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Thank God For Data Centers

There exists a vast pool of technologies that are potentially superior to those we employ today, but which require scale and learning curves to reach their potential. Advanced nuclear reactors are one such technology - they are more expensive than alternatives today, but manufactured at scale, and benefiting from the learning curves required to get there, may become cheaper than other generation technologies.

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Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really

Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren't as helpful during smaller outbreaks.

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Bad Analogies

There are a million little details that made Bezos' plan work, all of which, and the connections between them, were taken into consideration. Get to scale category-by-category, starting with the ones best suited to the internet, build an unmatched distribution and logistics network, drive down prices and delivery times, get more scale, grow the distribution network, drive down prices, make the "divinely discontent" customers discontent with anything slower or more expensive than what they'd come to expect with Amazon, get them hooked on Prime, paying a subscription and ordering more, keep pressing the advantage, grow FCF per share.

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The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

The exterior of the Las Vegas Sphere, known as the Exosphere, is a 580,000-square-foot LED display wrapping a 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide spherical structure. This colossal screen is composed of 1.2 million individual "LED pucks," each containing 48 LEDs, to create a dynamic and high-resolution visual experience.