I don't think the WIRED article isn't really doing justice to what Kytch is trying to show. The important argument is whether or not McDonald and Taylor conspired to prevent Kytch from selling / franchisees from purchasing this equipment, essentially a 'right to repair' argument.
If Kytch wins, there could be ramifications for the tractor debate in the agricultural world as well.
As someone who has looked into alternative data business models for the finance industry, this is really awesome to see someone doing this as a company. I was interested to understand how you think about your revenue model? I feel that if your data provides alpha (i.e. selling before other people are aware of the problematic disclosures), as your models become validated within the industry, someone/some firm is going to use it to generate alpha. But then you have a problem where, that one firm that captures most of the value, and takes it from other participants who now lose the value-add of your product.
How do you balance those two sides? I mean it as a potential customer who would love to pay for your product, but want to understand how you prevent this becoming a alpha-generating NLP strategy for one hedge firm who pays the most for it.
It's definitely something we've discussed as a team.
We would like to help make fraud less profitable.
The current iteration of the product requires users with some level of financial expertise - hence why we are starting with fundamentals investors. We believe that the longer a fraud goes on, the more people get hurt - so we want to bring these issue to the forefront. Perhaps each trade can be considered a zero-sum game, but long-term there is a benefit to all market participants.
We love the idea of every investor considering how aggressive accounting/reporting informs management integrity. Unfortunately, I think we have some time before this becomes the norm.
This deserves more attention that it gets. The article on Bill Gates father led me to reading about the Omniprocessor and other similar projects. This project has now spun off into a company called 374 Water. https://www.374water.com/
I read that the Model F keyboard were supposed to emulate the feel of the Selectric keyboard. Haven't bought one before, but heard a lot about these: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/store/
My mother also had a Selectric, and I used it sometimes. I mostly remember it being loud.
I don't recall the keyboards being especially different, but I was just a kid. I do know that it utterly spoiled me for dome keyboards, which I always hated; I hauled that Model F around for about fifteen years, before going full-laptop for awhile. I still have it.
At which point the mechanical keyboard renaissance was in full swing, so I use an Ergodox now. Cherry-type switches are good enough, but if someone made an Ergodox type board with Model F type buckling spring keys (fat chance), I'd have my grail.
Between the Selectric and the Model F was another IBM keyswitch design known variously as the "Beam Spring" or "Keyboard B" which was much closer to the Selectric in feel. It even used the same keycaps as the Selectric. The Model F was introduced as easier to manufacture and more compact.
It's worth noting that the business model for this group is to treat a landfill a little differently to boost methane production. But in the end they're still keeping the leachate on site, and some of the water escapes as vapor (they dewater the methane before burning it).
I really think it's this. Tech jobs are seen as the remaining 'good' jobs while automation and technology eats away at everything. So it is I imagine reasonable that the public at large wants the share of these economic opportunities to be diverse, like the population that the tech companies themselves serve.
First, a huge shoutout to @laurent22 who still tirelessly pushes out new code for the community.
I use Joplin everyday, I switched over about a year ago from a Dropbox-sync'd markdown files edited in Sublime.
I really like Joplin for a few things:
- Source files are in markdown, no vendor lock-in*
- It has the actual HTML rendering in the editor, and allows you to toggle easily
- Android version works quite well, even the syncing!
- Supports tags
- You can add links to different notes by right clicking on a note and selecting `Copy Markdown Link`
- Of the many open-source solutions I've tried, it's probably the only one that works out of the box with a nice mobile app! Kudos
It's not meant for
- To-do list: I tried putting my todo-list in here. It's a bit too free form for that, with no support for dates
A few things it does, which should be of note:
- *Note are not stored nested in the way they are presented on the left in the notebooks. Rather everything is a markdown file (including notebooks) with metadata stored at the top of the markdown file
- You could individually edit files and there is a 'watch' function to open up the note in another editor, it's not really possible for external editors to edit the whole notebook.
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We are building the software platform that powers the the solar industry. Our clients are companies that work on transitioning our society to a future of sustainable energy by selling, designing and installing solar installations. Aurora enables them to do their job better, faster, and more efficiently.
Aurora is a cloud-based SaaS solution that allows solar installers to build 3D models of buildings and trees, simulate the impact of shading on a homeowner’s roof, design advanced solar systems, calculate the financial return of a solar system and generate beautiful sales proposals. By enabling solar installers to do all of this in a short time and without having to leave their office, Aurora helps to reduce the cost of solar installations and make solar energy more widely available.
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I don't think the WIRED article isn't really doing justice to what Kytch is trying to show. The important argument is whether or not McDonald and Taylor conspired to prevent Kytch from selling / franchisees from purchasing this equipment, essentially a 'right to repair' argument.
If Kytch wins, there could be ramifications for the tractor debate in the agricultural world as well.