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New comment by ralph84 in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

ralph84 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:03:10 +0000

If anything the failure rate has probably increased with more capital and founders chasing after the same opportunities. Being a startup founder gained prestige and became the default thing to do after college for certain types of people who before the GFC would have ended up in finance.

New comment by ralph84 in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

ralph84 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:12:01 +0000

macOS is proprietary software. You need a license for every copy you run, whether it's in a VM or not. The VM limit is written into the macOS EULA.

> to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software, or any prior macOS or OS X operating system software or subsequent release of the Apple Software, within virtual operating system environments on each Apple-branded computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

New comment by ralph84 in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

ralph84 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:52:44 +0000

Because their business model is to sell tightly integrated hardware and software as a package. The hardware sales fund the software development. They don't want people who haven't bought the hardware using the software.

New comment by ralph84 in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

ralph84 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:52:23 +0000

Just because the plane can fly on one engine doesn't mean you don't fix the other engine when it fails.

New comment by ralph84 in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

ralph84 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:25:13 +0000

Work harder on the right things. Digging holes in your backyard with a shovel is hard work but nobody is going to pay you for it.

New comment by ralph84 in "In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?"

ralph84 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:55:09 +0000

> that the world is fundamentally analog

Isn't that still an unresolved question? Wave-particle duality and all that.

New comment by ralph84 in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"

ralph84 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:51:01 +0000

They're all in California where the law is very pro-employee. As long as you're not taking actual documents or code with you, there's nothing your former employer can do about what's in your head.

New comment by ralph84 in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

ralph84 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:32:34 +0000

If you want to discourage short-term thinking, make the vesting period longer on executive stock grants. Making companies' performance less transparent just opens up more opportunities for insider trading.

New comment by ralph84 in "Reddit's Lawsuit Is a Dangerous Attempt to Expand Platform Power"

ralph84 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:56:19 +0000

Then you are free to sue whoever you think is violating your copyright. That's one of Serpapi's defenses: the owner of the copyright needs to sue, not a non-exclusive licensee of the copyright (Reddit).

New comment by ralph84 in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

ralph84 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:02:18 +0000

The meteorologist making the observation has the ability to sway the outcome. "Those automated observations were wrong, turns out the maximum temperature today was 61F not 60F." This already happens all the time. Whether insiders are doing this to win in prediction markets is up for debate.

New comment by ralph84 in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

ralph84 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:42:14 +0000

They're not dying, but they're not healthy either. They've been around for 24 years and still haven't figured out how to turn a profit.

New comment by ralph84 in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

ralph84 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:41:16 +0000

If I was a NOAA meteorologist I'd be making bank insider trading temperature prediction markets.

New comment by ralph84 in "Google Workspace CLI"

ralph84 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:51:25 +0000

Yet somehow Microsoft Copilot doesn't know how to use that tooling.

New comment by ralph84 in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

ralph84 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:20:27 +0000

https://justsendtheprompt.com

New comment by ralph84 in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

ralph84 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:17:21 +0000

Promotion-driven development happens at Microsoft just like any other big tech company.

New comment by ralph84 in "In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%"

ralph84 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:09:23 +0000

Progressive taxation on income is specifically designed to prevent upward mobility from working.

New comment by ralph84 in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

ralph84 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:43:17 +0000

The first generation Leaf belongs more to the early curiosity phase of EVs than the mainstream. Funny looking, less than 100 miles range, and slow charging via a port that never caught on outside of Japan. Tesla didn't just build a car that addressed the biggest EV objections (range, charging speed, looks), they also built a DCFC network that has more ports than all of the other ones combined. Without the charging network there is no EV market.

New comment by ralph84 in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

ralph84 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:37:02 +0000

Tesla single-handedly created the market for EVs. There are over 9 million Teslas on the road worldwide. That's a much bigger return on their subsidies than most government programs.

New comment by ralph84 in "Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot"

ralph84 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:29:20 +0000

Human knowledge belongs to humanity. Of course the people who want to paywall it and extract rent will try to concoct some ethical basis for their rent seeking. Anthropic appears to be choosing the xenophobic route.

New comment by ralph84 in "Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI"

ralph84 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:34:53 +0000

Not sure why the dumb money keeps playing. If you're not the insider the person you're trading against is.