This probably works really well during covid! /s

Actually, it does work well! In my local Buy Nothing group, and I assume in others as well, people just leave stuff out on their porch at the arranged time, so that no physical contact is made except through the item. In that sense it's no more or less risky than delivery services or curbside pick-up at stores.

I'm wondering what impact COVID might have on this.

On the one hand, some people have reduced income during the pandemic, so they don't buy less brand-new first-hand stuff.

On the other hand, some people might become more wary of second-hand items as disease vector.

They will still have captions, just not crowdsourced. The auto captions are better and better these days.

The auto caption doesn't even detect the right language in many cases, doesn't have all languages, and is often comically bad. Maybe it's good for English but don't trust it for other languages.

On top if that, for multi lingual audio it is precisely useless, while multilingual audio is the norm in many countries or regions, as foreign sources are used as is rather than dubbed.

Its also frequently pretty bad for english

Are these memos redacted in some way? Would there be a separate diligence memo or is this the sort of final summary on why an investment would be made?

They look like the letters to the LPs as opposed to the memo a partner writes when they want their partners to approve the investment.

You would think so but feel free to try a reset / recovery at live.com and you will see that this is their standard form. That's what is so absurd -- change an email with no verification, but require next-level verification for the original owner to secure the account.

Were you worried at all about the culprit using the access to figure out other accounts? My account had a balance so I assume it had some old credit card info in it or something similar.

I did manage to get them to block the account because it was obviously stolen. But unable to reclaim it. I was more worried they d spam my friends.

In messaging with support, they advised that the system would 'automatically' identify the account as compromised and eventually block it. This doesn't seem that likely so I will ping them again in a few hours.

That's good news. I will reach out again and try to get it blocked at least but so far they have been unwilling to do so.

Unfortunately it appears that the password has changed.

I second this great question...lots of elderly have CPAPs

Most of Google's revenue comes from AdWords, which is the ads on google.com and from other ads on Google's own properties. AdSense is the ads that you can put on your own web site, powered by Google's advertising technologies. While it's a huge business in its own right, AdSense could definitely be spun off.

I'm trying to find information on what sections of Google/Alphabet make what revenue. How do you know that AdWords in the majority of their advertising revenue?

Precisely. "Company could avoid regulation by cutting off its revenue stream, ceasing to be relevant."

It's an option but not one I expect them to go with.

Well, yes, of course that's what they think. And so far they have been right given that they are currently back ordered and saw 10,700+ backers on Indiegogo raising $3.5MM for the thing.

You are amazing for building and running this program. People like you are what give me hope that we can build a better government! Thanks for all you do!