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Hey, this happened to me about two years ago! Forgot I was wearing my pump and walked into the ocean. Oops. I was on a Greek island during Easter weekend - the worst possible time and way to need emergency medical care.

One thing I now do is always travel with one of my old insulin pumps. They may be 5, 10, even 15 years old, but they take the same infusion sets and all they need is a fresh AA/AAA battery and they’re as good as new. Thank you to the medical devices industry for making some resilient AF kit.

I feel like this is closest to trying to compete with Charm’s Crush rather than anything else.

I am not an expert, but I have worked somewhere MariaDB/MySQL was being used at scale.

My preference today for Postgres comes down to the fact that its query planner is much easier to understand and interface with, whereas MySQL/Maria would be fine 29/30 times but would then absolutely fuck you with an awful query plan that you needed a lot of experience with to anticipate.

Among other things the big tech companies are literally planning to build nuclear power plants off this so I think the infrastructure investments will likely be pretty good.

It is possible for all of the following to be true: 1. This study is accurate 2. We are early in a major technological shift 3. Companies have allocated massive amounts of capital to this shift that may not represent a good investment 4. Assuming that the above three will remain true going forward is a bad idea

The .com boom and bust is an apt reference point. The technological shift WAS real, and the value to be delivered ultimately WAS delivered…but not in 1999/2000.

It may be we see a massive crash in valuations but AI still ends up the dominant driver of software value over the next 5-10 years.

As someone who runs an actual bank, the headlines around this story are super misleading. In no meaningful way will be Apple be treated like a bank in the way that we generally expect banks to be treated.

Two people and a pet isn’t really a “collective”

I made a headless bank.

We wouldn’t fit either of your criteria.

And yet - we now have a bank license (!) and should clear 15-20M in revenue this year.

Sometimes hard things don’t make for overnight successes.

Wooooosh.

Our customers are other Fintech companies rather than normal humans :)

Because it’s not a great fit for an event driven architecture.

Actually, no - the regulatory sandbox cannot be used by prospective banks.

It’s hard in the UK too! Just not “infeasible” hard. (Plus, it’s easier to finance as you don’t have those pesky Bank Holding Company Act regs dinging your investors)