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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

imagine what the world would look like if you could iterate hardware at the rate of software

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

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11 months

@OccupyDemocrats delete your account starlink was never used to receive signals underwater

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11 months

wow 3d printers have gotten so good

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1 year

true 3rd tier VC behavior

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@sarahpolo10 @Sethrogen @deborahjonesnz @GOP People who think we can’t improve the environment and do space exploration at the same time have a zero sum and very limited understanding of the world

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@divalbanerjee

6 months

i strongly prefer a world where the United States has a monopoly on violence

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

11 months

@OccupyDemocrats there is no way starlink could provide communication with an underwater vehicle at that depth i know because @BaliAnirudh and i built underwater robots in highschool. we used a physical cable to communicate between our ground control station and vehicle

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11 months

@divalbanerjee Continued making improvements the following year

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

9 months

@homo_futuruss @historyinmemes why would i follow anyone who outsources their tweets to gpt?

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

10 months

founders at pre-seed vs founders at ipo

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

The equivalent of GitHub for CAD does not exist yet

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@divalbanerjee

1 year

me at 19

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Let me see yall at 19? 👀

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

is the feeling of not being good enough required for ambition?

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@divalbanerjee

1 year

@Jack_Raines wrong. more people should reflect on what life path they want prior to deciding on college. we need more workers in manufacturing and those people will make good money the idea that you’re fucked for life by not going to college or dropping out is ridiculous

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

9 months

Current metal 3D printing processes are like alchemy It takes weeks/months of testing and failure to define parameters to print parts and pass QA repeatably We've developed a new process, turning metal 3D printing into a rational, repeatable, industrial process that will scale

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1517 companies don't just make great products; they also make high-technological kinetic art. @divalbanerjee , @BaliAnirudh & @liese_max 's metal 3D printer for their startup @vuecason .

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@divalbanerjee

3 months

insane to see 5 axis milling at this scale

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Apple Vision Pro pre-orders begin today! We’re so excited for you to experience spatial computing for the first time!

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@divalbanerjee

1 year

@br___ian @LADOTofficial @cd1losangeles it cost tax payers $200k and 3 years to make. for bent piece of sheet metal

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

11 months

@C_S_Skeptic @OccupyDemocrats no. this is physically impossible electromagnetic fields attenuate a lot in salt water for someone who preaches about the importance of critical thinking skills, you don’t have any

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 months

You’re hiding non-compliant components with third party suppliers in your ITAR regulated product are you not

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

9 months

Addiction to thinking is required for original insight Interview of Edward Teller on Von Neumann

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

8 months

Anduril will be a defense prime

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@PalmerLuckey

8 months

So glad we can finally talk about this! Fury is a high-performance, multi-mission group 5 autonomous air vehicle. It is capable of pulling 9Gs at Mach 0.95 for a tiny fraction of the cost of similarly performant fighter craft.

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

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26 days

We are cooking

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

6 months

we made a ton of progress this month on print quality we’re going to keep moving faster and faster it’s extremely important to bring industry back to the west

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

7 months

mechanical engineering will start to look a lot more like software engineering this decade aggressive testing is the fastest way to gain insight

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10 months

@a_musingcat if mechanical engineers could build, test until failure, redesign, and test again as quickly as software engineers, they'd probably act more like software engineers and it would be a good thing.

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

6 months

@lexkschultz supporting the US military and extending pax americana is probably one of the most ethical things one can do

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

4 years

@sarahpolo10 @Sethrogen @deborahjonesnz @GOP space exploration will accelerate the development of climate tech anyway. So if you’re against progress in space, you’re actually against environmental preservation

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@divalbanerjee

5 months

if you haven’t realized it yet: the EAs are experts in burning money and destroying value

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 months

make metal printing great again

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

6 months

we're so back

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

6 months

@bznotes it would be extremely sad to see software suffer from stagnation the way manufacturing has over the last 50 years, that’s why it’s dangerous people who don’t like “ethics” or “responsibility” aren’t actually opposed to either, we just know that it means something else

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

5 months

sorry el segundo isn’t zoned for saas

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

6 months

something special is happening in LA

Nick Kim

@nickbkim

6 months

All over LA, founders are setting up clean rooms and robots to manufacture everything from rocket engine components to portable nuclear fission reactors. @jdsisteron and I compiled a list of 50 hard tech companies you should know about in and around LA:

