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by x0x0 4y ago
For long term holding, sure. For funds that move in and out in 48 hours? I doubt any bank wants money bouncing in and out like that. They probably pay svb, and now jpm, to be allowed to do that.
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by x0x0 4y ago
I was coming here to say this. No connection besides being a happy user.
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by x0x0 4y ago
I wonder if that is anything more than the lack of retail banking skewing wages. ie you lack lots of branches staffed with relatively low-paid tellers.
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by x0x0 4y ago
Likely a 10b5 plan. I suspect (hope) the circumstances will be very carefully scrutinized.
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by x0x0 4y ago
idopmstuff != x0x0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35122581 I repeat: "In the sense that I never said that, sure."
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by x0x0 4y ago
> too darned hard for rich people to do Yeah, this is some ideologically driven smearing of people who are literally like I want to stick my seed round in a checking account and not have that disappear. For what it's worth, I&#x2
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by x0x0 4y ago
> You're the one claiming there will be contagion here. In the sense that I never said that, sure. The only thing I claimed, even implicitly, is firing a bunch of people because their employer's cash disappeared would be bad.
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by x0x0 4y ago
That's a very odd way of stating "here's a sector that will be badly hurt if the contents of their checking accounts disappear with an unknown timeline and percentage recovered." By that rubric, you could perfectly well
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by x0x0 4y ago
Framed another way, we're asking for the government to take some ownership of their stewardship of banks. The Treasury, the Fed, the CA gov, and the ratings agencies all gave svb passing grades. svb appears not to have done crypto sp
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by x0x0 4y ago
That's almost certainly a scam; I don't believe any counterparty short of the US government can actually insure against eg SVB.
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by x0x0 4y ago
> Every single CFO and company treasurer knows what the FDIC is and what the limits are. That's a hell of an operational ask for a 2 person startup with (for example, looking at the site we're on) $500k. I suppose I could take
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by x0x0 4y ago
Someone counted 3 or 4 -- I forget -- separate rounds of layoffs after Musk said Twitter was done with layoffs. That's many things, but "providing [sic] clarity" it ain't. edit: > Musk has done at least three rounds
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by x0x0 4y ago
The entire discussion on the link obscures the fact that saas companies are providing a real service. Even if you don't want the product to be updated, staying abreast of security patches, external api changes, OS changes, client chan
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by x0x0 4y ago
Quick question -- do they keep the drivers updated for Mac? Canon basically deprecated my perfectly working all-in-one laser + scanner by refusing to update the drivers for new MacOS versions. edit: specifically, the scanner, esp the autofe
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by x0x0 4y ago
My experience: I decided to try a new language on Duo a couple months ago. I unfortunately used the word bubbles because I was too lazy to learn to type Cyrillic. The result was, after 2 months, that I could spell nothing and knew almost n
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by x0x0 4y ago
And it's crucial to understand we're well past the point where any one (or likely even a small team) knows all the places that Microsoft auth is entangled with. Thus unknown, undesirable interactions occur just because it's
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by x0x0 4y ago
> is it really a negative for the industry and consumers if Figma shows ads on searches for Photoshop? Yes, because Google's intended and actual outcome is companies are blackmailed into paying to compete on advertising for their
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by x0x0 4y ago
headcount
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by x0x0 4y ago
That's not just what DocuSign does, except for their smallest customers.
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by x0x0 4y ago
It's not obvious at all. All of us who still have to help people in our lives -- particularly elderly parents -- are very grateful for a platform where the users are not expected to be sysadmins. Which they will do quite badly. We ha
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by x0x0 4y ago
> what those CEOs are doing to let a situation roll like this for so long. How boards accept this kind of thing? It's approved by the board. They signed off as part of some strategy. No way a ceo outside of Zuck is permitted to
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by x0x0 4y ago
I wonder if this qualifies for a return under the California lemon law. Uninsurability w/o a $250 part?
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by x0x0 4y ago
A summary I found, because I was curious: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02884-3
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by x0x0 4y ago
> but we're talking about destroying a business Yes, and that's good. Their business was our trust -- every one of our devices -- and they made it clear they didn't deserve it.
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by x0x0 4y ago
I wish. We interviewed students at a very expensive local university to do some writing for my startup. We were stunned at the number of them who couldn't string together a 5 paragraph essay that was (1) spelled correctly (!!!!), (2)
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by x0x0 4y ago
That's the new Pixel fingerprint reader experience. They buried it under the screen (why? who gave a shit?) so they can make it (generously) 70% reliable instead of the 99.99% reliable reader they had on the back.
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by x0x0 4y ago
It could also be the wrong tools. eg I like having tests, and I like writing them, because they make my life better. But the contrast between the effort level to write tests in ruby or python vs go... I hate go, I hate the lack of good moc
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by x0x0 4y ago
Ashley Madison is, afaik, a Toronto company. Not sure how that's getting blamed on the valley.
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by x0x0 4y ago
> How did you build your sales skills I didn't. I paired w/ a cofounder that is a fantastic salesperson. He ran gtm, I ran prodeng.
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by x0x0 4y ago
I'm not an expert on this, but I'd start with a soc2 type 2. soc2 served us well in the US. Some of Europe prefers 27001, but we sold into the EU with just a soc2 in the beginning. a soc2 is also a choose-your-own-adventure cert

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