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His Steve Jobs “Lost Interview” is also the best Steve Jobs interview. Highly recommend taking the time to watch it. https://youtu.be/Bbwj58Xj2yI?is=J5w7WWg3-AegCwbf

He messaged me a couple years ago and it matches with this post's description: "While the first half of the email was about the idea, invariably, the 2nd half was about how much money it was going to make."

  Point-to-point supersonic organ delivery

  Dear Derek,

  I'm Bob Cringely, an ancient Silicon Valley pundit. I also run a little
  CubeSat air-launch startup. Competition from SpaceX forced us to cut costs
  so we figured how to make an old French business jet fly Mach 1.6 on the
  fuel to fly Mach 0.8. Now we want to apply this tech to organ delivery.
  100 VTOL supersonic drones could serve the whole US operating from helipad
  to helipad at 1000 mph. Not autonomous, they'll have pilots on the ground.
  It's a $2 billion business with 75 percent margins but only we know how.
  Please pass it on.

More info on the PM-3A reactor http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/

Fascinating that High Performance Computers had export controls in the 90s as dual use technology but little restraint until recently.

How would we apply this today? Instead of MTOPS use TFLOPS FP16?

I thought your comment was a joke until I read the link. Wow

"District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China."

Every org that hired Alan Kay as a fellow was closed

- Apple Advanced Technology Group

- Walt Disney Imagineering Fellows

- HP Advanced Software Research

- VPRI

Do you have the link to the documentary?

This hardly meets the definition of brief description, let alone a "Deep Dive".

I recommend reading this blog post and drawing your own conclusion.

My conclusion is PG's "I can lay out what I know to be the right thing to do, and still not do it."

Yes.

“To boost sales in India, Apple has started to assemble several iPhone models locally and reached a stage where it can begin to export to overseas markets phones produced in India. Assembling phones in India allows Apple — as it does to other phone makers — to enjoy some tax benefits that Narendra Modi’s government provides.“

Apple - We can't make iPhones in the US and tariffs don't work

Also Apple - Tariffs made us move production to Brazil and India.

"Men are chronically lonely and unable to express their pain. Women hardest hit." - @olivertraldi

"I wonder if the so-called developed countries should be careful of their own premature deindustrialization. The US industrial base has faltered, but there is still so much left to build. Until we’ve perfected asteroid mining and super-skyscrapers and fusion rockets and Jupiter colonies and matter compilers, we can’t be satisfied with innovation confined mostly to the digital world."

I highly recommend reading Dan Wang's "Definite optimism as human capital" https://danwang.co/definite-optimism-as-human-capital/

It is not. This is another example of "looks like, but doesn't work like". You often see people print noses, ears, whatever that have cells in them. That doesn't make it functional tissue.

Source: I lead a tissue engineering project to print human organs for transplantation.

Former Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the safe injection site bill saying "enabling illegal and destructive drug use will never work."

Doesn't look like "the Republican Party at the national level" to me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-hea...

Misleading. This is another example of "looks like, but doesn't work like". You often see people print noses, ears, whatever that have cells in them. That doesn't make it functional tissue.

Source: I lead a tissue engineering project to print human organs for transplantation.

These Mozilla blogs are some of the best edited, articulated and illustrated explanations I've seen on the web. I wish more people could put in the resources to help communicate their mission like this.

It is the same reason why Taleb does not accept prizes and Peterson reminds us that "you are not the wave" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjAVZjLQr8

Altman (YC) leans into SF

Thiel leans away

Will be interesting to see the winning move

Malthus is wrong and "more people" = "lack of environmentalism" is zero-sum thinking.

Instead consider the positive-sum "We need more people to solve bigger problems" that follows from Esther Boserup's theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Boserup#Work