JD Brinton

I tweet about hardware, software, radios, physics, and business.
Motto: Compassionate Capitalism

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@wavedrom hey, I remember that PCB! :)

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Check out my latest article: The Brutal Cost of Venture Capital: Vital Yet Risky https://t.co/t3GQwBL7q1 via @LinkedIn

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@AnneYBrintonPhD no, but I have the reMarkable tablet and I'm very happy with it. For several years I've used it daily for reading and note taking. It also has a presentation mode which I use for meetings. $279.

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Rates are getting high enough that soon it will be economical to build a second electrical grid using modern HVDC underground distribution.

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@cosmicfibretion I think our search for Hₒ is meaningless until we know the gravitational force of the wave function. Cold low-density interstellar gas is likely highly entangled. Is gravity proportional to the mass of the entangled states, or to its classical information? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@Morgan628 @sdamico exactly. The satellite cost is nearly irrelevant because it gets divided by the subscriber count.

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@pmddomingos And for todays lesson... How to scale the y axis.

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@Molson_Hart What are your incentives for making this video? Is this a video the CCP would like to encourage? What are your opinions on their human rights violations and abolishment of civil liberties? Any opinion on whether Taiwan is a part of China?

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@Andercot Solar should easily last 25 to 50 years. You're showing a black swan event. Solar is also a fraction the cost of nuclear, even if you combine it with batteries. Lastly, you're not counting the Uranium mining land use which is super toxic.

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@cosmicfibretion A very small number of people can appreciate the profoundness of this premise.

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@bindureddy The judgment was proportional to interest payments he would've paid had he not fraudulently reported the asset values. The NY law (+similar laws in other states) are used frequently. Civil fraud laws enable an environment conducive to business and is why our country is so great.

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@sdamico Most people don't get that nearly all gov't is run by these weird small businesses without websites or public filings.

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I'm so proud to be featured on my friend Jeff Ward's amazing podcast about the early SpaceX years. If you want to know about my life or experiences checkout this 28 minute conversation. I'm so happy to have my experience memorialized so well.
https://t.co/Y5dhb2KgKM

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

The maddening thing about living with a sword-of-Damocles type situation like the Chinese invasion threat in Taiwan is, there’s no clean resolution in sight. There’s a thousand and one reasons why it doesn’t make sense for Xi to invade, but the fact of the matter is, he can. And quite honestly if he does, at this point we can’t say we haven’t been warned. But life has to go on in the “probablies.” We’ll probably be fine, because Xi probably won’t invade, and if he does the United States would probably come promptly to our aid.

I can’t help but feel like my faith in that last “probably” has been seriously shaken in the last six month. There are clear signs that America is turning inwards, and looks to be leaving Ukraine in a grim lurch. There are always those in Taiwan who doubted the United States would actually come to the aid of Taiwan (see President Ma’s interview with DW for a prime example). While I still believe that they are wrong and that Taiwan is a core US foreign policy concern, nothing seems certain anymore, especially if Trump is the next president. And the truth it it has always been the way of the world’s largest superpower to vacillate between idealistic overextension and stubborn, narrow, America-first realism.

Tomorrow, Taiwan goes to the polls and I’d like to take a moment just to celebrate that. Tomorrow, as it has been every four years ever since 1996 since the first direct presidential election took place, the people of Taiwan will choose their own leader and have a say in their own destiny. I’d even celebrate each of the three candidates: during the run up to the election inevitably harsh words were said but each candidate is an exceptional individual who accomplished extraordinary things to get them to this place in their careers. And whoever is elected president tomorrow, I hope the people of Taiwan will rally behind him because the hard work of defending Taiwan will never stop. Each new day is a day we have to make Xi Jinping think “not today.”

https://t.co/yskkwqWqv3

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@vkhosla Only if we have rank choice voting. Otherwise, a 3rd party will lead to even more extreme outcomes.

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Coming Q4 @ImpulseLabs_

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@eshear what if gravity is just the local simulator slowing down?

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@sdamico I'm very excited about this. Especially for PCB design, architectural design, and process engineering. Most startups fail due to missing engineering milestones. AI could change that.

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@whitequark Another pipe dream is to see some of the proprietary toolchains (Efinix, lattice, etc) running in a WebAssembly emulator. It may be a bit slow, but it beats setting up the tools yourself.

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@whitequark wow, congrats! This is something I've dreamed of doing for a long time. This could dramatically reduce developer time. I hope all hardware development moves to the browser soon.