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by kolencherry 3y ago
Printed Circuit Board Assembly. i.e. a PCB with all the components mounted.
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by kolencherry 3y ago
https://archive.is/FjGj3
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by kolencherry 4y ago
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 expensive, depending on the service provider. Not uncommon for
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by kolencherry 4y ago
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/travel/en/passports/have
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by kolencherry 4y ago
> 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 (Marriott), Staybridge Suites (IHG), and Homewo
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by kolencherry 4y ago
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.
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by kolencherry 4y ago
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by kolencherry 4y ago
Nubank’s mobile apps are built using Flutter. They’re the largest neobank in LATAM (>50MM customers).
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by kolencherry 4y ago
Apple also discontinued the MDM product they acquired (Fleetsmith) today. Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213238
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by kolencherry 4y ago
Partner at other VC firms = General Partner at a16z. Pretty much everyone, including associates and principals, have the title of "Partner" at a16z.
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by kolencherry 5y ago
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 (product-led!) support to our early customers via
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by kolencherry 5y ago
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 verification check whether or not th
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Snorkel AI Raises $85M Series C at $1B Valuation(fortune.com)
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by kolencherry 6y ago
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.
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by kolencherry 6y ago
We’ve had a lot more success with avoiding no-shows by giving things away and selling things on Nextdoor.
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by kolencherry 6y ago
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 issues Parler experienced and have been attributed to Twilio, ou
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by kolencherry 6y ago
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] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/i
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by kolencherry 6y ago
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)
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by kolencherry 6y ago
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).
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by kolencherry 6y ago
Doesn't Algolia offer BAAs? I thought I had seen it as part of their Enterprise plan.
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by kolencherry 7y ago
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 is not worth the premium (given how cheap Muji is)
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by kolencherry 7y ago
Shiguredo‘s Sora SFU is the only complete Erlang WebRTC implementation that I’m familiar with. It’s a closed source commercial product.
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by kolencherry 7y ago
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.
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by kolencherry 7y ago
"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 September 30, 2018 and 2019, respectively."
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by kolencherry 8y ago
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 improvement in my productivity.
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by kolencherry 8y ago
Wouldn't Apple technically be the first to mass-market with a 7nm SoC?
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by kolencherry 8y ago
Gotcha. Yeah, the dev kits on some of those are a bit pricey (2k and up). Coming from an industrial use-case, I personally really liked the Realwear HMT-1 — it performs like a champ, is surprisingly comfortable, is available as intrinsicall
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by kolencherry 8y ago
I used to run a startup in this space. There's a whole bunch of devices out on the market, from Vuzix Blade and M300 to the ODG R7/8/9 to the Realwear HMT-1. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. What's your use
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by kolencherry 9y ago
The spoofing happens frequently and it's incredibly frustrating if you are the unfortunate person whose number gets spoofed. My number got spoofed by a robo-dialer who called the ENTIRE +1 469 prefix. I received dozens of calls a day f
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by kolencherry 10y ago
Ah! You're correct. Sorry about that!

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