Juan Orbea

Of course most funds hope that not all but one company they invest in has an exit, so the GPs must then make some assumptions around the percentage of companies that go to zero, return 1x capital, return a modest 3x capital, return a healthy 25x capital and return more than 100x capital. Making assumptions around graduation rates can help GPs... See more

The UN predicts that by 2030 there’ll be no person in the world living under abject poverty.

Traditional tax principles treat many pooled smart contracts and decentralized autonomous organizations as entities. It’s hard to determine what kind of entities they are, who their equity holders are, and how they are supposed to pay taxes, file tax returns and information reports. This article examines the problems with treating smart contracts... See more

High-temperature gas reactors (HTGRs): In HTGRs, gasses (typically helium) act as the coolant that is fed directly into the turbine to produce energy. Helium is an inert gas, so it generally won’t chemically react with any material, and exposing helium to neutron radiation won’t make it radioactive. Helium can therefore be heated to higher... See more

It’s natural to care about future generations: we may all want the lives of our children and grandchildren to go well, even before they are born. 

The first idea is you can think about any social system using those layers. The second idea and (the more important point) is to think about the way that the layers can actually be traded off against each other.

Giving What We Can member Henry Howard donated 50% of his income to charity in 2021 during his first year working as a junior doctor in Australia.