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There's a YC company solving for this, Papa.com

those were both interesting and worth the time to read. thanks for sharing.

Replaced "AI" with "WMDs" and it reads like the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate that was the precursor to invading Iraq

Is it though? I'm not a VC but $142m (questionable source) [1] at 100% growth YoY [2] seems like it could make the valuation reasonable.

It's critical infrastructure for a lot of Ecommerce companies.

[1] https://getlatka.com/companies/airtable

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/airtable-layoffs/

> She opened up her laptop, *fired up* Excel...

"fired up" in this context needs a place in the CS Hall of Fame

> So we replaced something that sucked with something that sucks just as bad but it has an app.

Genuine question: have you ever lived in NYC?

What is the prevailing theory to explain quantum entanglement? Must there be another dimension we cannot access or measure that is not subject to the laws of relativity? (I understand the laws of relativity break down at the quantum level but please ELI5)

This is an enjoyable and worthwhile lecture by Jocelyn Bell, who discovered pulsars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-335gUOvdhA

The next time I make the case for accounting to be a required course in high school I'm going to reference to this thread as Exhibit A: Assets & Liabilities Illiteracy.

> No, there is actually cancelling debt. There is also forcing someone else to pay, but that’s a different thing.

How are these different things?

-Money was disbursed to the university. That money came from somewhere!

-If the loan gets canceled and the student does not pay it back, those who contributed the disbursed the money are the ones being forced to pay.

> If I declare a banana to cost $1,000,000 but you can get it for the low price of $1 with a loan of $999,999 today and that loan gets canceled, does that mean someone else has to pay me the remaining sum?

In this case you are the merchant (university) and the lender, which is not the case with student debt.

Before you make the case that a student can get a gov't backed loan and attend a state university, the other $999,999 has already been disbursed to banana suppliers, equipment, leases, ect. So yes, someone else would have to pay the remaining sum.

Try again.

> (highly paid execs...)

EDX's IRS Form 990 for 2020 shows five executive making over $800k [1]

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

Dru from Trends.VC compiled a list [1] of businesses that run on no-code tools but you have to be a subscriber to see all of them.

[1] https://trends.vc/trends-0063-micro-saas/

Someone please ELI5 how this might impact the Grammarly Chrome Extension. Thanks in advance!

His prior company, ConferenceBadge.com, was bootstrapped too [1]. If his prior company was venture backed, I would agree with you. This is a completely new business and target market so I don't think it can be considered an expansion either.

[1] https://medium.com/conference-badge/the-epiphany-behind-a-bo...

No matter if you think we're in a bubble or if this valuation supports your view that we are in a bubble, at the end of the day we are all losers who have decided to spend our precious time on a Friday night glued to HN.

Jacquard is French for "Solution in search of a problem"

That homepage has a lot going on

Too bad every user signed an arbitration agreement which prevents class actions from moving forward https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Customer%20...

There isn't a case because every user signed an arbitration agreement that prevents a class action from moving forward[1]

[1]https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Customer%20...

> why wouldn't G*gle wait until they were "killed" so they could come in and buy their business for pennies on the dollar?

The company waiting for this to happen missed out on the deal.

I don't think there's much doubt that social media platform algos increased the flaming the flames over a period of years. What we're talking about here is their role as a means of communication over days/weeks.

If we are talking about their role as a means of communication, where is the rage at Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, etc.? The is where the argument of repealing Section 230 because of the insurrection breaks down.

When I lived in NYC I remember the first day it reached 50 degrees, sometime in late March or April, you would see people walking around in tee shirts.

Now that I live in Miami, 50 degrees is cause to break out the warmest clothes you own. Definitely all relative.

> You should visit a dark site if you have the opportunity

Me, my wife, and our 25lbs dog set up folding chairs in Arches National Park on a moonless night and destroyed our necks for a few days by staring in awe at the Milky Way. For the first time in my life, it was visible to my naked eye.

The only thing that saved our necks was the sound of coyotes howling nearby so we booked it back to the van for our dog's life.

Is the product similar to what Option Alpha is launching? [1]

[1] https://beta.optionalpha.com

Matt Stoller has published dozens of whiny posts about supposed monopolies. Yet, he has yet to once mention the "consumer welfare standard" [1] because it would blow the thesis apart in every single post.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amattstoller.substack....

> then you either raise prices or hold prices constant but reduce quality (eg Amazon selling counterfeit books)

I can't think of one example of a company killing a competitor via free products and then raising prices.

And let's not pretend Amazon's counterfeit book problem was part of the business plan.

I wasn't making an analogy to VC. Perhaps an inartful attempt to point out the previous comment's non sequitur.

> Most startups fail, though.

So do most batters in Major League Baseball.

In 2016, when Google implemented the Page Speed Update[1] 70% of global cellular network connections were at 3G speeds or slower[2].

In this context, I don't believe it was antithetical an an input for the best search results for searchers, the majority whom benefited from fast pages.

I can't find an updated stat for 2020 but I assume it's low enough that it is no longer makes sense as an input.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/07/search-ads...

[2] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-strategies/app-and...