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What's going to be the vitess of Postgres? Seems to be the "last" missing piece? Or is that not a focus and fit for PG?

You mentioned your backend being a Rails app + serverless functions, what's the benefit of doing both there? What does your video processing infra look like, is that in one of thos…

rhinoceraptor gave such a clear explanation of the process, that I'd honestly pay for an entire set of bio and chem mechanic breakdowns prepared by them.

Friction and convenience. Always assume the user will not take the desired action because it most closely models reality.

The comments here are really interesting. What is the equity level where one goes from thinking like an owner to being an employee? At what equity level does one feel the things in…

Couldn’t his company be worth more than a trillion because it’s...adding far greater value to the ecosystem it exists in? And his share is in the ~100B as he captures the upside th…

Aren't there ways of verifying the integrity of the hardware via software on boot?

I do feel like HN is having a rehash of a conversation we've had many times this past month. I'll post my favorite comment [1] on the matter of remote salary adjustment, which capt…

This to me is the real argument: those who can demand a high salary regardless of geography, and those who can only demand a high salary _because_ of geography. The mistake is many…

Isn’t this because it’s already priced in? The price floor for a world without delivery services isn’t lower than it is now.

Signal has spoken [1] at length about the issues of private contact discovery, and the many [2] solutions they've employed to minimize the amount of information that gets leaked. T…

In the book "The Elephant in the Brain", there's an interesting observation that increased lying and politicking was necessary selection pressure for increased human intelligence. …

This is actually an interesting question, and people are being entirely too dismissive in down-voting you. Everything from "assisted experiences" in VR to Neuralink could offer rea…

This is really interesting to read. I've been writing Go for about ~4 years professionally, and recently ( Agree about typed parameters + implied returns, but you can get some of t…

For the inexperienced, what are a few key principles that we can take away from your experiences?

From the comments I've read here, I guess a contrarian take: If the purpose of the decision was to get people to move to wireless headphones, then specifically for myself and my ne…

Can you give more information on why this is? Any recommended reading to better understand where and why the costs increase?