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Direct air capture
DAC removes CO₂ from thin air—but not at scale, not cheaply, and not yet.
Climate change
Physics that became politics, on a schedule nobody set.
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Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson · 2009
Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at Google to improve programming productivity for multicore, networked machines and large codebases. It combines static typing and runtime efficiency like C, readability and usability like Python, and high-performance networking and multiprocessing. Publicly announced in November 2009 and released as version 1.0 in March 2012, Go emphasizes simplicity, safety, and developer tooling — especially around concurrency via goroutines and channels, packaging, testing, and deployment — while deliberately omitting features like inheritance, assertions, pointer arithmetic, and implicit type conversions. Its design reflects a focus on the software development process itself rather than just language syntax or semantics.
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Haptic tech doesn’t replicate touch—it substitutes it with calibrated vibrations, forces, and motions, and that substitution is all it ever promised to do.
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Lidar wasn’t invented to map cities or drive cars—it was built to hit satellites and spot smog.
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SES didn’t invent satellite TV—it weaponised orbital real estate.