I think you work so hard for everyone here. Maybe it's a kind of cultural gardening.

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761

What causes something like that? I assume it's related to the speed of sound being dependent on measurements local to the aircraft? I guess I assumed off the shelf devices would already cover this?

Also, I was kinda hoping the first video they released for this would be a little more elaborate. Maybe I'm getting spoiled by the elaborate youtube industry springing up around covering space and tech. Still glad they're releasing news + video so frequently.

Not the zipline style last mile delivery, but something larger. Seems like there's suddenly a lot of autonomous military aircraft, but I haven't really heard about civilian cargo aircraft.

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The other maps are pretty cool too: https://anita.garden/projects/

Regions of one/ten million people: [asia], [north america], [world]

[asia]:https://anita.garden/asia1mloc/

[north america]:https://anita.garden/na1m/

[world]:https://anita.garden/world10mfull/

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For other out-of-the-loop people, NASA published/funded the game Moonbase Alpha[0], developed by the Army Game Studio and was going to make an MMO called Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond circa 2010? What an era.

[0]:https://store.steampowered.com/app/39000/Moonbase_Alpha/

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There's the idea that "wealth" gains tend to not be taxed for a variety of reasons. The common parlance of "Buy, Borrow, Die" category things. The "step-up in basis" category things - i.e. no capital gains tax realized on lots of inherited wealth. (The inheritance tax might trigger in some cases, but oddly the capital gains tax often might not be triggered on transferred assets because they were never sold and the new possessor will be taxed at the stepped up received value if they ever sell. So there's a chunk of appreciation that never received capital gains taxation.) Trust related things.

There's the idea that 501(c)(4)s allow wealth to be transferred untaxed while retaining control over the assets (particularly because those organizations can engage in political activity, but I'd guess generally some of the organizations exert lots of influence/prestige.)

So perhaps OP is suggesting that maybe there's some fungibility in income tax % and wealth tax %, but when you look at the tax code the equivalency looks pretty weak currently.

"Under our charter, Mr. Musk and his affiliates are not restricted from owning assets or engaging in businesses that compete directly or indirectly with us"

Pg. 56

I think this part is interesting considering Tesla shareholders seem to have lost out on developing (x)AI (AGI?) internally.

It's not a risk factor I see in the prospectus but seems plausible to me.

Just like with the AI company vesting, I imagine a scenario where a company seeds its own competition by realizing the monetary gains before the work is done. Maybe there's precedent in the dot com bubble. Certainly people were able to sell before the dip a la Cuban and broadcast.com. But I'm thinking more more specifically inducing competitive space ventures.

Presumably the deployed version is meaningfully different.

[0]:https://arxiv.org/html/2510.09263v1

Can it be used to create something like nutritional labels for synthetic content? 10% synthetic text, 30 synthetic images.

Your reality was 15% synthetic today (75% mega corp, 25% open-weight neocloud).

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Sept 1, 2017 DX-669: Funding paused confirmation. Elon is still on the board for a while. DX-707 specifies the board as of Sept 26, 2017, and even suggests adding Shivon, Jared, Sam Teller.

Jan 31, 2018 DX-748: Elon is still discussing things with Greg. Elon: "The only paths I can think of are a major expansion of OpenAI and a major expansion of Tesla AI. Perhaps both simultaneously"

Feb 3, 2018 DX-754: Sam Teller says Elon "just suggested we use SpaceX email for AI stuff so switching over to that"

Feb 4, 2018 DX-755: Sam Teller and Shivon Zilis discuss disabling Openai

Feb 20, 2018 DX-770: Elon officially leaves board (first document I see specifying)

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Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like if i go gmail -> via a Robin Sloane Newsletter -> webpage, it seems generally useful to know Robin sent me. Like a backlink that's been liberated?

Is something different happening?

Conflating the new style of agent-driven/vibe coded software with the old more predictable software leads to applying wrong heuristics/expectations.

People have a pretty good mental model of different types of meals they'll have in a year, and modulate their expectations by context. I think there's room for a new type of software that operates on different principles. Peter has mostly been clear what type of software he's developing. And if it ever converges to bug free, that's great, but I think some of his motivation is to figure out what this new software is. While not giving the users food poisoning.

The Daily Sketch series or 'CSS Animation with offset-path' are equally fun.

Oddly I made an extension* to use the site more the way I wanted and now I find it a little easier to get a higher SNR past the front page and am enjoying that. I didn't really get past post rank 60 for two decades and now generally get much further.

*(It's basically vim-keys support for basically two functions. A function to "highlight" stories/comment threads I think will be promising and then hide function for the rest.)