Johnie

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by Johnie 4y ago
The police already knew by looking at surveillance cameras. Here is the full complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23777761-momeni-char...
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by Johnie 4y ago
What's the rationale?
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by Johnie 4y ago
May 2022 "With California budget surplus projected at $97 billion, Newsom proposes driver rebates, more reproductive health funding" https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/05/13/newsom-californ.
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by Johnie 4y ago
There's diminishing returns as the company grows in headcount. When you hire large number of engineers, you need to hire engineers to support those engineers. Then you need to hire people to support the engineers that are supporting t
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by Johnie 4y ago
I always put this into perspective. Google hires about 2 Uber sized companies in employees every year.
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by Johnie 5y ago
After spending years at Google, the one question you need to ask for these types of "features" is who is going to get promoted for it? It is such a promo-driven product development culture.
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by Johnie 5y ago
I see this so often with many FinTechs. First thing that FinTechs fail to address early is risk/fraud. They learn pretty quickly to address this. Second area regulatory and compliance (ie KYC/AML).
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by Johnie 5y ago
This is like how tax policies gave rise to White Claw https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/how-tax-policy-gave-...
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by Johnie 5y ago
I'm sure if you send him higher gas fees, he'll confirm faster.
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by Johnie 5y ago
Cash is both ANONYMOUS and UNTRACKABLE. Bitcoin is only ANONYMOUS. Cash FTW!
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by Johnie 5y ago
1. Find some gas merchants wanting to drive traffic to their stations 2. Hook this up to Plaid and to let people compete using their credit cards to be first to hit the number at the pump. 3. Profit! -- Edit: Heck, skip #1 and just sell ads
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by Johnie 5y ago
Are you referring to the steam pipes? What is this? An underground metro for ANTS!?! It needs to be at least twice as large!!
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by Johnie 5y ago
>"Someone that's out there is trying to destroy us here, and we're trying to build something good for people," he said. >"There's holes, and what I'm realizing is I think there are some things that w
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by Johnie 5y ago
Many large companies have the same policies/training for this very reason. You do not want to put something in writing that could potentially appear on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. The training/policies just codify
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by Johnie 5y ago
Think about who is paying for that fraud. Prior to EMV liability shift, Banks paid for the fraud. After Liability Shift, merchants are paying for fraud using magstripe. Merchants don't want to be responsible for the fraud, so they ar
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by Johnie 5y ago
There's probably many. Here is the 2015 Swift Network Hack resulting in $101M stolen from banks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_SWIFT_bankin... Here is a catalog of financial cyber incidents: htt
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by Johnie 5y ago
Why not both? Write two exact articles with the different headlines to capture two separate customer demographic.
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by Johnie 5y ago
Think of the kindle as a loss leader for them to sell books. They probably make more money selling e-books than from the device itself.
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by Johnie 5y ago
The way to get engineers to adopt it is to demonstrate how it can be useful for them. Engineering quality of life can be derived from a lot of these metrics. Take for example, XKCD 303: https://xkcd.com/303/ . Enginee
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by Johnie 6y ago
It’d be very easy for a foreign agent to sneak in with the crowd. In one of the latter videos on that thread, it looked like she was directing/encouraging people to push forward.
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by Johnie 6y ago
When I left in 2015, this promotion incentives was also a problem.
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by Johnie 7y ago
Conway's Law applies here [1]. Poor architectural design can be rooted to how managers organize the team. If you want to see the architecture designed a certain way, organize the team structure along that line and the architecture de
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by Johnie 7y ago
The more people there are involved in a decision, the longer that decision takes to be made. If you're in a large company, everyone has an opinion. This framework is useful to explicitly determine who is and isn't in the decision
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by Johnie 7y ago
What you're referring to is the three degrees of price discrimination. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-are-dif... First Degree: This type of pricing strategy takes place when busine
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by Johnie 8y ago
BC has high abundance of hydro plants.
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by Johnie 8y ago
Patrick Pichette always had a saying internally that 20% is the magic number. If you can keep growing 20% YoY, investors will let you do whatever you want.
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by Johnie 8y ago
See: * Bass Diffusion Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_diffusion_model * Diffusion of Innovation Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations These models have been fair
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by Johnie 8y ago
How is this "Reddit-style"?
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by Johnie 8y ago
At the end of the day, much of all payment systems is just a ledger. Payment systems have to be provably correct, reliable, and available. Many payment systems make tradeoffs between all of these. Much of existing payment systems are all
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by Johnie 8y ago
Some parts of the Money system does use Cadence [1], Uber's internal workflow framework. [1] https://github.com/uber/cadence

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