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alien_clown_ninja28 karma

I used to have a cat that would follow my girlfriend and I around the woods behind our apartment. She wasn't an ideal hiking cat, she was slow and got distracted. But she would usually catch up when we called her, she always knew where we were even if we didn't know where she was. I think she did ok because it was near home. We tried taking her to new places but she didn't want to go far. I thought it was weird as heck for a cat too and I could hardly believe it. But now I could definitely see how a cat would enjoy following you around hiking. I'd be worried about other hikers and their dogs though.

alien_clown_ninja27 karma

Hey I dunno if you'll see this, but the way to make money in your industry is to write industry standard ASTM and ISO testing procedures, and then sell the instruments required to meet the ASTM and ISO standards. Then all the mattress producers in the world will buy your equipment to perform the tests. Sure there may eventually be competitors, but being the first mover in the production of an industry standard procedure takes many years for that monopoly to get broken.

alien_clown_ninja12 karma

The linked abstract says $5-10 trillion for a launch cost of $50/kg. SpaceX has been saying they can get launch cost down to $10/kg. So $1-2 trillion.

alien_clown_ninja7 karma

I went deep into the crypto tech myself. And posted some on /r/buttcoin even. And wrote some python stuff, contributed to the crypto community and all that, from about 2014-2017. I haven't watched your doc yet, but I will. But what about the Blockchain algorithm itself do you find scammy? I don't mean the people or the companies who use crypto to scam people, I mean the core code that codes for how a Blockchain operates. What is scammy about it? Because early adopters get the most from mining the early blocks?

alien_clown_ninja2 karma

Yeah that was my question too. Goodbye astronomy and hundreds of billions of equipment