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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.

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

(H&R Block owns Wave.)

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.

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.

Weapons mounts will be dealer installed options.

Le Select...

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?

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.

Ontario has a bunch of make-your-own wine companies that work like wine bricks.

1. you buy 5 gallons of grape juice for ~$20 per gallon.

2. yeast is dropped into your grape juice

3. you come to the store to decant your grape juice into wine bottles and cork them up.

Since no alcohol is bought or sold, you avoid the (very high) taxes on liquor. You end up with ~28 bottles of wine for ~$4 per bottle.

It's not the greatest wine, but it's ok for sangria and cooking, and it's a good story if you hang out with people who like to talk about tax loopholes...

This is your brain crying out for adderral. You could probably show this paragraph to your doctor and get an ADHD diagnosis... ;-)

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