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Its incredibly costly and complex to build things like the james webb telescope and that would be a great problem to have, but are there any measures of the demand for rocket capacity at given price points?
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/decisions-decisions-or-why...
are there any meaningful ways to change the incentives to something other than raise as much money as possible to hire more administrative employees to raise as much money as possible?
(also if my premise is flawed and there are other things that contribute significantly to the burn of universities lmk)
the sum of their incentives make it very improbable
and not unlike aws/stripe/etc they want to be the bank for small companies that grow into huge companies. startups are a good segment to target (eg like vc) because they might also turn into a large company with much more cash and more banking needs
They took the deposits and bough "safe" bonds (eg treasuries). Which they're allowed to carry on their books at cost, even though their market price drops as interest rates rise.
But in both SVB and silvergates cases the drop in the market value of their assets coincided with an increase in withdrawals. They were forced to sell some of these bonds to fund withdrawals, requiring them to realize the market price. The accounting distorted the value of their assets to an extent, and the withdrawals laid that distortion bare
i wonder how committed they currently are to ^ and what taking external investment would/will do to that commitment. Echoes of "dont be evil"
what's the logic behind this sentencing? or is there no logic and its some sort of regulatory capture and t-mobile et al want to make an example ?
"affect a flight crew’s ability to control the aircraft"
How would the infrared laser impact the aircraft originating the laser (i assume there's no way the laser would be pointed at the aircraft its mounted on)?
Taking the have-a-much-better-product route to siphoning use from AWS is particularly ambitious. I hope it works out. AWS has had it a little too easy for too long
Thin articles touching on the technology: https://prometheusfuels.com/on-the-road/meet-our-v3-faraday-... https://prometheusfuels.com/on-the-road/worlds-1st-machine-t...
Hopefully someone can chime in with an explanation of why the technology is viable now (and not in the past) or why Prometheus is equipped to execute on this vision.
0: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-20/senato...
other classes of virus? (ie how the plague resistance in those of european descent gives some level of protection against hiv [0])
Is this something we have a way to measure or will it be impossible to tell once everyone in the world has some amount of covid immunity?
0: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.h... (first thing i could find)