The logic is actually quite simple. Once 2 cells are connected via a line, their values are kept in-sync. If one cell changes the value, the other cell will be informed of the change, and the module will react accordingly, very much like a reactive spreadsheet.

During the initial connection, we have to “pick a winner” and determine which of the 2 cells’ values to use. The logic is that the empty cell will be overridden. If both cells have values, the direction of how you connect them determines the winner. Dragging A to B will have B’s value overridden by A’s value.

However, the developer of the module, or the creator have the ability to specify the direction flow when necessary. For example, in the Github example, the Github module populates the (issues) cell via fetch call and is expected to be a read-only cell. This means that any connection to the cell will become a directional data flow out.

The simple big picture is that we are drawing lines to tell the system how we want data to flow among the different modules, very much like how we pass variables around in code.

> A ton of the prominent VCs were writing out checks from their personal bank accounts so that founders could meet payroll.

Because they have duty to do so, as (part) owners of those companies. They could face personal liability for being negligent enough. You'd think any company with non-trivial payroll should've known better than not to hedge on all the things, including their banking partner.

Well the life of the average Chinese citizen has improved substantially in the last 30 years, no Western country can really say that.

Why are random celebrity Tweets always voted to the top here? Where's the context? What are they spamming them with?

This is not a forum for PaulG, DHH and others to rant against companies on, yet it seems to be more and more the case nowadays.

If there's an article with actual content that should be posted and discussed here, not a Tweet.

I've had good luck with https://mercury.com for business banking.

Yeah, and I also wish there was a way to filter out content from select people who I follow for their subject matter expertise, and I'm not interested in reading about their takes on politics. I don't mind that they're wanting to share those views, but I wish I could follow just their subject matter content. And by the same token, it would also encourage people to be able to post those non-subject matter tweets, if they knew that people wouldn't have to unfollow them if they preferred to avoid politics. Allowing people to choose to bifurcate what they follow a person for enhances the network, I think.

And I should say, it's not even necessarily about politics. I'm not a huge sports fan, and in the same way, I would like to be able to unfollow posts about sports, etc of friends on Facebook.