Midd

🤟 | zeitgeist surfer | overton window washer | emergence enjoyer | trickle-down productivist | Fuller ephemeralist | e/acc | pro-prosperity | father | investor

[Midd @Middgardian]

Very cool

[Michael @_britmonkey]

Most political compass tests are stupid and outdated, so I have created a political test that only focuses on REAL ISSUES of the 2020s. 64 questions that score you on four axes, including "Chud v Woke" and "Techbro v Luddite"

Reply with your results & tell me if it was accurate

[Midd @Middgardian]

@Robotbeat How long would it take to assemble the parts of a Bagger 293 on Mars?

[Midd @Middgardian]

I’m not so sure, Paul. I think about talented immigration like a “hire people better than me” kind of situation.

And for someone who preaches the “don’t hire B players, because they’ll hire C players” line, wouldn’t it be good if the B players wanted only A players to contribute to their society?

[Midd @Middgardian]

元気があれば何でもできる !

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In the 1960s through 1970s, huge numbers of buildings in New York City were abandoned, because their owners could not make enough money to cover the expense of providing apartments to their tenants, could not legally get rid of their tenants so long as the building stood, and could not sell their buildings because no one wanted an “asset” that permanently lost money month after month. The only non-destructive recourse that they had available was to disappear, and so thousands of buildings eventually had their landlords vanish. A relatively small number of landlords hired arsonists to burn their buildings to the ground, because the destruction of the building was literally the only means by which a lease could be broken, leaving them at least with a vacant lot that didn’t cost them money. Large chunks of the city started to resemble a warzone.

[Midd @Middgardian]

Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!

If there's a wall in our way then we smash it down! If there isn't a path, then we carve one ourselves!

[fish @fishPointer]

e/acc sounds sterile. i’m starting Unstoppable Abundance

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

The Rent Guidelines Board recently voted for a two year rent freeze on NYC rent stabilized housing

I was the lone dissenting vote

I've written two pieces here; which highlight the challenges of a rent freeze and where to go next

https://t.co/IEtCz4dXZ6

https://t.co/P6tNyZ5YgS

[Midd @Middgardian]

Make Liberia and Somalia into Africa’s spaceports

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

Every year that Elon Musk refuses to seize the continent of Africa by force and rule it as king he kills another 10 million people

[Midd @Middgardian]

Which way, modern man?

[Casino Capitalism @HDogetagonist]

@vocalcry

[Midd @Middgardian]

@77hhhfhfgfbfdh @AlecStapp You can say the same for china’s 1.3

[Aleph @alephneuro]

The only thing cooler than the brain image is the story of how we got here

our team of renegade physicists and engineers @_marleyx @raffi_hotter @levchizhov @thomas_rribeiro @jffbrwn2 (1/2)

https://t.co/3rHvYmLlpa

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

Skeptics will point to this as another in a string of hacks that have made unsubstantiated claims in the realm of Alzheimer’s and gleefully await the inevitable “akshually” QT that usually follows by some Prof at Harvard.

These people are idiots.

Lone wolf attempts at novel approaches will become a lot more feasible much sooner than you might think as AI mixed with expertise progresses.

I don’t know if it’s this guy or someone one hundred attempts after him but at some point someone on their own is going to make a major breakthrough and the gleeful skeptics will have to eat their shoes.

The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed. Optimists will inherit the earth.

[Midd @Middgardian]

@signulll Black is the old black

[Midd @Middgardian]

@BIG_PARMENIDES My dad had his first child in his mid-40’s.

[Midd @Middgardian]

@DouglasYaoDY So cool, congrats!

[Midd @Middgardian]

Can any sailors tell me if ChatGPT correctly one-shotted this infographic?

The only prompt was “Explain the physics and math behind attaining max velocity on a laser-like sailboat, considering angle and wind direction and speed, and give me a graphic with the example”

[Midd @Middgardian]

Add to this the 13 month year.

Fits perfectly, 13 months of 28 days each (4 weeks exactly!), plus one day.

This is one of my hills.

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

ISO date standard is also fundamentally better. 20260627. Most significant to least significant, each digit. And no ambiguity on whether it's European or American style.

[Midd @Middgardian]

@CooperZurad Ah, I was 20 once as well

[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

Tonight at 4pm PT, Valar Atomics will initiate a SCRAM and subsequently a Loss of Forced Cooling event on the Ward 250 plant. This will be our most important safety demonstration to date, showcasing how far advanced nuclear has come in fundamental safety.

Loss of cooling has always been the central challenge behind some of the most serious historical reactor incidents; it’s what caused the meltdowns in both Fukushima and Three Mile Island. After a reactor shuts down, the recently split atoms continue to give off heat as they work down their decay chains, causing temperatures to rise in the core. In traditional reactors, this means that it is necessary to continue running the cooling pumps for several days after a shutdown. In the case of both TMI and Fukushima, forced cooling of the core failed, causing meltdown.

So why are we going to initiate a Loss of Forced Cooling event tonight?

Because the Ward series of reactors are fundamentally different from the reactors of prior generations. We designed this reactor to be inherently and intrinsically safe, also called “walk-away” safe. Tonight, we’re going to demonstrate that.

After commanding a SCRAM of the reactor, our Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) will command the reactor operator to shut down the main circulator, turning off forced cooling. But the SRO will not stop there—we are going to simulate total electrical failure of the plant. In addition to shutdown of the coolant loop, we will shut down the chiller, the RCCS pump, and both building and nuclear HVAC systems.

This will leave the reactor without any active cooling of any kind, giving us a complete demonstration of the passive safety of this architecture. Over the next 24 hours, we will see the decay heat in the core safety distribute through the system and leave through the RCCS via passive circulation.

We are not going in to this blind. We did this test in Hawthorne late last year at much higher temperatures and with a simulated decay heat input more than 100x higher than we’ll be demonstrating today. But tonight, we’ll be doing it with real nuclear decay heat.

Join us live at 4pm PT / 7pm ET on the Valar Atomics X account!

[Midd @Middgardian]

The US, by virtue of this policy, is guaranteeing Open Source will pull ahea

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable is not included. This is US only, and covers 100 US institutions, including major companies and government agencies.

[Midd @Middgardian]

Some pigs are more equal than others

[Pieter Cleppe @pietercleppe]

The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off airco, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work:

“It’s like feudalism,” a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told POLITICO on Friday, referring to the fact that upper floors housing commissioners got to keep their AC on. A second official agreed it was a “disgrace.” https://t.co/DWUnu3Wz3C