Modernizing Municipal Bonds @muni_bonds. Engineer & Inventor. Ran for US Congress in Virginia, rugged by the Supreme Court. Personal account. He/Him
NYC or Virginia
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Transcontinental railroad: built in 6 years (1869)
Golden gate bridge: 4 years (1937)
Hoover dam: 5 years, finished 2 years early (1936)
The Pentagon, largest office building on earth: 16 months (1943)
These were all built by citizens buying bonds.
Now, the infrastructure bond issuance process can take as long as it used to take to build this feats. It's time for a major overhaul of how muni bonds are issued.
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I'll be here all week
#初音ミク
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This goal is so admirable it’s worth reposting repeatedly
The era of the “play stupid games win stupid prizes” must end
If anyone can “uncasino the casino’d” it’ll be Joseph
I will earn 7% APR tax free on muni bonds that fund public infrastructure in my city & I will be happy!
AI is good
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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Another map where Virginia is the best state
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I love it when someone I'm meeting is just a few minutes late because it's not too inconvenient and it gives me absolute moral superiority for the rest of our interaction.
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