venantius

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by venantius 6y ago
@dang can we have the title changed or something? Most of the diabetics in this thread (yourself included) agree that the title is misleading at best and simply false at worst.
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by venantius 6y ago
I’m also a T1D. I assure you, lots of diabetics have tried keto diets. It doesn’t put the disease “in remission”. That’s not how the disease works.
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by venantius 6y ago
That's exactly right. We don't want /products page to noticeably have been written by Jessica while /pricing is noticeably by Andrew. We want a consistent corporate voice - partly because otherwise we don't have an
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by venantius 6y ago
It's heavily inspired by Monzo's TOV - hence the shout-out at the top :)
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How We Write(blog.griffin.sh)
71 points by venantius 6y ago|24 comments
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by venantius 6y ago
We are planning on offering a competitive service to this later on this year. The major difference for us is that we’re an actual bank, so we need to run this infra whether you pay for it or not.
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by venantius 6y ago
Surely you mean removing slow trains from the mix?
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Designing a Bank: Part One(blog.griffin.sh)
1 points by venantius 6y ago|0 comments
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A Framework for Making Decisions(blog.griffin.sh)
3 points by venantius 6y ago|0 comments
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by venantius 7y ago
I think they're related; healthy people often (implicitly) assume they are healthy because they have done nothing wrong to deserve being ill . This then causes them to act with unexamined cruelty towards people who are ill.
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by venantius 7y ago
Given that current measures in the US don't come close to Italy/SK/China, that seems highly unlikely.
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by venantius 7y ago
Revolut is a bank in Lithuania but not in the UK.
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by venantius 7y ago
This article is from 2018 and gets posted pretty regularly. I happen to agree with its core thesis but I'm not sure we get anything out of having it on the front page again.
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by venantius 7y ago
And this sounds like the opinion of someone who has spent literally zero time investigating how universal the consensus is among voting security professionals about how paper is still the best, most reliable, most secure technology with whi
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by venantius 7y ago
If you're interested in this space, we're building a fully-regulated platform bank to essentially power all of these consumer/business facing banking applications. This is us: https://griffinbank.com
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by venantius 7y ago
We do: https://blog.griffin.sh/2019/10/23/the-immutable-bank/
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by venantius 7y ago
Griffin | Senior Clojure Engineer | London, UK | Full-Time | https://griffin.sh We are building an API-first white-label bank in the UK to be the partner bank of choice for fintechs. We want to make it easy for startups to launc
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by venantius 7y ago
I'm not sure the Hawala comparison is accurate; Hawala relies on essentially net neutral flows between nodes [exchanges] and trust-based credits and debits (not credit in the sense of literal credit, but credit in the strict ledger sen
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by venantius 7y ago
I'm not sure why you would use this over something more battle-tested like RethinkDB which was also built with this use-case in mind.
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The Immutable Bank(blog.griffin.sh)
8 points by venantius 7y ago|1 comments
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by venantius 7y ago
Griffin | Senior Backend Engineer | London, UK | Full-Time | https://griffin.sh We are building an API-first "platform" bank in the UK to be the partner bank of choice for fintechs. We want to make it easy for startups
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by venantius 7y ago
I don't find this surprising at all and I think it's likely often in founders' best interests to still take a preemptive deal. It removes risk (which creates value) and also allows them to remain focused on operating the core
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by venantius 7y ago
To an extent this does exist in the form of the listing requirements for NYSE, NASDAQ etc. Matt Levine has talked previously about how the coupling between "higher standards of operating", "selling your shares to the public&q
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by venantius 7y ago
Griffin | Senior Backend & Senior Frontend Engineer | London, UK | Full-Time | Onsite or remote UK | https://griffin.sh We are building an API-first "platform" bank in the UK to be the partner bank of choice for fi
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by venantius 7y ago
This underlines how small the settlement actually was in comparison to the actual economic damage people experienced. Normally nobody shows up to make these claims because they don't actually feel significantly personally affected.
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by venantius 7y ago
Griffin | Backend / Full-stack Engineer | London, UK | Full-Time | Onsite ONLY [some tolerance for remote UK, none for remote INTL | https://griffin.sh We are building an API-first "platform" bank in the UK to be
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by venantius 7y ago
They went further than the greenshoe - Matt Levine has a great post breaking it down (see the second section of his post here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-15/wework... ).
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by venantius 7y ago
Griffin | Backend / Full-stack Engineer | London, UK | Full-Time | Onsite | https://griffin.sh We are building an API-first "platform" bank in the UK to be the partner bank of choice for fintechs. Currently closin
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by venantius 7y ago
My theory 2 years ago was that the likes of Uber, Lyft et al. would cause more and more people to buy new cars that couldn't really afford it. Should demand for ride sharing ever stall or fall off, the continued increase in people ente
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by venantius 7y ago
At present we're pre-launch even within the UK, so unfortunately no. We aim to in the long term.

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