Seiko SSC819 is a good Speedmaster homage. And it's solar powered so you never need to open the case.

The interstate highway system is actually made up of Interstate and Defense Highways. So all the "interstates" in Hawaii are actually Defense Highways that connect Pearl Harbor with other military bases on Oahu.

- The H-1 goes from Barbers Point to Pearl Harbor to Diamond Head.

- The H-2 connects Pearl Harbor with Schofield Barracks.

- The H-3 connects Pearl Harbor with MCBH (Marine Corps Base Hawaii) at Kaneohe.

TIL. Thanks for this context!

It seems to me that this is the key takeaway for founders:

Your accounting stack is

  1. accounting software
  2. bookkeeping  (ie operating the accounting software)
  3. cpa / cfo    (ie for tax and financial planning)

The benefit and problem with "nextgen" solutions like bench, kick, etc is that they provide a proprietary solution for the entire stack. This could be better/faster/cheaper but also comes with risk, as we are seeing in real time.

In contrast, the minimal risk approach is to source your accounting stack from different vendors:

  1. accounting software (eg quickbooks, xero, wave)
  2. bookkeeping   (hire a person or use a service)
  3. cpa / cfo     (hire a person or use a service)

If you use "standard" accounting software, you can change the other layers of your accounting stack at will. The total cost of layers 1 and 2 might be $6k-$8k per year for a company with revenue, which looks more expensive than the nextgen solutions. But the reduced risk and increased flexibility may be worth it.

Look into Paro.ai. They are a marketplace with good and reliable bookkeeper, accountants, CFOs. My AI startup got a CFO from them 3 years ago and the relationship is still going strong. They haven't hiked up my rates over 3 years. CPA firms increase rates every year, or dump you if you don't make enough money for them

Agreed, but how do you protect yourself against quickbooks/xero/wave going under? Especially with Wave being mostly(?) free

Good question. Quickbooks, Xero, and Wave are all owned by publicly traded companies.

(H&R Block owns Wave.)

One of the issues that led to this decision is regulatory overreach. Standard example is the clean air act which regulated air pollution. Years later the EPA decided that green house gases were air pollutants that could be regulated under the act. Then they tried to say that CO2 was a pollutant, and businesses started to fight back hard.

> Pollution, the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form.

Sounds like green house gases are pollutants.

Weapons mounts will be dealer installed options.

Le Select...

Funny, I edited out the line about Le Select and Bar Italia:)

This is what we had to read in grad school. I remember the sections on how they designed RISC architectures as especially good fun.

https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/henness...

Prolog is cool but has exponential complexity which makes it impractical for real world use.

The rete algorithm was supposed to be a solution but has anyone applied rete to a prolog implementation yet?

Isn't RETE a forward-chaining algorithm while Prolog is a backward-chaining language? I'm not sure you could use RETE for the actual Prolog semantics. Currently, fast implementations of Prolog use a virtual machine, the most popular is WAM, that can be compiled then to machine code (GNU Prolog does it). Also some implementations have JIT indexing, which improves performance too.

Prolog itself does not have exponential complexity. It depends on the problem you're solving.

Execution is harder than you think.

1. Ideas alone can get funded, but only when pitched by entrepreneurs who have done it before. e.g. the last idea-stage company I invested in was a new crm company pitched by an entrepreneur who had already built a huge successful crm company once before.

2. For the rest of us, you have to show you can execute by building a team, some technology, and demonstrating customer traction.

For any given idea, you have to assume that 10 other people have thought of it, so why are you special?

Consider having children.