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Inside the world’s largest cargo drone.
Tomorrow: @poseidonaero with @DavidZagaynov.
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J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.
Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.
Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.
La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
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Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
BREAKING:
The town hall of Limoges, built in 1873, didn’t survive today’s riots.
The building’s spire has now collapsed
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"Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will make a fire with your beautiful oak door..."
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The Pirate Wires view on local politics:
read it, share it, save the city: a san francisco voter guide for people who aren't insane piratewires.com/p/a-san-fran…
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Many thanks to @adam__xyz for creating the space to write in his leafy Brooklyn atrium this morning.
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I think about this clip a lot...
A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
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My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step.
Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing.
What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation.
College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices.
Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode.
Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no.
So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same.
That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion.
In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row.
If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation.
If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government.
Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
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My favorite piece of content I’ve filmed so far
Sam Rohr was fired up talking about magic of Shinkei
30 days of Hard Tech: Day 6 🎣
Trying Shinkei's Seremoni Miso Black Cod at Erewhon felt like I was eating fish for the first time
Sam Rohr (Shinkei early investor and evangelist):
"It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight in that we're throwing a bunch of SpaceX engineers at fish processing"
"30% of all fish that are caught never make it to anyone's plate. There is more food wasted in fish than basically any other part of the industry."
"They build robots called Poseidons, where you basically dump the fish in, and the robot uses a combination of AI and ML to perform ikejime - the Japanese way of killing fish where you spike the brain, slit the gills, and drain the fish of blood so the fish stays really fresh"
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it is currently the season in which new england mogs literally every other region in the country
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HIRING! SO MUCH HIRING AT POSEIDON🚨✈️
SENIOR FLIGHT SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SENIOR AVIONICS ENGINEER
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SENIOR SIMULATION, TEST, AND VALIDATION ENGINEER
SENIOR MECHANICAL STRUCTURES ENGINEER
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There are few things that bring me more joy in life than talking about fish killing robots and the best fish you have ever had.
Thank you @MorganBarrettX for having me on again and long @ShinkeiSystems @khawajasn @reedogins
30 days of Hard Tech: Day 6 🎣
Trying Shinkei's Seremoni Miso Black Cod at Erewhon felt like I was eating fish for the first time
Sam Rohr (Shinkei early investor and evangelist):
"It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight in that we're throwing a bunch of SpaceX engineers at fish processing"
"30% of all fish that are caught never make it to anyone's plate. There is more food wasted in fish than basically any other part of the industry."
"They build robots called Poseidons, where you basically dump the fish in, and the robot uses a combination of AI and ML to perform ikejime - the Japanese way of killing fish where you spike the brain, slit the gills, and drain the fish of blood so the fish stays really fresh"
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