Spinosaurus

There isn't really much to learn when going from Java to Kotlin. Most Java devs with a bit of experience should be "fluent" in Kotlin within two or three days.

What is "Seabed-mounted buoyancy"?

I'd really like to know the reasoning for that as well.

I was in the market for a year and was interested in something outside of a city. I could afford the larger 5 bedroom homes, but had absolutely no use for that amount of space. Nice 2 bedroom homes in the suburbs just aren't a thing for some reason. Smaller homes exist, but the quality drops dramatically.

Perhaps there is an untapped market for high quality 1-2 bedroom homes outside of cities. I'd certainly buy one.

Many companies actually prohibit employees from selling shares to third party investors (including investors on marketplaces like EquityZen) without board approval.

> Fundraising to improve the place and reduce burdens on residents dealing with but not profiting from tourism seems smart.

That's absolutely fine, but I feel like a reservation/ticketing system such as the one proposed is not the best solution. Again, a tourism tax across the city might achieve the same effect without such a system.

In my opinion, the cost (within reason) is absolutely irrelevant. Raising money for the city and locals is a great effort and I applaud it. It is simply the requirement of yet another "hoop to jump through" that bothers me. After years of a pandemic with legally questionable restrictions and requirements throughout daily life, I simply don't want more "hoops to jump through".

Why not simply prohibit cruise ships in the nearby port? That seems like a far, far easier solution if that is in fact the root cause of the problem.

On one hand, this may help reduce congestion in the city during peak tourism season. On the other hand, paying to visit an entire city (and literally having to book a visit ahead of time) seems incredibly odd; I certainly am not a fan of the idea.

If raising money via tourism is the goal, a more widespread tourism tax on food and services would likely both raise funds and partially reduce tourism overload, without the burden of requiring visitors to go through the arcane process of booking a visit.

Have you had any lasting effects?

I've been prescribed a "fairly serious" antibiotic for a skin condition that has been plaguing me for several years (I've gotten like 5 different diagnosis and tons of different Rx). I'm otherwise incredibly healthy, so this antibiotic scares the shit out of me and I have yet to start taking it.

Would you mind providing a quick summary of the primary points of the book?

I wonder how viable a sort of "micro PE" firm would be, basically a company that just buys many of these micro indie projects with positive cash flow with the goal of holding on to them for profit or investing into their operations and eventually reselling them.

There's been this trend of new firms popping up that acquire small ecommerce brands (in fact, there was one on HN just the other day). I'm wondering if the same model can (or has) been applied to small "indie" companies and projects.

> 14 months ago, my co-founder Sankalp and I set out to build a business..

It sounds like you decided to build a business before coming up with an idea that could be a business.

In the end, how did you decide what to build?

It doesn't, at all. I've heard suggestions that great news coming out of SpaceX does impact Tesla, but not the other way around. Plus, SpaceX isn't a public company.

I wonder how many individuals received one of the recent stimulus checks and parked it right into Tesla stock.

> Perhaps because Tesla is less bloated?

Is that simply a perception you think many might investors have? Tesla has lost money every year, while Toyota has showed substantial profit. Without knowing anything else about these companies, an outside observer might think Tesla was the "bloated" of the two.

Air USA (Don Kirlin, president), along with a bunch of other companies were selected as contractors for the U.S. Air Force to provide "Red Air" (adversary training) services. This is not new; the Air Force uses private companies for training as the cost savings are immense:

• Reduced flight hours and maintenance on fleet aircraft.

• Instructors do not need to be pulled from schedules.

• Fleet aircraft do not need to be hard scheduled.

• Cost per flight hour is much lower for common aggressor platforms (A-4, L-39, F1M, and now these legacy F-18s) than the aircraft the Air Force is training in.

• Private companies can more easily maintain and source parts for aircraft the military cannot (Migs, for instance).

This particular sale was the remainder of the RAAF's retired F-18 fleet, which Canada started buying in early 2019. These are _not_ Super Hornets.

Some of these companies have been around for decades. Some competitors:

• ATAC

• Top Air

• Draken

Strange that the article does not mention lab grown diamonds. I would have assumed that the increases in production of lab grown diamonds combined with increasing consumer acceptance of lab grown diamonds would be a large contributor to price declines.

Is there reason to believe this is not the case?

As an aside, has anyone ever purchased a lab grown diamond? What was your experience? Where did you purchase it?

Da Beers has their own lab grown direct to consumer subsidiary called Lightbox.

Almost all of the micro services referenced are written in Go.

Either:

a.) Manually modify your web page either through the existing files hosted by your provider, or by pushing something via ftp/git.

b.) Use a content management system (CMS), either custom or third party, to update content using whatever methods are in place (usually some sort of dashboard).

Additionally, note that many popular site builders (e.g. Squarespace) offer a mobile app for editing on the go.

> banking API is clearly a multi-billion dollar a year business

Why?

AFAIK most big banks have APIs, and it would seem to me the use cases for needing to access an account programmatically are few.

> found one in fintech in NYC

I'm interested in hearing which, if you care to share.

Looks like volcanos are provided by a giant static JSON file. I'm curious, where/how was this data compiled?

Regardless, very cool.

Happens on Chrome as well. Approve location permissions and refresh.

I should have been more clear. By "congestion", I was not just considering the number of satellites, but the number of artificial objects in total regardless of size, which by many estimates is in the millions.

That's absolutely true. However, even then, space debris is already a major concern[0], and let's not forget the recent debacle with the ESA[1]. What happens when you pump 30,000 more satellites up there?

[0]: https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/ [1]: https://spacenews.com/esa-spacecraft-dodges-potential-collis...

210, 340, & 710 miles are all considered LEO.

It would be silly to think this will actually come to fruition - 30k satellites would represent a 3000% increase in the number of active satellites in LEO, which is already by far the most congested orbital altitude.

That said, it would be quite exciting to see all those launches, and the end goal is a worthy one.

> I’m currently heading a project to set up such an institution so I’m into this stuff up to my neck

What's the project? Any links?

Very cool, thanks. Do you know if they operate in the United States?

Yea, I have been following Monzo for some time. My understanding is that they originally had big plans for their API, but pulled back on development of it as they got more popular. It looks like it still has a lot of restrictions.