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by venantius 7y ago
Thanks! Those are the goals, among others (we also want to make it trivial for companies to issue card products or launch online lenders). I suspect Getbabb may have difficulty with the crypto angle. Not clear. Railsbank does not intend on
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by venantius 7y ago
We [ https://griffin.sh ] are building a bank-as-a-platform in the UK due to the friendlier regulatory environment compared to the US. We see a huge opportunity in this space and most of the existing incumbent institutions have st
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by venantius 7y ago
Then you're lucky. We have two 2017 MBPs and one has a broken R key. Broadly speaking (a) the failure rate is really high and (b) the fact that it can only be fixed by a complete front plate replacement makes this a punishing error. In
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by venantius 7y ago
Airbnb uses a monorepo for JVM-based project but most of Airbnb's code at least as of mid-2017 was not run on the JVM and was hosted multi-repo.
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by venantius 8y ago
I strongly disagree. Leadership is fundamentally emotional-political-strategic, which are not skills that most engineers invest in. You can argue that more engineers should and do have those skills, but when someone says something like take
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by venantius 8y ago
I don't find changes to share price to be the most convincing indicators of performance, though I agree you'd probably be hard pressed to find a better "generalizable" statistic. Fundamentally, I think measuring talent i
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by venantius 8y ago
Honestly I'm astonished at the speed with which this happened, given the recency of their acquisition. Seems amazingly cynical of their new parent company.
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by venantius 8y ago
Far fewer to almost none, BUT by the same token interchange rates on bank/debit cards are way lower than they are on credit cards.
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by venantius 8y ago
I mean the actual reason these companies are able to levy these taxes is because they provide contractual consumer protection. If we had strong consumer protection laws in the US in the first place, there wouldn't be much value left in
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by venantius 8y ago
Yes - the guy who did our wedding photos was great and I was just starting my own startup and knew I wanted headshots. I was happy to pay him for an hour of taking photos and knew I'd get something usable out of it.
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by venantius 8y ago
This is an amazing way to run a company. I love it.
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by venantius 8y ago
It’s not nothing, but the difference is at least an order of magnitude. Consider: I am probably 0% likely to book an Airbnb in my own city. Almost all of my Airbnb’s will be somewhere else , so I only really care about remote stock. By con
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by venantius 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree that a no-deal Brexit is such a good idea - given the (now exposed) lies of the Leave campaign, a second referendum seeems pretty reasonable. At any rate - the idea that there is an alternative deal that someone c
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by venantius 8y ago
The main thing is that Airbnb has a global economy of scale - having more hosts in Japan actually does benefit their guests who reside in New York year-round. Competitors to Airbnb similarly must achieve global scale in order to compete in
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by venantius 8y ago
This is the correct answer. When you search for listings in Airbnb what comes back is heavily personalized. Of course, that only accounts for one of the various pages you'll see in the checkout flow, and I agree that not everything is
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by venantius 8y ago
I used to work at Airbnb. Airbnb does not, in fact, have a CTO who dictates the company tech governance and/or stack. They prefer to run things in a federated manner, with individual teams making the decisions that they feel are best f
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by venantius 8y ago
> Implicit in my previous comment is that, because it's harder making things move in Big Corp one tends to learn more, both as an engineer and as a human. Finding the right technical path through a heavily used, critical system is a
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by venantius 8y ago
When can I buy travel insurance that covers “drones at the airport”?
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by venantius 8y ago
Probably more technically it's inside the water which is inside the plant.
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by venantius 8y ago
In the UK it is mostly referred to as "cover", which makes me suspect that's the case in most of Europe as well.
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by venantius 8y ago
The bible? Uncle Tom's Cabin? Das Kapital? It's not that hard to find books that - by themselves - caused revolutions or major social change.
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by venantius 8y ago
I know you mean this in jest, but for a good part of the last century this was absolutely true.
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by venantius 8y ago
I think the relatively simple answer is that it turns out most people are far more subject to simple tribalism than we previously wanted to admit. Memes are incredibly powerful mind viruses and we (collectively) have done a really great job
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by venantius 8y ago
Well of course they were . What exactly made anyone think they'd actually changed anything, other than time and a bit of marketing? What they were doing at the time of the financial crisis was illegal then, and this is illegal now. It
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by venantius 8y ago
Griffin | Full-stack or Backend Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE | London, UK | https://griffin.sh We're rapidly moving towards a world in which people get most of their financial services from non-bank fintechs than they do f
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by venantius 8y ago
This article really hit home for me living in London. Having spent 7 years working in San Francisco and the valley, the degree to which "project management" and the use of buzzwords in the greater London tech scene are divorced fr
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by venantius 8y ago
As a soon-to-be-regulated financial institution in the UK, we have to be careful who our investors are (and that includes getting into who the LPs our in our investors' funds). It's very easy to take cash, but nobody wants to have
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by venantius 8y ago
> Afaik, YC is the only seed funder-startup accelerator in the world, among thousands of other ones, that has given birth to companies worth $1 billion ore more. Seedcamp (London) has backed 3 unicorns: Revolut [$1.7B], UiPath [$3B], and
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by venantius 8y ago
Surprised nobody's mentioned Hyper Log Log (or its more recent variants). A probabilistic constant-space unique cardinality estimator (i.e. if I see a billion events, how many are unique?) that also supports set operations.
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by venantius 8y ago
I am going to refer to this thread, which shows exactly how easy it is and how difficult it is to defend yourself against: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18194701

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