Ryan McEntush
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investing @a16z // curating https://t.co/ssslqn6eo7
California, USA
Joined February 2019
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time for the training wheels to come off. they’re ready for draftkings.
Remote Amazon tribe connects to Elon Musk’s Starlink internet, become hooked on porn, social media
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i love both candidates so much I’m struggling to decide.
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the chiefs win the super bowl. kelce passes the trophy to taylor before promptly getting down on one knee and proposing. 2 months pass and she announces her pregnancy. marriages and birth rates skyrocket. the CCP collapses. amazon moves HQ to kansas city. the S&P500 hits 9000.
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MASSIVE LITHIUM FIND IN PENNSYLVANIA COULD MEET 40% OF U.S. DEMAND.
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every guy friend group is thinking about how to top this. this is an arms race. millions will perish.
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xi's daughter is doing research at harvard and putin's daughter is a DJ in paris. our rival's princesses are chasing ivy league diplomas and trendy nightclubs. complete western cultural victory.
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it’s totally normal for there to be a perfect hexagon at saturn’s pole and you definitely don’t need to worry about it
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the worst engineers from my graduating class joined nvidia and now they’re richer than god. an important lesson there.
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For $130 billion, the expected cost of the CA high-speed rail, you could instead buy and operate 900 Boeing 737s to fly the entire population of San Francisco to Los Angeles and back every day for 7 years.
there are roughly 220,000 intrastate flights in CA per year. let’s generously assume 150 seats at $200 a ticket — that’s $6.6b annually. you could literally just take the expected $100b+ budget and invest in 10Y T bills to make flying in CA free in perpetuity. which btw is.
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my uber driver, an ex-translator for the us military in afghanistan, upon driving through the tenderloin:. “this is worse than afghanistan”.
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tbh @jk_rowling was way ahead of her time with rita skeeter (fake news) and dolores umbridge (hyperfeminized lawfare & reality denial). harry potter was written in late 90s! prophetic.
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concept: women should have the freedom to immigrate without restrictions; assimilation challenges are primarily driven by feral men.
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upper-middle class life in america is better than being a literal princess in other parts of the world. even xi jingping's daughter went to harvard. ancient royal lineages kneel at the crowded starbucks like peasants.
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spacex starship has better streaming quality at 12,000 km/h than the netflix tyson / paul fight in dallas
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Unfortunately, NASA needs Boeing — but not for the reasons you think. Congress controls NASA’s funding, and their priorities revolve around jobs and votes. SpaceX’s exceptional performance actually complicates this dynamic. The delay in declaring Boeing’s Starliner unfit likely.
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little alpha in public markets, so gigabrains are frontrunning taylor swift tickets. sry swifties
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you’re a 34 year old woman. he’s 28, but you decide to give it a shot. the date goes well. he orders the nice bottle of wine. he laughs at all your jokes. his mother is under “mom” in his phone. you talk about all the places you’ve been. he says he loves skiing; he says that he
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the california coast is quite possibly the most beautiful stretch of land in the world. florida and texas-cels in absolute shambles.
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why aren’t we “uplifting” other species?. this is a classic sci fi plot point that I feel like we just skipped over. if we wanted to make animals much smarter, we could, no?.
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i wouldn’t drink tap water in brazil but they make fantastic jets. a fascinating economy
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room temperature superconductors. that last line is a banger.
we might be so very back.
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we should absolutely imbue engineering professions with a greater sense of magic. consider:. runesmith = electrical engineer.skywright = aerospace engineer.alchemist = chemical engineer.logicweaver = software engineer.datamancer = ML engineer.
science is a spell book & engineers are wizards.
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taylor swift could single-handedly shape America's trajectory in the 21st century by making a couple pro-nuclear posts and having kids.
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elon musk is a litmus test . you can tell so much about a person simply by how they feel about him.
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last year aluminum smelting consumed 80% of iceland’s electricity.
Last year TSMC consumed 8% of Taiwan’s electricity.
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I must study engineering and finance so that my sons may have the liberty to pursue physics and mathematics. My son's ought to study physics and mathematics, continent terraforming, aneutronic nuclear fusion, sentient silicon, O’Neill structure urban planning, planetary ecology,.
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free, direct-to-cell starlink over our enemies would yield a near instant cultural victory.
Meeting with the Internet: North Korean soldier reportedly caught watching girls dancing on social media.
