John Beans

Inventing, investing, and flying. Founder of Jolly Logic, maker of fun flying gadgets. Aerospace consulting. Dad to three nerds.

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I got my glider rating in California’s wine country, which is a beautiful place to fly. But the Alps are on a whole other level.

During one flight this week I started in Innsbruck, Austria. I turned the engine off above the airport and soared to Germany, over to Switzerland, through Italy before returning to Austria to turn on the engine and land later in the day. Just an amazing area to soar in.

Has to be the best way to see the Alps.

Will be back!

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@DavidSacks Talk to anyone who has sensitive or critical data and they will say all of the things that Alex is saying. These are non-negotiables. They'd rather do nothing than release their data or allow someone else to have control over their production.

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@jon “Weapons of Mass Construction”

But…

Choose what you build wisely, or you’ll be automatically snowblowing tokens into a fully functioning junk pile.

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@BillAckman My wife and still tell stories about rent control in Berkeley when we were students. Crazy cheap rents, very hard to find a place, water and mold running down the walls.

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@elonmusk @ZubyMusic @karpathy @kuroke01 @gallabytes We need to be able to prompt what we want to see.

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@SecDuffy @FAANews Please, just get us past relying on the "party line radio" we've used since the dawn of flight. So unsafe to have everyone talking on the same channel and repeating everything.

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@elonmusk @teslayoda

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@SawyerMerritt And StarMind for AI

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@elonmusk @AmericanAir Meanwhile, on Delta...

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@RoKhanna @friedberg You are right about taking money out of politics.
You are wrong about taking already-taxed property (wealth tax).

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@nic_carter @ByrneHobart @art_pleb "we ignore your data and you should, too"

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@elonmusk @Austen unless they are space elevators
which physics tells us
they will absolutely eventually be

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@ziggyfro @davidpattersonx I think he's asking where's the not matter.

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@growing_daniel but think:
most PEOPLE can't write all that well

writing is a form of making

and most people
spend too little time
learning to make things

mostly they just expect
to find things
that are easy to use

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@waitbutwhy

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@Erdayastronaut serious question:
why does the flame have color?
(I thought it was hydrogen + oxygen)

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@SecDuffy this cannot come soon enough
using the same technology we had
when airplanes were first invented
is crazy
and has been obvious
for decades

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@brian_armstrong they will tax that, too
count on it

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@elonmusk bout effing time

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@elonmusk @t_blom Will it observe a preference for backing into the spot?

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@cursor_ai @shaunmmaguire @SpaceX we have lift off