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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 20/11/2024

Sure but like 2x not 40x.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 20/11/2024

My blog post from last year about MOSAIC in case you have questions about that. www.elidourado.com/p/personal-a...

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Personal aviation is about to get interesting

FAA is getting one enormously consequential thing right

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 20/11/2024

Then you also need to design it to be mass manufactured. I think there is an opportunity with MOSAIC to build a $50k airplane that goes totally mainstream. Other people who are thinking along similar lines, assemble.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 20/11/2024

The second thing required is market scale. You need simplified flight controls (allowed by MOSAIC) to expand the market for personal aviation so that new people enter the market so that you can sell many units and get economies of scale in manufacturing.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 20/11/2024

For one, type certification needs to go afuera. This is already happening with the MOSAIC rule for aircraft that qualify for that (basically, have a low clean stall speed).

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 20/11/2024

A Honda Civic EX costs $27k and weighs 1,650 kg, for $20/kg. An airplane is not more complex than a car, but it costs 40x as much per kg. What would it take to build an airplane for $25/kg?

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 20/11/2024

I've become kind of obsessed with how to get the cost of personal aircraft down. Example: A new Cirrus SR22 costs around $1.1 million and weighs 1,111 kg without fuel. Call it $1,000/kg. A Tesla Model Y (long range AWD) costs around $50k and weighs around 1,980 kg. Call it $25/kg.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 03/07/2023

A European hydrogen lobbyist describes how the IRA is shifting hydrogen investment to the US from Europe after years of European subsidies.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 02/07/2023

With some battery innovation, autonomy, and the new eVTOL designs, grueling all-day drives could be a thing of the past.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 02/07/2023

I drove 8+ hours today, and then looked up how much a charter flight for the same route (local airport) would be. Under $6k round trip for 4 passengers in a PC-12. Not quite affordable but cheaper than I expected. If we had had more innovation in aviation over the last 50 years, it could work.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 17/06/2023

Could there be an option to show replies only to people we follow?

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 13/05/2023

ChatGPT doesn’t think they’re related

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 13/05/2023

Newberry Volcano. Exciting geothermal experiments happening there.

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AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com · 11/05/2023

⚡️ Now ready for development: custom algorithms! We've put together a starter kit with instructions on how to implement your own custom algorithm here. github.com/bluesky-social/feed-gene…

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 11/05/2023

It would be cool if we could attach PDFs to skeets just like other media. 🤓

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 09/05/2023

I’m just bullshitting.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 09/05/2023

I had a boss on Capitol Hill who used quotation marks for emphasis, it was hilarious.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 09/05/2023

The timeline is not grouped by replies, posts are just in chronological order.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 09/05/2023

Sucks that they picked the wrong horse!

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 09/05/2023

It doesn’t seem that anybody so far is building a Tweetbot-style client for Bluesky, but I hope somebody does!

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 09/05/2023

Posted on bird site: I want a simple chronological timeline without threading, and I want the app to save state about location within that timeline across relaunches and devices. I had that with Tweetbot, but then Twitter disabled third-party clients, and my experience has been worse since.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 09/05/2023

I met a turtle yesterday.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 06/05/2023

Watch the pin from the queen on d1!

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 05/05/2023

No, the bishop on e8 pins the queen to that diagonal.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 05/05/2023

There are no chess nerds on bsky, I posted the same skeet on bird site and it did numbers.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 05/05/2023

With great power comes great responsibility.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 05/05/2023

This is a fun one. White to move. Mate in one. Watch out for pins. Can you find it?

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 04/05/2023

Yes but it is tiny and not Mac-like.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 04/05/2023

Cool, I’ll try it out tomorrow!

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Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

Feature request: Forget a who to follow section. Give me a who to block section. “All these people you follow blocked this account. Do you want to block them too?”

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 03/05/2023

More generally, social graphs should have more structure.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 03/05/2023

Build it on top of atproto. A special kind of follow that gives the followee the right to make intros.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 03/05/2023

Yeah, in general, the people with the wildest AI forecasts also think we have already been living through turbulent change because of digital tech.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 03/05/2023

While Yudkowsky is warning us about AI killing everyone, Lina Khan suggests that the AI era could be as chaotic as having social media companies sell ads based on personal data. LMAO. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opinion/…

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 03/05/2023

Unfortunately bsky doesn’t have video uploads yet, so you have to go to bird site to watch video of a Ukrainian drone exploding inside the walls of the Kremlin. That’s a long way from actually killing Putin, but getting closer… twitter.com/darthputinkgb/status/16…

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Tweet by @darthputinkgb

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 03/05/2023

Is it possible to expose how many users are blocking a given user? Maybe it should be listed alongside followers and following on users’ profiles. Like a decentralized reputation score. @jay.bsky.team

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

AOC’s skeet on CNN

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 02/05/2023

Walking my dog this morning, I saw a Lamborghini Urus parked on the street. I am completely baffled as to why anyone would buy such a thing. I get wanting a Lambo. A Lambo SUV feels like such a waste, though.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 02/05/2023

Thinking about the future of AT Protocol, it seems that at some point there will need to be subrepos, just like git has submodules. Like if I’m building a subprotocol that requires hosting a ton of video data, Bluesky itself may not want to host all of it, and a subrepo seems like a good solution.

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Eli Dourado @elidourado.com · 02/05/2023

Make it work natively on iPad and MacOS.

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