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"elaborate foot guns" -- HN is a high signal environment, but I could read for a week and not find a gem like this. Props. Destiny visits me on my 18th birthday and says, "Gart, yo…

Manufacturing was hard to do 2 decades ago, and is harder now. I started, grew, and exited a modern manufacturing-based business, and I can confirm that almost everything about mod…

I've always loved being confounded by unexpected stories like this. 20 years ago, I was working to build a self-publishing company - lulu.com - that would open up the world of book…

Is this an empathy test?

The Canadian government drove its primary aerospace company, Avro Canada, not just into bankruptcy/reorganization, but to completely shutdown operations. The country lost 14,000 ae…

a_bonobo.... I think you're digging in the right vein here, but to perhaps to make the point clearer we could separate the discussion into two: In an AI laden world 1) How are arti…

One way to think about this is that color is information. We have a processing capacity for this information that became fully saturated somewhere between 1967 and 1973, and since …

Brexit was about UK nativism. As the USA steps out of its own nativist administration, the UK has fewer like-minded global partners with real shared interests. I'm an American that…

Lulu.com - book self publishing. Discussions between Amazon & Lulu led to the reproduction of every use case over the following 24 months. I worked at Lulu.

While I appreciate the sentiment of this RFS with regards to the sclerotic dysfunction of the legal system of copyright (and the business models that perpetuate it), truth be told,…