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by roymurdock 7y ago
Mid 2012 MBP with swapped out internals...8 years later and still the best computer I've ever owned
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Agree with all you've written, just wanted to call out how Pollan painted the tension between Hubbard and Leary specifically. I'll check out the book Acid Dreams and I just ordered Electric Kool Aid Test to get a better understand
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Hubbard was a true pioneer, known as the Johnny Appleseed of LSD. He would go around just giving it away to people, trying to get them to open their minds and improve their lives. He was also a trickster in his youth and a true man of adven
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by roymurdock 7y ago
It will be interesting how Boeing/Airbus/traditional carriers react when China fully enters the market with Comac-built/branded planes. Commercial flights of its first plane, the C919 are slated for 2021. The whole 737 MAX fi
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by roymurdock 7y ago
This is the ultimate problem with how we've structured public corporations/LLCs in the US. When markets are working correctly in an environment of low innovation, companies themselves becomes the product, and the company's pr
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Bait and switch. Author starts with one sentence on safety critical systems then transitions entirely to discussing challenges with insecure, non safety-critical software such as mobile phone OSs, email services, and web browsers for import
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by roymurdock 7y ago
The FAA/NASA have guidelines for getting space craft "human rated": https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-are-the-safety-regulatio... The software design aspects of these rules have probably evolved in con
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by roymurdock 7y ago
We are so, so far away from being able to leave earth and terraform/colonize other planets. A better argument is that we might find new technology or make new observations that help raise the standard of living on earth through designi
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by roymurdock 7y ago
We needed to beat the russians to the moon, it was part of the cold war effort, as much as I agree with these ideals they need to be tempered in reality and politics. We have no comparable political need for space exploration today.
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Wetware/biohacking
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Other comments here incorrectly pointing out that Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China - they do. And why wouldn't they, it's obviously much cheaper to manufacture there given material and labor costs. Obviously they
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by roymurdock 7y ago
It's a cornerstone of their brand relative to other office space leasing companies, and tech investors are how/where they got a lot of their funding. Check out their S-1, they mention "technology" 110 times: "Techno
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Levine is skeptical/amused by the nonsensical valuations but takes a more neutral stance, probably because he was never truly invested in/familiar with/cared that much about new technology and what people promise it can do. G
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by roymurdock 7y ago
More interested in the public money manager opinion on why not to buy this deal instead of all the other "tech" companies that IPO. What caused enough of them to push back on this valuation and are they acting in a coordinated m
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Tell your WeWork employed office manager (there is one in every office right?) to look at the line every morning when they're getting their coffee for two weeks. If the line is too long buy another 2 or 3 espresso machines, or suppleme
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by roymurdock 7y ago
How have we gotten to the point where a company that is considering a $10-46B IPO is in a position where 1/3 of its staff is redundant and can be laid off, where investors can look at that company and think it's a good and growing
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by roymurdock 7y ago
This should be the top comments, thanks for taking the time to write it out
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by roymurdock 7y ago
investors don't really care what "tech" truly means in the classical sense (using/selling computers or apps as a central part of the business). investors care about what kind of return they can expect from a certain clas
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Matt Levine as usual called how this would play out. He said we work would start dropping the weird voting/control privileges ("corporate governance concessions") that founders have enjoyed on recent "tech" IPOs. He
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by roymurdock 7y ago
I went backpacking up arroyo seco with 2 friends on the same weekend. On our way into the campgrounds the rangers told us this story, we almost didn't believe them the story was so ridiculous on its face. Crazy to see this article in t
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by roymurdock 7y ago
I'd give microdosing LSD a shot: In the 1950s, before the term “Silicon Valley” existed, a handful of engineers at the tech pioneer Ampex were approached by Al Hubbard, the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD.” And with his help, they found that
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Lots of revived interest in psychedelics that is finally coming front and center in no small part due to Michael Pollan's recent book "How to Change Your Mind". Rolland Griffiths plays a pivotal role in the book (and in the r
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Get yours while the getting is good. What would you do differently in Neumann's position? This company/its IPO is a shining example of what emerged from the way "we" decided to structure the US economy post 2008 recessio
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Seconding this recommendation. Pollan talks about this exact article in the book, and how Eva Mendez came to sorely regret ever letting Wasson and Richardson partake in the ceremony and publish accounts of the experience. Most incredible to
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Large and continued slowdown in global productivity combined with huge amounts of liquidity/easing from the world's largest central banks. Pretty good time to have a lot of money (it's always a good time to have a lot of mone
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by roymurdock 7y ago
You're splitting hairs and I'm not sure what your point is. He's sane/rational. He has motives for most of his actions from what I've observerd. I'm asking what the motive is behind his initiation and escalatio
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by roymurdock 7y ago
These are good points. Not sure why Trump would care about the first one, but could see how enough businesspeople were leaning on him to get the second point done. This seems like the most likely explanation to me as well (opening China to
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by roymurdock 7y ago
We don't live in medieval times. Trump is not a good human being, I don't like him one bit, but he's sane (I would go as far as to call him cunning) and democratically elected. Comparing him to insane kings from the 18th cent
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Come on this guy is the president of the US people need to stop calling him ignorant and dumb just because they don't like aspects of his persona (racist/greedy/cunning/divisive). He is surrounded by aides and business p
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by roymurdock 7y ago
I've heard that argument but it's wrecking parts of the ag sector, hurting manufacturing (big parts of his base), and will probably push all consumer prices up. I guess if his base can't put 2 and 2 together that prices are r

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