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I think it's notable that Apple is vague about what was actually stolen and what OpenAI has actually received. I read into these PR blasts, lawsuits that Apple is sour about losing…

Maybe this is a pipe dream, but wouldn't it be better to retire the legacy phone voice and messaging system altogether. If 99.9% of us have internet phones, why aren't we using PKI…

For something like a battery backup that last decades that doesn't need maintenance, maybe you could bury it out of the way (like under a deck or lawn?), maybe even under the frost…

Results are fuzzy. He has a nice Malibu compound to go to after this lived experience

Then all the engineers will get to rejoin their outies.

I believe we have a competitive construction market, but anti-urbanization zoning regulations, overzealous bespoke building codes and inflation in construction material prices has …

The only reason I can think of for the accelerated S&P 500 inclusion of SpaceX is a pump and dump

If it's expensive and in a for profit system, why aren't competitors on the supply side undercutting each other to increase sales?

One reform I would make would be to limit tax breaks to actual charitable activity within an organization, instead of a blanket tax break to the whole organization. For example if …

FWIW, a number of the panels I've looked at are rated for 50 years

Maybe this already exists, but it would be great if one of the major index ETFs omitted all the firms with problematic board governance like there is at Tesla, SpaceX.

Aside from an easily swap-able battery I would love for an iPhone with a double thickness screen that was less susceptible to cracking and built-in rubber bumpers so I wouldn't nee…

What evidence is there that he knows how to build an empire outside of fundraising?

The Dioxus library seems really similar to me. How is Sycamores model different?

I also see these as reasonable since they are part of the negotiation of selling the business. Non-competes as it relates to most ordinary employees in the US is typically a contra…

I wonder what effect this will have on file sharing services like Megaupload?

Carmack was a shareware/proprietary software guy way before he was a open source person if ever.

Section 122 has rarely been used. State AGs announced lawsuits today: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/trump-tariffs-state-ags-sue-...

The latest temporary tariffs are also likely illegal.

This shouldn't be understated. Also, implicit in the government's requirements is that they require mass domestic surveillance capabilities. Imagine a large government tool that fo…

In many cases they charged me ~$25 in processing fees to collect a ~$3 tariff.

It's hard for me to pay my taxes

Church goers using parking lots like this is a use, but I doubt it's a productive charitable use that should to be subsidized by localities. Every other contemporary development in…