusion of the vast potential audience they could have. Axios,NPR, BBC, and The Guardian, have not succumbed yet. I hope they do not.
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by netman21 7y ago
The first person I ever fired was a jerk to customers on the phone. He was truly brilliant. We are friends now and he is super successful as a consultant doing mostly data stuff. You will eventually find a place that fits who you are. That
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by netman21 7y ago
I failed over twice that many times. Don't actually recommend it. Better to found Google in college and succeed the first time.
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by netman21 7y ago
26 startups here. All but the last personal failures. Personal in that several people became independently wealthy from my companies. Now I have found my niche in the world. I don't have to work hard but the harder I work the better
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by netman21 7y ago
Produce things. Write, compose, code, build, make. Get good at it.
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by netman21 7y ago
Met someone who used to be in the printing business. Cars and stationary back when that was a thing. Now he just sells thermal paper for Point of Sale terminals. He says he is doing better than he ever has.
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by netman21 7y ago
While I am by no means "famous" in the sense of Paul Graham famous, this essay is spot on. I had a coterie of haters when I was getting started on my own. I would post a blog and they would counter with their own blog making fun o
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by netman21 7y ago
Love this. I used to go to this giant book fair in West Bloomfield, Michigan (USA). I marveled at how many books there were that, at first glance, were horribly written. Yet, I could always find a handful of truly great books. A book can b
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by netman21 7y ago
As an author I am encouraged by all the great responses here. In addition to writing a book a year I read about 50. My question for OP: How do you learn anything if you are not reading books? Sure, you can learn a lot about a subject onlin
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by netman21 7y ago
$200k revenue per employee are dismal numbers for a high-end US based consulting company of any sort. Is it just the problem with competing with India and Uzbekistan (where my developer is from)? My own consultancy of one does $500K/pe
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by netman21 7y ago
I visited Dell in the mid-90s. Their offices were giant rooms full of cubicles housing sales people. Finance was in a similar room. Every quarter as they started the process of rolling up the financial results these huge firedoors would r
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by netman21 7y ago
I wish HN would just ban links to paywalled sites altogether. I am so frustrated I no longer read NYT, WashPost, the frigg'n LA Times, even my local newspaper. The content web is seriously broken. Even Medium is paywalled now. I hope W
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by netman21 7y ago
I like this. There are over 100 rocket companies. You could become an industry analyst and publish about them. Or become the Walt Mossberg of space. Eventually host a conference everyone has to exhibit at.
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by netman21 7y ago
I have thought of this my whole life. Well, since I was 12 years old, so 48 years anyway. I would develop small reaction engines for orbital maneuvering. Make them lightweight and inexpensive and infinitely customizable. Sell them to every
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by netman21 7y ago
The author correctly sites construction as an example of how waterfall may have originated. But it was all of engineering that worked that way. It's called project management. I was an automotive engineer when I graduated in '82.
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by netman21 7y ago
My reaction is that this is not what the world needs. The world needs a research tool, not a way to poor over thousands of low ranked sites. How about sliders for date ranges? Yippy.com has some nice enrichment filters that I find useful.
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by netman21 7y ago
Me too.
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by netman21 7y ago
An enhanced Activity Monitor for MacOS. Basically annotate all the processes so I can click on them and see where they are from, what they do, and whether or not I can kill them. WTH is "Dock" for and why is using so much CPU?
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by netman21 7y ago
delta-force.net does this I believe. Not free though!

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