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This (re-)triggered a huge (dormant?) mechanical watch special interest for me when it was first posted.

Neurospiceys tread carefully.

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Maybe we changed the rules so that our capital markets can protect our champions from large Chinese buy pressure at lower post-IPO valuations. Plus, these companies have probably had to demonstrate earnings stability (yes, unaudited) in order for the rules to be waived.

Is the text of the waiver and its reasoning anywhere? I guess I'll read tfa.

MCP is dead? 2 months ago

No, the technical opinion. MCP is an interesting integration pattern. Calling it "more APIs" is like calling software "just some code". It's true, not interesting.

MCP is dead? 2 months ago

I suggest you implement an MCP server before adopting this as a firm technical opinion.

Protip: asks need to be simple. This is cool, but long: "congratulations, or sorry, but I'm not reading that".

If they had a "preorder" button at the top I would give them money and be done with it.

Interesting that Baumol's Cost Disease might have missed that non-productive wage increases might actually swamp productive wages.

If we assume that services jobs will be, primarily, the jobs that survive automation, the cost disease might also swamp the Coasean Singularity.

Yes, although as the Koch Brothers point out in their book: you have to play by the rules that exist, not the rules you want.

If you read, eg, Buffet, he makes the point that a manager donating to a political cause, whether the Heritage Foundation or, God forbid, something as far right as the SPLC, makes that donation with money that otherwise accrues to the shareholders. The manager therefore creates an agency problem, where he might pursue his own interests at the expense of the owners.

If they are aligned, the manager can retain the earnings and create a dividend for the owners, such that they can then make the donation directly. If they are not aligned with the owners, they are redistributing wealth.

I am not surprised that the Left advocates for backdoor wealth redistribution, but I would prefer they be honest about it.

Seems related to the explore/exploit problem, where the standard answer is related to the answer to the Secretary Problem[0], with the important caveat that it depends on whether "passing" on an opportunity legitimately makes it unavailable in future.

But another good answer is to open the door and trust the audience. The people who show up to the garage practice are perhaps not people who show up to buy tickets.

Adopting a scarcity mindset, generally, is a bad idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem