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If you'd like to see a successful one at scale: https://carbonrobotics.com/

The first part is arguable, the second isn't - it just isn't true. Usually, you get large, monopolistic industries that are propped up by the state. So worse products and services than what's available internationally for higher costs as you don't have to compete against all comers. Only a few countries have ever escaped this trap - there's a great Odd Lots about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-how-industrial...

Why would it increase supply? You've reduced international supply in exchange for increasing domestic supply.

Promoting internal business isn't a sure thing - particularly when tariffs reduce competitive pressures.

Why would this lower prices?

There's no glib decree - a new technology has arrived. I'm being very honest about it - you can't put it back in the bottle, any more than you could put jacquard looms or machine woodcarving of trim could be. The position between art and craft can be endlessly debated and I put my stake in the ground.

You can disagree! Folks who are impacted have every right to be pissed, organize, take action. All of these creative endeavors existed _post technology updates_ though - that's my entire point. The need for art doesn't disappear - it changes. Standing athwart the change is a choice, but I'm not sure it is an effective position.

A question that has probably been answered, but...

In a hits business, does quality picking matter? You want to avoid adverse selection, but beyond that - isn't it just about scale?

I'm confused about your point RE: infomercials et al - that's poor quality "content" that's been proliferating for, as you say, more than 50 years.

Is that not the work of commercial creative workers? Did it not exist pre AI? There's an argument to scale, certainly, but the idea that "things were better in the past before these <<new technologies>> came out" is generally a suspect argument.

To your broader point - new tools for creating creative work come out all the time. Did we suffer greatly at the loss of image compositors when Photoshop arrived? On the flip side, did digital art gut painting and sculpture? Isn't this just another tool for creative expression?

Art is a way of seeing, not a way of creating. I don't think the technology is taking that away.

I think many adults also get distraught or enraged by tiny things - it is an emotional regulation problem, not an age problem (but adults can and should be better than children).

Not in the traditional sense - they simply demand the same things they normally eat, sans the hour+ of commuting to get it.

Food deserts also exist in urban areas, particularly poor and historically disadvantaged communities. No magic to capitalism - the local communities don't get a grocery because they can't pay (and, of course, other reasons), even if the population density is high.

Those bushes not attracting many pollinators doesn't make them less invasive or noxious.

If this is of interest, be sure to check out https://www.spudfiles.com/ - multiple types and versions of cannons, including very clever single inlet piston style ones that shoot incredibly far. Here's an example: https://nighthawkinlight.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-powerfu...

A direct use of work like this is to detect and stop illegal fishing, an enormous environmental problem and human trafficking contributor.

For example: https://www.skylight.global/

To add, it is more "to move heavily" - it has a negative correlation to agility and speed.

Cars don't trundle, overloaded trucks do.

Something much like this is used for wells - both simple and effective. I wonder why it wouldn't work here (or if just hasn't been tried).

Morning Star is an example that takes it even further - there are no bosses and all pay is peer based. They do about $1B a year and have 10% of the tomato ingredient market.

Another anecdote - I sold a technical book through one of the big publishers, never heard back post advances, and found out that the international edition wasn't considered to be part of my royalty agreement. This was bad for my coauthors and I as the international edition became part of the curriculum for several universities for several years.

Live and learn.

I don't get the Economist, but I'm wondering how bimodal the distribution is - are we seeing a small cohort run away with the game or is everyone better off?

Oh, absolutely! I was more speaking to the clean up. Lasers are a big step up.

Given large scale laser cuts I've seen - they require less cleanup, but still some. You spatter molten metal everywhere.

This was a good opportunity to say "overtook" as it breaks the idea of acquisition (and sounds more like racing)

Most large companies aim for ~10% total turnover a year.

There are devices - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-duo-2/9408kgxp4xjl...

! Amazing. I had seen so many strong Haskell teams that Rust seemed like the play, for the same reasoning.

I'm glad it worked out for both of us.

I made the call between Haskell and Rust for my fintech startup. I chose Rust when I realized how few Haskell programmers there were available to hire - at 20 engineers, we'd be one of the largest shops on the West Coast of the US AFAIK.

That said, we were one of the largest Rust shops outside of the FAANGs, but Rust was straightforward to teach to C/C++ folks.

Only old C++, new C++ creeps up the y axis.

The RTS Age has a good ring to it.

Zelle may still allow for you to send money to a non-Zelle account - as a dark pattern, they'll hold that cash for the recipient and give them an opportunity to sign up and receive it. This was a big pressure point for smaller banks and CUs to sign up.

Not to answer for Moov, but IIRC, they're still open source + a paid option with banking partners.

I think the pricing is weird because you can start (and run!) for free, while the end to end solution requires negotiating with multiple parties.

Even when offered a more competitive option, consumers love credit cards - the merchant gets soaked, while they get cash back. Given how the networks are, you'd have to have an unprecedented collusion of merchants to break the credit networks open.