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On average, 3-5%.

Underwater data centers make a great deal of sense - close to customers (low latency), fast deployments (decision to power on in 90 days), and, of course, cooling efficiencies. I expect them to actually happen if Phase 2 goes well.

Then again, I'm a bit biased - I worked on both Phase 1 and 2.

Domestically is due to time cost of money, which makes wires used only for transactions that are giant or must arrive tomorrow.

People are also using USD, today, in regimes such as Venezuela. Enforcement is terrible and members of the government's inner circle are facilitating USD/Bolivar exchanges outside of the law already.

Why would they care about crypto?

We certainly hire junior engineers at my startup - we have about 50/50 "people who need some training"/"people are contributing at 100%". That said, at a startup, it is some drag on the build/test in the market cycle, so I feel like we're "weird".

We certainly are hiring, just not in front end - looking for backend engineers and applied cryptographers/security folks. I'd be happy to look at your CV though!

There could also be 3 pennies of friction in getting the money into or out of Tether.

As part of our work in deploying the Natick datacenter to the Orkneys, we had the opportunity to visit Skara Brae, as well as the other Neolithic sites. It is a truly amazing place and the size of the civilization in the Orkneys at that early stage is really incredible.

This paper [1] is pretty interesting RE: the effects of fly ash in concrete mixes. It isn't a replacement, certainly, and brings both problems and benefits.

[1] https://www.cement.org/docs/default-source/fc_concrete_techn...

The culture we have versus the Culture we want?

A "hill climbing governor" should be a trivial addition for any scooter manufacturer.

There are a few of these already - Mechanical Turk is the most famous.

I wouldn't knock having enough parking, but Seattle has a ridiculous number of single family residences within spitting distance of downtown. The upzoning regulation is a great first step, but is slow to roll out due to difficulties in permitting teardowns.

In short, people aren't holding enough value in their online node accounts.

Here's a short article on the phenomenon: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/06/26/lighting-network-...

Do you have a source on the electricity use of major card networks?

Lightning is broken, sadly - not enough trust.

They certainly used the Sears catalog more when it was the Amazon of its time.

Clay pipes did work. Lots of places in the empire had clay, even over long distances.

In lieu of them removing obviously false remarks and hate speech, are you comfortable with them being removed from the marketplace via government intervention?

While the current administration won't step in, I fully expect future administrations will - you cannot run a tool that enables foreign meddling in elections and not expect regulatory antibodies.

The floor is a standard 42" pallet.

I worked as Paul's technical adviser at Vulcan - he was funny, warm, and prickly in turns, well aware of the outsized shadow he cast, and absolutely dedicated to bringing the sci-fi future he so loved into reality.

His legacy in the Institutes, in his philanthropic ventures, and in the bones of Seattle itself cannot be overstated. Outside of the sciences, he built South Lake Union (home of Amazon and many other tech companies), saved the Seahawks, supported thousands of famous musicians, and played a mean guitar himself.

I'll miss him.

Healthcare.

The problem carries through time, not just at the moment you're making the decision to invest. What about the better potential cancer researcher who was left behind because their parents were poor? What about the one that decided to go learn programming because they couldn't get the exclusive internship due to lacking connections?

The position that states "remedying inequity costs more than simply giving it all to the current best" is a shortsighted one.

In the societal sense, it is maladaptive - your CIO friend assumes that his friends deliver the best outcome.

Power doesn't work like that - it accretes to those who are able to leverage it. You generate a permanent power disparity with a gloves off laissez-faire system like that.

I'd worry about your definition of "best society". Is the current system an existence proof in your mind?

It is definitely inequitable. However, it is also how humans work - we want to advantage our inner group over other groups.

This cuts directly to the heart of the meritocracy argument (most strongly in technology, but it exists everywhere): how can you claim that everyone is judged by their merits (directly related to how hard they work and how smart they train themselves to be) when being lucky (in genetics, in birth, in support and growth, in opportunities) plays such an overwhelming role?

Finding the right partner and how to design a business around it. If it isn't a $1B business at Microsoft, it is hard to land. :/

I worked on just this at MSR: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/holoportati...

This is in real time - encoded, transmitted, and decoded. I hope it gets out of the lab soon.

Venture exchanges will have more work to do past "the protocols match" - regulators look at the security (the coin) as well as the exchange.

The current chill with China is one of the rumored causes - less investment money coming to the US.

What is value? Without an exchange, how do you secure it?

There's no ability to opt out if Coinbase (for example) dominates all the other exchanges into nonexistence.