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by terravion 9y ago
But that's the thing, in temperate climates, nothing makes calories as well as corn. Since growers just respond to the external incentives to create ethanol and meat and everything else that's made from those calories, they are a
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by terravion 9y ago
Academic credentials do not create truth. If she works at 538 and knowing nothing else about here, I'd wager she is probably better at statistics than most academics, especially those in social sciences who are likely to study this pr
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by terravion 9y ago
If this is their first funding as claimed, they wouldn't have to file a Form D even if they were a US company which it doesn't seem that they are.
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by terravion 9y ago
Revenue to market cap multiples in technology on the public market are often in the 6x range even at slower growth rates than private companies. So if they're doing $100M they could easily be worth over $1B now.
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by terravion 9y ago
The law, that Trump and every other president is sworn to uphold, says the administrative regulations are supposed to be created only following the legislatively mandated rule making process. While Trump's appointees are free to initi
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by terravion 9y ago
But most fortune 500 companies are older than modern VC, which really came into being as a response to post-war tax policies. Most Fortune 500 companies can trace their founding to similarly speculative capital under a different name.
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by terravion 9y ago
No actually, a lot of immigration is administrative (as opposed to legislative). The congress has delegated wide authority in this to the executive branch. However, for the executive to exercise this authority there is a whole body of pro
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by terravion 9y ago
One use case that I'd like to see that runs contrary to the spirit of net neutrality is the ability to buy a 'data transfer' service tier. I.e. lots of data has to move from somewhere to the public cloud and most telecom inf
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by terravion 9y ago
Good on Virginia. When I voted there they had pretty modern and well run machines in my county with some sort of printout to confirm that you vote was cast. Voting is a messy process, but really important, and really important to have the
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by terravion 9y ago
Here's the back story that the author mentions on the election. Great to see that partisanship still can be put aside at times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_mayoral_election,_2015
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by terravion 9y ago
That said, aviation accident rates have been falling asymptotically while this "troubling trend" has been going on. In the US we've had no fatalities on domestic commercial flights since like 2009, and only the two at SFO a
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by terravion 9y ago
Having been a part of large organizations that do it both ways, it is very hard to give objective feedback to large group of staff if it isn't done at the same time. Eventually everyone that isn't a total screw-up earns the &quot
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by terravion 9y ago
I think that's exactly the point that's missing in the thread. Monsanto has money, but nobody has a monopoly on science--scientific proof is reproducible. There is plenty of stuff funded by people against Monsanto's interes
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by terravion 9y ago
There's a lot more to do in remote sensing, but I think your comment that there's an API for looking at the world is perhaps the more accurate way to describe the power of this moment in technology history. It is a great feat Pla
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by terravion 9y ago
Having the seller pay closing costs essentially allows the buyer (the buyer always pays transaction costs from an economic perspective) to pay the closing costs through the mortgage. I.e. the house costs 10% more, but you can mortgage it,
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by terravion 9y ago
Why do you think this? Can you provide some evidence? There was a lot of hand wringing during the recession about the end of work--"we're all losing our jobs to the robots," etc.--but it seems like there are as many jobs as
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by terravion 9y ago
Also, he has unique first hand experience with displacement by AI. First hand accounts often have information that "experts" lack.
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by terravion 9y ago
I think your criticism misses the point of this article--it is an article about what it is like to be displaced by AI, not on AI itself. This an interview by perhaps the most prominent and intelligent person to be so publicly displaced by
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by terravion 9y ago
Probably not. The compelling use cases for the first 20 years of GPS were all military with a few survey applications essentially riding free. The equipment used to be many, many pounds and tens of thousands of dollars. Almost every othe
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by terravion 9y ago
Not being an expert in the history of the enterprise I read the story as saying that Trader Joe's failed to get legal relief and that Pirate Joe's shut down for other reasons. Trader Joe's was welcome to make life difficult
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by terravion 9y ago
Because the internet isn't just entertainment, it is a telecom service that provides common carrier services. The internet is also how many Americans make phone calls, access government services, organize physical travel, and conduct
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by terravion 9y ago
Also, missing in this discussion is that the board likely has to ratify any change in ownership and the board (led by the CEO) has tremendous ability to just say no and/or dictate who and at what price can buy. All this discussion of
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by terravion 9y ago
Get the last 409A valuation. That's the price the shares should trade at and in fact will create problems for the company if they do not. If the CEO offered the last 409A valuation as a price, then there's little you can do if yo
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by terravion 9y ago
Totally agree with the above. It is hard to capture ancient Greek in English. There are verb moods that we just don't have. This lets the authors play with ambiguity in a way that we have trouble doing... a neat concept that you ca
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by terravion 9y ago
It isn't even that they like their lawns. It is the cost of labor to do this. The Salinas and Imperial valleys (where 85% of US veggies are grown) concentrate labor and other inputs in a way that you never could in small plots. It is
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by terravion 9y ago
Actually, they aren't free. That's the point, that's what's cool about indoor farming. It is the ultimate in agricultural intensification, even if marketed as some sort of sustainability. The land required to support
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by terravion 9y ago
very cool link
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by terravion 9y ago
This is a very interesting article and does the thing that the media often does of missing the point: these are the ultimate factor farms--literally factories that crank out leafy greens--and we're close to an economic transition on p
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by terravion 9y ago
Love this! My least favorite part of sci-fi is that the heroes are always buzzing around in some advanced fighter aircraft. Crap, they might as well ride around on sci-fi horse and joust like knights. The era of the fighter ace is as gon
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by terravion 9y ago
It is amazing to watch Wright's Law in action as volumes grow to saturation, pulling down the price, to drive saturation. It will be interesting to see if batteries are like processing with self-generating demand, or if it is like pri

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