270 karma · joined December 7, 2021
'Transacting' requires not only identity but accountability, a completely controlled-by-you phone cannot meaningfully transact separately from you.
And some things do trade 24/7 (though I wish they wouldn't, one auction per minute during US east coast business hours would be totally sufficient for most US markets).
Why would you own them, instead of some well capitalized billionaire?
To the extent that you do have capital, why do you assume that your 'minimal direction and guidance' would outcompete a full time specialist working for that billionaire?
If there's no causal link, they should say 'associated with' or 'correlated with'.
Surely price competition is more economically valuable than the queue position game, which is measured in economically meaningless nanoseconds.
Similarly, I don't read the whole file a function is in while editing it in an IDE, why should a coding agent get the whole file polluting its context by default?
In software there's a lot more emphasis on post-hoc fixes rather than up front validation, in my experience.
If Blockbuster had kept pouring money into the new service, maybe it would have lost it all - I see no reason to think Blockbuster's movie rental franchise business would have 'transferrable skills' to allow it to succeed at streaming.
If it had been trying to pivot into a pizza delivery business (perhaps more transferable, in terms of locating franchises etc) would Icahn still have been 'killing' it?
My point is, maybe it was already dead and Icahn just prevented it from wasting a lot of money on the way down the drain.
I've seen a lot of 'fixes' for 10 year old 'garbage' that turned out to be regressions for important use cases that the author of the 'fix' wasn't aware of.
Now that photos and videos can be faked, we'll have to go back to the older system.
Reviewers wanting to pull and run many PRs makes me think your automated tests need improvement.