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Just to clarify - Orion is a partially reusable spaceship, developed by NASA with Lockheed Martin as the prime contractor, while SLS is a non-reusable launch vehicle, developed by …

NASA is looking at domestic commercial launchers powerful enough to reach lunar orbit for non-crewed elements of Gateway. As far as we know now of what will be available at the int…

I'm super excited about returning people to the Moon. But Lunar Gateway is a bad mission architecture that really reduces the cost-effectiveness of returning to the Moon. It costs …

I've really come to admire Satya Nadella as a great CEO.

https://x-r.ai | AI engineer | Portland, Oregon | Full-time | REMOTE | https://x-r.ai/careers https://x-r.ai is applying AI to accelerate technology development - initially by appl…

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http://x-r.ai/ is working on a patent attorney AI to automate a lot of patent attorney work to resolve patent disputes more quickly and cheaply.

Patent owners could use it too, but overall it would make invalidating patents and resolving patent disputes faster, easier, and cheaper.

Most patents are probably not valid, and most patents used in licensing offers / threats are probably not strong enough to avoid being invalidated or found not infringed if litigat…

Thanks, this looks great.

The author, Andrea Ghez, is one of the leading researchers on observing the center of our galaxy, and the stars that orbit the central black hole, among other things.

Looking for more, Paul. This from a Swiss news site says he had previously reported threats to the police, S3's data center was broken into and flooded with a fire hose, and that h…

The breakout-success rate thus far is also skewed low by YC's growth curve. Things have still just begun.

This site was built as a side project by one guy who got it acquired by Planetary Resources. He's got some other fun projects: http://www.ianww.com/

Yes, brief sitting meditation and running meditation every day. There's evidence of physical and mental health benefits. It seems to help bring calmness, focus, and new ideas.

This stylometry analysis is 95% of a stylometry obfuscator/homogenizer.

More generalized, compassion and integrity seem to be in a positive feedback loop with drivers of technological and economic growth.

Gov't contracts are only something like one-third of SpaceX's revenues.

Yes -- even a breakeven on the satellite business that pays for more launches would be a big win, though I don't think SpaceX would do this without having good ideas for a niche wi…

Me too. Add fires to energy consumption among the perverse results skeptics will harp on for the arbitrary constraints imposed by bitcoin.