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by smokefoot 3y ago
Sorry that was probably an overly snarky response on my part. Stripes product is actually aimed at merchants so two steps removed anyway.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Um, no. Banks file a lot of those. If it’s me using my dads credit card number then sure, not a SAR. But most of that activity is systematic: either backed by organized crime or a semi-professional fraudster. Those most definitely would get
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Probably not actually treated as revenue. Those charges get netted out before they’re reported as revenue (interchange is a “contra” revenue line)
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Generally the bank will file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) with FINCEN for egregious cases. I don’t think intermediaries like stripe have any direct responsibility in this respect but I could be wrong. The volumes are huge and few SARs
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Can you do this in grist or Airtable? Building join tables with calculated fields is a missing feature in all spreadsheet-like solutions as far as I know. Also I concur with the parent that I often get frustrated by my inability to do sprea
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Not so much the vocabulary but the excessive use of adjectives and the overall verbosity. It took ten paragraphs for me to understand anything new about who this guy was and what his worldview was.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
I was about to make the same comment. Literary magazines tend to encourage this style.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Ha, I get it. That is a helpful model.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
I don’t understand networking all that well. Is it interesting that the telcos and non-tech companies are moving away from specialized hardware toward software defined networks while the hyperscalers are using hardware acceleration?
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by smokefoot 3y ago
In no particular order: 1. Use your powers of persuasion to drive better decisions 2. Recruit some good people 3. Suggest and execute some positive changes—“there’s this thing called source control and it’s great…” or, “seems like the repor
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by smokefoot 3y ago
This is a painfully cynical take and beyond that I’m not sure what he’s trying to say. If it’s all crap, make it better. Do something, don’t just complain!
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by smokefoot 3y ago
The word mainframe is often used ambiguously. In my experience it could mean: System Z - as I understand it, this is descendant from IBMs earliest computers like System 360. Typically apps are written in COBOL, PL1, tied together with JCL.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
I’m not an expert, but in the world of government contracting margins are often fixed. It’s common to contract on a “cost plus” basis where the contractor discloses its costs and is paid an agreed margin on top. For a diversified business l
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Some truth to this (minus the ritual child sacrifice). However it’s hard to do complex ambitious things like manufacturing semiconductors or designing consumer laptops in a small company. Big problems demand a big organization and increasin
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by smokefoot 3y ago
The more expensive the services, the less likely you are to get a bid in this format.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
SAS is a great language—shame it’s proprietary. It is very well suited for data processing.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Ha! I was going to say the article clearly referencing Epic.
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by smokefoot 3y ago
Historically applied analytics companies have lower moats, more professional services and lower gross margins than pure software. Palantir might be the quintessential company in this category but also Datarobot and it’s ilk. It will be inte
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by smokefoot 4y ago
Tangible assets decay
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by smokefoot 5y ago
Doesn’t chrome and moly make it stainless?
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by smokefoot 5y ago
I mean yes. But it is a funny example to choose to illustrate the power of a NN approach. They're talking about mountains--an entity that has very concrete and definable attributes (e.g., height). And the rest of the examples are sim
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by smokefoot 6y ago
The fact that palantir is still able to cultivate this much press coverage and phony mystique is a testament to their PR budget. Logic also had a story about palantir this quarter. What I found most remarkable about that article is that the
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by smokefoot 6y ago
I would suggest reading the materials. It’s slightly less insidious than the headlines would have you believe. A couple choice lead lines: “We are committed to lowering average daily doses on OxyContin and will provide higher rebates on pre