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Miles Kimball

@mileskimball
7 posts
2025-07-30
In principle, if the government became 5% owner of IP after a tax credit covering 5% of the R&D cost, the government's cut would be like a Georgian single tax on the territory of possible discoveries. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-07-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the US Commerce Department is discussing charging patent holders 1%-5% of their patent value, a radical move likely to spark pushback from businesses

Commerce Department officials discuss new fee based on patent value, which could fuel backlash from businesses

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2021-08-09
“'The 17-year-old fry cook isn't expensive labor, but the 17-year-old be-comes expensive labor if he or she doesn't show up for work,' says Ruth Cowan, a historian who has researched kitchen automation.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-08-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Kitchen automation has risen during the pandemic, with robots from Miso Robotics, Chowbotics, and other startups now replacing some jobs in fast food chains

it's practically Food As A Service 🧵 https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Honestly if your first reaction on seeing this is “ugh robots gonna ...

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2020-12-28
“We can mimic reality, but we are not digital creatures ourselves, and..., our evolutionary background will continue to demand physical experiences.” —Joel Mokyr We may not be digital creatures now. But someday maybe we will be. https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-12-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Due to the pandemic, trends that normally may have taken years to unfold, like remote work or the shift from physical to virtual commerce, happened in months

Joel Mokyr We may not be digital creatures now. But someday maybe we will be. https://www.wsj.com/... Miles Kimball / @mileskimball : “Through Shopify, a business can quickly set u...

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“Through Shopify, a business can quickly set up a web site with many of the same functions as Amazon without having to sell through Amazon. Its merchant count has nearly doubled in less than two years” https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-12-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Due to the pandemic, trends that normally may have taken years to unfold, like remote work or the shift from physical to virtual commerce, happened in months

Joel Mokyr We may not be digital creatures now. But someday maybe we will be. https://www.wsj.com/... Miles Kimball / @mileskimball : “Through Shopify, a business can quickly set u...

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“Whereas retail stores are designed around customers..fulfillment centers are designed around employees handling items nonstop. They thus use labor and space more efficiently. Amazon's sales per employee are 50% higher than Walmart Inc.'s.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-12-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Due to the pandemic, trends that normally may have taken years to unfold, like remote work or the shift from physical to virtual commerce, happened in months

Joel Mokyr We may not be digital creatures now. But someday maybe we will be. https://www.wsj.com/... Miles Kimball / @mileskimball : “Through Shopify, a business can quickly set u...

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“Through Shopify, a business can quickly set up a web site with many of the same functions as Amazon without having to sell through Amazon. Its merchant count has nearly doubled in less than two years” https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-12-28 View on X
CNBC

From working remotely to benefiting from the new normal, tech companies led the way in pandemic response but fell behind in stopping COVID-19 misinformation

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2020-08-10
“FedEx cur­rently has four of these robots at its Mem­phis fa­cil­ity, but the com­pany es­ti­mates one hu­man could tend up to eight of them, jump­ing in only when they have a prob­lem they can't solve on their own” https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-08-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Amid an explosion in demand for home-delivered goods, shippers like FedEx are increasingly adopting industrial robot arms equipped with computer vision and AI

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mfordfuture , @sub8u , @mileskimball , @mims , @2peterharris , and @farshchi Tweets: Martin Ford / @mfordfuture : Short on worker...

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