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by rexreed 5y ago
People have been using self-piloting sailboats / automated navigation on personal water craft for decades. The issue of course is collision avoidance, traffic navigation, and determining the best route autonomously.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed answers! As for location, how/why did you end up at St. Joseph Island?
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by rexreed 5y ago
In this case, government grants to individual homeowners looking to connect to the public utility makes the most sense. It's also easy to quantify since you can see how many people are interested in connecting to the grid who aren&#x27
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by rexreed 5y ago
I have both a well and septic, so I totally get it. But if you are connected to public water or public sewer, which often a municipal monopoly for good reasons, and you have limited other choices, the local government places restrictions on
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by rexreed 5y ago
Cool. I always wondered why you chose St. Josephs Island to settle from Europe. Solar costs have certainly gone down since then.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Isn't that why the government has the power of taxation or the ability to levy fees? Not that I'm a fan of government reach, but if the single, monopoly, private corporation can't provide necessary services at a rate that the
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by rexreed 5y ago
Do you have any blog posts and pictures of your setup? I'm quite curious to hear how it is working!
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by rexreed 5y ago
Discord displaced Slack in our organization and we're never looking back at Slack ever again.
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by rexreed 5y ago
As a further point to the above, while UF and PF are very prevalent for engineered / manufactured woods and planks of all types, it's possible to make manufactured bamboo planks without the use of formaldehyde-based glues. You nee
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by rexreed 5y ago
I posted this lower down as a comment, but some might be interested to know what specific glue is being used: Most manufactured wood building materials contain one of these two types of formaldehyde-based glues: * Phenol-formaldehyde (PF) *
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by rexreed 5y ago
Specifically, formaldehyde-based glues. "Most manufactured wood building materials contain one of these two types of formaldehyde-based glues: * Phenol-formaldehyde (PF) * Urea-formaldehyde (UF). Its water resistant properties ma
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by rexreed 5y ago
That's called Augmented Intelligence, a well-trod field and a better ROI than aspects of autonomous and human-replacement intelligence.
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I can't seem to get it to work for any non-trivial search (search results with wikipedia entries, etc)
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by rexreed 5y ago
No one is pretending anything. Quite a few founders are unhinged. Many are also passionate. The successful few know when to be appropriately passionate instead of irrationally unhinged. I think we're all smart enough to distinguish bet
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by rexreed 5y ago
Being unhinged isn't the best way to communicate a vision. But it sure does show how you can't handle rejection or frustration well.
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by rexreed 5y ago
It certainly seems like we're regressing as a society into increasingly more toddler-like behavior with ranting, infantilizing, treating normal adult behaviors as "adulting" and losing touch. If someone screamed like a toddl
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by rexreed 5y ago
You're definitely right in that the universe of unsuccessful people far outnumbers those who are successful. I guess we'll be seeing a stream about lost opportunities and lost deals for some time. It's like those Country musi
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by rexreed 5y ago
But I'm finding these stories to instead show how naive, childish, or outlandish the founder is. These stories might have lessons learned for others, but it sure doesn't paint the founder in a good light. Are we in anti-truth worl
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by rexreed 5y ago
I find it really curious that all these stories about "how I screwed up" are all of a sudden popping up all over the place. Is there some sort of meme or zeitgeist going around where it's now in vogue to post about how you me
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by rexreed 5y ago
I'm actually asking about this part: "With my current start-up it's not uncommon that we are instructed to sell to a customer via a nominated 3rd party. We don't know for sure, but we strongly suspect, that the 3rd party
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by rexreed 5y ago
They only go to jail if the kickbacks are obvious. Most of the time it's promises of future employment or employment of federal worker's kids, spouses, family members, or the retaining of a firm they hold an interest in. There&#x2
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by rexreed 5y ago
Depends if the startups were the ones complicit in establishing the fraud or victims of a kickback shakedown. I can see it both ways.
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by rexreed 5y ago
To clarify on Edit #2, are you saying that you're selling to the customer through a reseller, and you suspect that the reseller is actually an executive at the company who is skimming margin by purchasing from you at a list price and m
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by rexreed 5y ago
All the time. Michael Kratsios, former Federal CTO, and prior close associate of Peter Thiel gives a contract to a Thiel portfolio company (Scale) for $92M while he's Federal CTO and also undersecretary of the DoD with a fairly opaque
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by rexreed 5y ago
This is also common in government contracting. When you say "offload" crappy startups, do you mean getting the company acquired by that company or purchase the startups products?
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by rexreed 5y ago
Hold up -- Angel investors give you money in exchange for equity. That's usually how it works. Are you saying that instead of giving money, these angel "investors" are executives a major companies who are trading customer dea
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by rexreed 5y ago
Yup I was about to post, it's the same guy. You'd think he'd learn his lesson about keeping his mouth shut. Not speaking sometimes is as strategic as speaking. Not sure what impact he wants these tweet threads to have, but if
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by rexreed 5y ago
What would happen if your backup harddrive at your friends' place was stolen / destroyed / went bad?
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by rexreed 5y ago
Not to mention their shady and undisclosed practices of using humans to read receipts when they pretend it's AI / OCR / NLP doing that. "Expensify has admitted that its declared AI product SmartScan, which is assumed to
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by rexreed 5y ago
Interesting. Can you detail more about what you mean by privatized / corporate socialism?

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