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IANAL so maybe I'm not reading it correctly, but my understanding of the bill ( https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduce... ) is that you have to compensate for…

I think stuff like this is much better settled with compensation than legislation. For example when I was an engineer 15-20 years ago, my friends would deprioritize jobs with lots …

Related to this, I hate how aggressively Google pushes Gemini and all of the privacy implications involved with that. 1) Lots of features got moved around and there are now many "W…

It's sobering to think that if every single person in Malta -- an entire country! -- signed up for ChatGPT and used it weekly, ChatGPT’s WAU would increase by only a few tenths of …

A cool approach to digitizing touch that I read about a few days ago: https://www.wired.com/story/this-clever-robotic-finger-feels... (I'm not disagreeing with the author, just sha…

This is secondhand and not firsthand knowledge, but one thing I've heard from a number of agtech founders (and sometimes farmers when we do diligence calls with them) is that hirin…

This feels premature -- we've only had great AI capabilities for a little while, and jobs are not replaced overnight. This reminds me of some early stage startup pitches. During a …

Not quite the same, but this reminds me of bitcoin, where miners are on the hunt for SHA hashes that start with a bunch of zeroes in a row (which one could say is memorable/unusual…

I think incentives are different on an individual level. Yes, if everyone built more housing then your property's value would not go up as much. But if a single individual builds h…

My understanding is this allergen over-labeling was inspired by the FDA in the first place. https://www.fastcompany.com/90830854/sesame-seed-allergen-fd... From the linked article …

> "This large gap isn’t particularly surprising, given that San Francisco has the highest density of billionaires of any city in the world, with Silicon Valley known for its absurd…

It's "mostly" equity. If a company doesn't exit for anything it's not on the hook for the VC $, there are no monthly interest payments, etc. OTOH if there's a great exit that clear…

I've thought about that kind of system before, and it's an interesting approach but it doesn't fully protect against bad actors. E.g. what if the founder raises $5m, puts it into a…

I'll throw out a VC's perspective on liquidation prefs: 1) I think 1x is very fair and meant to protect investors from bad company behavior. If you didn't have 1x preference, this …

Three episodes that I really enjoyed (from an engineer-turned-investor's POV): https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/palmer-luckey-inventin... (Palmer Luckey) https://podcasts.appl…

It's not clear to me that the title of the post is the logical conclusion from the post's content. The post talks about fewer investors in VC rounds, but the definition of an inves…