rexreed

Asset Purchase Agreements are taxed primarily as income. Only a sale of the company ownership or equity would be taxed differently

But not as accurate. A few quick queries and already it's providing misinformation. As much as Wikipedia has problems with truthiness in some instances, it's not nearly as bad as misinformation-ridden GPTs.

Which LLM is this using because it is providing hallucinated facts that differ from ChatGPT 4o on the latest model?

That sort of termination fee would never be applicable to a small business like this, and it's often the small business that gets screwed, not a company that has raised a ton of money from VC with valuations in the billions, with a lot of vested interest from both investors and shareholders.

What terms would you have offered, including any seller financing, required lock-in or employment from Michael, etc? What would you have done with the product after acquisition?

In not too many years, the average user will be prompting to get their needs met, rather than searching a flawed search system, wading through pages of sponsored and SEO-gamified links, opening up multiple tabs to try to dig out the details from sites hustling whatever they hustle, and then trying to read to get their needs met. Google sees the writing on the wall, which is going towards a prompt-based direct ask system mediated by an LLM. It definitely is far from perfect now, but the writing is on the wall. Search and SEO are both going to be relics of a bygone past in not too many years.

There seem to be three articles about this on the front page of HN right now.

Your second cynical answer is the correct one. It's always about the shareholder and never about the customer at Broadcom. Remember Computer Associates (CA)? Yeah, they're now Broadcom. That pattern of acquire - consolidate - turn the screws on the customer DNA / culture is very strong in Broadcom.

Another word for Design Doc = "Shelfware"

I wonder what's going to happen to Google Fiber and all the people dependent on that.

And recast your wins as failures (and failures as wins) when the need so arises

There's a piece of artwork on the walls of the CIA (available to see by those who have access, it's unclassified) that dramatically shows the recovery operation, including showing the one failed grabber that lost one piece of the sub (if that is to be believed): https://shipscribe.com/usnaux2/AG/glomarexp3b-h09.jpg

"This painting representing Project AZORIAN is displayed in one of CIA's corridors with other paintings of key events in the Agency's history which, while not open to the public, are shown to uncleared visitors as well as employees. It clearly shows the grabber on the capture vehicle that failed, dropping much of the submarine back to the ocean floor."

You can see more on the Shipscribe page here: https://shipscribe.com/usnaux2/AG/AG193-p.html

I always test these AI generators with the head scratcher genre: Electro Klezmer Reggae Funk.

I was thrilled by 2 of the versions produced. I wish I could extend it more like one of the comments here said:

* ElectroKlezmerReggaeFunk 1: https://sonauto.ai/songs/s22rQEPnYsXy1yf7sjU0

* ElectroKlezmerReggaeFunk 3: https://sonauto.ai/songs/1iNTrA2CekPwp7XT9mmM

But wow, the UDIO version:

* https://www.udio.com/songs/j4zpRYgG2GEDbWpLPYbuJb

What local hardware is needed to run Bark AI? What is the quality? Looking for something as good or better than Eleven Labs.

Tell me more

Patents aren't granted forever. They expire after 20 yrs. The real barrier isn't the printer, but the cartridges and those designs keep changing. So if you want to have a successful open source printer design it needs to have a ready source of open ink cartridges as well.

I honestly hope this will happen in our future. But we're in the era of extortion capitalism with walled gardens and captive customers.

What are the MacOS and hardware requirements? How does it perform on a slightly older model, lower powered Mac? I wish I could test this to see how it would perform, and while it's only $10, I don't want to spend that just to realize it won't work on my older, underpowered Mac mini.

Give first as a general mantra sometimes works. But in situations where you're constantly giving to new people who have never gotten anything from you before, and therefore want the same "give" that you gave the earlier people means that you never get to the return part. Instead you're always giving. New people come in, want the same give that you gave others, and then at some point you're not getting the return because those new people are placed with even newer people. This is the revolving door of give, and why the give first never results in the... what next? Give first, get later? A lot of times it's give, give, give, with no return, until you finally tire out.

I think you're thinking about SXSW

How are you going to reach the market of project managers? Have had some experience with this in the past to mixed results.

Interesting on the cloud expenses (Altho I'd really categorize those as SaaS vs cloud, but that's just semantics. I tend to think of Cloud as IaaS / Paas / Faas vs. Saas which is mostly renting an online application). Regardless, Those 2 only add up to $7.1k so I'm curious where the bigger ~$9k remainder is coming from.

Folks love Shopify, and it does work very well. But for my small businesses I've been very happily using Woocommerce on Wordpress, basically nothing but the hosting cost for Wordpress, and it's been delivering very well. I've done several million annually on the Woocommerce / Wordpress combo.

That being said, even eliminating or reducing Shopify would still have you at a premium vs last year so there must be some other Saas / Cloud expense driving that bill up.

Looks great. As a note I don't count credit card rewards as revenue, but rather I count it as an offset to expenses. In this way, rewards don't add to the top line, but rather improves the bottom line. Basically I consider it a way to discount my expenses, or as a negative expense. The reason is because those rewards are linked to expenses. If you spend more, you get more rewards. Spend less, you get less. You can't increase rewards (generally) without increasing expenses. So I see it as a way to discount or reduce expenses vs. increase the top line. Long story short, if you see your rewards increasing 10x that means you've increased expenses some factor of 10x which isn't so great. You could list rewards under the "Everything Else" line of expenses as a negative expense in red. The result will be the same on the bottom line but it won't be misleading the top line, which should be driven as high as you can.

Also those cloud expenses look significant. That looks like an 80% increase year-over-year which is substantial. Is there a way to shave off a significant amount by moving to a different method for architecture? Or will that break your system? I worry about rapidly growing cloud expenses especially when you're not that huge of a company.

Finally I'm curious about those dividend earnings! Living off them is great, especially as you were doing so in the lower-interest rate years. Can you share insights in the high yield dividends you're earning that are also low risk enough that the underlying investment value doesn't erode?

The worst thing for me about nextdoor is nextdoor. Everything about the app brings out the worst in people. Nextdoor made me realize that I'd really rather not know that much about my neighbors.

Patent trolls are a wart on the tumor that is software patents.

Sounds like a whole lot of stuff for a startup. Maybe start with a simple stack until there's market fit. Even Amazon didn't start this way.

* powered by gravity. Would work just as well with water or any other transmission of gravity.

That was my first thought - did Networld Interop restart and is now a big thing again? What next, COMDEX?

Vince has quite the unique and colorful background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate

Vince Cate, the domain manager referenced in the article, has a unique and rich history of his own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate

How would you know that this article is itself not fake? In this case, disclaimers have been placed on the original article, but that doesn't usually happen.

This is the problem with confirmation bias. What if another article came out to reveal that this article was fake? And then recursively on and on. How would you know how to distinguish the reality? I sense most people will believe what they want to believe, and if that be the original article (possibly fake), or the rebuttal article (possibly fake). We have to go entirely on our ability to trust the source.