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It’s called politicking. It happens between any group of people of any size greater than 1: what priorities to focus on, what to apply extra scrutiny to, what to leave alone for an…

If we had a strong executive branch right now, we’d have already threatened to launch an FTC inquiry to break up Amazon and or nationalize SpaceX in response, merited or not. The p…

Been to a few destination weddings (Mediterranean coast, India, Montana), and I think they’re the most fun, by far. All 3 of them being for close friends and family, I have come to…

Police will forcefully evict you from a home. They will not guard the entrance to a restaurant and refuse entry to the owners until they pay their servers stolen wages/tips.

TIL, wow. Thanks for clarifying. Regardless, given the fact they were close / within the same order of magnitude as Figma, it's interesting that the prospect of them IPOing is appa…

According to Harvard Business school (2017): the median market cap of a publicly traded company is $832m. Even at half its valuation, Figma is way, way, way above that. https://cor…

? An IPO allows every employee and shareholder to be as liquid as they like, and optimize to your individual tax and risk situation. An exit is a one time thing. At most, you get t…

Yes, this sucks for employees in the short term who thought their equity was potentially worth 2x what it is (and more importantly, liquid!). But also, if their numbers are good en…

The active duty military vote is not actually a solid republican voting block, contrary to popular belief: in 2020, they swung +8 for Biden [1]. It’s the veterans who are solidly (…

Separate any discussion about the "tone" of the article, could someone who is better at reading between the lines better than I explain the changes to Out-Of App Store payments? Is…

It’s actually in LA now, which to me is a testament to its ability

That’s actually really helpful context, and absolutely swayed the needle from “no track record vaporware company salesman” to “maybe he actually has the experience to pull this off…

As an early employee at a startup from seed through a healthy Series B last year, I would have serious concerns about the company’s bookkeeping and how-up-to-date the shareholder i…

That's what makes them an important check on the state -- if they solely existed in a vacuum than what would speaking truth to power entail?

Lexus appears to have done something like that using superconductors – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhCcC2smGMI https://discoverlexus.com/stories/journeys-beyond-the-road/

I actually would argue universities should not be neutral. They're a historical check on the State. Universities should do whatever works to attract intellectual talent, and if the…

Funny enough, I actually think it’s a bad idea to go after either: both of those institutions, ultimately, are checks on the State — and historically, when a state turns to fascism…

Well, they clearly can’t, because one is being bolstered by politicians and the other attacked by the same set of those politicians. I have not heard of a single Democrat politicia…

Go after the churches and religious organizations first, in that case, as they’re also tax advantaged and their leaders and congregations have a profound pull upon politics and pol…

You’re advocating placing limits on free speech of those best situated to speak truth to power — this is straight out of the fascist playbook. Go after the Churches and religious o…

On the other hand, you could also argue that if AI takes all financial incentives from professionals to produce original works, then the AI will lose out on quality material to tra…

Any piece of pie deemed too big for one person to eat will be split accordingly. I don’t think NYT, or any other industry, for that matter knows AI isn’t going away: in fact, they …

“Hollywood Accounting” gets its name for a reason. I guarantee you there is _no one_ who knows the exact ROI of a show in terms of dollars. In fact they don’t want to know (because…

My prediction is Zaslav will… go ahead with all of this, since he only seems to execute ideas that everyone knows are terrible in both the short and long term. There’s finally enou…

This is touched on in the article, but I never understood why billionaires think that they’ll be able to ride this out. They’ll likely be the number one targets of armed mobs or ot…