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@starsandrobots
May 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Hawaii additionally has one of the highest costs of living anywhere due to the Jones Act, which was passed in 1920 to protect US shipbuilding.

Now is a great time to repeal the Jones Act!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_…
Jones Act cons: shipping monopolies charge exorbitant prices and enforce high costs of living in places with currently quite high unemployment rates.

Jones Act pros: protect from competition the US shipbuilding industry (hint: we don’t really have one anymore.)
TIL there’s even a hashtag, #EndTheJonesAct + cato.org/project-jones-… ht @cpgrabow 👍

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May 9, 2023
It’s been so long since I shared anything publicly about what I’ve been working on and I am very excited to show off what we’ve been building. (star@therecraft.com)

I’d like to publicly introduce Therecraft which offers aviation services using our drone vehicle called Hopper — Image
Our flagship drone which we call Hopper, has performance that should blow you away:
- 6 hours of flight time
- range of 180 miles
- that’s while carrying a typical 10-lb payload (easily carrying cameras, sensors, cargo; such as tacos 🌮😄)
- the empty vehicle weighs just 20lbs Image
Why does the vehicle weight matter? FAA restrictions (which are duplicated in most of the world) say you can’t fly a drone over 55lbs without plenty of time-consuming paperwork. We skip that by offering high performance while lighter than anything else out there with our specs. Image
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May 5, 2022
I’m just starting to come to terms with how much pressure I felt in my teen years to dedicate all of my available effort to getting into college, and how unreasonable it all was?
Like the main thing I remember from being a teenager was being so stressed out that on any given day I felt on the verge of tears? Anything could - and frequently did - trigger me into sobbing. At all times - for years?
My junior year of high school I tracked my sleep and one week I averaged something between 1-2 hours of sleep per night? (8 classes, I think 4 AP, varsity swim practice 5-6am and 3-5pm, robotics team..) — that average each day for an entire WEEK not much unlike the others.
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Oct 4, 2020
Wanted: List of Basic Problems with Counterintuitive Solutions; specifically, common life issues where basic tendencies will typically make the problem worse. Example follows..
This is about as basic as I could come up with. The trope is the problem of never being able to find the matching sock. People tend to buy more socks. The problem is you actually have too many socks, and you need to get rid of socks until you have so few they are countable.
Example 1:
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Oct 4, 2020
There are a lot of reasons to regard the use of acronyms as a hostile practice, but I’ve been realizing lately just how bad they are especially for i18n.
This is stated tongue-in-cheek but also is genuinely something I’ve been noticing. Like, oof, the only people you’re writing for are current/existing members of your documentation’s target subculture? This practice should be considered fundamentally isolationist.
A good example here are ELTs/EPIRBs. (“Emergency Locator Transmittor” and “Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon”) — which are used globally to find lost planes/boats. Not terrifically obscure tech. Can we not call these gadgets something more obvious?
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Sep 29, 2020
Amazing to see how the pandemic has affected air freight. Passenger airline flight reductions have squeezed cargo capacity availability. At the same time, demand for shipped goods has only increased!
I find it slightly amazing that the shipping industry is resilient to the point that there haven’t been more noticeable supply shocks due to this effect. I know folks dealing with project timelines where shipment time is ballooning into months that would previously been a week.
It’s a great time to be running a next-gen air freight company like @therecraft__ ✌️🛸
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Sep 18, 2020
I started my career at a wind energy company called Makani Power and I cannot overstate the impact that company had on shaping my career hence. Incredibly, a feature-length film has just been released, documenting Makani:
Sadly, after 13 years, including heroic input of effort by world-class engineers to answer certain heretofore unsolved engineering problems and prove the tech, the company has closed. I am therefore even more glad to see Makani captured - full film:
If you are remotely interested in what it’s like for a startup tackling an ambitious engineering project (wind, energy, or otherwise), the film is dramatic and well worth a watch. In the history of aerospace you’ll rarely find a documentary that provides a glimpse such as this.
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