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founder/ceo of impulse @impulselabs_

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Sam D'Amico

9 months

So we ( @ImpulseLabs_ ) made the highest performing ... stove. - 3x the performance of induction and ~5x gas (equiv. of ~72,000 BTU/h!). - A nontrivial advance in temperature sensing, transforming cooking. - And it ships this year (taking deposits starting ... today).

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2 months

when the team’s monomaniacal focus on latency and performance gets applied to … a stove

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23 days

I sleep with the door open because of indoor CO2

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Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum

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29 days

The health risks of raw milk can easily be eliminated by heating the milk up to 161 degrees in a sterilized container, then putting it back in the fridge. Easy stuff. Don't be fooled by alarmists.

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the most hilarious way to make spacesuits cheap is to realize there’s probably a $5-10K price point that a few thousand+ people would pay despite having no plans to go to space

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1 year

The funniest outcome possible is that this superconductor thing is real but it’s illegal to use in the EU because of RoHS

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3 months

FOUR key things in the past 20-30 years are causing the physical world to electrify: 1) magnets got way better, enabling high torque permanent magnet motors.

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The world is undergoing a technological shift that might look superficial, but is actually very deep and fundamental. Electricity is defeating combustion.

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The SF car break-in thing is so systemic that it appears entirely possible a small group could: - rent like 20 cars over a weekend - leave backpacks in the back seat that have working laptops with hidden GPS trackers - park in tourist areas - wait for inevitable + post GPS logs

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1 year

Raise your hand if you have also used the “expired carbon fiber from Boeing” trick on at least one vehicle 🙋‍♂️

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1 year

I remember being a Raytheon intern in 2008, they were WILDLY early and this stuff wasn’t just an external PR thing.

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4 months

lab grown meat is absurd for one reason: the amount of land freed up from having ~1.5% less cows would be enough to entirely power the country with utility-scale solar.

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2 years

Just wanted to put this out there -- gas stoves are a Northeast/California/Eastern urban midwest thing. This is also where major cities used gas for lighting in the early 20th century - the infra started at that point. Almost opposite the map of the red/blue political divide.

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2 months

Secret plan: 1. Sell literally the best stove 2. Get a lot of people to plug it (and its built-in battery) in 3. Control the grid because you control a massive amount of distributed battery storage

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when the team’s monomaniacal focus on latency and performance gets applied to … a stove

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SF nightlife is officially at escape velocity because there is a skewer guy. This is a key evolutionary step for any ecosystem.

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2 months

by request … ramen at 10,000 watts @ImpulseLabs_

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1 year

the superconductor thing is cool because: - we might know if it’s legit within double-digit hours and that is within the attention span of human excitement - it’s like a legitimately new engineering LEGO brick if legit

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Sam D'Amico

3 months

Why no one has home storage — YET Battery pack prices have totally collapsed — at high volumes, this means that enough batteries to *totally flatten* a home’s peak electricity demand cost no more than about $1,500. That means never paying for electricity from 4-9PM.

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1 month

There’s an emerging cross-partisan consensus on individually contentious topics — that we need to re-evaluate the advances brought by post-WW2 materials and chemical engineering now that we have a much better understanding of human biology and environmental processes.

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Doing a quick thread on the backstory here @ImpulseLabs_ We realized that putting battery packs in appliances made it possible to greatly exceed the available power you'd get from the wall -- and could crush other stoves at boiling water, getting pans up to temp, etc. BUT

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1) put steak in pan set to 140F 2) flip 2-3 times over an hour (lid on) 3) sear at ~405F in olive oil (doesn’t smoke!) 4) perfect

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Sam D'Amico

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Elon is literally the only guy who has been able to brute force a complex project through our environmental review / permitting labyrinth in a time scale close enough to the actual project execution time. Housing, energy, transit, etc ALL have the same underlying bottleneck.

