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There are two angles to this. One is that if you want to integrate your agent setup into the Apple ecosystem you need a network connected Mac running 24/7. The second is that the p…

If the Delaware company has zero presence in Virginia then the state of Virginia can't do anything about it. The presence of us-east-1 in Virginia probably will complicate the matt…

There is no moat in the model and by making the them open, it’s hard for one to be established when the free models are “good enough”. OpenAI and Anthropic are both hamstrung by th…

I think the article makes a bit too much of the decision to partner with Google for the AI model. Sometimes knowing where the boundaries of your business are is better than trying …

Nah, they'll just make the battery an external MagSafe accessory like the Air.

In-house vs Cloud Provider is largely a wash in terms of cost. Regardless of the approach, you are going need people to maintain stuff and people cost money. Similarly compute and …

There is no moat in the models. The moat is in the UX. The problem is that OpenAI is far away from where the user is and not going to get there anytime soon. Google meanwhile is ex…

I don't think Nokia at that point would have gone with Android with Google services which what the market wanted. They would have gone with Android with their own services (Maps et…

The Pre and WebOS were hands down the best non iPhone experience at the time. The mistake Palm made was going exclusive instead of pushing it everywhere. I don't think the Pre ever…

European tech was doomed in late the 90s when the EU decided to throw in with Microsoft et al instead of supporting building out a homegrown alternative ecosystem based around open…

Nokia was dead company walking before Stephen Elop. Elop saw the writing on the wall and made one of the choices available. A different CEO would have made a different choice but u…

Good luck doing a controlled burn where the smoke is going to blow into a rich neighborhood like the Palisades. You'll be buried under so many environmental impact lawsuits that an…

Yes, that Prop 13. The insidious part is that commercial real estate in California is paying the same rates as they were when the building was built, despite the fact that the valu…

It's a fair take. California is now unaffordable for most families and it's going to get worse. Example: New construction in Santa Clarita (north Los Angeles county) $800k 3 bedroo…

Prop 13 is the third rail of California politics that is choking the state. Until someone is willing to grab the nettle and fix the property tax situation to be fair and equitable …

It's largely the same issue that every sector is experiencing. Everyone is trying for the same high end of the market crowd to extract as much prestige and profit as possible and p…

The common pattern is that the off-shoring company will deploy workers on site for a year to do knowledge transfer and documentation of existing processes so that they can be moved…

There are two possible end-states for AI once a threshold is crossed: The AIs take a look at the state of things and realize the KPIs will improve considerably if homo sapiens are …

Kaiser does give a more integrated European style experience, however the experience largely depends on the quality of service you get from your local Kaiser doctors and hospitals.…

To get anywhere beyond senior engineer you'll need to be able to explain and convince people that your idea is solid. The best way to learn these skills is to mentor and interact w…

Not quite. Copyright doesn't protect general concepts, methods, or common knowledge. So you could write a program that is remarkably similar to another one and not infringe copyrig…

Exactly. Dokku looks great but what is the value of using it over "run your container" platforms like Google Cloud Run, Digital Ocean App Platform, or Fargate.

Olivetti (an Italian company) took over Acorn in 1985. This was around the time the ARM processor was being developed. Acorn was in danger of going under at this time when one of t…

If you look at the last 25 years Microsoft has ended up with more misses than hits. Azure and xBox are the big hits (both from the Balmer era), but they missed in so many other pla…

Some counter points: ARM originated at a European company (Acorn/Olivetti). Bluetooth originated at a European Company (Ericsson) Psion, Nokia, and Ericsson invented what would be …