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by pbreit 3y ago
Few understand that the movement of money and information about the movement of money happen on different schedules.
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by pbreit 3y ago
It’s not quite that bad. ACHes are batched several times per day and usually complete same day. It’ll be several years before consumers are splitting checks on fednow, an infinitesimally small use case.
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by pbreit 3y ago
No one has told me or seemed to have experienced any of the symptoms. The two I mentioned are friends of friends.
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by pbreit 3y ago
In my extended network of 1000+ people, I've heard of 2 that may have "long covid". Are people's experiences different?
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by pbreit 3y ago
Twitter has a massive existing user base and still isn't there yet.
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by pbreit 3y ago
Charging to post is also pretty much a non-starter.
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by pbreit 3y ago
"not in itself an indication of any ill-intent" Was that even insinuated? "no evidence that it was ever studied in the Wuhan lab" Wut? "Between 1 July and 1 October 2012, we received 13 serum samples collected from
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by pbreit 3y ago
How is science not involved in a major way here? Of course science will continue to play a huge role in the matter.
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by pbreit 3y ago
Isn't 20m rows super tiny?
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by pbreit 3y ago
How many rows?
191.
by pbreit 3y ago
The options for spinning up CRUD apps (ie, 95% of projects) are still quite miserable.
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by pbreit 3y ago
Is that desirable? Shouldn't we just leave the article that gets the attention?
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by pbreit 3y ago
This is only in Canada and only for small businesses (<$300k on Visa, <$175k on Mastercard).
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by pbreit 3y ago
Visa & Mastercard do not keep any of the interchange fee. It all goes to the issuer of the card. Visa & MC charge "scheme fees" which are much lower (except for cross-border txns). Interchange is public information: https
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by pbreit 3y ago
GitHub & Shopify both run substantially on Rails.
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by pbreit 3y ago
I read this and googled a bit and don't quite understand what the problem is with "comprised of". The author says this "The 9th district is comprised of all of Centerville" should be replaced by "The 9th distri
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by pbreit 3y ago
Now that PHP has lost its massive deployment advantage, step up to Rails or Python.
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by pbreit 3y ago
Agree. Very few systems benefit from the increased complexity and decreased productivity. DHH has a couple of posts on the topic recently: https://world.hey.com/dhh/how-to-recover-from-microservices-...
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by pbreit 3y ago
Tobi is one of the highest ethic persons in the industry. Can you point to any examples that would suggest otherwise?
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by pbreit 3y ago
Also, who reviews the peer reviewers?
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by pbreit 3y ago
Mag stripe readers are $1.
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by pbreit 3y ago
Also the same CEO who has built a $75b company.
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by pbreit 3y ago
Chip payments remain awful. Mag stripe worked much, much better. Much cheaper "terminals". Could use in many more places. The awfulness of chip payments makes Apple Pay possible.
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by pbreit 3y ago
Anyone who uses Apple Pay knows it is the way payments get made in the future. The narrative that it is some sort of failure is completely wrong.
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by pbreit 3y ago
A "flip was part of the flight plan.
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Musk, experts urge pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4(reuters.com)
13 points by pbreit 4y ago|5 comments
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by pbreit 4y ago
So which assets on coinbase do you believe are securities?
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by pbreit 4y ago
HTTP client libraries on the various languages still seems so lousy with excessive boilerplate and all sorts of complexity to handle cases that are beyond rare.
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by pbreit 4y ago
What would be a good tool to train on a "knowledge base" (a set of URLs) to be used to field customer support inquiries?
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by pbreit 4y ago
Is there by chance a CRUD boilerplate/starter (_NOT_ a to-do app)?

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