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For one, Column is a bank.

Are any of your comments defensible?

"surely the existing plane manufacturers could do it quicker and cheaper"

How could you possibly think that?

That's not the news. The news is that otter.ai did it automatically and even though the user had it disabled.

Surely there is more creativity out there than this?

More amazing and undervalued is Google Apps Script which allows for attaching JavaScript to Google Docs (most useful with Sheets). Including a "fetch(url)" function for calling APIs.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/url-fetc...

I always thought Hello World was the dumbest example. Useful examples are always better.

WeWork had purchased and then sold Meetup.com to "AlleyCorp" (whatever that is). Is AlleyCorp still the owner?

I was thinking my alma mater, Eventbrite, should have acquired Meetup.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/30/wework-sells-off-social-ne...

This line is humorous: "The priority going forward is to support customers of all sizes who are betting projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku. Our customers include PensionBee, who helps people manage their pensions, and Softgiving, who uses Heroku to engage with donors."

People bet on Heroku for easy deployments are getting hosed.

And those are your best two reference users??

The reverse may also be true: that the "preparedness" truly was unnecessary. No one will ever know.

With n=1, not sure if conclusive.

Wouldn't those be "necessary cookies"?

What 3rd party cookie is needed to process a payment? It's obnoxious I have to take care of the cookie situation what seems like every time I start a PayPal payment flow.

As much as I loathe the cookie warnings, I'm constantly amazed at situations that don't avoid them. For example: there is no reason that PayPal needs to serve 3rd party cookies in a payment flow.

I've actually started to reject nonessential cookies most of the time now. Doubt it matters at all.

I was thinking MUCH more curated inventory. Private label for many/most of the staples. Relatively high quality at reasonable prices. Mostly non-organic with some organic options.

I have never, not once ever, wanted something to autoplay when a bluetooth device connected.

Premature optimization....

The user has to explicitly request the erasure.

Are they actually lost or just not searchable?

Very few people need many groceries within 15 minutes (or several hours or even same day).

What I am surprised we have not yet seen is "Trader Joes online". Not for Trader Joes to do it (they seem disinterested and very focused on an in-store experience/model). But for some startup or legacy company to make such an offering. Limited SKUs, terrific value, optimized for online ordering/storage/deliervy, etc.

What if you rely on lookups or webhooks to verify payment details?

"CC transactions will migrate over time to less costly rails starting in the next 12-18 months"

People have been saying that for decades. And in fact the opposite is happening. Visa/MC raising rates. PayPal raising rates. Volume shifting to more expensive BNPL.

There are typically two valuations of private companies. The "internal valuation" is usually the valuation of the common shares (ie, those that are granted to employees) whereas the "external valuation" is the value of the "preferred" shares that investors purchase. The external/preferred valuation is usually higher because the preferred shares have more attractive terms (such as that you get your money back first before other equity holders are paid out).

From the article: "A 409A valuation is an independent estimate of a startup’s fair market value often used to price stock options to employees."

"Tesla has bet the company on robotaxis, but their vision only tech stack doesn’t seem capable of solving it"

Both clauses seem wrong.

"There is not a whisper of evidence for this claim, no hint that there might be evidence, no acknowledgement that a reasonable reader of this letter might want to see evidence."

This is completely wrong, right? The evidence might not be terrific but it's definitely more than a whisper.

I much prefer 2560 x 1440 to the standard issue 1080p and there are lots of inexpensive options.

How do I use a database with a Vercel app?

No heavier than your thumb on the zoonosis scale.

Two lineages do not preclude lab origin.

And the data collection was absolutely biased to the market.

Less probable than such a coronavirus originating in Wuhan of all places?