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by rlt 4y ago
Most likely redacted because it was only a phone number. I wonder if he had the foresight to leave off a name in case his texts were subpoenaed. My guess is Peter Thiel since he mentioned "A Blake Masters type"
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by rlt 4y ago
I guess they should recall all skateboards too.
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by rlt 4y ago
Alternatively, governments knew FTX was a fraud and let it happen to weaken peoples’ faith in crypto.
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by rlt 4y ago
It always struck me as odd that this guy came out of nowhere to become one of the wealthiest people in crypto in a few years. I don’t know if his adherence to effective altruism had anything to do with this outcome, but taken to an extreme
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by rlt 4y ago
And you think you are representative of the average Twitter user, why?
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by rlt 4y ago
You assume Musk had anything to do with it. It’s likely he would have been fired from nearly any companies for this series of actions. At best, someone was afraid Musk would get wind of this guy and wanted to take care of the problem before
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by rlt 4y ago
TL;DR either tried to get fired, or at a minimum didn’t care, or was incredibly naive.
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by rlt 4y ago
> Help me to understand the standard by which I can judge whether someone is a "disaster of a human being" From the abrupt change in discourse about Elon in the last couple years, I assume most are judging him by his politics h
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by rlt 4y ago
He could, but so far he hasn't, AFAIK. You might be thinking of Jeff Bezos who pours something like a billion dollars a year into Blue Origin.
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by rlt 4y ago
In this age of search engines and social media “amplification” a correction wouldn’t even be sufficient. The original story will always be more salacious than the correction, thus more widely shared and more likely to appear in search resul
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by rlt 4y ago
Maybe I’m optimistic, but I believe within a decade full and rapid reusability of launch vehicles, i.e. Starship (if successful), will radically change what is economical in space, to the point of collecting/deorbiting space debris.
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by rlt 4y ago
Correction: 3) spent the money on toys, crypto, stocks, and other assets that have now cratered. I do wonder if asset bubbles will be a significant unintended consequence of basic income. Would it stabilize over time?
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by rlt 4y ago
Perhaps emulating real life is a prerequisite to real innovations in VR. It may be hard to get mass adoption of more unfamiliar paradigms.
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by rlt 4y ago
> [new technology] will reduce the demand for [some class of] workers Is the exact argument used against literally every new technology.
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by rlt 4y ago
> probably for centuries more likely So… we should start trying as soon as possible.
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by rlt 4y ago
Then why did we evolve to only be able to see visual spectrum?
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by rlt 4y ago
Why do Musk haters attribute off-the-cuff comments to malice when the more likely explanation is Shotwell was mistaken?
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by rlt 4y ago
True for now, but Starship, if full and rapid reusability is achieved, will radically change the economics of space missions.
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by rlt 4y ago
I'd like to see Apple remove the port completely and rely on wireless charging and communication, only in the EU, just to spite the EU.
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by rlt 4y ago
Fully and rapidly reusable rockets, like Starship, if achievable, will change everything . I don’t think peopel comprehend how the economics of launch will change. Satellite breaks down or runs out of propellant? Send up a repair/refu
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by rlt 4y ago
As a casual observer I get the sense that OpenAI and others are very rapidly creating building blocks of something much bigger…
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by rlt 4y ago
Some laws are unjust, protect rent-seeking incumbents, etc.
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by rlt 4y ago
And yet there have only been 2 commercial launches of Falcon Heavy launches. There are more on the manifest but I wonder how many of those would be served by Starship, especially if the effort put into FH had been used to pull forward Stars
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by rlt 4y ago
I have an older generation Awair. It’s a little expensive but I like it. I also have a couple different Austin Air purifier models. Also expensive but seems to work well.
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by rlt 4y ago
Getting an air quality monitor was enlightening and terrifying. My child’s room (which unfortunately doesn’t have great ventilation) would sometimes hit 4000 ppb VOCs, which I tracked down to some of her stuffed animals…
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by rlt 4y ago
Given something like 40% of liver transplants go to people with alcohol related diseases this doesn’t bother me too much.
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by rlt 4y ago
Starlink is providing broadband internet to more than half a million customers. That’s a product. Everywhere except the southeast US is available now: https://www.starlink.com/map Even in that region you can buy the RV prod
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by rlt 4y ago
They could, but they’ve supposedly been working on hardware support for Globalstar satellites in the next iPhone for 2 years. They want this as a differentiator from Android. Starlink will work on Android too. So maybe it would actually mak
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by rlt 4y ago
Eventually this would be no different: Starlink can provide (firewalled) data service to iPhones to support messaging apps. Speculation is that initially there would be a small number of satellites periodically passing overhead, leading to
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by rlt 4y ago
The spot size is proportional to the phased array antenna size, right? Could SpaceX just keep scaling up their phased array antennas on the satellites as Starship reduces launch cost?

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