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Maybe this already exists, but it would be great if one of the major index ETFs omitted all the firms with problematic board governance like there is at Tesla, SpaceX.

S&P500 had a rule from 2017 to 2023 that prevented companies with dual classes of shares (the sort that allow them to maintain founder control- like what GOOG and META did) that went public after the rule was instituted from ever being in the index. To be clear, META and GOOG were both in the index, but it was to prevent new companies from coming along and doing it. (I think it was related to SNAP going public?)

They removed it largely because investors wanted higher returns, and the tech companies that had such dual classes (1) were doing really well, and the S&P ended up caving on that rule.

1: Perennial hot button around here Palantir did this in a more extreme fashion than most. The three founders F class shares will always be at 49.9999% of the votes and the early investors B class shares have 10 votes each as compared to the publicly traded A class shares 1 votes.


Aside from an easily swap-able battery I would love for an iPhone with a double thickness screen that was less susceptible to cracking and built-in rubber bumpers so I wouldn't need a case.

I'll take what is a screen protector for 500, Alex.

What evidence is there that he knows how to build an empire outside of fundraising?

The 750+ million users of ChatGPT might count for something...

If they are able to monetise them.

The Dioxus library seems really similar to me. How is Sycamores model different?


Dioxus originally was more like ReactJS and used hooks. However, they have since migrated to using signals as well which makes Dioxus and Sycamore much more similar.

One remaining major difference is that Dioxus uses a VDOM (Virtual DOM) as an intermediary layer. This has a few advantages such as more flexible rendering backends (they also support native rendering for desktop apps), at the cost of an extra layer of indirection.

Creating native GUI apps should also be possible in Sycamore, and something I'm interested in although there is currently no official support. However, I think one of the big differences with Dioxus would be that Dioxus supports "one codebase, many platforms" whereas I think that is a non-goal with Sycamore. Web apps should have one codebase, native apps should have another. Of course, it would still be possible to share business logic but the actual UI code will be separate.


How does it compare to leptos? Leptos is roughly based on Solidjs and uses signals, to enable fine grained reactivity and avoid a vdom. Why sicamore over leptos?


I also see these as reasonable since they are part of the negotiation of selling the business. Non-competes as it relates to most ordinary employees in the US is typically a contract of adhesion: a surprise take it or leave it clause while signing an employment agreement, well after a job offer and salary negotiation.


I wonder what effect this will have on file sharing services like Megaupload?


In terms of legality Megaupload messed up by directly participating in copyright infringement. They paid people to upload copyrighted movies. Cox doesn't reward people for copyright infringement. The lawsuit against them argued they failed to take enough precautions (for example cutting off subscribers upon receiving an accusation from a third party) and that should make them liable.

In practice Megaupload is not an established company. Other consumer file storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud are trillion dollar companies with deep legal benches and lobbying muscle. YouTube seeded the service with pirated content and Google helped fight off a copyright lawsuit by finding evidence that one rights holder uploaded their own video and then claimed infringement.


Carmack was a shareware/proprietary software guy way before he was a open source person if ever.


The latest temporary tariffs are also likely illegal.


Justice delayed is justice denied. There should be an express lane for litigation similar actions like this.


There is an express lane, it's reserved for the government appealing cases, in which any and all injunctions are halted because the court has unilaterally decided to interpret "not being able to do illegal shit" as "great harm" while there is no harm in sending people to torture prisons abroad on the flimsiest of evidence.

They sure took their time with this one.


we can’t even do that with violent criminal let alone white color criminals. lol


This is a silly point. Courts aren't sitting around umming and ahhing about whether they should issue an arrest warrant to get x violent criminal off the streets, the system wastes minimal time in apprehending them and putting them in jail. At THAT point things slow to a crawl - because there's no longer the urgent incentive to act to prevent further harm.

Whereas in these cases the government is potentially harming the entire public every single day that the courts don't act.


I thought those were on very solid ground commonly used by past administrations?


Section 122 has rarely been used. State AGs announced lawsuits today: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/trump-tariffs-state-ags-sue-...


Section 122 is only supposed to be applied to address balance of payments deficits, which are essentially zero with floating currency exchange rates (since the 70s). They're also limited to 15% and 150 days. (Judges will not look favorably on Trump trying to just restart the same tariff for another 150 days after the first expire.)


> I thought those were on very solid ground commonly used by past administrations

No, Section 122 tariffs have never been used prior to Trump turning to them after the Supreme Court decision striking down the IEEPA tariffs, and, the states suing the Administration argue, the explicit sole statutory purpose for which they were allowed in the 1974 law creating the power can only possible to exist under a fixed-exchange-rate monetary system, which the US has not had since 1976.


Well if it works, they’re gonna keep doing it.


This shouldn't be understated.

Also, implicit in the government's requirements is that they require mass domestic surveillance capabilities. Imagine a large government tool that for each citizen there is an antagonist OpenClaw-like set of agents surveilling and potentially acting against every public interaction and occasionally hallucinating.


In many cases they charged me ~$25 in processing fees to collect a ~$3 tariff.


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