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by ryandamm 9y ago
There's a mountain bike trail in Camp Tamarancho named "B-17" after the crash. Though there is supposedly extant remains of a different crash on the slopes of Mt. Tam, I haven't personally seen them.
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Haha yeah -- I live in Fairfax, and I did a brief double take (though B-17 implies it was a while ago).
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This is BIG.
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Congrats on the raise, Jon!
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Elon Musk is not worried about the limits of your imagination. Honestly, the advantages of building a frame around the electric drivetrain are so huge, I can't imagine them reusing one built for internal combustion engines at this poin
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Thanks for the reality check; specifics matter a lot. (My only question: how is it possibly a $500 bn/year market? The world economy is something like $60 tn; I have a hard time imagining black women's hair care is 1/120th of
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I don't think there's an easy answer. Therefore, we should not expect obvious policy prescriptions from the article, book, research project. (I do hear your objection about the title; I see HN's title is updated to be less cl
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You're assuming the author is reporting gross receipts, which he may well be. But your back of the envelope calculations aren't convincing, particularly given your tone. ("Monster" is your word. The text, which I've
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Important frame to consider, here in the comments: we're all reacting to an article that's reviewing a book. A long work of sociology. So the article isn't the ground truth; it's a tiny digest, plus a reaction by the art
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Yeah, your reading is very different from mine, also. You're assuming things about the liquidity of the market, regulatory environment, and external situations that simply aren't true. Toy models can be useful, but don't take
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Processed into feedstock for the meat-vats. Roughly the same workflow as before, just streamlined. Even bioreactors that produce pharmaceutical products are running on carbon-based energy derived from agricultural output -- glucose gotta co
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by ryandamm 10y ago
This is a _fantastic_ blog for camera/lens nerds. Highly recommend, very happy to see Roger Cicala get some love here. It's like my nerd-planets aligning, HN and Lens Rentals. If you read through the Lens Rentals archive, you&#x27
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Valve and LG to showcase new VR headset at GDC(uploadvr.com)
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For at least one scene filmed by Jaunt, the director was crouching in a trash can. I think it was for "Kaiju Fury" but don't quote me on that. Looked for a source to corroborate, but I heard it in conversation with Jaunt peop
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I don't think this is going to DDoS the scammers by calling them back; I think the point is you just transfer the inbound call to his bot -- the success rate on these things is so low, if he's got good enough penetration the false
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Dogs don't require charging.
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To be fair, that's just because the emission of microwave ovens is tuned to a resonance of water molecules. That said, I think that resonance is rather broad, so you could expect a fair amount of coupling at large power. Also, microwav
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I do [want to make an enemy of him]. (Though to be fair, I'm not nearly important enough to matter.) Seriously though, investment is a form of partnership. Thiel has diminished his stature as an investor in my eyes, government access o
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As a native, it's baffling. I think the only explanation is the breakdown between input and output; when spin and now outright confabulation carry more weight than facts, people can easily be swayed to vote against their own self inter
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Yeah, that's true too. A global perspective on US politics is usually depressing.
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I actually think we suffer from false equivalency in the US. The two parties are radically different, the rhetoric is radically different. It's not that we suffer from a lack of consensus, it's that the right in the US has swerved
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Self-centered American here, but wouldn't it make sense to weight it by population, or even population of likely attendees? Not clear why, say, Suriname (to pick a country out of a hat) should rank equally with Japan. That said, I thin
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Well, to be fair, it's because someone's handing out free money in the form of subsidized rides. The fact that hailing a taxi is more expensive (nevermind less convenient) is a strong argument when the consumer is making a choice.
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Regardless of whether or not Jethro Tull is a perfect example, the larger point about rule of law is absolutely correct. Any catchphrase or byword can be co-opted, none more so than 'freedom.' Rule of law is a much better way to t
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I fear this is the warning shot across the bow of those tech executives who supported this president. First, they come for your conferences. Then, your H1B visa-holding employees. Then...? Innovation thrives on freedom. Freedom of expressio
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Right. I thought it was significant that the two lead investors are strategic (the first big tranche came from Google, not GV), so there's even less signaling there. As for $1.4B vs $500K... they're different species of investme
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You're right, thanks! I'm usually the one with the grammar pedantries, but I have a lot of blind spots. I'll leave it uncorrected as a warning to the masses...
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You're right that I'm assuming there's a thorough DD process associated with those investments. It's possible ML just showed them smoke and mirrors, too. But I don't think so (partially because I've spoken with
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While I think the money raised is a vote of confidence from the investors -- and it's only a vote -- my point about "too big to fail" is actually more a sunk-cost argument. With that much funding, the worst-case glide path fo
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What's overcommercialized about it? It looks downright mom and pop to me. (Full disclosure: I live in Fairfax and donated to its opening.) There's not much in this town that looks overcommercialized, to be honest. It's a pret

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