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by eins1234 4y ago
I don't disagree that they could have started with a better name, but I think that ship has sailed years ago when they covered SF with the name on billboards, including one that literally says: > Don't charge it, Brex it. http
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by eins1234 4y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say the biggest contributor to poor unit economics for small business vs startups is credit losses. Startups usually have tons of cash in the bank to underwrite against, which made them actually very safe to lend
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by eins1234 4y ago
That's a perfectly valid choice! FWIW, I actually do like Mercury's UX marginally better than Brex. I would just prefer to have my banking and spending in 1 place, and if I did that with Mercury, I'd be sacrificing 1%+ reward
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by eins1234 4y ago
That's totally understandable, for the small business segment. I was just saying that for a VC-backed tech startup, the lack of rewards is a huge turn-off, compared to some of the other options for spending available to us.
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by eins1234 4y ago
Nice to see you taking feedback seriously.
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by eins1234 4y ago
I would guess they probably found that the "small business" segment of their customers ended up contributing to a disproportional percentage of fraud, support requests, etc, to the point they were net negative? Though I still wond
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by eins1234 4y ago
While it's great to maintain good enough unit economics to not have to pull stunts like this one, it's not necessarily always a plus from a customer perspective. Comparing Mercury and Brex/Ramp specifically, Mercury is notabl
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by eins1234 4y ago
Nope, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Though not sure who to trust at this point haha... Anyone have other recommendations for where I should keep my domains?
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by eins1234 4y ago
Wow, that's terrible. Thank you for the heads up. Just transferred my domains back to namecheap. While we're all here venting about Cloudflare, is anyone else frustrated about how they lure you in to their CDN product with "f
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by eins1234 4y ago
Even though I would personally choose to use the hosted version, I still consider the availability of an open-source solution to be a great hedge against vendor lock-in/failure. This is only true if I can be confident that I can replic
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by eins1234 4y ago
I would consider HA/clustering/auto-scaling to be table stakes for something as mission critical as secrets management. As far as I can see, this is fully available in the open-source version of Vault: https://learn.has
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by eins1234 4y ago
Well, thank you for confirming my suspicions. I wish I saw this before posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31533926
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by eins1234 4y ago
As someone who still enjoys SF and wants to keep living here, I read this as great news since I expected rents to decrease by a similar amount. But I just checked my apartment's website and it seems like if anything the rents have slig
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by eins1234 4y ago
Also, the list of limitations on the self-hosted open-source version reads like something that is only offered to tick an open-source checkbox: https://docs-v2.envkey.com/docs/self-hosting-open-source-env... Very clear
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by eins1234 4y ago
I was looking at this with great interest, until I looked at the pricing and found out the lowest hosted pricing tier starts at $150/month. I know there's a free "community" hosted version, but I'm not sure what the
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by eins1234 4y ago
Disagree wholeheartedly. One of the under-appreciated superpowers of gradually typed systems like TypeScript is the ability to ignore errors in parts of the codebase I don't care about right now, and focus on exercising the runtime beh
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by eins1234 4y ago
Curious if YC has any data on the outcomes of the co-founder matching programs they've been running? I'm a bit apprehensive because most of the advice I've heard from YC and elsewhere about finding a co-founder involves looki
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by eins1234 4y ago
As a YouTube Premium subscriber who sees no ads, I find sponsor segments to be the real bane of my existence.
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by eins1234 4y ago
Wanted to second this recommendation. It's still very hard for me to design a _good_ looking website from scratch as that takes actual creativity and imagination, but after reading Refactoring UI I at least have a bunch of tactics to s
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by eins1234 4y ago
This is really cool and all, but I'd like to see them also rethink the pricing for cache purging... Every option for purging other than purging by URL (which is practically useless if you need to purge html AFAIK, which maps to basical
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by eins1234 4y ago
Thanks for the resources! I managed to get both working in the end. Some notes for future readers: For SDK v3, I just needed to add the forcePathStyle flag. For aws4fetch (note that this isn't a presigned request, it's just signin
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by eins1234 4y ago
> Pilot here. For a second, I thought you were the pilot from the article that was incapacitated haha...
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by eins1234 4y ago
Got any examples for https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3 or https://github.com/mhart/aws4fetch ? I haven't been able to get either working: const s3Client = new S3Client({ endpoint: &
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by eins1234 4y ago
Yeah, I had to do a double take when I saw Signal included in that sentence. I value privacy & security personally, and want Signal to succeed, but any compromise to UX in the name of privacy & security is going to make it impossibl
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by eins1234 4y ago
My dream is to have a single nice variable font available pre-installed across all major desktop and mobile platforms that I can use without downloading custom fonts and suffering through additional font loading latency or layout shift. In
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by eins1234 4y ago
Re: Plaid itself, having used some of their competitors, specifically Finicity, which is one of Stripe's partners for this, I wouldn't be too worried if I were them. IME, Plaid is lightyears ahead in terms of reliability and overa
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by eins1234 4y ago
A lot of comments here saying that this is the death knell for Plaid, but I wouldn't be so sure. Stripe has launched competitors to existing fintech products and failed to gain traction plenty of times before. Example: Remember the Str
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by eins1234 5y ago
Yep, I know. I was just lamenting the loss of the ability to use it in Vanced. Maybe I'll try the Youtube mobile website + Firefox.
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by eins1234 5y ago
Wow, how did I just find out about Sponsorblock? That makes this news even sadder. :(
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by eins1234 5y ago
Can someone expand on the practical consequences with leaking when things were created to the millisecond?

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