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That 1.25B per month is not profit

That's not entirely true. Processed food requires less energy to digest and absorb. Nutritionally it can be exactly the same food but the net calorie intake will be higher for food that has been processed.

We should eat food that our pre-industrial ancestors would recognize.

I'm just saying, being a remote-first company should may you less likely to do this, not more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization

Amazon stock price is currently back to where it was before the pandemic. Look at the charts.

Very impressive. The schema covers everything I need. This library desperately needs "Repeater" component which I assume would handle array of inputs. This would allow FormKit to handle the most complex forms which is where this library would help the most.

Once you have paying customers and growth, the appetite for investor money goes down very quick.

They could have been infected by locals in regions they've been travelling to. Many possibilities. Why do we have to speculate? Let's just wait for more data.

The timeline of HIV pandemic has been established decades after pandemic started. This will take time.

I'd assume that virus originating anywhere in SEA region would be detected in China first. Just like many other viruses originating in America continent would be first detected in USA.

This is great but I've noticed newer regions do not have feature parity with older ones.

For example, me-south-1 and af-south-1 still do not support AWS DataSync fully automated transfers. When this feature has been announced, it was put into 16 regions. Why not all regions where AWS DataSync is available?

There is more. This is just last example I've noticed.

As a result, when building cross-region service on AWS, it's not enough to just check whether AWS product is available in desired region, you need to check whether every single feature you need within the product is available in desired region too.

Hold your horses. TSMC is cutting edge. They got ahead only in the past 3-4 years.

Car/appliance manufacturers do not use their cutting edge chips. The biggest use-case for these chips are new iPhones and iPads. Nothing critical.

Random earthquakes is TSMC fork of chaosmonkey

Looking at historical S&P 500 to Gold ratio, stocks are definitely more expensive but nowhere near dotcom frenzy. Either we see market correction or gold is undervalued and will catch up. In that case there might be no stock market crash.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1437/sp500-to-gold-ratio-chart

0.5% is immaterial for subscription-based businesses where profit margins are typically the highest.

But... it adds up.

For example, just looking at the last $39 USD transaction in my Stripe dashboard which gets converted to $53.72 AUD (I charge in USD but receive AUD)

Stripe currency conversion fee: $0.88 Stripe processing fees: $1.69 Total: $2.57

That's 4.78% fee. Now add this new 0.5% and we are over 5% fee on transaction processing.

Is this expensive enough for me to consider alternatives? No.

We’re also a company that has purposefully operated right around breakeven for years.

And here is the problem. Take VC money and now you are forced to run company at breakeven point.

This company would be perfectly fine operating with half the staff and generating for the CEO half a million in profits per year - every year.

He could have met his family financial goals long ago and still keep the company.

This is what folks at 37signals figured out years ago and good on them. Do not take VC money unless you are already a millionaire and aiming for the moon.

For most bootstrapped SaaS businesses, the number of active free trial users is so low, it's not worth your mental capacity.

Also. You really don't want customers who will buy from you at $29/mo and won't buy at $39/mo. This is because if $10 makes difference in their purchasing decision, the value they are getting out of your subscription is roughly what you charge. This segment of customers will churn the fastest as they will be constantly on the edge revaluating whether your subscription is "worth it". You might as well not care about whether they become customers or not. So why bother with cheesy tricks to make them convert. It's not worth it.

You always represent value even if you don't pay. You might introduce the music to someone who will pay. It's freemium model applied to music industry.

I must admit, the landing page looks slick and very un-Microsoft.

In Australia, independent administrator is appointed who is working on behalf of creditors. Government is usually another creditor so they are not exactly an independent party.

You can close your position by buying the month after futures. This will require you to store crude oil for just one month. I think the issue is that storage facilities are almost booked out and the remaining capacity is just so expensive.

You will need to setup Amazon API Gateway which will give you http/https end point for your Lambda function.

Appharbor does look like a zombie startup. The last blog post 5 years ago, the last tweet 3 years ago. Alexa ranks them at #466,765. I was their customer many many years ago but eventually switched to AWS.

Active Directory

Can you give an example? In Australia, you'd need to buy hardware or software for more than $30,000 per unit to be forced to depreciate it over multiple periods. Anything cheaper than $30,000 can be expensed right away. So I'm looking at it through Australian optics and having "Hardware/software" under expenses would be fine for almost every small business here.

The spreadsheet is not wrong. It's just named incorrectly. It should be called "Income Statement Generator" because that's exactly what it is.

From Atwood/Spolsky podcasts it seems like Spolsky had zero impact on tech stack. Jeff Atwood was at the time C# programmer so he wrote StackOverflow in C#.

More context: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/

https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1479921/budget-s...

It says $15 per capita.

where the per-capital annual health budget is $0.05

That surely must be a typo, right?

There is one more cold war drink still popular in Czechoslovakia - Vinea. It tastes like desert wine but it's non-alcoholic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinea_(soft_drink)

I'm using this for years. It's very solid.

Please don't delete your down-voted comments. It is what it is. Own it.

For one, it's really annoying when seeing insightful reply but unable to see the full picture because OP has deleted their comment.

Not to mention, when you go down that path by curating your posting history, what does it tell about you? Being self-absorbed and depending on validation of others are not exactly healthy attributes. You think you are helping yourself in long run but in reality, you are hurting yourself more.

You reminded me my childhood. When I was about 6 years old, I'd be sent to the shop about 30 minutes before it opens. There was already queue in the morning of elderly people waiting for an hour or longer. Every single morning.

Nothing was for sale. It just that local bakery would supply only about 200 loaves of bread so it would be sold out pretty quick after opening. When you came home with fresh bread, it did feel like an achievement and the day was only about to start!

Nobody in those times would question why bakery can't bake more if there is more demand. It was just the way it was. Centrally-planned economy where someone higher up has decided 200 a day will be the supply for the area.