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Pfff...guy was an NBA star and made bank. Just because the revisitation didn't include him doesn't mean that he had a bad time in the 90s. He had it better than anybody

I think maybe it's the recency bias but Bezos put up a show the other day. Press conference after flying on his own reusable rocket and back, and the 100M for Van Jones and the oth…

> On a personal level, I am biased because I have quit a job due to exactly the type of behavior in question, where everyone thought what we were doing was the greatest thing in hi…

The only good news is that the person who patented his invention is a woman. Woman were, for the longest time, singled out as lacking the killer instinct to succeed in business. No…

> Idolizing people like Musk, Bezos and Gates The #1 guy on Forbes will always be somebody with the characteristics of Bill Gates. But not everybody who has the characteristics of …

You are already paying the EV much more than an ICE (meaning you are basically buying all the "fuel" upfront) You have longer times of recharge (20-240 minutes) vs a 35 seconds gas…

Ok so basically the accusation is that they said to the bank they were consultants/service company and did not disclose crypto Back in the days banks would have meant they were in …

Sex is the reason why you'd do the vasectomy Even 1-2% of failure or constant testicular pain is too much

> The biggest difference to explain that, I would say, is that a scientific/engineering advancement can deliver value magnitudes greater than development cost Nothing fungible will…

> and why should everything be about quality of life? It is an important point, but not the only one. Because quality of life gets everybody on board. This sort of expeditions are …

Usable knowledge to improve quality of life. And no, hope and hype about Europa being able to sustain life is not quality of life. It's a sugar high you get when you read the news …

What is there for us on Jupiter? Nothing. The progress which matters always happens in some guy's brain. Imaginary journeys, not real ones. Einstein didn't need to travel around ma…

People who mention savings are incorrect. They should talk about reduced loss. This mission is a total financial loss until proved otherwise. As of today the only people who manage…

I mean equity market price, not equity book value. Equity market price embeds every information about the company.

> as the car business requires a lot of capital And thus it's a bad business by definition, which doesn't merit billions of capital investments. Even if the investment thesis is th…

A startup is a company which faces significant risk of its equity going to zero, which has also never had a period in which the risk of its equity going to zero was negligible. Tes…

And yet , Bezos and Branson are the object of this article, while the nameless beurocrat who decided to put out a press release to specify that the 2 men are not astronauts....well…

Xi (and every leader for that matter) chances to stay in power are intrinsically linked to one metric: Quality of life of the population If you leave quality of life on the table b…

> MAD policy MAD is still going strong. It's not military based, but economical. It's the reason why theories about intentional release of COVID-19 are bunk. China is worse off tha…

What's up with these people seeking refuge in UK and Europe? They are basically US territory if you are a criminal wanted enough. English speaking people can also basically live ev…

You see earthly stuff as a risk because all the positives are grandfathered in and you only see the negatives. Bats and pagolins, now are public enemy #1. In general animal reservo…

That's right. Up until we have 100,000 people living in space we are just winging it. Winner of the race will be the dominant company in said community of 100,000 or the most socia…

Nor does he need to, because one art form is clearly superior to the other. It's not like we are talking Raffaello paintings vs. Bernini sculptures here