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He explains earlier in the article that he tries to apply a “consumer” lens to all tech purchases, so he can more honestly evaluate them. The point being that he’s applying a bunch…

This is likely impression expansion from Reels. Same thing happened when Stories was introduced.

At this point, I'd flip whatever mental models you have for how 2010-era Microsoft and Google operate.

No, because the FDIC would collect higher fees commensurate with the increase in insured deposits. It would reduce profits for banks like SVB which have a large number of uninsured…

It's overwrought takes like this that fail to see the real issues at play. Many of those projects were all good faith efforts and I haven't seen a shred of evidence that a16z was m…

From another Silicon Valley veteran: this was a horizontal team that lost its exec sponsor and so didn't have a clear way to make impact. This kind of thing happens all the time at…

This theoretically should be possible with MVCC, right? It's not an area I've explored and I could immediately see some issues with resource clean-up, but I could imagine it being …

I've heard Google uses design docs pretty extensively for internal projects. Does anyone have a publicly shared example?

Related: Stripe has previously announced they were restarting their crypto team https://twitter.com/edwinwee/status/1447953485132025857

IAP is a platform-enforced monopoly that allows Apple and Google to extract a flat 30% from every digital transaction that happens in an app. It's one of the clearest examples of t…

Full text of the bill: https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8.11.21%20-%...

Who has a mortgage without interest payments?

I think it's more complicated than that. It's not clear that users do intrinsically own this data. Without the product and the graph attached to the product, this data won't exist.…

Solve for the equilibrium. Market salaries at the top hubs will eventually go down, and salaries outside them will rise.

Brex differentiated itself by using your bank history to determine your credit limit, meaning that founders didn't need to personally guarantee their corporate cards early on in a …

Placements at the university aren't the property of the individual being paid, so it's illegal in the same way that embezzling funds or stealing trade secrets would be.

Augur hasn't really seen any uptick in usage: https://dappradar.com/app/673/augur

Specifically the section on "funding secured". Any reasonable person would interpret that as Musk having a term sheet in hand. This sounds more like "funding potentially interested…

They work really well thanks to the invention of the spark plug, the carburetor, the supercharger, and decades of iteration. For many years, they were objectively terrible. Ethereu…

Funny that you mention the 19th century, because another example of a system that required an ever-increasing series of hacks to solve major flaws is the internal combustion engine…