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

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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 ex…

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/…

> 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 …

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://…

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 …

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 verifica…

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. --- With regards to reports of cyber security issu…

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]…

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 …

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 Septembe…

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 im…