Russell Oliver

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@JacobAShell I've had the privilege of sailing the Drake passage on the Young Endeavour, ironically the water was smooth as glass and we had to motor past the horn

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@OverlyTrev What if they strap some Vulcan solid rocket boosters to the side? Team America assemble!

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@eamonhamilton I wonder how long it will take for the west to realise the factory is the ultimate capability, not the equipment itself. Like the Collins class subs, aus could build subs and yet we gave it up.

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@HowardFMaclean @clairlemon They could cap the tax rate on the real return at something internationally competitive like 25 to 30% maybe even taper this based on length of ownership. A windfall gain over one year could start at 40%, something held for >10years max 25%.

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@MarkoMatvikov They could differentiate between tangible and intangible assets. Land and property is inherently less risk since it can't disappear. It should be treated differently to stocks in a company.

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@2805662 Given the threat of unmanned vessels and drones you would think they would be going all out on ai powered remote weapon stations.

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@OperationalInc1 @hugssomb I wonder if it has something to do with the differential in stiffness of the track from one side to the other

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@AvidCommentator @TaxPawspective @ScottG2074 It could be done the other way, let a family pool the tax brackets of both parents and children. Let the benefit of a trust be given to income earners. Now that would be tax reform that would support young families

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@elonmusk Any plans for Australian manufacturing?

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@tayser82 why an app at all? isn't this as complicated as a card based prepaid fuel bowser?

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@AvidCommentator Mining is industry with the capital and technical know how and structure to electrify, maybe take the diesel fuel rebate off sector to push them along...

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

What about sea data centres, I mean the ocean is big, don't need a lease, get an old container ship, anchor it offshore, cut the props and connect the marine engines to generators, use satellite links or a fibre line to shore.

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

ok ok hear me out. what if we did space datacenters but on earth? like we build them all rugged and good, ready to withstand temperatures, low maintenance, fits on the back of a truck, all ready to go to space, but then we ... don't send them to space.

sending things to space is expensive. if we keep them on earth, we can send them to places by truck, which is a lot cheaper than space.

i don't know what i was thinking about buying land and building a building. that's so modernist. we have $5M and I thought we needed to raise to amortize the fixed costs of operating a site. it was stressing me out.

but then i remembered space datacenters. where we're going, we don't need a site. i mean, yea, we do, and we have to lease it, but we'll lease anything where it's cool, has cheap power, and has fiber. if the public utility decides to rug us and raise prices, no lawyers needed, just fire the gas thrusters! actually we don't even need gas thrusters, we'll put it on a truck and go to the next leased site.

the minimum quantity we can do this at is one, and one should only cost like $3M. we have $5M, we don't even need to raise, just build the one, watch it print money, then build the next one with the money. self replicating space datacenters on earth.

so yea there's a lot of software work to do to make tinygrad run LLMs at really high tok/s and be ready to deploy for the RDNA5 launch. gotta focus on that. raising money, buying land, and reading utility contracts are rabbit holes. got out just in time.

i'm telling you guys, it's the next big thing. space datacenters, but on earth. you heard it here first.

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@MartinMurray_Ag @Voz_Dennis We could have shifted to a LNG for heavy industry and have fully sovereign supply chain. We export over double our oil product consumption in LNG in energy terms.

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@sonikudzu @sdamico Single hotplate with the temperature control on 240v for Australia when?

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

I wonder how hard this would be to do using the future fund? Create a special fund inside it that is topped up for bailouts which then take equity in the business, then the fund would get a board seat.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Bailouts with public money should come with public ownership.

And perhaps a packet of Tim Tams for every Australian.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Bailouts with public money should come with public ownership.

And perhaps a packet of Tim Tams for every Australian.

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@dannolan Why not make it a refund based system with a committee to review claims. MPs would spend their own money first and then have to justify it to get a refund. Those without much savings could get a "loan" based on a submitted budget

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@MarkDiStef Strategic TimTam Reserve

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@simonsarris Getting in early

[Russell Oliver @rustyoliver]

@simonsarris Honestly we should be able to follow and browse posts by geography by now using a map