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Starship's fully and rapidly reusable design will exponentially increase humanity’s ability to access and utilize outer space. To unlock its full potential, and do it rapidly enough to meet commitments to national priorities like NASA’s Artemis program, Starships need to fly →

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2 months

the plan is now leaked to the media

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Secret plan: 1. Sell literally the best stove 2. Get a lot of people to plug it (and its built-in battery) in 3. Control the grid because you control a massive amount of distributed battery storage

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Sam D'Amico

7 months

It turns out “gen alpha doesn’t understand the concept of files and folders” may extend to “undergraduate CS students aren’t taught how CPUs actually work anymore”

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1 month

So if you hold a pan at constant temperature >>212F but <400ish, food doesn’t burn but WILL de-stick from stainless steel pans. Normally this requires skill, but not now. (also, the orange yolk eggs are mysteriously better)

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Sam D'Amico

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This is something where a next wave of major appliances could reset a huge chunk of plastic pollution concerns: - stoves that control temperature well so you don’t need PFAS-containing nonstick pans - laundry machines that filter their drain lines - new water processing devices

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Sam D'Amico

9 months

Back in the lab after #CES2024 … preview of what peak performance (10kW) looks like vs. a gas stove (2.1-2.2ish kW equivalent) @ImpulseLabs_ Note the water is already hot (at 10kW it goes from faucet temperature to boiling in <40 seconds)

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Sam D'Amico

2 years

We’ve raised a $20M Series A from @Lux_Capital @fifthwallvc @lachygroom @constructcap and many others to accelerate decarbonization in the home. This is in addition to a $5M seed round last year from @Lux_Capital , @constructcap , and @lachygroom .

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Induction cooking heats up with a $20M cash injection for Impulse | TechCrunch

The company is positioning itself squarely in the challenge around residential and light industrial decarbonization.

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Sam D'Amico

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You can do China scale / speed in the US, if you are one specific dude

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DYK: This is @Starlink 's largest hardware manufacturing facility, responsible for manufacturing 90,000 user terminals per week – That's 4.68 million terminals per year – and the manufacturing facility is currently expanding to meet the phenomenal global demand for Starlink.

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Sam D'Amico

2 years

Gas stoves are the main character on twitter this week but a reminder that our entire playbook at @ImpulseLabs_ is that *this should not be a culture war*. Just ship obviously better stuff.

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The Highest Performing Stove Yet

With best-in-class features that blend power, precision, and a pain-free installation, the Impulse Cooktop brings next-generation performance to your kitchen.

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Sam D'Amico

2 years

Back to the performance story — the argument should be over when you can ship something literally ten times better. Here’s a video showing how we’re 10x faster than a high end natural gas stove at boiling water. 1 Liter in 40 seconds (the gas stove takes ~400 with the same pan).

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The emergence of a “based left” that absorbs the cautionary tales of San Francisco’s mismanagement, the 2010s culture wars, and rejects degrowth/NIMBYism seems … real.

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5 months

The guy who actually scaled production is still underrated

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@Noahpinion In a good way. Meat uses like 1/3 of our land

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5 months

This was continental Europe’s version of brexit

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2 years

gm everyone

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We could simply have energy abundance versus this bs

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This is psychotic behavior

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In Taiwan, not only is there zero domestic COVID-19 spread, but also that old folks are comfortable going to packed indoor venues, like this grandma, who I’ve run into twice ()

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Sam D'Amico

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Back to the performance story — the argument should be over when you can ship something literally ten times better. Here’s a video showing how we’re 10x faster than a high end natural gas stove at boiling water. 1 Liter in 40 seconds (the gas stove takes ~400 with the same pan).

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10 months

it’s wild that SF could soon lose control of housing policy and it’s not the biggest story in the city

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1 month

1) put steak in pan set to 140F 2) flip 2-3 times over an hour (lid on) 3) sear at ~405F in olive oil (doesn’t smoke!) 4) perfect

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1 year

overheard in SF: people discussing replicating the superconductor paper

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@ImpulseLabs_ If you want to see what else we can do, it’s also crazy precise

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now at a level of reverse sear not usually possible

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@sigfig Tbh good training regimen

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3 months

2) power transistors (what’s needed to power electric motors and convert DC <> AC power) got more power dense and more efficient. Silicon is being displaced by Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride.

