davmar

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founder: https://shopcats.com founder: https://trakstar.com (acquired) founder: https://scout.kids
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Comment · 11 days ago
thanks for the kind words, and i agree with your comment about PMF. i'm grateful to be off the treadmill this time.

a couple of additional insights i gained:

- don't start a new company at the same time you have a newborn baby. it's an impossible balance.

- raise a little more money than you think you need to extend your runway. i should have continued fundraising but was anxious to get to building.

Comment · 11 days ago
> With solo as the default, the main reason startups die will be loneliness

i'm a solo-founder whose business was likely included in his research and was dissolved this morning.

we ran out of runway while trying to find PMF. i think that's why most solo companies will die, not loneliness.

Comment · 1 month ago
Agreed. I’ve been a big deepseek fan since 3.1, and they keep delivering great models at a great price.
Comment · 1 month ago
The 2024 plan would have reduced annual CO₂ emissions by about 533 million metric tons by 2040. That's roughly equivalent to taking half of all U.S. passenger cars and light-duty trucks off the road.

With the rollback, that reduction will no longer occur. So, this is significant.

Comment · 1 month ago
you're comparing years, not standards. i hope you're just foolish and not intentionally disingenuous.

"The 2024 standards required existing coal plants and new gas plants to capture 90 percent of carbon emissions or shut down by 2039, which would have reduced carbon pollution by an estimated 1.38 billion metric tons through 2047"

Before the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, the federal limits were much weaker—and for existing power plants, there was effectively no operative federal CO₂ limit at all.

Comment · 1 month ago
Everybody loves the sponge
Comment · 2 months ago
hey hey don't interrupt the hustleporn
Comment · 3 months ago
i don't think so - the ascent looked good. i don't think they need to put the ship on another suborbital trajectory because the booster landing burn failed. also, i don't think this impacts prop transfer or ship catch - both are separate problems.
Comment · 3 months ago
Looks useful.

It'd be interesting if you put some of the bible in there and published any continuity errors. Would be great press, regardless.

Comment · 3 months ago
It changed because she came home to find her son treating his body like it was an amusement park
Comment · 6 months ago
i wonder if this is how engineers felt when the first electronic calculators came out and engineers stopped doing math by hand.

did we feel uneasy that a new generation of builders didn't have to solve equations by hand because a calculator could do them?

i'm not sure it's the same analogy but in some ways it holds.

Comment · 7 months ago
succinct and accurate.

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