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imagine being NASA right now and choosing to *still* fund SLS after witnessing this. insane. starship will surely take mankind back to the Moon.
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there are roughly 220,000 intrastate flights in CA per year. let’s generously assume 150 seats at $200 a ticket — that’s $6.6b annually. you could literally just take the expected $100b+ budget and invest in 10Y T bills to make flying in CA free in perpetuity. which btw is.
Elon has long hated public transit, which he thinks carries a bunch of “serial killers.” He instead wants everyone to drive a car (preferably a Tesla). Now he has government power & is trying to kill off CA’s high speed rail project. It’s called killing off the competition. 🧵
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san diego is an unserious city. the people are far too nice and the climate too perfect. frankly impossible to harness internal rage to increase GDP.
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To match our technological ambition, we’ll need better materials. Tesla/SpaceX have shared resources working on this, creating new alloys, magnets, glass, etc. Each age is defined by new materials — bronze, iron, steel; the future demands more. Make metallurgy cool again.
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the ridiculous blast radius when you drop your AirPods feels like an engineering oversight.
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massive arbitrage opportunity matchmaking LA girls with SF guys. this is the bull thesis for the CA high speed rail.
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if you’re in software engineering pivot to welding.
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space force knew exactly what they were doing when they designed their intelligence unit patch
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spacex? you mean america’s best consumer electronics company?
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for everyone saying this is biased towards engineering, I’m sorry to break it to you that the universe is also biased towards engineering.
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you’ll know its real when openai takes down all their job openings.
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If you’re so smart, explain why the sun and moon are the same size in the sky. How is the moon 400 times smaller than the sun, but also about 400 times closer to earth?. Is there a mathematical reason for this? Or just coincidence?
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the UAP report ends with “be not afraid”. what is going on
Read the Immaculate Constellation Document for yourself at . #UAPHearing 🛸.
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We need to be mass manufacturing nuclear power plants on the scale of hundreds of gigawatts. The best time to build a vast, civil nuclear fleet was 50 years ago. The second best time is now. On scaling nuclear power:.
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the year is 2028. the senate has set body fat % as your tax rate, and mega-lake nevada has turned the southwest green. spacex "hermes" leads the galactic fleet to mars while president-elect jd vance watches from the mach 3 air force one. he's heading to greenland, USA, to speak.
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this was such a close debate. personally, I’ll have to wait for the all in podcast before forming an opinion.
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most of you should probably be drinking more alcohol, not less
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star fleet academy is coming.
BREAKING: @UCBerkeley announces partnership with @NASA to build the Berkeley Space Center, a 36-acre site in Silicon Valley that will house companies, labs and students working to generate futuristic innovations in aviation and space exploration.
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BREAKING: Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC has evacuated its factories following earthquake.
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you’ve got to be medieval maxxing. you’ve got to be chasing enchanting maidens. you’ve got to be partaking in jovial festivities. you’ve got to be believing in folklore and witches. you’ve got to be seeking relics on daring quests.
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@01Core_Ben make animals smart enough that we can justify giving them jobs and having them pay taxes.
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fun fact: the SR-71 Blackbird’s navigation system worked by tracking stars with cockpit cameras. This method was vital pre-satellites, and could still be very useful in GPS-denied areas.
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since it's so easy to manufacture, you'll probably see this tested on youtube in the coming days/weeks. cc: @veritasium @MrBeast.
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a 62% raise — regardless of what you think about the ILA, he earned every penny of that $900k paycheck.
We found out that dude had a mansion and a drop top Bentley and the port union's strike ended immediately 😂
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kind of insane how much land the federal govt owns in the western US
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this sounds bad but is actually super progressive. real affirmative action has never been tried.
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two million canines. the fate of the republic of korea hangs by a mere thread. what is going on
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“H1B visas” are insane because they appear to be one of the most legitimately effective ways to attract top global talent but are exclusively opposed by literal turbotrad patriots who unironically want to like “protect American jobs” and basically get oneshotted by basic labor.
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the CIA can grant permanent residency to 100 people a year – they should apply HUMINT to headhunt the world’s gigabrains. Tired: O1 visa.Wired: CIA’s Top 100 NatSec Draft
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respectfully, it feels like ASML just came up with the most complex Rube Goldberg machine possible for leading edge lithography. Skeet shooting tin ions to generate EUV wavelengths, cmon be serious
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just one more hacker house bro. please bro, a third space bro. no one’s ever done this bro. we’ll be super exclusive bro, a real community bro. and we’ll have one in every city bro. maybe raise a fund bro. this could be HUGE bro. our culture will be the best bro. only 10x.