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Sam D'Amico

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It’s highly likely the problem is something like: - typical target is a tourist who isn’t a constituent - typical theft amount is not large - fencing operation isn’t in city and county of SF - technology budgets and inter-police department cooperation are minimal

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3) batteries got both high energy density and cheap, thanks to Lithium-Ion and the scale from electric vehicles driving down battery cell costs.

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@growing_daniel this sounds better than that atm one

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1 year

legalize it

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LK99 in the USA.

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3 months

4) scale from EVs and drones led to purpose-built single-chip solutions for battery management and motor control, driving lower costs, better overall integration, and letting new companies benefit from abstraction when using these technologies.

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29 days

if you’re curious on how to do this easily and reliably, I may have a product of interest.

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Sam D'Amico

8 months

A thing we do a lot at the @ImpulseLabs_ office is ... cook steak. But we can do it, thanks to our temperature sensors, in a totally novel way: via exact temperature reverse-sear. ~131F / 55C for ~1 hour (and 2 flips), then a quick sear. No water bath, no plastic, 1 take.

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Daniel boils a liter of cold water in under 40 seconds with @ImpulseLabs_ @growing_daniel

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@boxcardavid Wait, you’re saying we could cut down accident rates by mandating hepa filters and time limiting the recirculation button?

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Sam D'Amico

1 month

Actually understanding the Starliner thruster issue just now and can offer an early career story — giant engineering programs depend on sub-suppliers to provide critical modules and manufacturing expertise. The Oculus Rift CV1 used an external sensor for head/controller tracking

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Sam D'Amico

1 year

Microexample of what’s happening in US major cities: 1. State capacity has been eroded by permitting/community input/enviro laws like CEQA 2. Cities outsource the doing of stuff to local nonprofits with no economies of scale 3. Doing things/Building stuff is either bad or slow

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A bunch of LA-based nonprofits used taxpayer funds to go on a paid junket to Ecuador and Europe and then came home and attached a metal grate to a bus stop in the name of gender equity. They held a press conference to celebrate this.

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2 months

@SnazzyLabs 10,000 per burner lol

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Sam D'Amico

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You can see how effective opening the door is in this plot (in PPM CO2)

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Sam D'Amico

7 months

microplastics (in the U.S.) are from 2 primary causes: - tire dust entering the water supply / food supply / air - laundering synthetic fabrics without a filter on the washing machine drain -> reuse of treated water Second one seems very fixable 🤔

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Sam D'Amico

1 year

Random college takes: - top private schools should 2-3x undergrad enrollment - UC should build an undergrad campus in SF - UMass should figure out a way to compete with MIT (aka a elite undergrad eng campus in the Boston area)

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Sam D'Amico

3 years

convinced America sometimes operates like a student who procrastinates massively, does all the work for the final project over a 48 hour bender while continuously swearing, and then scores in the 90th percentile

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Sam D'Amico

6 months

@baekdal something similar is happening with audio

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Sam D'Amico

1 year

also the patriot missile system appears to have gotten significantly better since 2005

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Bonus if you can ski in it or something

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Sam D'Amico

1 month

There’s now a huge opportunity to innovate in bioengineering, appliances, and anything that physically touches the food supply chain — the consensus that there are concerns will drive mass replacement for a second generation of technologies.

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Sam D'Amico

7 months

the implications are still not fully understood. ovens without thermostats were a thing before the 1940s. baking used to be way harder. stoves with pan temperature control are a new thing but don't work above medium. and don't really set exact pan temperature. until now.

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Sam D'Amico

7 months

A fun trick of “set stove to 330F” is you don’t have to be a particularly good cook to get stuff to release from a stainless steel pan — it won’t burn but will rather dehydrate and then de-stick. And browned bottom + runny yolk is easy to get.

