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by bickfordb 5d ago
Arbitration can be more efficient, but both parties should have an option to choose it, a direct settlement or public court. The average consumer is denied the choice by using these everyday services that have non-negotiable contracts.
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by bickfordb 10d ago
It will be exhilarating when their robots are pointing guns at us
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by bickfordb 11d ago
Everyone loves the SF painted ladies but no one seems to build new ones.
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by bickfordb 12d ago
I don't believe it is (someone who knows two languages isn't remarkable, someone who can teach others isn't remarkable), but there should probably be a visa for that if we need it. I personally don't believe even a lot
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by bickfordb 12d ago
The H1B was intended for highly specialized skills that where there is no local talent available.
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New Social Network "Twitter.now" Launches Under Twitter Name, Trademark Battle(finance.biggo.com)
2 points by bickfordb 28d ago|1 comments
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by bickfordb 1mo ago
Consolidation seems to have lead to massive price leverage for the winners and fewer choices for consumers, huge barriers to entry for small grocers and manufacturers
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by bickfordb 1mo ago
Seems like a good case for unions if workers prefer remote, but can't get it through typical one on one negotiation.
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by bickfordb 1mo ago
And they fill up with silt and generate less power over time.
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by bickfordb 2mo ago
I think it's notable that Apple is vague about what was actually stolen and what OpenAI has actually received. I read into these PR blasts, lawsuits that Apple is sour about losing employees to higher salary opportunities, and is likel
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by bickfordb 2mo ago
Maybe this is a pipe dream, but wouldn't it be better to retire the legacy phone voice and messaging system altogether. If 99.9% of us have internet phones, why aren't we using PKI, decentralized protocols, crowd sourced reputatio
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by bickfordb 2mo ago
For something like a battery backup that last decades that doesn't need maintenance, maybe you could bury it out of the way (like under a deck or lawn?), maybe even under the frost line.
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by bickfordb 3mo ago
Results are fuzzy. He has a nice Malibu compound to go to after this lived experience
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by bickfordb 3mo ago
Then all the engineers will get to rejoin their outies.
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by bickfordb 4mo ago
I believe we have a competitive construction market, but anti-urbanization zoning regulations, overzealous bespoke building codes and inflation in construction material prices has made construction relatively more expensive than in previous
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by bickfordb 4mo ago
The only reason I can think of for the accelerated S&P 500 inclusion of SpaceX is a pump and dump
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by bickfordb 4mo ago
If it's expensive and in a for profit system, why aren't competitors on the supply side undercutting each other to increase sales?
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by bickfordb 4mo ago
One reform I would make would be to limit tax breaks to actual charitable activity within an organization, instead of a blanket tax break to the whole organization. For example if a Church/Hospital runs a soup kitchen and homeless she
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by bickfordb 5mo ago
FWIW, a number of the panels I've looked at are rated for 50 years
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by bickfordb 5mo ago
Maybe this already exists, but it would be great if one of the major index ETFs omitted all the firms with problematic board governance like there is at Tesla, SpaceX.
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by bickfordb 5mo ago
Aside from an easily swap-able battery I would love for an iPhone with a double thickness screen that was less susceptible to cracking and built-in rubber bumpers so I wouldn't need a case.
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by bickfordb 6mo ago
What evidence is there that he knows how to build an empire outside of fundraising?
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by bickfordb 6mo ago
The Dioxus library seems really similar to me. How is Sycamores model different?
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by bickfordb 6mo ago
I also see these as reasonable since they are part of the negotiation of selling the business. Non-competes as it relates to most ordinary employees in the US is typically a contract of adhesion: a surprise take it or leave it clause while
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by bickfordb 6mo ago
I wonder what effect this will have on file sharing services like Megaupload?
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by bickfordb 7mo ago
Carmack was a shareware/proprietary software guy way before he was a open source person if ever.
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by bickfordb 7mo ago
Section 122 has rarely been used. State AGs announced lawsuits today: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/trump-tariffs-state-ags-sue-...
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by bickfordb 7mo ago
The latest temporary tariffs are also likely illegal.
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by bickfordb 7mo ago
This shouldn't be understated. Also, implicit in the government's requirements is that they require mass domestic surveillance capabilities. Imagine a large government tool that for each citizen there is an antagonist OpenClaw-li
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by bickfordb 7mo ago
In many cases they charged me ~$25 in processing fees to collect a ~$3 tariff.

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