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by solumos 1y ago
Because you can transfer stablecoins to an end-user without taking custody of it, and that end-user can redeem it in their local market without the local + US-based bank having to talk. It’s faster and cheaper. Stablecoins are a sort of “gl
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by solumos 1y ago
Venmo uses PayPal's MSB/MTLs, per https://venmo.com/ > Venmo is a service of PayPal, Inc., a licensed provider of money transfer services (NMLS ID: 910457). All money transmission is provided by PayPal, Inc. pu
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by solumos 1y ago
I can sometimes relate, but you have to remember that even if you're building alone, you're still allowed to go talk to people!
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by solumos 1y ago
Something seems off with this data. Specifically, DUMBO-Vinegar Hill—Downtown Brooklyn—Boerum Hill has a median rent of $2600, which seems very suspicious. Also, there's no data for Crown Heights North.
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by solumos 1y ago
Yep, similar to how banning Juul led to the proliferation of foreign-made vapes[0] [0] - https://apnews.com/article/fda-vapes-vaping-elf-bar-juul-80b...
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by solumos 1y ago
It's a pretty big lift. Python was somewhat easy with pyodide, but I couldn't get Java to work locally. There's a company called CheerpJ that can do it over an API though. https://pyodide.org/en/stable&#x
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by solumos 1y ago
This is cool, I worked on something similar sort of thing over the winter, more focused on a local-first leetcode/coderpad, with a way to execute code in the browser using WebAssembly, and a way to share code over WebRTC https:/&
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by solumos 1y ago
This sort of architecture has been in favor with python for at least 10 years or so, but I think you're right — the structure just makes sense, so many reasonable engineers converge on using it.
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by solumos 1y ago
I would be very surprised if any of USDC, PYUSD or USDG followed in that tradition given their attestations. But you are certainly correct that there is no shortage of bad actors in this industry.
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by solumos 1y ago
Not exactly. Internet Computer or Akash Network would be more closely aligned with "decentralized compute" — smart contracts in the EVM world aren't really meant to decentralize "general" compute, but they do provid
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by solumos 1y ago
This is actually a good example of what I'm railing against. Giving your users airdrops is almost always a perverse incentive, and trying to figure out how to onboard to Farcaster as "Step 1" in your product journey is extrem
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by solumos 1y ago
There's an argument that the only truly decentralized money is Bitcoin. I don't necessarily disagree with that. Centralization has its perks though. A lot of things are priced in dollars, and it's somewhat convenient to not h
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Web3 Onboarding Was a Flop – and Thank Goodness(tomhadley.link)
16 points by solumos 1y ago|35 comments
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by solumos 1y ago
The undisclosed acquisition price/terms implies a down-round exit at best, and a fire sale at worst.
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by solumos 1y ago
The implied fix to the “unusable secure system” is forking the checkout action to your org and referencing it there.
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by solumos 1y ago
“We only allow actions published by our organization and reusable workflows” and “We only allow actions published by our organization and reusable workflows OR ones that are manually downloaded from an outside source” are very very differen
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Show HN: CodeNow – CoderPad over WebRTC and WASM(codenow-mu.vercel.app)
16 points by solumos 1y ago|1 comments
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by solumos 1y ago
In this scenario, imagine that “you” are in a different country or perhaps you don’t have a bank account. Or maybe you don’t want to pay $10+ or X% to receive funds.
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by solumos 1y ago
> Interestingly enough the US does have very modern financial institutions: credit unions. An American woman I met in Vietnam and traveled together with for a bit had a Charles Schwab account that had more features, more free overseas wi
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by solumos 1y ago
Does that API support sending $50 to my unbanked aunt in Mexico?
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by solumos 1y ago
> mechanism The mechanism often involves correspondent banks, and is generally pretty expensive ($25-$65). For scale, we’re talking about transfer fees measured in cents with stablecoins.
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by solumos 1y ago
I know not with what tools Web 3.0 will be built, but Web 4.0 will be built with vanilla HTML, CSS and Javascript.
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Show HN: CodeNow, a Collaborative Coding App(codenow-mu.vercel.app)
2 points by solumos 1y ago|0 comments
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by solumos 2y ago
Assuming that this comment is made in good faith — I doubt that they have much usage currently. Better marketing would show how managers could use this tool to better support their staff rather than scolding them.
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by solumos 2y ago
Is it dystopian, or is it just real-time performance monitoring poorly marketed by inexperienced founders? There are tools like this for tracking git commits and velocity (that I’ve been on the receiving end of). It probably makes less sens
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by solumos 2y ago
People think that what he's doing is unnatural, and that it's wrong for a rich guy to spend so much money on trying to live forever when he could be supporting traditional longevity science. He also leans into the controversy in h
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by solumos 2y ago
We can look at this "cult-like" effect in a number of ways. Some will be specifically interesting to this community, since they apply broadly to startups. I think it's wrong to call Bryan a "marketing genius" and I
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by solumos 2y ago
I don't code much outside of work. I have hobby projects from 10+ years ago, but they're not much more than landing pages copied from templates and wordpress installs. I mostly work in backend/data/platform engineering p
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by solumos 2y ago
I'm able to do it with just Nginx — jellyfin supports being proxied behind a subpath, but some other services might not.
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by solumos 2y ago
The big problem with health insurance is that it accounts for 17% of the US GDP, so although it's parasitic for everyone involved, it's basically indispensable to the economy. That's a big reason why the Affordable Care Act p

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