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@luke_metro This guy was first

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Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

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Sam D'Amico

6 months

My friend Pete made a hardware device that should come in the box for every corded outdoor security camera — turns out you can just pass power through windows👇👇👇

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The Power Mole allows outdoor devices to be powered via indoor outlets. Simple power transfer through windows - available now

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And lastly -- burning gas indoors is only part of the indoor air quality concerns from cooking -- VOCs from oils hitting their smoke points are also a concern. Let me know if you've got any questions -- will try my best to answer.

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Sam D'Amico

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This is something where a next wave of major appliances could reset a huge chunk of plastic pollution concerns: - stoves that control temperature well so you don’t need PFAS-containing nonstick pans - laundry machines that filter their drain lines - new water processing devices

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I predict that filtering out plastic particles from water will soon be big business.

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@otis_reid the US is not going to reindustrialize by getting 60something machinists to come back to work

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2 months

It actually uses *less* energy than a normal stove as it spends less time throwing off heat to the environment while getting to temperature

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@sdamico Absolutely amazed with the speed of this, out of curiosity, what’s the rough cost of a boil like this? I feel like there has to be a notable power cost for something this insane

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OK at popular request, I made Annie’s Mac and Cheese in *about* the minimum time possible, with a stove about 3-4x more powerful than other induction stoves. This also demonstrates how we can control temperature precisely, as that’s key to making the all-important cheese sauce.

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What’s really interesting is that we’re now in a position for solutions to robustly address all of these concerns — vegetable oils, microplastics, indoor combustion, and PFAS, and in a sense they’re all products of THE SAME engineering disciplines that led to these concerns.

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now at a level of reverse sear not usually possible

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@markimbriaco The knobs are so much better than any other stove knob

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Sam D'Amico

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@pronounced_kyle The meta-story with recent transportation disasters is that we always get the crazy timeline headline BUT the actual work gets done quickly because we waive all the red tape that makes new projects impossible. Then there’s no self-reflection as to why it was faster.

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Sam D'Amico

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just got back from our manufacturing site. this is getting very, very real. and we are at best underpromising.

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Sam D'Amico

9 months

So we ( @ImpulseLabs_ ) made the highest performing ... stove. - 3x the performance of induction and ~5x gas (equiv. of ~72,000 BTU/h!). - A nontrivial advance in temperature sensing, transforming cooking. - And it ships this year (taking deposits starting ... today).

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Sam D'Amico

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Due to the use of off-the-shelf components that pass compliance from a handful of upstream vendors, many appliance brands can’t do stuff like this. But if you approach this as “make the best device from first principles” (and have an awesome team) — you can.

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things did get a little messy but the removable knobs came in handy

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@EERandomness Yeah it’s got a 3kWh (very high discharge rate) battery

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3 years

disprove degrowthers with one weird trick

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This is easily one of my favorite charts ever.

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The podcast America needs is one that interviews consumer electronics non-executive engineering and operations people about real stories from manufacturing in China.

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Sam D'Amico

9 months

We made a number of UI/UX changes to reimagine the future of cooking, including making everything work well with temperature-based control. We also heard people like knobs, and we figured out a really cool solution there for control + cleanability (they're magnetic!)

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Sam D'Amico

2 years

An SF apartment tower entirely made up of studios and 1 bedrooms with a 24 hour gym, coffee shop, and rooftop lounge >> any possible “founder house”

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Note: stove by @ImpulseLabs_

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2 years

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80% of US coal-fired power plants can be repurposed for advanced nuclear reactors according to @ENERGY .

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Think it should be noted that the Biden admin seems to be dialing up the pro-nuclear rhetoric well beyond what would have been possible in an earlier era when the left was broadly constrained by the legacy environmental movement on this issue.

