@paulg: I just got an investor update from a nuclear reactor startup that measures their LOIs in gigawatts. That's a new one.
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Paul Graham shares that he received an investor update from a nuclear reactor startup whose letters of intent are measured in gigawatts, a scale he's never seen before.
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@Suhail: Uh, huuuuuuuuuuuuge.
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