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from the NYTimes article: The name Q is a play on the word “question,” given the chatbot’s conversational nature, Mr. Selipsky said. It is also a play on the character Q in the James Bond novels, who makes stealthy, helpful tools, and on a powerful “Star Trek” figure, he added.

Boards that I have been on do not allow board members to remove other board members - only shareholders can remove board members. I don't know why this is being downvoted.

I'm very unclear on how board members can remove other board members. If Sam, Greg and Ilya are on the same "team" now that's 3.... vs. 3. What's the mechanism at use here for board removal and how quickly does it happen? And who elects the board members.

This is silly.

In coastal California the commission situation becomes ludicrously lucrative to the top agents. This week a home in my community sold for $25,0000,000. One of my friends had the buy side, another had the sell side. The buy side agent will be involved in ~200,000,000 in transactions this year, a down year. In this community there are plenty of transactions north of $20,000,000. He just did another and had both sides of the deal for $50,000,000. At this level the commissions are usually 2.5%/2.5%. 5% of 25,000,000 is $1,250,000. The irony? High end home sales require much less work/effort than low end. Far fewer showings. No open houses, ever.

I used to work at a major real estate company and I know very well how intent they are on holding the listing service monopoly together. Redfin, Zillow, etc were all bets on the opening of the listing services that misunderstood the regulatory capture of the National, State and Local Realtor associations. They ended up selling ads to Realtors rather than opening up a new way for owners to sell their homes directly.

The musk biography made me believe that I should have gotten a physics degree. Or at least taken physics.

Can anyone recommend any online physics?

Sounds Great! Happy to support this.

It's a list of cars that you can connect to smartcar.com and then access endpoints via the smartcar api. Other than that you are totally correct.

https://smartcar.com/

If you are wondering about the state of auto API's here's a partial list of loads of makes and models that have some form of over the air endpoints via a 3rd party:

https://connectyourcar.com/compatibility/makes/

I wonder how long until customer support AI will solve these issues or is this an edge case that will require intervention?

How does this contrast with sendgrid? We use their api and do not upload contacts to them.....

I have to say that I really like using Netlify. I use it for the free tier for loads of things - paid when necessary as well. Who else is comparable these days?

This looks really fantastic. Also, how/who made that beautiful video?

This is gut-wrenching to read and my heart truly goes out to Jake and his family. My mother-in-law had this diagnosis and same course of treatments although she was able to keep half her tongue before the cancer eventually returned with a vengeance. Only now reading these visceral, gripping diaries do I realize how poorly I understood her physical and emotional experience. I am very, very hopeful that the coming generations of AI enhanced research will accelerate us quickly out of these almost unbelievably brutal treatments and into therapies that work non-destructively.

Which countries?

This article is really bereft of any actual coherent thoughts worth discussion. I would wager it was written by chatgpt or similar. Broad assertions are made with no facts to back them up. There is no author listed on the article or anywhere on the site.

This is a great paragraph: Blocking entire countries from accessing your website is a potent method to acquire more targeted, relevant, and qualified traffic to your website. Not to mention, your website traffic analytics will be squeaky clean, your web hosting service resources will receive a significant boost in performance, and you can (in most cases) close the door on spam.

What are "squeaky clean" traffic analytics? How will this close the door on spam? What metrics are shared to support the idea that the ensuing traffic is more targeted, relevant, qualified?

This garbage does not belong here.

I have a Quest Pro, after having had many of the predecessors - Vive, etc. I think that A/R needs to succeed before VR can really take off. And I think AR is going to really succeed.

By VR I mean being totally cutoff from the rest of the world into this new world. It's exhausting in a way and feels like you are at a disadvantage if other people are around.

The Pro has some limited AR and it's actually really exciting. Being in both worlds at the same time feels really really interesting.

Apple is so far ahead, conceptually, that it makes sense to me for Meta/quest to recalibrate here.

I'm locked out of my circa 2006 twitter account because I had 2 factor auth turned on using SMS for the last 10 years. I had twitter blue for a month and when it lapsed they took away the SMS auth. I no longer have access to my 2nd auth.

I'm guessing there is a way to figure it out (maybe if I subscribe again) but I've lost interest in Twitter. The signal to noise ratio isn't worth it.

A seller can post a listing on Zillow/trulia for free and get massive exposure. What is the advantage here? Is this somehow complementary to those marketing efforts?

Fan of wework here. As a longtime happy customer I do not believe they belong in a list of fraudulent companies.

They still enable me to walk into any major city and have a nice office to work out of and I appreciate them for that. They changed the real estate game for startups and solopreneurs and should be commended for this!

This isn't working for me on my macbook with the chrome extension. I've added cnn.com, nytimes.com, etc and I can still get to them on chrome with the extension. I've restarted my browser. Or am I misunderstanding that this is possible?

Ah yes, my old friend, the "nobody checked the international delivery boxes on Twilio" problem. Just a guess. Congratulations on going international!

ztn3dm1 was all time. This article is from 22 years ago... what is this doing here?

FWIW the Apple News app has an incredible number of Magazines and Newspapers. News+ $10 monthly subscription is a solid deal.

"Also, I made a utility to archive the full text of every website I view and store it in a SQLite database for searching. It’s proven pretty useful when I want to find something I saw a while ago and then forgot."

This sounds wild. Is it an extension that just works automatically? Or?

Congratulations on shipping and getting to revenue! This is terrific looking and you and your team have done some really nice work here. Just purchased.

The MVP is just the beginning of the journey. A toe-hold in a market space you are about to explore.

The MVP gives you your first data set to work with.

I know very few people willing to commit to the long journey of making something. Even fewer that will bother marketing it.

There is lots of money in this banana stand!

I’ll buy one. Agree with the comments that you need to put a little time in to describe this thing in a lot more detail!

That said, I would love to have my calendar always just sitting there on my desk. This is the perfect item for anyone with adhd or similar. I would target that niche.

Almost exactly 2x my MacBook Pro M1 Max that showed up TODAY after a 2.5 month wait.

2x increase in performance (I know I know it’s just a benchmark test) is unprecedented in successive Mac releases in my recollection here.

The system really starts to bog down with 15 ~ 20 tabs open for things like jira, roam, email, etc. CPU usage will be very low but when swapping is in effect system slowdown is really noticeable. I don't see the same issue with Safari but of course Safari does not have the extensions I rely on.

I love the Air but excited for my 64gb macbook pro arriving in a month.

I deeply regret getting only 16gb ram in my air for exactly this reason.