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by oskarkk 11mo ago
You may be right, especially with the growth of applications of software. Personally I'd rather bet on slower revenue growth than the current 30%. Not necessarily much slower, but even 25% yearly growth over 10 years would be a big dif
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by oskarkk 1y ago
My logic is that past results don't indicate future results, and assuming that the growth rate from the last 5 years will stay the same for the next 10 years is a big "if". For new companies, new products, high growth rates o
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> What is the value of it, if it continues like this for another decade? Revenue would be at roughly $1T/year then. That's a big "if", usually things don't grow at 30% per year for 15 years.
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by oskarkk 1y ago
It's not that long IMO, it's been 2 years since Nvidia stock took off, and at that point OpenAI was valued between $29B and $86B (compared to $500B today), so I'd say we've entered bubbly territory around then.
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Yeah, his uncle with very good genes explained it to him many, many years ago. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> "With others doing testing, I think it's appropriate that we do also," Others are only testing the delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons (missiles, submarines), not the nuclear weapons themselves. So "Because of oth
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Googling exactly "Costa Nostra" returns essentially nothing specific (150k results vs 4.6m for "Cosa Nostra") and Google tries to redirect it to "Cosa Nostra", so that seems to be a typo. Wikipedia article on &
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> HN still uses a font-size value that usually renders to 12px by default as well, making it look insanely small on most modern devices, etc. On what devices (or browsers?) it renders "insanely small" for you? CSS pixels are no
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Musk's companies buying hundreds or thousands of Cybertrucks is of course good for Tesla, but the impact on finances (and the stock price) should be minimal. Tesla has the capacity to make ~30k Cybertrucks/quarter, and it seems th
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by oskarkk 1y ago
But if Musk left Tesla and the stock plummeted, Musk's wealth would also plummet (Tesla is ~1/3 of his publicly known wealth). So I don't think leaving Tesla is in his interest even if it were voted that he will never get any
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by oskarkk 1y ago
You're looking at the list of all Eutelsat satellites, but the satellites the article talks about are not on that list. Eutelsat is an old company that operates mostly geostationary TV/radio/etc satellites. In 2023 they acqui
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Yeah, their plan is more extended than Apollo, but their initial part of the plan with which they can beat US to the moon is just like Apollo. The later parts of their plan need a rocket which doesn't exist yet (and they recently decid
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> I still find it strange how people use the word “WiFi” to mean internet. For so many young people today, WiFi IS the internet. I don't think that's the case, people don't call mobile internet "WiFi". In their m
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Would it be possible to use all of them at the same time? Not necessarily in a practical way, but just for fun? Could different ways of doing this on CPU be done in some extent by one core at the same time, given it's superscalar?
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Bitcoin market cap is $2.2T, so $15B of that is 0.7% of all bitcoins. They aren't selling them on open market, but in an auction (or a couple of auctions). It may not have an immediate influence on the bitcoin price, unless the buyer s
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by oskarkk 1y ago
That's how most space launch companies work, they get government contracts to do things for government. ULA (joint venture of Lockheed & Boeing) gets nearly all of its revenue from the government. Musk funded SpaceX until they made
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Ah, okay. So it was 3 guys that didn't want to put much of their money into Tesla, and Musk who did.
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> SpaceX wasn't the first private company to develop a reusable rocket. It surely was the first to actually make a reusable orbital rocket. > It was just the first one owned by a billionaire that convince other people to fund it.
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Technically, the trajectory of the last couple of flights is a transatmospheric orbit, meaning that if the Earth didn't have atmosphere, it would be an actual orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatmospheric_o
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by oskarkk 1y ago
They surely had some cash, but I think it was a small contribution compared to Musk's. Given that Musk was $6.5M out of $7.5M series A, and something like $9-10M out of $13M series B, I think it's not possible they contributed m
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by oskarkk 1y ago
At that point Tesla was 3 guys with an idea and no money. They got $7.5M of investment, of which $6.5M was Musk's money (and he became chairman). I count that as "starting Tesla", as without his money nothing would happen (fi
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Any American company could use NASA's designs for reusable rockets... Oh wait, only SpaceX did it. And 10 years after they did it, they're still the only company that did it (not counting New Shepard of course, as it can't pu
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Yeah, I agree with what you said about Elon's tolerance for risk and continuously betting the company on ever larger projects. I just dislike the common characterization of "billionaire space race", when one of the billionair
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by oskarkk 1y ago
It's obvious that before SpaceX moved in, 6 permanent residents of that little village weren't damaging that environment more than today's thousands of people working on a huge industrial site built in place of that village (
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> He deserves at least some credit, considering that he and Bezos are the only billionaires actually willing to put their wealth into chasing a vision. Musk was worth ~$300M when he started SpaceX and Tesla, and he bet nearly all of that
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by oskarkk 1y ago
I think greekrich92 when talking about "destroying the South TX ecosystem" meant their huge rocket production and launch site right next to some protected ecologically valuable areas in south Texas. The extent of the damage is deb
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by oskarkk 1y ago
Yes, as after it leaves the atmosphere and achieves that 98% of orbital speed, its trajectory wouldn't change much even if it exploded - its engines are turned off after ascent that takes ~9 minutes, then it free-falls for an hour to t
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> Not to mention that the language is fundamentally designed around the expectation that modules are singleton. Modules being singletons is not a problem in itself I think? This could work like having two versions of the same library in
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by oskarkk 1y ago
> And there is no reason to talk about how people burn to death in Tesla's at ~4x the per-mile rate of the average car. Do you have a source for that?
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by oskarkk 1y ago
These failures of consumer GPUs may be not applicable to datacenter GPUs, as the datacenter ones are used differently, in a controlled environment, have completely different PCBs, different cooling, different power delivery, and are designe

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