Arthur MacWaters
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@ArthurMacwaters
founder @legionhealth, American exceptionalism and techno-futurist 🇺🇸 ex @mckinsey @princeton
POV: Applied Compute at 11pm on a Friday night, team’s taking a break by doing the IMO 🙃
Sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art
how long it took America to build things: transcontinental railroad: 6 years (1869) Empire State Building: 410 days (1931) golden gate bridge: 4 years (1937) hoover dam: 5 years, finished 2 years early (1936) the pentagon, largest office building on earth: 16 months (1943) alaska highway, 1,700 miles through wilderness: 8 months (1942) a liberty ship: 42 days average, one built in 4 days as a stunt (1943)
The websites that Americans most frequently visit.
Olive Garden implemented the SAVE America Act more quickly than the US Senate.
Sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art
It’s crazy how we found a way to purify literal rocks into 99.9999999% pure silicon, then have magicians pull it into crystals, then etch a trillion little runes on it, put some electricity into it, and now it has 130 IQ and the most common thing to do with this miracle is email
@Superpowamario No. The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering.
Sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art
