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Printed Circuit Board Assembly. i.e. a PCB with all the components mounted.

https://archive.is/FjGj3

It’s around $4-5k USD to set up a exempted company and get a bank account for said company in the Caymans, with annual costs being in the $2-3k USD range. Can be cheaper or more expensive, depending on the service provider. Not uncommon for more savvy investors.

You still can in the US. [0] This exact use case is listed as one of the reasons the US Department of State will issue a second passport book.

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-pa...

Good luck booking a hotel suite (w/ kitchen, common room, etc) without paying insane rates north of 1k a night.

Isn't this the domain of extended stay hotels, like Residence Inn (Marriott), Staybridge Suites (IHG), and Homewood Suites (Hilton), and serviced apartments? They don't tend to be in the $1k/night range.

Ah! Acmella oleracea — also known as a Szechuan Button. Chandelier Bar at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas famously does an off-menu cocktail with Jambú called The Verbena.

Yes! This is the basis for the Corsi-Rosenthal Box [1]. Five 20"x20"x1" filters and a box fan, with duct tape to seal the edges. Not the prettiest, but it's effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box

Nubank’s mobile apps are built using Flutter. They’re the largest neobank in LATAM (>50MM customers).

Apple also discontinued the MDM product they acquired (Fleetsmith) today.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213238

Partner at other VC firms = General Partner at a16z. Pretty much everyone, including associates and principals, have the title of "Partner" at a16z.

Love this. We ran into a lot of these pain points while we were building and growing Flex @ Twilio. We ended up creating a "shadow" support org in the early days that provided 1:1 (product-led!) support to our early customers via Slack. That did not scale.

You are aware of and are trying to address many the issues we ran into as we grew our customer base (e.g. pass to tickets, getting new team members up to speed, etc.).

I am very interested in how you are planning on addressing the tooling issue, from the _end-customer_ POV. We settled on shared Slack channels because the majority of our early customers used Slack for their own internal comms. Using shared channels was very low friction for onboarding folks and provided a solid experience (vs. having to push them into another tool to get support).

You can now enable Twilio longcodes to receive SMSes from shortcodes.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181668-Can-T...

Many companies who do SMS for account verification check whether or not the number is hosted with a VoIP provider and purposefully do not send verification requests to those numbers. It's a fraud prevention tactic.

Heat pumps don’t work particularly well below 25F. Our heat pump switched to auxiliary heat (electric resistance heating) with how cold it’s been in Texas.

We’ve had a lot more success with avoiding no-shows by giving things away and selling things on Nextdoor.

Tagging onto the top comment here. I work at Twilio and this is our official statement on the enforcement of our AUP with Parler.

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With regards to reports of cyber security issues Parler experienced and have been attributed to Twilio, our security team investigated the claims and found no evidence indicating their security issues were related to Twilio or our products. Per our Website [0], Twilio has not issued any press releases pertaining to or referencing Parler.

Furthermore, Parler was using Twilio to send out identity verification codes for new downloads or password resets. Once a user was verified, security protocols were independently handled by Parler and did not involve Twilio or its products. On Friday, January 8th, we sent Parler a letter informing them they were in violation of our Acceptable Use Policy [1] and notifying them that we would suspend their account if they did not make efforts to remediate multiple calls for violence on their platform. Shortly after receiving our letter, Parler informed us they had already turned off their integration with Twilio.

Any cyber security issues experienced by Parler were completely unrelated to Twilio or any of its products.

[0] https://www.twilio.com/press/releases

[1] https://www.twilio.com/legal/aup

Somewhat. It sounds like they have designed some of their own hardware [0] and they're working on building their own IMS stack [1]. I think Samsung is still their radio vendor.

[0] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/teleco...

[1] https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/reliance-j...

Hey folks, we've published a post with more details on the incident here: https://www.twilio.com/blog/incident-report-taskrouter-js-sd...

(I work for Twilio)

China has a similar land mass (3.705MM square miles) as the US (3.797MM square miles), but has data that is ~13x cheaper ($0.61/GB vs. $8.00/GB).

Doesn't Algolia offer BAAs? I thought I had seen it as part of their Enterprise plan.

The wheels are pretty fantastic on the Muji cases. IMO, they're equivalent to the wheels on the Away cases. They're not as nice as the wheels on my Rimowa case, but the difference is not worth the premium (given how cheap Muji is).

Shiguredo‘s Sora SFU is the only complete Erlang WebRTC implementation that I’m familiar with. It’s a closed source commercial product.

I would argue that the predominant reason to choose One Medical for primary care would be the value added services included with the $199/yr fee.

"Membership revenue accounted for 19% and 20% of our net revenue during the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018, respectively, and 20% and 19% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2019, respectively."

On the topic of sleep, I found Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" to be a really good read. I've spent about a month actively working on my sleep hygiene and I've seen a noticeable improvement in my productivity.

Wouldn't Apple technically be the first to mass-market with a 7nm SoC?

Gotcha. Yeah, the dev kits on some of those are a bit pricey (2k and up).

Coming from an industrial use-case, I personally really liked the Realwear HMT-1 — it performs like a champ, is surprisingly comfortable, is available as intrinsically safe, and has an easy-to-work-with team behind the scenes.

Would strongly consider skipping Glass EE, depending on what you want to do.

I used to run a startup in this space. There's a whole bunch of devices out on the market, from Vuzix Blade and M300 to the ODG R7/8/9 to the Realwear HMT-1. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. What's your use case for them?

The spoofing happens frequently and it's incredibly frustrating if you are the unfortunate person whose number gets spoofed.

My number got spoofed by a robo-dialer who called the ENTIRE +1 469 prefix. I received dozens of calls a day from angry people who got called.

Ah! You're correct. Sorry about that!

Cloud Interconnect is the equivalent to this on GCP.