Survival Bias

I always wonder why replacing satellites with high altitude solar planes or balloons is not cheaper/better...

Actually there's a study by Esther Duflo that unfortunately shows that microcredits have no impact whatsoever on poverty.

I was just wondering why Starlink was not available at his location. Seems a simpler/better solution.

I agree on both lines of your post.

Patents are a way to turn scarce a resource that naturally isn't (ideas). I still can't see how it helps the whole world on the overall.
The economist Mariana Mazzucato studied drugs patented on the last 20 years and she realized that 75% of them took a government funded research and modified an atom on the molecule to patent it.

Quantum Leap is the smallest possible Leap.
"These advancements aren't incremental; they are quantum leap improvements..."
Amazing how people that works on quantum physics stills misuse this phrase.

Mandatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/833/

I always wonder how they solve the bathroom for such a mission. 3 days on a 13 foot capsule. Are there diapers that can hold 3 days of human waste?

The two biggest expenses the average people tend to have in his life are housing and mobility. If we invest in improven the public transportation system you solve both. You can live on a cheaper place farther from the expensive zip codes and move back and forth cheaply, easely and fast. We just need to make public transportation the biggest priority that will solve housing and mobility.

comma.ai works on a lot of cars and is even better than Tesla Autopilot.

Today Chrome asked for a reboot to upgrade. After that I had several pages fail to load and still having the problem.
Firefox works fine on those pages.

"tiny opaque particle floating in the air"

I remember reading somewhere that F-14 Tomcat had a backup fluid computer to be able to survive an EMP. I just can't find any reference about that. Any link is appreciated.

Yep. Markowitz won a Nobel prize explaining why the best (regarding reward/risk) investment is the market protfolio.

That's why VTI is the best possible investment for 99.9999% of human kind. Every other investment either has way more risk for just a few points of extra possible reward, or if they are safer, reward is way lower.

Talking about Argentina. KWh cost 0.02 USD.
KWh un USA costs 0.2 USD.
Nice place to mine crypto Argentina...