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by sunstone 5y ago
Warren Buffet says he spends 80% of his time reading and what he gets from it is going to bed every day a little smarter than the day before.
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by sunstone 5y ago
I believe Musk has mentioned that Starlink will IPO in order to fund SpaceX.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Nuclear power's market fit has been seriously eroded over the past 10 years or so. Over the past decade both wind and solar have been exceeding by a wide margin their expected cost reductions. It's very clear now that these cost
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by sunstone 5y ago
Yes it's the first thing I do when I install a new browser. I'm not sure how well that protects me from tracking but I do notice that the creepier kind of stuff stops happening. I've also noticed that it's been getting
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by sunstone 5y ago
They will be not only be dead but also forgotten. It amazes me that Howard Hughes, the Elon Musk of his day in the 50's and 60's, is almost never referenced any more.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Some people compare and compete with their fellow humans. There are other people who consider existence itself to be their true competitor.
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by sunstone 5y ago
If the satellites you're thinking of are the Voyagers then yes, though they won't be near here.
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by sunstone 5y ago
This is not so unusual, having successful capitalist economies under dictaorships. Chile under Pinochet, Iran under Ayatollahs, Russia under Putin and more than a few others past and present. China's government isn't so much commu
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by sunstone 5y ago
Starlink has the potential to revolutionize and enable a number of new technologies. Let's say urban electric planes for one.
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by sunstone 5y ago
While Mr. Buffett is liquidating a fair bit of his holdings.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Just make out your check to Mr. Xi and all will be fine.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Yes I expect the primary reason for SUV's in the city and among the well to do is safety in an accident. The bigger and higher car wins almost all the time. So now it's an arms race. Maybe smaller cars need a huge air bag under
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by sunstone 6y ago
For possession.
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by sunstone 6y ago
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."
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by sunstone 6y ago
The coming sea change in electrifying transportation will include roads just as much as cars. Right now we are just barely off the bottom of the 'S' curve of transitioning from ICE to electric. But in about fifteen years we'l
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by sunstone 6y ago
That should be cheap and easy.
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by sunstone 6y ago
The coming sea change in electrifying transportation will include roads just as much as cars. Right now we are just barely off the bottom of the 'S' curve of transitioning from ICE to electric. But in about fifteen years we'
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by sunstone 6y ago
Abstraction if necessary but not necessarily abstraction. That's my rule of thumb.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Hey someone just called my number. Well except for Django's ORM which is fine for low duty cycle queries.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Marx was right about almost everything except one critical detail. His theory doesn't scale. It works great at the family level. It does not work great at the town level and is a disaster at any larger level where most people do not
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by sunstone 6y ago
All your base are belong to us.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Kind of reminds me of when the NASDAQ broke 5000 in March (13 was it?) of 2000.
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by sunstone 6y ago
China is not rule of law kind of place. They will agree to all kinds of things and then turn around a flout them with insouciance as they see fit. Heads I win tails you lose.
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by sunstone 6y ago
My recommendation to find yourself a respected sports massage therapist. Most of these things have their root back in the shoulder blade and the whole arm needs a careful (and painful) massage to set things right. Ibuprofen helps too.
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by sunstone 6y ago
You can turn "location" off on Android just as you can turn "third party cookies" off on the Chrome browser. Google counts on 95% of users not doing that. Neither of these are perfect solutions but they do help a lot f
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by sunstone 6y ago
Get a government software job.
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by sunstone 6y ago
It's a repost from a few days ago.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Oh yes it is. But like most products it has its market segment. And that segment is a group that requires a certain function that is not a competitive advantage for any in the group and wants to get that function for the lowest possible c
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by sunstone 6y ago
Another channel for Bezos to scout out successful business models and then go into competition with them.
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by sunstone 6y ago
The terrain looks challenging.

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