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

1 year

@MisalignedBrian lol. it was the stupidest pitch call that i've ever been on by far our beachhead market is high-performance tooling. they questioned this decision bc other AM companies have struggled to break into tooling, even after i outlined why those companies failed

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

the factory is a testament to human achievement it’s really important for the public to get excited about manufacturing

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

I want a future where the real world is more malleable than the metaverse

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

founder bf investor gf

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

when you miss the immortality boat by 100 years 🥲

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@divalbanerjee

3 years

😞

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

Today is my first day of working full time on @vuecason . I’m so excited!!!

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

4 months

3 metal 3D printing companies went public via SPAC in 2020 and 2021 They’re now trading at a combined market cap less than $500M

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 months

basement/acc

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

1 year

holy based

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

new setup!!

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

we will not achieve the solarpunk or terrapunk future without energy abundance or agile supply chains

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

@BriannaWu @TaylorLorenz Not a bad-faith attack at all. Many people feel threatened by her and unsafe. And I'm not just talking about top VCs. I'm talking about Gen Z entrepreneurs and minors. The outrage is deserved

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

10 months

@NuclearBeacon based. less people should go to college

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

6 months

if you define hardtech startups as companies that have more technical risk than execution risk then there are very few hard tech startups

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

1 month

moving to El Segundo becomes more tempting everyday

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

10 months

@UhmmDave maybe this?

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

1 year

a common mistake I see in deeptech is when someone promotes how novel their technology is, rather than the new capabilities that technology provides novel technology without new capability has no business value

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

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5 months

@ebakerwhite @BasedBeffJezos @pmarca @GillVerd super lame

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7 months

@bryan_johnson @Cobratate this tweet made me immortal

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

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2 years

really cool parts at imts

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

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7 months

beautiful

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3 years

Why I picked LA over SF

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

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1 year

absolutely insane. the left is using svb to politically assassinate the tech industry

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9 months

@ShakthiJ he’s right

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2 years

@PabloPeniche we can even make california look like this

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

9 months

metal 3D printing is a competitive and saturated market because only a handful of companies actually have any technical differentiation that actually creates business value

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

@enlightenedcoop mutual understanding, values, and worldview. i could share that with someone who already is physically beautiful as well once i’ve found that person why would i keep looking? this type of person is not a commodity and would be already perfect to me- there is no upgrade to seek

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

software enhanced local manufacturing > outsourced manufacturing

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@divalbanerjee

3 months

bullish on build teams bearish on student council

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3 months

Two of SpaceX's senior execs Mark Juncosa and Bill Riley are Cornell grads who credit their engineering chops to the Formula1 project team (FSAE) in college. Join clubs in college to actually building stuff together, not the "consulting club" which is just college kids chatting.

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

5 months

The shift from increasing water supply to water conservation was a mistake

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No major water infrastructure that increases supply has been built in California since 1979, despite our population exploding approximately 70% since then to 40 million. The state's chronic water shortages are unsurprising.

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

25 days

Metal 3D printing 🤝 complex flow paths

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The killer app for metal 3D printing is rocket engines

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

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1 year

@Jer_Diamond they must be geniuses like Bezos himself

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@divalbanerjee

11 months

lol the Europoors

Omar Rivero

@OmarRiverosays

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BREAKING: Twitter owner Elon Musk is hit with devastating news as France’s Digital Minister threatens to ban Twitter from the ENTIRE European Union territory if Musk does not get serious about tackling Twitter’s growing wave of “disinformation.” But it gets WORSE for Musk… A…

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

everytime i see this my head literally explodes

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3 years

No, this is not CGI. This terrifying little guy was built by Lockheed Martin to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles. The control is amazing. Credit: Lockheed Martin

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2 years

why are so many gen z convinced that the world is falling apart?

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@divalbanerjee

2 years

@zebulgar i had a prototype in my backpack at most of the parties

nasjaq

@nasjaq__

2 years

@divalbanerjee showing off his 3D metal printer nozzle

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

5 years

I got to ask @elonmusk what technology he was excited about but did not have time to pursue. His answer: an electric jet. And candy of course!

