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The analogy is a little fraught. If a baker bakes at home it's ostensibly not for public consumption. If you work at IBM you could literally code at home too.

This is more like a baker baking things at home, and giving them away for free under their own shingle. That still lacks the nuance of software scalability and licensing but it's a little closer.

This is tricky. There is one sense of "spare time" which concerns output - you aren't always expected to be working. But salaried knowledge workers are commonly considered to have no "spare time" in an intellectual sense, especially when it comes to overlap with the company's core competencies.

This is obviously controversial for individual contributors, but it's well established in IP precedent. It's why you can't work at Google and develop a competing product in your off hours, even if it's "on your own time" and on your own equipment.

See also: one-time bonuses for developing patents and assigning them to your company.

The legal perspective/doctrine here is that people who produce IP as a core part of their work are "always on." They're not paid for hourly labor, they're paid for an intellectual product which only loosely relates to hours worked.

Note that I'm not necessarily endorsing that view, but stating what it is.

To be fair that third one is usually about your biggest worry in general. It doesn't need to literally keep you up at night - though it's a positive signal if you never lose sleep over your company.

That's what I never understand about these proposals...we can't manage to stop climate change on Earth, but we're going to somehow terraform a planet? Or failing that, establish "colonies" the same way we have people live in Antarctica? I don't envy the colonists.

I think the urge to just hit reset and start from scratch is attractive because it removes all the messy unquantifiable problems like politics. But the reality is you'd just get more of that on top of virtually insurmountable technological problems.

Amusingly yes, this is probably the best bet. The temperature and atmosphere around 34-35 miles from the surface are comparable to Earth. And you get comparable gravity and radiation shielding as a bonus.

Good luck storing water and other supplies though. I foresee water piracy in the floating cities.

I sincerely doubt there are many elites seriously considering colonies on Mars. I'm sure they're happy to push their personal brand using the space nostalgic idealism, though.

Triton is a nitrogen saturated, frozen wasteland colder than Pluto. Perhaps you're thinking of Titan? Titan is also an icy hellscape at nearly -200 C, but you can look forward to an ocean of ammonia once you manage to break through the surface.

Europa has liquid water, but the average surface temperature is still colder than the worst ever recorded on Earth. The speculative oceans you seek would be encased under miles of solid ice, just like Titan's. Europa is likewise catastrophically radioactive.

These places are all extremely small, extremely far away and extremely deadly. They make Mars seem pleasant.

Holy shit that demo is amazing. Are there more demos like that? I was wearing AirPods Pro and nearly jumped out of my seat, I thought someone walked into my room. That’s better than anything I’ve ever heard using so-called “spatial audio”, and it’s just surround sound.

I am an angel investor, but I am not a VC and I don't work for one.

Yeah. A well-performing fund will never open its books for a seven figure check. They could likely find a senior employee (not even a partner) willing to invest that.

Another investor is another person you have to have a relationship with.