alwa

34 ms·

631.
by alwa 2y ago
> Funny thing about sending checks is it's just an account and routing number in a special font on a piece of paper. We don't touch any customer funds. Oh that’s so cool! I hadn’t even thought about that operational aspect. Ver
632.
by alwa 2y ago
This is hilarious and wonderful, and attractive to boot. I wish you the best of luck. I know that the big banks I use offer this service for free (as “Bill Pay”), but maybe there are also-ran banks that don’t? Or is the aim more to address
633.
by alwa 2y ago
Can state AGs prosecute federal crimes, like this one?
634.
by alwa 2y ago
That said, I (and I suspect at least a few others here) have encountered questions like GP’s too, and would value HN-style patient, civil answers from the sorts of highly-informed biochemists and medical professionals who sometimes lurk aro
635.
by alwa 2y ago
How do you demonstrate that User B earned their stablecoins via “salary, trading, mining, and etc.”; as opposed to through crime, whether the conventional crypto sort or through subverting currency controls? What, other than money launderin
636.
by alwa 2y ago
Anyone who suffers from what? Why is St John’s Wort good for it? I will never watch this type of video, but it sure does sounds like whatever affected @physicsgirl was awfully serious if it left her non-ambulatory for multiple years. It sou
637.
by alwa 2y ago
Then again if it's your law firm, the one who's representing you; and doing so lets them build your case at half the cost in research hours... or lets them figure out whether they can take your case where it might not have been
638.
by alwa 2y ago
I guess the profit is where the hazards lie! Skimming your landing page, it sounds like you're making meaningful efforts to compensate for the aspects of LLM that horrify us around here: sounds like you're primarily providing dire
639.
by alwa 2y ago
I don’t think this is right. It reads backwards to me. Didn’t Roe, controversially, hold that abortion was protected as a function of constitutional protections related to privacy (in the due process clause of the 14th amendment—specifica
640.
by alwa 2y ago
See, now that seems like a pretty cool use case, I’m glad to hear this technique is serving you well! I guess it’s cases like these—where I’d be inclined to do the reverse, taking “20-year-old dialog” and asking Claude to give it to me stra
641.
by alwa 2y ago
I’m not sure he’d want to, it would seem like he might want to point to his own scam. But if he did, I imagine he could add back your TXT record after looking it up in any of a large number of historical DNS databases. I can’t vouch for the
642.
by alwa 2y ago
Just as an additional datapoint, since I’m confused by fellow commenters’ confusion—I thought your narrative was clear, colorful, and entertaining, and I hope you’ll keep things so literary and engaging in your future contributions too :) A
643.
by alwa 2y ago
I’m surprised at the length of this gag, drawing on what seemed to me to be a particularly robust Wikipedia entry. Is the point that the article strikes you as juvenile, or that you feel like it unfairly makes touristic spectacle of somethi
644.
by alwa 2y ago
“More open access to information” is not the adversary’s goal, either. Is that goal served by preserving the adversary’s control over the information environment?
645.
by alwa 2y ago
On Question 3 (Misdirection)—why is clicking “no thanks, I prefer a limited experience” the wrong answer? Why should I click the stuff I don’t want just in order to “learn about it”?
646.
by alwa 2y ago
How much was the house worth?
647.
by alwa 2y ago
Last I heard, depending on local attitudes, potentially jail. For that matter, minors can be charged for producing images of themselves . The CSAM laws in the US tend not to draw distinctions between first- and third-party production: htt
648.
by alwa 2y ago
The gp comment speaks more of freight than of passengers. But the same analogy applies… trains are great when you need to transport a whole bunch of people exactly the same way, but they’re less useful if every person needs to start and end
649.
by alwa 2y ago
It’s pretty wild, although if I were Mr. Kato I might be somewhat more grumpy about being jailed for 3 weeks in South Sudan, apparently on the authorities’ opinion that their immigration laws required ministry approval for his run [0]. I ha
650.
by alwa 2y ago
It sounded from the methods section like a random paper teabag from the store. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the manufacturing world had moved from paper to some kind of engineered cellulose bioplastic… but I always thought of those mor
651.
by alwa 2y ago
Oh my. I hadn’t thought about the adhesives. And just at a gander at the study’s figures, their various microplastic signals from the cellulose bag are hard to distinguish from the pure nylon and polypropylene ones. That’s a sobering though
652.
by alwa 2y ago
I’m surprised to see them characterize the cellulose from a paper teabag as releasing “microplastics.” I get that cellulose is a polymer, but do practitioners not distinguish between naturally-occurring polymers and synthetic plastics in th
653.
by alwa 2y ago
Most of the older folks I know get their meds in the mail these days, even from the pharmacy that’s closer than that. The pharmacist is happy to talk to them over the phone. > They also determine which pharmacies are in network for insu
654.
by alwa 2y ago
What do you imagine, directionally speaking, as a more elegant tool? I’m understanding your comment to suggest that you find money a clumsy tool for the purpose of allocating human effort and capital… I hope and suspect you have something b
655.
by alwa 2y ago
Are people normally extradited in civil matters? With the penalty being a fine of up to $1000 per violation, plus options for customers to sue individually, wouldn’t it work like any other civil matter? Get a judgment in NY with or without
656.
by alwa 2y ago
Between your site copy and your early comments on this thread, it was this rundown that made the product click in my mind. I’m sure that in this early preview you’re trying to reach mainly devs with existing domain expertise, but the way th
657.
by alwa 2y ago
It sounds like the gp’s objection might be that they’d like for their children to use iPhone and its parental controls, but they themselves would prefer to use other platforms to manage the supervision features. As far as I know, you do in
658.
by alwa 2y ago
Why is that a ratepayer’s prerogative rather than the home insurer’s?
659.
by alwa 2y ago
I think TFA discusses mainly a program whereby Spotify hires production companies to pay working musicians to create new works in a particular style, compensated per song and licensed closer to a work-for-hire basis than a royalty basis. Th
660.
by alwa 2y ago
There’s also this notion of normalcy bias: even if I accept the risk in the abstract, I genuinely believe it won’t happen to me personally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

More ›