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

1 year

the replies in this thread are written by people who have never designed complex hardware

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1 year

In 5-10 years mechanical engineers will be paid more than software engineers because AI will have commoditized complex software but unlikely complex hardware.

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10 months

new McMaster order arrived

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@divalbanerjee

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wild how much a 7% difference in silicon content makes

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@divalbanerjee

3 years

Old clubhouse energy

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@divalbanerjee

3 years

dropped out but true

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@grantadever

3 years

you don't fully internalize how stressful and unhealthy college is until you see friends who have aged in reverse and become hotter since graduating

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

6 months

in startups, you have to force people to make decisions. if you leave too much room for not making decisions, progress stalls no decisions = no progress

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

@thesephist i think a large reason why consumer printing hasn’t taken off is just the difficulty around design

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

9 months

@USATODAY ironically the writers strike will accelerate adoption for AI in media

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1 year

human needs and desires cannot be standardized fuck communism

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8 months

beautiful

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6 months

metal 3D printing won’t just let us reshore, we’re going to leapfrog our adversaries

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@divalbanerjee

3 years

of course it's the verified asshole who shits on kids for having a 3d printer for likes

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@divalbanerjee

3 years

Buying robux as a hedge against inflation

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

11 months

@C_S_Skeptic @OccupyDemocrats it is not what is being claimed. what they are claiming is that they use starlink to communicate with the boat on the surface, not the underwater submarine

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raw milk spotted at the gundo hackathon

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6 years ago we committed the sin of using a logitech controller to pilot an underwater vehicle

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@divalbanerjee

6 months

@htaneja @ResponsibleLabs this is not the way. responsibility is how china overtakes us

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3 months

Major vibe shift

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3 years

Most engineers hate doing documentation and that kills companies

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@divalbanerjee

2 years

i’m seeing a lot of people dunk on this, and it makes me sad i’ve been following @pipedream_labs and have known the team for a couple years now this isn’t pneumatic tube delivery, they use electric pods a lot of startups are scams, pipedream is not

Joe Sweeny

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Pipedream just raised $1.6M pre-seed from @balajis to build the future of 15 min delivery It’s like GoPuff meets Elon's The Boring Company And they're doing it with robots racing through 12 inch pipes underground. A breakdown with CEO @thegarrettscott 👇

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

3 years

often climate change is used as a scapegoat when really its just bad energy policy that results in these disasters. ex. california wildfires are the result of bad forest management but usually politicians blame it on climate change

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weird that we’re blaming this on global warming rather than the safe, clean, and highly effective nuclear power plant cuomo just shut down

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

2 years

degrowth is the enemy of freedom reducing energy supply imposes resource constraints, restricting what individuals and states can do. it will make everyone poorer energy supply must increase for civilization to progress and is necessary for a free society

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@divalbanerjee

9 months

@zebulgar as an unproven 23 year old vs next year

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@divalbanerjee

2 years

it’s extremely important to get back on the henry adams curve we don’t have to restrict consumption or population and over time we could 100x both

nasjaq

@nasjaq__

2 years

"if we get back on the Henry Adams curve, with energy and population growth in their historic proportions, by 2200 we would reach the status of a Kardashev Type I civilization - with 100x todays population and 100x power/capita - and that's only from a 2.5% growth rate" 🤯

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Dival Banerjee 🦆

@divalbanerjee

7 months

often when people invoke the term first principles thinking, they’ve already outsourced their thinking and just want to imitate Elon

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@divalbanerjee

2 years

it's easier to just build the future than predict it

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1 year

@flattop100 @thesheetztweetz @davidfaber stick to mastadon

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7 months

it’s time to bring back industrial innovation

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By giving up industrial production, the West has given up industrial innovation.

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3 years

I refuse to live in a shitty future

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@divalbanerjee

3 years

check the replies and quote tweets. the socialists are pressed. people who actually build things are not. the people who build know how to solve problems rather than commiserate about them all day

Geoff Lewis

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The ocean fire was aesthetically beautiful. That we have the tools, tech, and human bravery to have put it out in five hours with no injuries even more so. Toxic beauty is all around us.

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