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For anyone trying start a small business, it’s frustrating to go through dozens to hundreds of potential company names before you can find a reasonable URL that isn’t being squatte…

Have you tried getting a good, unused name today? Anything remotely close to a dictionary word, if unused, is squatted with a $xx,000 price tag. Do registrars get a cut of these sa…

I grew up in a small town in the upper Midwest and always had a strong pull toward the neighboring forests, streams and wetlands. There was a lot of wonder at that age, but I wasn’…

Let’s assume that all human labor goes through the same transition as agriculture: within a single human lifetime, 98% of all the human work is replaced by highly efficient machine…

Increasingly, the answer is a “what”, not a “who”.

That’s interesting. I find it completely unusable for even simple reviews of existing project documentation that I wrote for an iOS app that isn’t even in public distribution.

Or link sales commission to delivery success, and have no sales people...

You have a source to share for that framing of the tax spend?

I actually think it is not cheap enough. Start adding basic, standard features and the price doesn’t look as competitive against legacy manufacturers. Do those manufacturers offer …

Someone created that environment within which you thrived. What is preventing you from doing the same for some other small group, early in their careers?

insurance compliance?

Communication is not deterministic. Communication cannot take place without a selection of communication method, and there are inherently subjective and lossy parts to any communic…

North-facing (in the US) tends to produce earlier due to the increased warmth with south facing producing mid to late season. Fruiting has been suppressed by me due to lack of rain…

I’m building a small map application that allows me/friends/family to explore data overlays about morel mushrooms phenology and habitat (ground temp/moisture/terrain/aspect/tree sp…

Yes - there’s interesting research on subvocalization.

Sky Rover is releasing binoculars that are very comparable to alpha tier Euro brands. I tested their Banner Cloud 6x32; the total build quality package isn’t quite there against my…

I started hand carving and painting fishing lures a few years back, mostly from gathered or gleaned materials. It started as something to keep my hands busy in the Minnesota winter…

“ I've looked at three non-engineer vibe-coded businesses in the past month, and can tell that without taste, they're building a pretty mediocre product at best.” Are you doing thi…

“potentially makes humans inter-planetary” What is the realistic, non-science fiction appeal of this?

Aren’t these kind of borderline fraudulent business practices the sort of thing state attorney generals are supposed to investigate?

Nobody takes “age-restricted account[s] for children” seriously. Parental controls and age-restrictions are almost universally half-baked, buggy fig leafs to displace negative atte…

You’re overthinking my recommendation. It’s a one-time comment to set expectations. Nothing more.

I have found there’s a reciprocal nature to it. If I keep trying here and there, the friend more often than not does try me back in turn. Many of us have kids/demanding jobs - so f…