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by missedthecue 3d ago
Making rockets that are computer guided in any way except for "vertical stabilization" is a felony in the US, so DARPA would need to be involved to hand out waivers.
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by missedthecue 4d ago
I have been saying over and over again that the board ought to fire him (or move him to a nonconsequential "advisory role"). I totally agree that he seems mostly directionless and far more interested in the academic side of things
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by missedthecue 7d ago
Between individuals it is free. For commercial transactions, there is a fee between 0.22% and 0.33% per transaction, which is actually ~2x the fee of the Visa network (0.13%)! Visa is extremely efficient at moving money anywhere in the worl
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by missedthecue 8d ago
Almost everyone in south asia, Latam, and Africa with a smartphone uses whatsapp daily. I mean the penetration rate is actually crazy. In my latam country 92% of internet users are whatsapp users. In india, the figure is 97%. So how many bi
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by missedthecue 9d ago
My favorite thing is how it takes 34 seconds to initialize, every time you open it, for no particular reason.
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by missedthecue 11d ago
What exactly is false? You're asserting that 1960s Botswana was more industrialized than it is now?
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by missedthecue 11d ago
This is a difficult conclusion to draw given that the implied counterfactual is the assumption that Botswana could have had similar results sans De Beers. I don't think that's at all obvious. If my problem was that I had raw diamo
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by missedthecue 11d ago
Brutal news for Botswana which was really breaking new ground in raising Sub Saharan living standards. 30% of their GDP and a huge portion of government revenues are diamond exports. And they had gotten to 100% formalized and child labor f
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by missedthecue 13d ago
You're misunderstanding my use of the term collaboration. I'm not using it as corporate speak for "teamwork". I'm saying that in order for me to go into the office with everyone, everyone needs to go into the office
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by missedthecue 14d ago
Hmm... Sometimes decimated is used in ways that are colloquially understandable but actually make no sense at all. For example, "Sadly, my team got decimated in the playoffs". That doesn't even make sense. 1/10th of the
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by missedthecue 14d ago
I have noticed that "orders of magnitude" is getting the same colloquial treatment that has long-since happened to "decimated". That is, a departure in common parlance from the technical meaning of the word to one used
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by missedthecue 14d ago
Well what do you expect? Holing yourself up in your home is something you can do unilaterally. In-person team collaboration requires... well, collaboration. It's not a unilateral action so there isn't unilateral advice.
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by missedthecue 17d ago
They can't afford to. At 4.5% average rates, their interest payments will consume something on the order of 80% of their government budget and huge portions of GDP. Their 30 year paper was trading at 4.1% last week. If the short end of
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by missedthecue 19d ago
Half of a single truckload
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by missedthecue 21d ago
In companies large enough to have a board, the CEO's job is to manage relationships with customers, vendors, and wall street. If his company is big enough, he'll need to manage relationships with the government too. In fact, among
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by missedthecue 21d ago
The commissary markup is absolutely true, but "deliberately underfed" is as far as I can tell, completely untrue. Most states actually have calorie minimum rules. Arkansas is 2300 per day. Kentucky 2400 per day. Both states mandat
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by missedthecue 23d ago
The market (s&p500) crashing 40% puts us at levels we haven't seen since 2024, well into the creation of LLMs. Probably a worthwhile trade if it was either/or!
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by missedthecue 26d ago
If fable 5 could eventually run on a smartphone, I wonder what we'll get out of datacenters. Musk and others are trying to build 100gw of compute by 2030. Will we get something 1-10 million times better than Fable 5, or will the parity
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by missedthecue 26d ago
Samsung commercialized the first high-volume consumer notebook PC utilizing an SSD in 2006. The Intel X25-M was released in sept 2008 and cut SSD hard drive prices per gigabyte by 60% pretty much instantly
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by missedthecue 26d ago
Cancer Flight attendants Pilots ------------------------------------------------------ All radiation-related 1.50x 1.36x Breast cancer 1.61x 1.57x CNS / b
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by missedthecue 27d ago
Weird implication in the headline. The conclusion here isn't that scraping is bad, but that Aaron Swartz was unfairly prosecuted.
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by missedthecue 28d ago
So they added $30B market cap for a drug that would do by my napkin estimate about ~$7B average annual sales for 20 years as a front line treatment. Based on that alone, $30B in added market cap isn't enough. How much would you pay for
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by missedthecue 29d ago
So 63% didn't. I wonder what the average netted out to. Increase or decrease and how much?
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by missedthecue 29d ago
In agreement with your points, but I think something even more pertinent to airlines compared to beer companies, is that a brewery is almost incentivized to create alcoholics. The only natural distinctives are at the extremes. Extreme alc
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by missedthecue 29d ago
The explanation has never made intuitive sense to me and the political power of almond and alfalfa farmers continues to elude me. Yes, almond farmers have money but Larry Ellison, Musk, and Sergey Brin have a shitload more. As do non-tech i
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by missedthecue 29d ago
100% true yet even when you solve this (for example with clean hydro in the northwest), you make zero progress with the anti-datacenter people.
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by missedthecue 29d ago
Because airlines don't -and can't- promise incident free travel. They promise to get you to your destination. They don't like engine problems and the domino effect that has on their routing any more than you do. Saying this a
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by missedthecue 1mo ago
The interesting thing is that Visa's payment rails are cheaper than Pix. Pix charges businesses 0.22% to 0.33% while the Visa network rate is only 0.10% to 0.15% per transaction. The main thing that makes card transactions more expensi
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by missedthecue 1mo ago
This was my experience too. GP referred me to a gastroenterologist and the appointment they offered was so soon it was almost inconvenient.
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by missedthecue 1mo ago
But then the blame might be correctly placed? If he had no pre-existing conditions and was on a no-existing conditions plan, that plan might have saved him a lot of money. Imagine car insurance regulations changing in such a way to force un

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