Curtis
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Curtis
@curtisfloras
vibufacturing is vibecoding but real
The entire history of warfare can be read as a single, accelerating motion: extending the standoff between weapon and target. a16z's Daniel Penny, Alex Oliver, and Zach Chen on what this means for warfare today, and the urgency of building autonomous weapons: a16z.news/p/no-man-left-…
It’s time to build.
It’s time to build.
Most of our politicians get their basic economic thinking backwards here in Ontario. What I want to build is an export-led economy (goods and services) where our companies own highly specialized products, IP, and expertise that the rest of the world pays a lot for. That is how economies like Switzerland or the Netherlands became so successful. It’s also how you become resilient in trade: You sell what the world needs, and can’t get anywhere else. We want our export-focused businesses to have “monopolized” products that bring profit back into Ontario while supporting the highest value (and income) jobs, and generate the tax base that allows us to afford excellent public services. For businesses that sell locally, we should want the opposite: high competition and low margins. This means our paychecks can buy more, raising living standards, and quality gets better every year. Instead, Ontario has the reverse attitude. We protect domestic oligopolies at home, making life more expensive. And focus on branch-plant economics, where too much of the ownership, IP, and profit are own by firms based somewhere else. This is closer to how developing economies work. And it’s this model we spend the most $ trying to subsidize! We chase foreign giants without trying to scale local ones. There is nothing wrong with foreign investment. Or foreign owned factories and firms that create good jobs here. And I fully support building out our resources and primary sector. But when it comes to our economy, we’re not even aiming for the podium, and that has to change.
Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state. It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.
Today marks the beginning of a new era. Introducing: Cowboy Space Corporation. We are building orbital infrastructure for the AI era: a fully integrated system of rockets and satellites designed to deliver high-performance compute and optical data transmission directly from Low Earth Orbit.
this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell
