Readit Newselidourado commented on Personal aviation is about to get interesting elidourado.com/p/personal... · Posted by u/jseliger
> After all, pilots and passengers generally want, other things equal, to be safe, so an unfettered free market will deliver cost-effective safety-improving innovations over time.
Ah, such optimistic belief in the "unfettered free market"! That might be true, but aircraft operators mostly want to make as much money as possible, so if the choice is between a cost-effective safety-improving innovation and an even more cost-effective non-innovation (i.e. not doing anything), they will choose the latter.
Literally the next sentence is “It’s possible by some lights that the market will not produce the optimal amount of safety at all relevant margins, and so regulation persists.”
This is a nice theoretical summary, but it's missing an analysis on why previous attempts at cargo airships failed (see https://www.airship-association.org/cms/node/214 ).
Did you read the whole thing? There's an entire section at the end that talks about what current players are doing wrong, while raising the question of whether even the suggested approach is fundable.
elidourado commented on Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew · Posted by u/thiscatis
Just thought I'd point out that, unless the OP has moved companies, the OP runs a payment provider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674236
That does not tie in with the OPs comments in this thread. I am happy for the OP to correct me, but thought I'd mention this.
And if not he can just switch from Stripe to Pomelo Pay.
elidourado commented on Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? · Posted by u/AccountAccount1
Where is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall.
The flying car is both literal and metaphorical. If you’ve ever wondered why technology has stagnated, this is the book for you. If you doubt technology has stagnated, this book will challenge that view. If you’ve ever wondered why literal flying cars have taken so long to appear, this book is for you.
As much as I love Anthropic (the only AI company I pay), they seem to be investing almost nothing in pure product orgs. No way to manage chats, memory usage is very high on the web ui (700mb claude vs. 100mb chatgpt on my mac), artifacts can be very hit or miss. They've been hiring the brightest ML people, time to build some strong product orgs (I nominate myself, DM me anthropic people)