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awesome video! thanks for sharing that

I read the recent National Academies paper[1], and basically they say solar engineering is credible, high altitude sulfur is the only one of three ways that is known to be effectiv…

The little park in the middle is South Park, it’s well known locally and has a bunch of tech/VC offices nearby

Here's a specific example about the value crypto can create. 20x higher savings rate on a US dollar deposit. My CapitalOne savings account pays 0.4%; you can open an account with Z…

Unfortunately we are seeing a lot of hype and dubious projects, we're in an asset bubble with intense FOMO. I try to ignore that and think about the promise of crypto. As compared …

I'm on the pro-crypto side, but the US dollar has more than consumer confidence, it has the largest armed forces the world has ever seen. So a better comparison is something like g…

The net value to society is likely negative since the impact on the target is large, and a society that allowed such things may see time horizons constrict. You raise some good poi…

He's a shrewd 'stock picker' and ran a fund with $21 M from Peter Thiel, among other things: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

Seems to assume carbon emissions from electricity will stay constant, yet that is likely to fall which reduces the impact in one dimension (cost remains).[0][1] [0]Diminishing Retu…

I’m glad you went direct. As a small retail investor it allows me to have access, and buying from employees and giving them some liquidity feels good like what a market should do. …

Wondering what a modern, digital version would be? Imagine a repo could work for the time-stamping and not deleting mistakes (immutable record). Images, annotations (i.e. 'Circle r…

That's awesome, love HN has relevant people around. Could you shed some light on what the 'script' is in 'The lab book is NOT a copy of the experimental script'? Seems to reference…

Very cool! Quick browser note: get blank screen with Brave on iOS iPad (with shields up; does work with shields down), no problem on iPhone.

Some seem to be for redundancy, some bring power to municipalities (i.e. island cities) with limited power production capacity. There’s a list here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Love this question. I could imagine him suggesting reading academic papers for cutting edge things; like his 'barbell' excercise strategy of mostly walking with occasional HIITs.

That is sad, thanks for finding

That article was brilliant, thanks! Probably deserves it's own post

Good question. The metaphor though would be something like: ... and your soul cost you $1 M to obtain in the first place. There's something special about seeing the future and inve…

Totally agree. To that point, I was trying to do this on my own and it's nearly impossible. As a corollary, Pioneer Fund has something like 26 founders & staff + various software t…

Yeah the standard returns data would be annualized, for example "average return ... in this study is 2.6 times ... in 3.5 years — approximately 27 percent [IRR]" http://www.angelca…