Eli Dourado
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Eli Dourado
@elidourado
- Elon paid $11 billion in federal income taxes this year, more than any person ever. Stay classy, Senator.Replying to @ewarren
- The 2009 stimulus put $8 billion into high-speed rail, which hasn’t resulted in any high-speed rail after 13 years. It costs infinity dollars per mile to build high-speed rail in the US.
- Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold. This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.
- People. Bitcoin does not solve banking or bank runs. Bitcoin can handle 7 transactions per second. If 300 million Americans wanted to do one Bitcoin transaction each it would take 496 days.
- Agree with Balaji. Elon is singular. He also shares his engineering secrets. I think nothing would please him more than if a thousand other hardware founders rigorously followed his five-step process.
00:00Hardware is hard. That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time. Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping - This is a fun one. White to move. Mate in one. Watch out for pins. Can you find it?
- mRNA cancer therapy works (in mice). fiercebiotech.com/research/biont… Original paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… “Nineteen of 20 mice treated with the four-component mixture had complete tumor regression.” Human trial now recruiting: clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03…
- In the Starlink terms of service, you have to agree that “no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.”
- To Balaji’s point, FAA indeed moves very slowly. But there is an important difference between Chinese “flying cars” and American designs. The Chinese designs are all basically scaled up quadcopters. They don’t have wings. This means that all of the lift is provided by theWe wanted flying cars. We got them with Chinese characters.
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