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In addition to this article, I've seen well thought out assertions from knowledgeable people that Hormuz is far worse than the market thinks and the market just continues not caring.

Maybe they're both right? Horrible things can happen to oil importing economies without derailing the AI build out that's driving the US economy and stock prices.

I think there's a catch-22 where Trump will hold out as long as the market lets him and everyone in the market wants to look through him throwing in the towel.

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Apple/Google make less money if they sell the data because their ad product would no longer have an advantage. So no, I don't think they do that.

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The professions with the least negotiating power will have the most draconian "oversight". Imagine a cashier graded in real time on how many customers they smile at. Or tracking how many glasses in a restaurant are empty.

2 months agodiscuss

Wild to me that Bitwarden raised > $100m from VC. Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business.

The enterprise version never went beyond password management so I'm not sure how this could have generated a viable ROI.

2 months agodiscuss

Better commit messages, better and more up to date docs, etc. It's not all slop!

2 months agodiscuss

Why would an investment manager choose a CIT over an ETF? I can't help but think there's additional fees being collected somewhere.

To adapt a popular phrase to personal finance, "If you don't understand the product, you are the product."

2 months agodiscuss

This seems like the kind of thing that the right kind of engineer could turn into a lifestyle business. Two mobile apps, two or three browser extensions, a server, and a marketing website. A lot of care for the core security decisions and a bunch of CRUD UIs.

I know I'm being "that guy" so tell me where this gets more complex than I think.

2 months agodiscuss

tbh, I do that with Uber/Lyft, too

2 months agodiscuss

Thank you, Sunnyvale man, for hitting this edge case before I do.

2 months agodiscuss

Interesting way to encourage competition for its competitor. A single, scaled self-driving company is a massive threat to Uber.

2 months agodiscuss

During peak hours Waymo is more expensive than standard uber/lyft - I don't pay attention to black/premium pricing. Off-peak the price can be comparable. I mainly check because my wife prefers it.

3 months agodiscuss

Anyone know how much harder water resistance gets with replaceable batteries?

3 months agodiscuss

Are there good hosted options that will not respond to non-judicial data requests?

Someone is going to say self hosted is better and I don't disagree, but there's limits to how much time I can spend on self hosted stuff.

3 months agodiscuss

From the article

> In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

3 months agodiscuss

Property taxes come to mind.

3 months agodiscuss

They've blown up several ships so which ship owner will test them? Spend $1m on a transit fee or risk $90m on a new tanker.

3 months agodiscuss

I suspect more fighting in Lebanon means less oil through Hormuz. Iran kept its definition of "open" vague. Everyone is keeping the pressure up during negotiations.

3 months agodiscuss

I suspect this is the real reason behind Anthropic limiting subscriptions to their own products and keeping API prices several times higher than comparable models. Applications more sticky than API users and less technical users more sticky than programmers (ie Cowork more sticky than Code).

3 months agodiscuss

One supreme leader replaced by another, even more hardline, supreme leader. Trump failed.

3 months agodiscuss

The nuclear program is orders of magnitude more important than everything else. If you think JCPOA was bad, take a look at Iran's 10 point plan.