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Since I get to make certain rules, one of them is that I won’t (one exception below) attend a meeting without an agenda and context. It’s not the Bezos paper, but simply something like “let’s nail down the skeleton of the Fubarco proposal: I think we should have the sections 1: agreed abojectives, 2:…. I’m not sure about 4, which is why we need to talk. Agenda: A: agree on the structure, B: give each section an owner; I suggest…”

Often that’s enough to cause the meeting not to happen.

(We are remote most dayssome have one unstructured morning meeting called “watercooler discussion. Not a standup!!”)

The job postings say “Pay Transparency Compensation includes base salary and equity. The salary range for this role is shown on this posting.”

But in fact no salary range was provided for any job I looked at.

That’s a the dilemma, and why I didn’t simply submit the paper itself.

Paper link: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/nfkx-q6z7

Ukraine technological flexibility reflects their organizational incentives. Front line users are in communication with the manufacturers; those same front line users choose the weapon (and vendor) they want, so feedback is rapid and since word gets around, good equipment is quickly adopted and becomes popular until something better replaces it.

The US military procurement is the opposite of this.

One reason procurement is slow is to avoid fraud.* Ukrainse hasn’t managed to eliminate that. Perhaps there is a balance, when you’re under fire at least.

* in the US, procurement fraud looks quite different (e.g. having anpart for your weapon made in every congressional district, a tactic developed for the B-1)

Next step is for the agents to conspire and build a Ponzi scheme or insider trading system to build a pool from which to pay out to people who don’t deserve a refund.

I don't know why they don't just use nitrogen in the storage vessels. Ship holds, for example, already have this capability.

This is a good HN discussion, but the post itself reads like advertising for their IPO. LOokt at us! We’re living the new high efficiency future and we’re building it too so buy the stock!

I wonder how complex the prompt was to write this.

Thanks! Weird that the link didn't post.

Apple gift cards

The article talks about Russia, Ukraine, and various countries in the Persian Gulf, which includes data loss from the destruction of an AWS datacenter.

I use touch and pen (useful for the zoom whiteboard) though I guess some gestures were not supported until 27 — guess I never used those ones!

I don’t use Facebook much but the last time I logged in I was surprised to discover that I am now a business and can’t change it back.

Apple supports this already on the ipad by making the ipad another screen for your mac (I think it’s called sidecar?) and still use pencil, mouse, keyboard etc.

Iphone is novel though, but does a pencil work?

The fee is to unlock something on their own back end, triggered by using a non Apple device. So Apple’s license probably doesn’t apply (the corner case that could cause it to apply is the app generating a key and sending it to the Withings infrastructure, I suppose).

The term you’re looking for is “path dependence” and I was agreeing with you.

The only reason I even commented was because IP issues are popular and relevant on HN

The Hollywood case has a quirk that is relevent to the extensional content of HN:

West coast filmmakng started in the Bay Area (at the time the largest conurbation in the west) but moved south because of the year 'round weather.

But why the west? Because Edison controlled the filmmaking patents and demanded not just royalties but script oversight as well. By moving west, they could ignore the patents because they were simply too hard to enforce from such a long distance.

So ironically, given how things worked out, IP piracy is at the root of Hollywood.

For paywall: https://archive.li/2026.09.30-100513/https://www.nytimes.com...

To get through paywall: https://archive.li/Vszym

Joke’s on them since the carbon monoxide and nicotine (an insecticide) destroy your vascular system (definitely an even harder problem than than cancers these days).

The irony is that when the iphone was introduced, there was no way to write apps for it and jobs said the way to use third party code was to use a web app and add the link to the home screen (which you can still do, though I doubt many people even know that)

Same. Also works great for the family, kids to grandparents

Certainly the user does not feel the same.

A funny thing to vote down as it’s so well known. Dime novels, TV, video games, social media…anything new is a candidate to be attacked as corrupting “kids these days”. Even Socrates (recounted in Phaedrus) said that writing would be the downfall of students.

Here’s a very brief example on the dime novel case: https://techlashed.org/panic/cheap-popular-fiction-penny-dre...

In fact dime novels weren’t just widely available but were decried as the source of truancy and corruption of youth! Sound familiar?

For paywall: https://archive.li/yYNLy

Corporate code is typically terrible anyway. For many years (predating LLMs) I’ve looked askance at my bank’s app with its obvious bugs, wonder how many are not visible. It was not always so (consider SABRE back in the 60s)

But it’s the fat part of the bell curve. There’s loads of even worse crap outside corporate code…and at the right end of the bell curve is deeply thought out and the result of long-term maintenance that tends towards as bulletproof as can be possible in this universe, parts of OSes, networking stacks, clocks, and the like.

It’s only because that stuff is so robust and sufficiently general that the rest of the world’s steaming pile of code works at all.

FWIW I could not find it in the SCOGS database. I don’t know what the food packaging rules are (I only worked on the pharma side)

But in your example, responsibility for the misinformation campaign is assigned to the machine (the corporation itself) not the people (the execs who mounted the misinformation campaign).

My point is that the people (the “drivers” of the car company) should bear the responsibility; it should not be absorbed by the company.

There are other liabilities that should still be assigned to companies. I’m not advocating throwing away the idea of limiting liability.

That process is almost never applied to C corps except for certain financial fraud, while partnerships (like LLCs) are usually seen as proxies for their members, as in your example.