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i’m in a bad place right now. not mentally, just in a boeing 737 MAX over open water.
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dual-use swarm technology. imagine this dragon manifesting in the sky and launching an assault on a ship with thousands of drones, each laden with explosives.
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if you take too much adderall, you’ll morph into a dune navigator (fintech ceo).
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this film made software startups high-status — only thing cooler than a harvard degree was dropping out. what does the "the social network" for industrial mfg or civil service look like?.
David Fincher's 'The Social Network' has been added to the National Film Registry
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this is the fourth consecutive most important election in my lifetime.
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All right, are we gonna have a problem here?. There’s no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the inevitable decline of America. My contention is that, as Spengler argued in The Decline of the West, civilizations have lifecycles, and America’s in its
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united states energy consumption (in aella birthday format)
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Some great first date questions:. - What was the name of your childhood pet?.- What street were you born on?.- What is your mother’s maiden name?.- What is the make/model of your first car?.- What is the name of your childhood best friend?.
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you wouldn’t last a second in the asylum where they raised me
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I’m thrilled to be joining @a16z as an investor on the American Dynamism team, alongside @KTmBoyle, @davidu, @grant__gregory, @MichelleVolz, @kimberlywtan, and @oyhsu. More on why below:. (1/6).
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TSMC has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories in Taiwan, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife
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remember "unobtainium" from avatar? . that coveted resource that compelled humans to venture light-years away to an alien planet just to mine it? . This guy is trying to make some in his garage.
Meissner effect or bust. Day 1. Made good progress on the list of to-dos. I'm doing this all after-hours, so it's been a long day. Since we're gated by the delivery of the PbO + Pb(SO4), which should be tomorrow, we're working on infrastructure first.
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“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America”
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omg can you believe the vp was an e/acc venture capitalist and probably has read bronze age per…. you bolt awake in your bedroom. it is 2008. halo 3 is left running on the dimly lit screen. open cherry coke and half eaten pizza bites are strewn across the table. your mother.
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"So many centuries after the Creation it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value." - Royal Committee reviewing Christopher Columbus’ proposed voyage. (1486). "Printed books will never be the equivalent of handwritten codices, especially since.
cannot emphasize enough how horrid chatgpt is, y'all. it's depleting our global power & water supply, stopping us from thinking or writing critically, plagiarizing human artists. today's students are worried they won't have jobs because of AI tools. this isn't a world we deserve.
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you can still travel by sea. most shipping lines have guest rooms and allow passengers, you just need to contact the port agent ahead. It’s more expensive and takes much longer than flying, but sounds incredibly fun. Tempting…
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Palo Verde Nuclear Plant, America's largest at ~4 GW, uses treated sewage water for cooling in the middle of the Arizona desert. Built during the Three Mile Island controversy, it was completed in 12 years for about $12 billion (today). Nuclear can be done cheaply.
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just a little more compute bro. I promise bro, just one more star system…we’re so close bro. just one more and we’ll summon god bro. bro cmon at least just this star man…please!
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Moon is the gateway to humanity's future. As China and Russia rapidly advance, America risks losing the frontier we first claimed as ours. To win space race 2.0, we must prioritize permanent Lunar settlement. Being first matters. For @PirateWires, linked below:
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@James_McGinniss born too late to discover new elements. born too early to build dyson spheres. born just in time to stabilize deregulated electricity markets during an energy transition.
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Pay careful attention to these nuclear project announcements. There’s a big difference between:. - buying existing reactor production.- restarting old reactors.- signing PPAs to purchase power once a reactor is built.- funding new reactor development. Hyperscalers have.
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high-latitude development would be great practice for space colonization. if we can’t make these barren wastelands livable, we don’t deserve mars. plenty of economic incentive to do so. there should be a four seasons and golf course at the south pole. antarctica 51st state.
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the future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed .
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overheard in nyc: “gm ga gn gmi wgmi wagmi ngmi web1 web2 web3 web4 btc eth ohm nft governance protocols DAOs BAYC”.
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they will welcome us as liberators.
BREAKING:. Major blackout leaves most of Greenland without electricity
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i think the “nothing ever happens” folks had a good run, but it feels like things are going on now.
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