I don't know, it seems pretty libertarian for a county/township to nullify state law when it deems the law unnecessary or bad. Different branches of libertarianism may disagree but in the end it's all about localism, no?
This articulated for me one of my biggest frustrations with traditional 1:1s with managers I've had throughout my career: by these people I want to be coached, not mentored.
Most 1:1s have been driven by me, at the explicit behest of the manager. "I'm here for you" and "this is your time" are/were common phrases. I found this particularly annoying as a new grad when I really didn't know what I didn't know and just wasn't getting a lot of mileage out of those conversations.
Against the common sense, I started talking a little bit more when the 1-1 mentee is at a unknown unknown situation. I tell them they should look fwd to a,b and c if they are to look for a direction and I invite them to setup a further specific 1-1 to discuss this, if that catches their eye. If not, again will let them explore and then comeback with other options and so on.
What do public EV markets have to do with private PaaS VC investments?
You would have a case if Vercel has no revenue, or no chance of becoming profitable. I don't know their numbers, and I'm sure the multiple is high, but relating this to EVs is a non-sequitur.
EVs are also venture funded startups, and the excess is more obvious there than in an obscure PaaS company. But still, two $100 million rounds within months of each other, as Vercel has done, is pretty outside of the norm.
"Selling support" is one way to make money from OpenSource, but a) it's not clear that Wasmer is even doing that, and b) there's loads of other ways too (hosting, open core, freemium, etc).
Targeting larger pools should reduce per impression costs, because FB has more options for where and when to place your ad. Smaller groups have fewer opportunities, so if you want to show your ad to them specifically, you have to pay more.
No, this isn't right - because FB can no longer tell you as much information about the ad they're about to display, they're going to collect less money for it.
They can't correlate that ad to an action, which means they can't make you a happy chart that says the ROI is there. So you're going to pay less for it.
This isn't going to harm small businesses no matter what FB says.
That's one possibility. I'd like to offer a second one: that Facebook will charge the same amount and we are going to pay it. It's not like there are that many successful Facebook clones around.
Except that's not how the ads work. They're all being bid in real time, by both people using FB tools (small biz) and 3rd parties.
Whoever submits the highest bid wins that ad impression. Less information will mean people bid less, and the targeted ad prices will revert to their less targeted peers from a price perspective.
Seems like a programming language that optimizes for "codes well with Copilot" could be fairly successful. Things like memory safety, human readability, verifiability, etc.
You could also have some kind of AI-driven testing/verification program -- Copilot and <other program> could go back and forth multiple times until the program is deemed correct and returned to the user.
Hydro grown plants are often more susceptible to pests and problems because they lack the natural fortifications provided by soil. Large scale living soil can still be done indoors though.
Texas checking in -- the dirt in my backyard is full of clay and totally unsuitable for growing anything other than grass and weeds. Many places are like this.
That makes sense, and maybe I'm sweeping aside many places similar without thinking about them. In the Midwest I've always had good luck in the ground.
Finally got a home and am finding the same thing here in central Texas. At least with the crap soil the builders use to form the land around the foundation. My plan is to attempt to grow more deep rooted plants so their roots can break up the soil and die off when I trim them. Then aeration and topsoil composting. Still a work in progress so I have no idea if it'll work.
The clay soil usually has a low organic matter content. So bringing mulch, grass clippings etc. does improve several key factors for the plants to thrive. The problem with putting a layer of rotting grass/weeds on the top is that at least in some locations it will make a perfect slug/snail farm. So I prefer to burry it in shallow pits/trenches.
Also probably any preferably dense plant cover protects the top layer from being backed by the sun and becoming brick-like.
The change the parent is probably thinking of is that you could offer up to $5 million as a Reg Crowdfunding round (vs the previous cap of $1 million) if you wanted to offer non-accredited investors a way to invest while you are still a private company.
Wefunder or Republic or another such service would create a special purpose LLC to be the shareholder of record (or SAFE/noteholder or whatever) on your cap table.
That's not exactly how it works, but close in spirit. When you invest in Republic, you are entering into a contract called a CrowdSAFE. It's a convertible instrument much like a SAFE, but instead of converting into the next priced funding round into stock, it converts in a liquidity event directly into stock (or the cash equivalent if an acquisition for cash). There is no intermediary SPV.
What you're describing however is the way AngelList works.
The reason for this is mainly because the Reg CF terms prohibit crowdfunding investment vehicles (such as funds or SPVs).
Interesting. I've purchased a CrowdSAFE with Republic and I think that aligns with what I remember about the CrowdSAFE.
Recently though I bought shares in a private company through wefunder and the docs specify I'll be a unitholder in an SPV LLC set up by wefunder that will own the stock, so I wonder if this prohibition changed with the $5m cap change?
