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> Farm the sun

Fantastic messaging! I could see this being a great way to market this, especially with something mentioned in the article:

> Farm the sun to make 3X more money


Great proof of concept!

At the top it says:

> 2,100+ > CEO, CFO, Board, and other executive changes tracked in the past 30 days

Could you add a little metric there such as how many companies are being tracked, and perhaps how that compares to the previous 30 days, or 6 months ago, or 12 months ago?

Maybe a graph showing how many changes happen each month, so we can see when things are more volatile or not.


Is it encumbering? It seems like it's not at all.


It talks about a study from 1944 in the US, specifically in Minnesota. How many of those parents were full-time stay-at-home parents, probably typically mothers, who were monitoring the child and helping with potty training?

How many kids nowadays are in daycare?

When there is a 3-to-1 adult-to-child ratio, doing something like this is much more challenging when there's just one adult and one infant.


Absolutely. 3:1 is only common ant absolute top tier daycares. More likely you’ll have 6:1 or 8:1. And even high quality daycares might not help children potty train which is absolutely essential if both parents are working but people want to potty train early. By age 3 kids are moving towards preschool and are more intelligent and have better self awareness and are more reward motivated. I think diaper conspiracy is honestly less likely here than structural advantages and modern life leading to later potty training


I was only talking about infants, and I thought Massachusetts's legal requirement of 3:1 was pretty common everywhere in the US, since one adult taking care of 3 infants seems so difficult... but a quick search shows me it's not! 4:1 is pretty common as a minimum nationally, though.

> And even high quality daycares might not help children potty train

Definitely. I think that's pretty rare.


A service that comes to pick up dirty cloth diapers and drops off clean cloth diapers.

Example: https://www.diaperstork.com


I would be extremely surprised if that’s better for the environment than disposable diapers. The key for most of this stuff is economies of scale. It’s why the produce from the supermarket that was carried thousands of miles on a cargo ship is better for the environment than the produce from the farmer’s market that was carried 50 miles in a diesel truck.


So this wipes out the savings you'd obtain just by buying diapers by the bulk.


I used to use DuckDuckGo, until I realized I was using "!g" far too often.

Then I tried Kagi, and I find that works the majority of the time, including their AI. Someone else in the comments here said Kagi's AI models are bad, but I don't think they are for answering the fairly basic questions that I typically search. I'm not going to have Kagi's AI model refactor code or something though.


And how many companies want to also be able to build out their own CDN?

Not every company can be an expert at everything.

But perhaps many of us could buy a different CDN than the major players if we want to reduce the likelihood of mass outages like this though.


> To install a 3rd party window manager you need to disable some security setting

Depends what you mean by window manager, but an app like Magnet does not require disabling security settings.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12


Just like the ideal political candidate to vote for generally does not exist for anyone, the ideal company with perfect stances and behavior on everything generally does not exist.

So yes, scale back your purchasing, but as you said: the options are limited, just like political candidates. Choose who matches up best with you, support them, but unlike your relationship to Apple, political participation has a VERY different piece.

You can't just show up and start influencing policy at Apple headquarters.

But you CAN just show up to some local organizing meetings of local grassroots organizations and political parties and influence things. You can have a direct impact, and these groups are usually small enough with few enough participants in your town that you WILL have a decent impact.


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