lubos

That 1.25B per month is not profit

That's not entirely true. Processed food requires less energy to digest and absorb. Nutritionally it can be exactly the same food but the net calorie intake will be higher for food that has been processed.

We should eat food that our pre-industrial ancestors would recognize.

Amazon stock price is currently back to where it was before the pandemic. Look at the charts.

Very impressive. The schema covers everything I need. This library desperately needs "Repeater" component which I assume would handle array of inputs. This would allow FormKit to handle the most complex forms which is where this library would help the most.

Once you have paying customers and growth, the appetite for investor money goes down very quick.

They could have been infected by locals in regions they've been travelling to. Many possibilities. Why do we have to speculate? Let's just wait for more data.

The timeline of HIV pandemic has been established decades after pandemic started. This will take time.

I'd assume that virus originating anywhere in SEA region would be detected in China first. Just like many other viruses originating in America continent would be first detected in USA.

This is great but I've noticed newer regions do not have feature parity with older ones.

For example, me-south-1 and af-south-1 still do not support AWS DataSync fully automated transfers. When this feature has been announced, it was put into 16 regions. Why not all regions where AWS DataSync is available?

There is more. This is just last example I've noticed.

As a result, when building cross-region service on AWS, it's not enough to just check whether AWS product is available in desired region, you need to check whether every single feature you need within the product is available in desired region too.

Hold your horses. TSMC is cutting edge. They got ahead only in the past 3-4 years.

Car/appliance manufacturers do not use their cutting edge chips. The biggest use-case for these chips are new iPhones and iPads. Nothing critical.

Random earthquakes is TSMC fork of chaosmonkey

0.5% is immaterial for subscription-based businesses where profit margins are typically the highest.

But... it adds up.

For example, just looking at the last $39 USD transaction in my Stripe dashboard which gets converted to $53.72 AUD (I charge in USD but receive AUD)

Stripe currency conversion fee: $0.88 Stripe processing fees: $1.69 Total: $2.57

That's 4.78% fee. Now add this new 0.5% and we are over 5% fee on transaction processing.

Is this expensive enough for me to consider alternatives? No.

> We’re also a company that has purposefully operated right around breakeven for years.

And here is the problem. Take VC money and now you are forced to run company at breakeven point.

This company would be perfectly fine operating with half the staff and generating for the CEO half a million in profits per year - every year.

He could have met his family financial goals long ago and still keep the company.

This is what folks at 37signals figured out years ago and good on them. Do not take VC money unless you are already a millionaire and aiming for the moon.