we were not. all of us made exactly the same amount, and it was well under market rate

(Roughly $94k annually per employee as detailed in the 2023 financial update—low for Silicon Valley but high for co-ops / small community sites / "small tech")

That's the fully loaded cost, right, not the comp number?

I think that's the pretax salary number? (they said "pay", and it was CoL adjusted from their starting $80k target salary in ~2021). They estimated their fully loaded cost in the same update as around $108k per employee (gave total payroll expenses as $36k monthly for four full-time employees). They said in a different update they were using a QSEHRA, which seems to have a cap of $11k per employee, so presumably that covers most of the difference? But maybe I'm just interpreting that completely wrong. I remember they posted about their healthcare coverage woes at one point but I don't remember the details.

That all being said, I don't think this is a huge indictment of Cohost—they had a solid 4 years, and in all likelihood they'd have had to close up sooner if their personal financial situations were more precarious. But a situation where making less than $94k is "precarious" is a very tough one to be trying to starta new social media company in.

salary for four employees working well under market rate

I drive a top trim 2021 Mazda 6 and as far as I can tell it doesn't even have any sort of bidirectional data transmission outside of the standard Sirius XM traffic/weather/whatever systems. The internal GPS doesn't even work right since i declined to buy the $400 map pack (carplay is more than good enough for me). I haven't read any privacy policies yet, but my hunch is that there's nothing that bad in them, especially since I'm not even sure how they'd get the data off beyond a dealer service.

You can buy a Navigation SD card from Amazon or Ebay for under $50 and update it with their free (as in gratis) tool: https://mazda.welcome.naviextras.com/how-to-update.php

as a jew, this is simply the nature of judaism

Xkit is still actively maintained, albeit by a new team [1]. When I saw this, my first thought was "since when was Xkit a YC company," so definitely an unfortunate name collision.

[1]: https://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com

It's being reported on as if it's not a joke, so I'm now assuming it isn't: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/31/8316775/amazon-dash-button...

LTE uses SIM cards regardless of the network's voice system.

This game is from 2011.

The suspension in the Model S is computer controlled, so they just push an update to control it differently!

I'm currently on a $30 T-Mobile Mothly4G plan on a Galaxy Nexus. The catch is that, in my area, T-Mobile's service isn't quite as good as Verizon's, who I was previously with.

And that's it. That is literally the only complaint I've had and, for $30 a month, I'm willing to live with that.