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Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, so that I could sell my house and buy an even nicer house. Also, I would like to
On lobbying, corruption, and the same animal under two names
Have you tried to explain lobbying to a non American unfamiliar with the concept?
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thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering . He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital…
I was happy for years in Apple’s walled garden; with AI, however, their protections feel like limitations.
Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government’s model employee.
Design matters more than ever in consumer AI, as long as you have money to play.
Why SaaS business is now a harness one.
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube” . I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where…
rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects
Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?
A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...
Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating…
A guest post by Lars Doucet
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It's chasing billionaires instead.
tokens are going to be as cheap as electricity within the decade
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies.
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make…
Selling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.
