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I wonder if you could throw a Raspberry Pi together to act as a server for your thin client in those situations?

How does pg still not have SSL on his website?

What would you suggest as a good starting point for a founder looking at (3)?

Silanano published a white paper last year that gives a pretty good overview of lithium-ion batteries and explains why their silicon anode is a big deal.

https://silanano.com/news/futureofenergystorage/

It's very approachable even for someone without a chemistry or EE background.

What you're describing is effectively a utility-scale flywheel, which at least one company is trying.

https://www.revterra.io/

I use Twitter basically every day and never even knew this existed. What are Fleets?

There’s actually a term for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

According to the article this bridge cost €2.3MM to build, which seems crazy cheap, even for Portugal. Does that sound low to anyone else?

Yup, this seems to be the case. I don’t know how this could be characterize as a leak?

I’m a big fan of Airtable and always happy to see more tools like it come to market. Curious though, why you’ve gone to such great lengths to copy their UI? There is plenty of room to leapfrog them (especially on the API side) but I think you’re hurting yourself by following so closely in their footsteps. If I were going against a rapidly growing incumbent like that I’d be looking at ways of differentiating from the start. Good luck to you and your team!

I've read several books on cooperatives including case studies on how fail and I've never heard this. Do you have some examples of where this was an issue?

One common issue I have heard about is early members acquiring disproportionate social capital, but that's a different problem with different solutions.

Congratulations on the breakthrough!

Can confirm this, sadly. I turned 30 right around the time COVID hit and immediately stopped my usual exercise activities due to restrictions. A year later and I’m constantly nursing stupid injuries from nothing. My body simply isn’t bouncing back like it used to

Can you share which libraries you’ve had success with for the content extraction? I’ve always wanted to play around with one

I had a good laugh reading this. Of course the irony is that the author, after having gone through the hellish process of learning the spec, didn't documented any of the code (in that file).

This is some fantastic work. Thank you for sharing!

Very cool demo. Rough around the edges but I was able to play around with some shapes and textures before long. Looking forward to seeing where you take this. I can imagine a great use case for a project I'm working on if there is a way to manipulate the shapes programmatically in response to user events.

Yes, there is someone (a meat space friend, I believe) who keeps the site up and running and even adds new content from time to time.

EV West in California does great work on classic kits.

https://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&pro...

> As we've seen in cooperatives, one-person-one-vote creates freerider and horizon problems

Where have we seen this? Would you mind elaborating or sharing some concrete examples?

The linked page[0] on the Android website explaining the choice screen has some interesting information on the auction, including:

> Google will use a fourth-price auction to select the other general search providers that appear in the choice screen. ... The three highest bidders will appear in the choice screen for that country. The provider that is selected by the user will pay the amount of the fourth-highest bid.

My gut reaction to this auction system is that it would be vulnerable to abuse by a small number of bad actors. For example, what is to stop a company from bidding an artificially high amount in order to win the auction, knowing that they will most likely end up paying a more reasonable sum by the other fair bidders?

[0]: https://www.android.com/choicescreen/

It’s great to see the React team working proactively with some of the major platforms that rely on it. I look forward to seeing the ecosystem co-evolve more in the future.

This is fascinating!

What line of business is your company in? Who is your guild accountable to? What metrics are you measured by?

As someone who's been building websites for 15 years, I can't say enough good things about this trend. I work primarily with early stage startups, often pre-product, building prototypes and V1s. The primary objective of the teams I work on is to validate product strategy, which requires moving quickly to de-risk initial development and iterate.

The past few years has completely changed the way I execute this strategy. Leaning heavily on products like these that allow us to develop software with very little or sometimes no code at all. It's nuts what you can build in a few days.

Discovering Rails in 2009 was the last big shift for me in this way, with tools like scaffolding to build out the skeleton of any dynamic CRUD section in a few seconds. Still, it wasn't uncommon to subsequently spend days or weeks getting specific sections of the site to reach parity with designs.

Some people talk about how this trend is a threat to web developers like me. While it's true that it's never been easier for anyone to build high-quality dynamic websites, that position completely overlooks the benefits for traditional web developers. This new toolchain is like having superpowers for a very specific type of development. Pairing that with solid knowledge of web fundamentals and the ability to "grow up" beyond the limitations of the system is a recipe for delivering work faster than ever before. For most early-stage startups, fast & cheap is #1, but if you can deliver quality on top of that, you're golden.

The reality of the situation is such that we need to do all of the above. We must decarbonize the global economy. We still have to remove much of the carbon we’ve already emitted. In order to reach the scale required, we need to commercialize both biospheric and mechanical solutions to carbon removal.

I would also argue that it’s not society that can’t live without hydrocarbons as much as it is the entrenched industries that profit from them.

Having been a engineering manager before, it would put an extremely bad taste in my mouth if someone waited until the offer stage to ask for a part time role.

Of all the hypotheticals, taxation has to be the most incongruent with anarchism.

I'm aware of these efforts and just pointing out that it's likely to happen again. Not to mention we won't be able to blanket the nation in DDT this time...

I'm amazed by the spread of various Asian mosquito breeds throughout the world in my lifetime. When I grew up in Los Angeles (90s/00s) the only time I remember ever getting a mosquito bite was while camping in the Summer. Fast forward to ~5 years ago and there has been a persistent outbreak across LA of the Tiger mosquito and several other species. It's so bad that you simply can't be outside around sunrise/sunset without taking the necessary precautions. We now have a division within the pest control authority that deals specifically with tracking and eradicating them.

Two years ago I moved to Southern France only to find it's the exact same story.

We're dealing with an airborne virus pandemic now, but I can easily imagine the day when the Global North is dealing with the same mosquito-borne diseases that decimate parts of Africa and Asia.

I sincerely hope the creators avoid falling into the VC honey pot. At their current scale they're on pace to build a sustainable business around the core open source library. Growing beyond their UI component library toward an open marketplace (a la Noun Project) should be easily doable in the low 7-figure revenue range.