They are not going to do a batch with 3000 companies. They are saying all in all this will allow them to fund more companies over the coming years - " In the coming years, this will enable us to fund as many as 3000 more companies".

Fair. Point still stands. My (misinformed) perception was that they were doing like 15 hot deals a year.

Honestly! It kind of reminds me of Marc Andreessen's "Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?” comment.

It’s working out for China somehow though ..

It also assumes the world is limited to what can and cannot work in the US. In some parts of the world micro payments are the majority of payments.

Postgres RDS on a t2.micro is $15/mo and afaik eligible for free tier.

Micro on cloud services is basically trash, it has no power at all, you'll quickly run I to problems even with a handful of customers.

It'll have like 1/100th the power of a $5 p/m VPS.

Downloading apps is not difficult but it's difficult to get people to download apps.

It's really not a similar situation. Refusing to social distance is illegal as it puts other people's lives in danger but working for a dirty restaurant is not and is not analogous this is in any way.

However the same sanitary law can be applied if Tesla violates distancing. It's exactly like a restaurant without a sink to wash hands or gloves.

To make his analogy more accurate, it would be the restaurant gets shutdown for being too dirty, at which point the owners continue to open and the workers continue making food there.

And then the owner is supposed to be slapped with a reasonable fine. Or jailed if they're continuing to defy the court order.

> What I want to get at is "social distancing" is arbitrary (6 feet?)

There do exist concrete studies on what distance makes sense; see for example https://medium.com/@jurgenthoelen/belgian-dutch-study-why-in...

Illegal, as in not allowed and punishable by law in the state.

But the state is willing to make some exceptions, making it legal for this.

Both. I go into coding with a design in mind (a class diagram/db schema etc.), but I've found after I start coding the design always mutates.

Hey. Also South African here. Currently building a WhatsApp based classroom/learner resource management application (https://foondamate.com) in hopes that this will at least help in the future. So far I've only launched the functionality to download past papers look up works, search wikipedia and look up solutions to equations but have been working on other features. I'm hoping since WhatsApp is wildly accessible this will make a difference. Already have quite a few user, over 50 but under 100. Happy to chat and discuss further. You can mail a me at [email protected].

Pioneer.app have made huge strides in this regard. You can watch their livestreams and mail the founders afterwards.