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by stu2b50 4y ago
https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1493390184897032201 I presume the Twitter braggery counts as encouragement.
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by stu2b50 4y ago
When people say “invoicing” in this context they generally refer to both the PDF and the transfer of money per the details on that PDF. How that money is transferred will incur different costs.
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by stu2b50 4y ago
1) less wires 2) offices where you don't have set desks 3) easily swapping between computers without a kvm
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by stu2b50 4y ago
So is the threat model that the guy mugging you points a gun at you, then walks you to a store that supports Mastercard bio authentication, and while holding you at gun point, forces you to buy some fungible good from the store that they th
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by stu2b50 4y ago
Is the idea that they chop your hand off? If it's just that they hold a gun to your head and make you authenticate with your palm, then they can do that right now. Once the gun is to the head you're kinda compelled to do what they
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by stu2b50 4y ago
I wouldn’t really say that’s a fair assessment either. I don’t think it’s in any way clear that Chess is deeper than Poker, or even by what metric you would determine such a thing. Certainly in both games there are no competitors, human or
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by stu2b50 4y ago
It’s certainly not a technology without flaws, but being overly locked down is definitely not one of them, no? Too many things have Bluetooth now, rather than the reverse. Makes the argument that the headphone jack was removed for lock-in
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by stu2b50 4y ago
As opposed to the near limitless devices that support bluetooth now? Including most refrigerators sold today?
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by stu2b50 4y ago
I mean, I guess? I would feel a bit more sympathetic if it were a very small company, and very young. But while Plaid is small relative to Stripe, it's a _9 year old company_ that's worth 10-13 _billion_ dollars. If you're se
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by stu2b50 4y ago
Interesting. I'm much less sympathetic, then. I would imagine that kind of situation would be far more formal, with lawyers from both sides present, and, to be frank, this kind of information gathering an expectation. It would be pure
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by stu2b50 4y ago
I’m surprised they had this information so easily at hand. How did they even know that? They saw the tweet and the first thing that comes to mind is to query all the people they’ve interviewed?
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by stu2b50 4y ago
Yeah, have to say, the level of knee jerk defensiveness here and on Twitter from cofounder level figures from Plaid does not exactly evoke confidence in their ability to outcompete.
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by stu2b50 4y ago
The article explicitly says they’re paying everyone the same pay across localities now. But for the many company’s that don’t, the justification is simply that the cost of Human resources is not based around output but around market dynamic
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by stu2b50 4y ago
I think this has more lasting power. There's a lot of reasons not to take crypto purchases... but that's the merchant's problem, not stripe's problem. They'd only deprecate it if the end users eventually dwindle to
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by stu2b50 4y ago
That's wouldn't really be possible. You'd have to have audio equipment to be interested in an audio interface. Trying to sell outside that market doesn't really make sense. It would be like trying to convince someone wit
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by stu2b50 4y ago
Honestly, not really. Scarcity only means something by enforcement. A record is just half the battle. However, enforcement is by its nature centralizing. The NBA NFTs, for example. Why NFT? If the NBA is running the enforcement, you'd
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by stu2b50 5y ago
It was patent-locked until a few years ago thanks to Amazon, but beyond that, handling payment information is a pretty hairy process. Credit card numbers are considered to be PCI and the network subject you to annoying audits and processes
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by stu2b50 5y ago
If it’s for holidays and kids, I’d say stick with a top of the line phone, then think about getting a discrete camera for edge cases (if you have that kind of money) The best camera is the one you have available. Kids are mobile and wild an
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by stu2b50 5y ago
They could, but they don't. Spammers cast a wide net and usually aren't concerned about the crumbs that fall through. Not to mention the people that do the plus or dot tricks are going to be extremely low value spam targets.
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by stu2b50 5y ago
That’s not how the business model works (or how they’d want it to work anyway). Affirm makes money on transactions in the “correct” way via very high merchant fees. Merchants will pay affirm a large fee for conversion benefits (e.g better a
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by stu2b50 5y ago
If it’s not, it should be, if nothing else then for the safety of your next tenant.
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by stu2b50 5y ago
That won't go to the firefox team, since the Firefox team is under the Mozilla Corporation whereas donations can only go to the Mozilla Foundation.
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by stu2b50 5y ago
Well, yes. It’s almost all of their annual revenue and Mozilla already had huge layoffs[0], so presumably they’re not exactly on amazing footing financially. Duckduckgo could not provide anything near that much - ddg has 100m in annual reve
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by stu2b50 5y ago
In the end, it's not like the devs made any money off of this. If they weren't already in a Russia-like country, then it's not exactly reasonable to relocate for your side project you offer for free.
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by stu2b50 5y ago
Table scraps is not exactly a scalable solution. That's fine for a handful of chickens a particular family owns, but a) those chickens are not going to be slaughtered until they can produce no more eggs and b) they will likely be consu
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by stu2b50 5y ago
Cheap chicken is a very recent thing - like mid 1900s recent. Chickens need to feed on grain (unlike cattle), and chickens also produce eggs (unlike pigs), which means that they're both relatively expensive to raise (before industrial
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by stu2b50 5y ago
Might not be a choice. I had coworkers in Crimea when that annexation happened working remote for a US company, and they not only were immediately let go - but were not given the rest of their paycheck. Not because we wanted to, but because
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by stu2b50 5y ago
I mean that's different from the kind of fraud the parent post was talking about. If a user used their credit card to buy an NFT that quickly went to zero, that's not a fraudulent credit card transaction still - the user authorize
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by stu2b50 5y ago
Create a market for music licensing that Unreal engine developers can use?
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by stu2b50 5y ago
Considering Mozilla had to lay off a significant amount of the company, including almost all of the developers on the rust teams, not too long ago I’m not so sure how comfortably they can afford it.

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