France, USA, Australia to name 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_self...).

You can't just use percentages for this kind of thing.

Barring a very good cause that the vast majority of the population can get behind, there will be riots when the bananas and coffee disappear.

We grow enough in our garden that I could probably reach "100%" pretty easily if shit hit the fan, but I'm about tired of eating radish greens right now even that being related to a national crisis.

In the case of something like a world war, which is the type of scenario we're talking about here, I think people would begrudgingly accept that bananas and coffee are unavailable or very expensive.

People substitute very quickly and happily.

I remember food shortages during Covid. Nowhere near as bad as toilet paper shortages.

I can go without chocolate for a few days. Weeks, maybe. But if it becomes months, I get crabby.

I'll die before I go without my curvy yellow lumps of mush.

I've heard it usually takes at least an acre to grow enough food to feed a single family.

Feeding a family on an acre is a bit like making pencils one at a time.

1. That's almost 20 years old data. 2. That's just calories.

Here's more recent data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4

Appears to me, like neither country is fully self-sufficient.

Your link is about a healthy diet, not surviving. Agricultural subsidies are to avoid or lessen famine, not to look rosy.

That's moving the goal post. Fully sufficient.

If you follow his logic and believe that the ultra-wealthy pay too little tax (as e.g. Warren Buffett does), then a balanced approach is to set the tax rate to: "37% of income or 1.85% of wealth, whichever is higher".

This would close the gap between Buffett's tax rate and that of his secretary, but would not be the "highest taxes in the world" that PG decries.

This was my first thought: this seems like a web + 3d port of Fritzing. Perhaps they even reuse some of the code?

Gross margin doesn't tell you much about their level of investment. Gross margin is only revenue minus COGS (i.e. hosting, support, potentially infra teams). To understand further investments you'd have to know R&D or at least Opex broken out for Apple Services (which AFAIK they do not share).

SaaS typically expects 80% gross margin, so Apple is not out of line here.

> To understand further investments you'd have to know R&D or at least Opex broken out for Apple Services (which AFAIK they do not share).

Total R&D for the entire corporation was $9 billion compared to $29 billion just in Services revenue. How much of that R&D do you think the crApp Store needs, compared to the hardware and the operating systems? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2025-q4/FY25_Q4_Consol...

> SaaS typically expects 80% gross margin, so Apple is not out of line here.

App Store is essentially an online retailer (or consignment store), not SaaS. Apple is selling software written by other developers.

In practice, I don’t think tax policy is the primary driver for where people chose to live. Even very wealthy people.

If I were very wealthy the first thing I would want to buy is proximity to the people I love, the food I like, the culture I’m excited about. For many people that means being close to home.

I can’t imagine how shallow my life would have to be for me to optimize it around taxes.

That's the thing though - the ultra wealthy already do buy that kind of proximity. They have multiple properties all over the world, accessed via private jet, helicopter, or mega yacht. They live in an entirely different reality compared to someone with a job - even someone who works in the c-suite.

They also aren't the ones doing the optimization. They have people for that. This article seems to be written by someone who is trying to bring that kind of service down the ladder to the slightly more common folk - the mega rich, not just the ultra rich.

It’s not foveated rendering, it’s foveated streaming

This guy ^ runs a conference on corporate values. You can't make this stuff up...

Hacker News formula for startups: no offices, no offsites, no meetings, and no MBAs. If only idiot CEOs and rapacious VCs were listening!

Not quite.

Have an onsite team or have hybrid setups that bring people within geographic areas together. Nothing replaces getting around a physical whiteboard in a physical space.

Context is in the original statement that retreats are a fix for burnout.

I used to agree with that but now we have tools like Figma that actually work better than a whiteboard once you understand how to use them correctly.

Sure Figjam is great but my anecdata is that a majority of the value of the whiteboard is the discussion as it happens not the resulting artifact. Lucid works better for that because it let's you easily frame things into slides (yes, a section in figjam is usable for this but it's not the same).

The concept being that you break things down and layer in details so the evolution is explained similar to the train of thought from live sessions.

I've been remote almost exclusively since 2012 and have used everything out there... the biggest thing that makes an improvement with remote comms? A very high quality microphone with a high quality compressor / gate (hardware, even) and using Mumble / Teamspeak / etc with a good codec where everyone can hear everyone speaking at the same time with low latency. That's what we lost from copper phones and it's exponentially worse in Zoom where you can't tell when someone is trying to interrupt you with the auditory cues. It really makes a big difference.

I'm an extrovert so I love video / cams on but really audio is all that is needed when paired with a tool like Figjam and getting high quality audio makes a remarkable difference.

If you, like me, were looking for a video of the demo in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=752-Oo1hok4

In hindsight I think the correct word would be "regular software upgrades".