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If investors gave you $12.7 million to fund your expedition, you have an obligation to split the treasure as you promised.

Built a plugin for Blender focusing on 2.5D animation. https://greasepencil.com/

Electric vehicles are more heavily subsidized in China than America. 22% of new car sales in China are electric vs 1% in America. China also has a lot of tariffs and regulations preventing foreign competition.

You don't need a monte carlo simulation if you have a known distribution. You can just add the means and variances and solve the equation rather than approximating it with a simulation. Monte carlo is more useful when drawing from an unknown distribution.

Even if we can get fusion to work, it will never be economical. Just because the fuel (water) is free, that doesn't make the energy free. The fuel rods for fission power plants are already a rounding error in the cost of energy. It's the capital costs that dominate the equation, and fusion plants will be at least as expensive as fission, which is more expensive per KWh than solar.

https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...

> CPUs and AMD GPUs are not supported at the moment, but we welcome community contributions aimed at addressing this limitation.

That's disappointing. My biggest frustration is that every ML library (Pytorch, Keras, etc) is tied to CUDA/Nvidia, so I take a huge performance hit when running them on my Mac.

They used an overly simplistic computer simulation and programmed it to get their assumptions back as outputs. Luck may play a large role in wealth, but this study did nothing to prove that.

I'm working on a robot that can make noodle-based dishes by itself in a food truck. The end goal is to just do a bit of prep work in the morning, turn it on and leave it running all day to sell food in Seattle.

Roughly 6% of local budgets are spend on roads. [1]

[1] https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...

Opera already has a free VPN built into their browser.

How to Measure Anything, by Douglas W. Hubbard.

When he says anything, he means anything. How to measure the value of a human life, how to estimate things you know nothing about (like the gestation period of an African elephant), and how to get better at measuring things with limited information.

There's too many possibilities. You need a narrow field of options for graphical programming to work. Blueprints works for Unreal because it is focused only on video games. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Blueprints

Most of the arguments are just an appeal to nature. Doesn't address cow burps as a major source of pollution. Seems to be making a food miles argument, when what matters is carbon per pound of food. Transporting by boat is highly efficient and a high percentage of the cargo is food. Driving to pick up your food from 3 farmer's markets can create more pollution than would be used to transport them from across the world, because the food is such a small percentage of the weight of your car.

Urban planner. I'd love to try to create my version of a utopian city (no non-essential vehicles allowed, built for the pedestrian/cyclist/subway) the way they are building new cities in China or Dubai.

I just finished reading "Mein Kampf" last month. It's not very good. It's about 20% racist rants. He talks about some legitimate grievances German had at the time and from their history, and military strategy. I didn't walk away feeling like Hitler was brilliant or anything like I did with Trotsky after reading "Terrorism and Communism".

This is a prototype to test the Multi, a maglev elevator concept announced a little over a year ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUa8M0H9J5o

The virtual DOM isn't a replacement for the DOM, it's just a string diffing algorithm. It is only needed because of React's "render everywhere" approach, which is a tradeoff sacrificing efficiency for simplicity. If you don't re-render the entire page any time the model changes, you don't need a virtual DOM.

Houston has no zoning and it's none the more interesting for it.

Housing prices are often a related to geography. Manhatten is an island, SF and Boston are peninsulas. You could have a high density city that didn't have a high cost of living.

Many of the benefits you listed are good examples of how people are actually pretty bad at predicting what will make them happier. We have a lot of data on the subject.

- People think that living in a larger home will make them happier than a shorter commute. Cohort studies show the opposite is true. We adapt most quickly to things (good/bad) that stay the same (like the size of your house), and poorly to things that change (like the traffic situation from day to day).

- People think they will be more active if surrounded by parks and greenery, but city dwellers actually walk/bike more. People moving to the city lose weight within a few months (~3 lb. if I remember correctly)

- People think that cities are dangerous, but you are more likely to be killed young in the suburbs. This is because car accidents are far more likely than homicides, and you drive more in the suburbs.

We know people in cities are, on average, happier and healthier.

Actually, we are seeing a return towards urbanisation globally, which is a positive trends, since it's a vital component for curbing global warming. Residents of NYC use 1/3 as much electricity as their suburban counterparts, use a tiny fraction of the carbon emissions on transportation, and produce less garbage. All without convincing New Yorkers to recycle or drive electric cars. Environmental responsibility is baked into the city's design.

This topic is discussed at length in the book, "Green Metropolis". It's part of a bigger issue of always putting cars first. You can't build a large building without first doing a traffic study. If you bring too much traffic, you can't build it. Never mind that traffic is about the only cost in America that you can increase to make public transportation more appealing.

Generally U.S. building codes include a maximum building height, and require minimum parking spaces. Many European cities have maximum parking spaces, and minimum building height. The latter produces higher population densities which make public transportation possible.

We need to push back against suburban sprawl and the car-first design. No required parking, no free curbside parking, and a carbon tax on gasoline. Once cities get a population density >7 people per acre, public transportation becomes viable. Population density follows a logarithmic curve with miles traveled per person, so you get as much of a reduction from moving from 2 to 20 people per square acre, as from 20 to 200.

Not likely. Mice have accuracy of 400-1200 dots per inch (DPI). A motor's shaft is a small fraction of an inch, and mice can lose track on occasion.

I think the biggest potential threat here is the rising skill requirements. AI / robots are eliminating the least skilled jobs, and creating highly skilled jobs. Out of work truck drivers aren't going to get jobs working at Google's self-driving car team. No new jobs will be created for humans that a robot could do, just like no one thinks about using a horse to power a machine. At some point, the bottom 10-20% in intelligence and education could be unemployable through no fault of their own.

The only time you should use NoSQL is when you have no other choice. For example, if your database is too big to fit on one server, or you need a massive number of writes per second. Otherwise SQL will give you better performance, much more security, and better data integrity.

If those countries were so business friendly, why aren't companies started there? Where is the Silicon Valley of Ireland or Singapore? Those businesses were built and grew because of the quality of infrastructure and supports provided by taxes.

A better comparison to your computer analogy would be a company that sells knock-offs and counterfeit products. Trying to just reap the rewards without doing the hard work to get there.

Your hypothesis seems to be that companies in low-tax countries have a higher growth rate than higher-tax countries in the same industries. If that were true, then companies in those countries would eventually dominate the world's market share. Instead, it's companies in higher tax countries that are the largest.

Governments often increase productivity. Try investing in a country with no laws, education, or infrastructure. They can also help make an economy more efficient by maximizing positive externalities and minimizing negative ones. Social benefits can also be beneficial economically as an externality. Companies don't have the incentive to keep someone from starving or to educate them from kindergarten, but having a larger, more educated work force certainly benefits the economy as a whole.

Small city-states can use strategies that don't scale. Being a tax haven essentially leeches businesses from neighboring countries, but if everyone was a tax haven, then no-one would be. Economies based on tourism or oil also are not duplicatable.

You can exclude the first ~$100k of your income when working abroad. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

You also have accounts receivable financing and square capital (https://squareup.com/capital) as alternatives to asset-based loans if they fit your business model.