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Sam D'Amico

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still feels like people aren’t appreciating the fact that starship is going to work

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Sam D'Amico

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posting about race and IQ and spreading unverified copypasta content about immigrants is something you can simply choose to not do maybe a huge understatement but seems to not be directionally helpful if you also want to be someone who builds cool stuff for the world

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Sam D'Amico

1 year

This is an absurd achievement for domestic consumer electronics manufacturing

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SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is no longer absorbing the cost of the Starlink antennas it sells with its satellite internet service.

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Sam D'Amico

1 year

@dieworkwear me 10 years ago entering a fancy bar/nightclub: collared shirt, dress shoes, etc. now: black t shirt, sneakers.

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Sam D'Amico

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environmental clearance should have automatically happened with the approval of the project in 2008 the state could literally pass a bill to skip these delays

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CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨

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We’ve environmentally cleared 422 of the project’s 494 miles! By this summer, the Palmdale to Burbank section’s environmental document will be considered by our Board. If approved, we will have completely cleared the 463 miles from downtown SF to LA Union Station. #FactFriday

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So we ended up integrating a new type of sensor with the highest performance induction system I think ever built ... After cooking with it, we realized something: actually having high heat + temperature sensing is ... big. Like "worth replacing a high end stove" big.

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Sam D'Amico

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It’s wild that in the late 80s / early 90s one guy just ground out creating a GaN blue LED by modifying his own fab equipment until it worked. You’d think all the single person engineering feats were done after the 1800s but it seems Iike they still exist.

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Sam D'Amico

12 days

The future of *everything* now that we have a path to avoid warming / pollution with new technologies is that we should broadly reset regulations around housing, public transit, and energy to allow people to actually build stuff again.

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Matt Huber

13 days

Electricity politics is weird. Left/liberal climate advocates promote a right wing economic model for grid planning (ERCOT) while conservative states defend a left wing model of central planning/socialized investment (regulated/public utilities).

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Sam D'Amico

2 months

the anduril factory announcement is a bigger deal than their announcement suggests … it’s the “missing piece” of the entire plan that has been hiding in plain sight

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Sam D'Amico

5 months

1. make land use decisions subject to “community input” 2. form “community groups” (extrajudicial HOAs) that can deliver aggregated, project-ending levels of “community input” 3. A leader of said group literally *buys out* obstructed projects Wait … he’s running for mayor?

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💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️

@SusanDReynolds

5 months

Due to numerous complaints by Peskin’s neighborhood group The Telegraph Hill Dwellers against the house at 224 Filbert Street, the buyers picked it up for $800,000 — around half of what Trafton paid just two years prior. Who were the new owners of 224 Filbert Street? Peskin’s

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Sam D'Amico

1 year

@sam_d_1995 He also is the guy whose staff you probably argued with on this website 8 years ago

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Sam D'Amico

5 years

@tonyhawk “Tony hawk being sort of recognized .... ish” is definitely a top tweet genre

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Sam D'Amico

1 year

Let’s gooooooo

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Lily Wilkerson

1 year

Remember that hilarious (and very needed) proposal for a 500' skyscraper in San Francisco's Sunset District? Well, the renderings are out!

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Sam D'Amico

4 months

We’re going to panic our way to <$50/kWh LFP cells made in the USA. ICE is doomed on economics alone.

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NewsWire

4 months

MASSIVE LITHIUM FIND IN PENNSYLVANIA COULD MEET 40% OF U.S. DEMAND

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Sam D'Amico

2 years

Remember me joking about putting down a 30 story tower on a SF lot … a friend ACTUALLY pulled the trigger and may be the first mover that proves to be the first crack in the dam on fixing California’s housing shortage. Legendary.

This Bay Area man has become the face of California’s latest housing drama

As Northern California’s first builder’s remedy applications are starting to trickle...

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Sam D'Amico

2 years

The ultimate SF builder's remedy shitpost would be to take a ~22x90 Victorian lot and put down a 30 story tower in the window when no zoning laws apply (as long as the project is 20% affordable) at the end of the month.

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