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Trae Stephens, a part\u00adner at the ven\u00adture-cap\u00adi\u00adtal Founders Fund, said in\u00advestors are turn\u00ading to de\u00adfense be\u00adcause of chang\u00ading dy\u00adnam\u00adics in the startup mar\u00adket. The view of many VCs, he said, is, \u201cYou re\u00adally can\u2019t de\u00adploy cap\u00adi\u00adtal into crypto any\u00admore, you re\u00adally can\u2019t de\u00adploy cap\u00adi\u00adtal into e-com\u00admerce any\u00admore. Where am I go\u00ading to de\u00adploy cap\u00adi\u00adtal? Well, there is a re\u00adces\u00adsion-proof cat\u00ade\u00adgory, it\u2019s de\u00adfense<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI told the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, that I disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities<\/a>,\u201d Trump said at a White House coronavirus task force press briefing, doling out praise for \u201cstrong, resolute\u201d Georgia residents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is corroborated by articles from a long time ago, perhaps when it was a little easier to publish \u2018inconvenient\u2019 facts, before Big Tech completely fettered the internet with their barbaric \u2018WrongThink\u2019 cleansing algorithms. This Guardian article from 2009<\/a> for instance, confirms a 15x increase in birth defects in infants. But there are two ways to think about this. The first is that, the Battles of Fallujah, which are the primary culprits where this DU poisoning took place<\/a>, were maybe two months long in total, combined. That means, we can consider the fact that in only two months of firing DU in Fallujah, they poisoned the population to such a degree as to affect upwards of 14% of births with defects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Software is misunderstood<\/a>. It can feel like a discrete thing, something with which we interact. But, really, it is the intrusion into our world of something very alien. It is the strange interaction of electricity, semiconductors, and instructions, all of which somehow magically control objects that range from screens to robots to phones, to medical devices, laptops, and a bewildering multitude of other things. It is almost infinitely malleable, able to slide and twist and contort itself such that, in its pliability, it pries open doorways as yet unseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little more than six months after the failure of its New Shepard rocket, Blue Origin has published a summary<\/a> of the findings made by its accident investigation team. For a private company flying a private launch system, the analysis<\/a> of this “NS-23” mission is reasonably detailed. Essentially, the rocket’s main engine nozzle sustained temperatures that were higher than anticipated, leading to an explosion of the rocket. The accident occurred at 1 minute and 4 seconds into a research flight that launched on September 12, 2022. The emergency escape system performed as intended, rapidly pulling the spacecraft away from the disintegrating rocket. Had a crew been on board this flight, they would have experienced a significant jolt and some high gravitational forces before landing safely in the West Texas desert. Blue Origin led the investigation, with assistance from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators had a wealth of data to pore over, both from telemetry obtained during the flight and hardware recovered from the desert in West Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe wanted there to be an Amish community here, but seems like everybody Amish is more from Ohio or Pennsylvania, where there are more trees<\/a>,\u201d Rudy Borntreger, the community\u2019s bishop, or elder, explained. \u201cI think it’s so open, nobody wants to join us. Now more people decided to move back to Iowa and Minnesota, so kind of for unity’s sake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Short 100-Question<\/a> Diligence Checklist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hospital pricing games<\/a> are also widespread. Hospitals claim large operating losses, especially in the COVID pandemic period, but large systems sit on balance sheets with tens of billions of dollars in the bank or invested. Hospital prices for the top 37 infused cancer drugs averaged 86.2% higher per unit than in physician offices.3<\/a><\/sup> A patient was billed $73?800 at the University of Chicago for 2 injections of Lupron depot, a treatment for prostate cancer, a drug available in the UK for $260 a dose.4<\/a><\/sup> To drive up their own revenues, many hospitals serving wealthy populations take advantage of a federal subsidy program originally intended to reduce drug costs for people with low income.5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent stories in the financial press have uncovered a coordinated campaign by prudential bank regulators to drive crypto businesses out of the financial system<\/a>. Bank regulators have published informal guidance documents that single out cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency customers as a risk to the banking system. Businesses in the cryptocurrency marketplace are losing their bank accounts, or their access to the ACH network, suddenly, and with no explanation from their bankers. The owners and employees of cryptocurrency firms are even having their personal accounts closed without explanation. And over the past two weeks, federal regulators have shut down a solvent bank that was known to be serving the crypto industry and, although it is required to resolve banks through the \u201cleast cost resolution\u201d to the Deposit Insurance Fund, the FDIC chose to shutter rather than sell the part of the bank that serves digital asset customers, costing the Fund billions of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is similar to JPM or Goldman knowingly manipulating metals markets, making $50bn, and paying $50mm in fines. It\u2019s a good trade.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rocket (@RocketTrades9) March 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n