Bottle is a browser that lets you surf the Bitcoin network for these things, and brings them all together through Bitcoin native URI schemes such as B:// or C:// (or any other protocols we add in the future). By moving away from HTTP and authoring everything in a Bitcoin native way (using Bitcoin transaction ids and content hashes) we can build a completely self-contained network of documents which can exist forever on the blockchain. Hello B://

Bottle supports B://, a URI scheme for public files, which uses Bitcoin transaction id as the URI.

But Salesforce, the archetype of enterprise software, actually pioneered much of what we now take for granted in tech, including selling software as a service (=> SaaS), and hosting software in the cloud (=> AWS), all while creating a massively valuable company. Different companies gave it different names — SFA (Sales Force Automation), CIS (Customer Interaction Software), ECM (Enterprise Customer Management), and a host of other TLAs (three-letter acronyms). Returning from Hawaii, he set out to simplify enterprise software with a new company called Salesforce.

Kafka will not allow writes to proceed unless the partition has a minimum number of in-sync replicas. Kafka already had metrics showing the partitions that had fewer than the minimum number of in-sync replicas. This KIP adds some context to each Connect log message, making it much easier to make sense of the state of a single connector over time.

Instead of emailing a term sheet, Ilya Fushman paid $150 to have ‘Deep Blue Sea’ actor Michael Rapaport send the Cameo founders Steven Galanis, Martin Blencowe and Devon Townsend a video message congratulating them on their $50 million Series B. A general partner at Kleiner Perkins, Fushman tapped Cameo’s own service, which sells personalized video messages from celebrities, influencers, athletes and thought leaders, to win over the startup amid what he says was a “highly competitive deal.” Fushman and Galanis, Cameo’s chief executive officer, declined to disclose the startup’s valuation with the new funds, but Delaware stock authorization filings uncovered by PitchBook, as well as previous reporting from Axios’ Dan Primack, indicate a valuation of $300 million.

If the new customer base and new product require a specific set of skills to actually make something very good, you will need to have those skills. For SaaS, the important metrics are typically CAC, average customer value (ACV), churn, sales efficiency, and revenue growth; while consumer businesses tend to focus on daily active users (DAU) and retention. The insidious problem of the Zone of Excellence is that you can easily think you should be doing those things because you are good at them and the company presumably needs them done.

Thomas represented Patricia Gwen Kiser, a nurse who alleged in a lawsuit against Purdue that her doctor had prescribed OxyContin for her fibromyalgia and arthritis pain based on the company’s false claims about the drug’s safety. That year, the Los Angeles Times published a report, based on copies of sealed records, detailing how Purdue sold OxyContin as a 12-hour drug, even though the company knew it often didn’t last that long. The report cited the company documents that Stephens and other judges had long kept under seal, revealing that OxyContin wore off early in Purdue test patients and that physicians complained to sales reps about the problem.

An exclusion that is stated on “every conversation page”

I clicked on their Terms of Use and found the policy which they were referring to:
“KitSplit Inc. is not liable for a User’s deceptive or fraudulent acts, voluntary parting of the gear, theft of Gear, or any other loss caused by a User’s deceptive or fraudulent acts through KitSplit.” Bottomline, I realized I handed my camera off to a thief for $70, KitSplit who facilitated this voluntary parting under the false pretense of being safe also profited from this transaction, but as the gear owner who trusted the system and signed up as a vendor on KitSplit, I’m silently given the bill of $3500. On the other hand, KitSplit’s excerpt describes how voluntary parting is different from theft, how their insurance policy “may not” cover fraud or voluntary parting, and then reminds you how unlikely this will happen to you.

The recessive gene for Canavan, as for the better-known Tay-Sachs disease, crops up most often in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, and Gabi and Zohar found that they were both carriers—meaning that any children they conceived would have a one-in-four chance of being born with the disease. The Ilinetskys said that the therapy shows signs of success: Yael can reach out, grab toys, and do other things that many Canavan babies can’t, and Yoel seems more alert. “When we started the fund-raising campaign, it was something that I personally didn’t feel comfortable with,” Zohar Ilinetsky told me when I visited him and Gabi at home one morning.

I have a growing sense of unease about the Americanisation of British society’s attitude towards mental health. Attitudes to mental illness 50 years ago were undoubtedly crude and prejudicial, and many patients with treatable problems were denied help that would have transformed their lives because they stayed silent. One of the things that is most protective to mental health is not to spend too much of our lives consciously obsessing about it.

At this point, 12% of European greenhouse gases are emitted by cars, a number that will quickly increase if we sit still. In addition, many countries are struggling to build the necessary infrastructure for electric cars. So what if we could ‘leapfrog’ the grid and create a car charged by the sun?