A Case for Deregulation of Domestic Mining.The United States needs to revitalize domestic mining to secure its economic and national security. In 2022, the US imported over 90% of its rare earth elements from China, a dependency that threatens key industries– defense, energy,.

Wheres the productivity app that functions like texts?. I send so many of my (and other people’s) tasks and status updates via text and I just wish they’d just auto convert into tasks from a group chat.

Mining companies are completely missing the mark in their efforts to attract young talent. On paper, mining seems like a perfect match for young workers— it’s elusive, it's cool, and it's extremely important. In practice, today’s mining jobs are unappealing to young prospects—

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RT @eshear: @Suhail I think the shitting on mercenaries in tech is funny bc by the standards of histories, we are all wildly mercenary — yo….

RT @a16z: It's time to mine. Critical minerals underpin hundreds of billions of dollars in downstream industrial output. For the U.S., th….

RT @Reuters: The United States has said it will begin revoking visas for some Chinese students, in a move that could disrupt a major source….

Imho domestic talent for cutting edge fields is very sparse, and visa programs for recruiting international talent are nonintuitive/inaccessible.

Building apps used to require 4-6 dedicated developers. Nearly 20 years later, it doesn't even take one. Building robots currently requires 4-6 dedicated engineers. In ~10 years, it won't even take one. We already saw the pattern play out in software, and with the.

XCMG and Huawei teaming up to deploy autonomous haul trucks was an inevitable step forward towards end-to-end mine automation. Each haul truck is:. > EV (564kWh LFP battery).> 90t load size.> L3 autonomous.> Operates down to -40°C conditions. Full autonomy isn’t that far away.

Yep.

Do really hard things really well and everything else will follow.

RT @ErnestScheyder: Foreign Affairs magazine calls U.S. reliance on China for critical minerals to be "America’s Most Dangerous Dependence"….

RT @curr3ncies: My father has been the owner & CEO of various mining (metals & ore) companies ever since I was a little kid. At the time, h….

RT @BasedBeffJezos: The reason I'm going to win is because I'd literally rather die than lose.

Eroding trust in the US hurts all of its citizens– I'd like to be able to travel abroad without receiving dirty looks from my American accent.

Many in the tech community fundamentally misunderstand mining as an industry because they’re too shortsighted (or weak-stomached) to recognize the long-term strategy of monopolizing scarce & inelastic commodities. From an economic perspective, mines are more akin to farms than.

It’s already happening, yup.

Friedberg’s take on US tariffs, found myself agreeing. To summarize,. > Worse products bc tariffs shelter American companies from free market competition.> Increased gov spend bc tariffed nations stop buying US goods, and impacted sectors will need bail outs.> Increased risk of.

Oh man.