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by xoxoy 6y ago
agreed the algorithm is especially geared to minors to make mini music videos that are highly sexualized
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by xoxoy 6y ago
I agree in the sense that TikTok is a trust and safety disaster at the moment and I’m not sure Microsoft realizes the investment required to clean it up and make it truly safe. One of the most disturbing features to me is that you can be lo
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Robintrack to shut down after Robinhood limits public access to user holding API(bloomberg.com)
2 points by xoxoy 6y ago|0 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
pretty sure it’s more complicated than that eg H1B status means leave the country if you’re fired, and to assume you cannot he stressed about a job or life because you make a nice salary is a very naive take.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
what about the engineer who jumped to his death after a bad review?
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by xoxoy 6y ago
is it just me or would it be very hard to work at Facebook these days without constantly experiencing cognitive dissonance day in and day out? feels like the only way to enjoy working there is to either be someone who only cares about the m
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by xoxoy 6y ago
this is how all wealthy people have their net worth reported - not sure why you’re so adamant that “net worth” only include cash for some reason when it’s a completely accepted fact that net worth is the sum of your assets minus debt.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune Surpasses $100B(bloomberg.com)
10 points by xoxoy 6y ago|16 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
way too confusing so won’t work if there’s a different fee depending on the specific card you choose to work maybe just allowing a discount for cash and pin debit
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by xoxoy 6y ago
don’t think they are suggesting that Stripe create a competing network just like in Europe the government would regulate interchange, which they’ve mostly failed to do here outside of the Durbin Amendment But Durbin has raised red flags abo
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by xoxoy 6y ago
there’s probably very little fraud with touchless payments like Apple Pay - most issuers require some verification to add the card to a phone in the first place. if that becomes a growing % of in person payments i don’t see the justificatio
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by xoxoy 6y ago
there’s a high floor due to interchange fees that are set by the networks that processors have no control over.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
just a reference to the company’s valuation - and how lack of regulation around interchange fees and payment processing fees has meant very high costs that would be a lot lower if the US were more like EU
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by xoxoy 6y ago
sure - but smaller vol merchants with thin margins can also be sensitive to payment processing costs too
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by xoxoy 6y ago
it depends on what you value. most high volume businesses aren’t optimizing for developer happiness..they don’t want a business expense like payment processing taking 3% of every sale.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
costco offers payment processing for 1.99% + 25c (vs 2.9 + 30c), so quite a bit cheaper. my point is that it’s entirely possible to offer the same thing for cheaper if your main concern is cost, especially for higher volume merchants, and n
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by xoxoy 6y ago
i didn’t say that. but it’s among the most expensive.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
Just me or does anyone else think there’s going to be a reckoning in interchange regulation in the US like Europe soon? Merchants are hurting, and now the pandemic has forced cashless transaction adoption at an accelerating pace. The egregi
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by xoxoy 6y ago
taking 2.9%+ of every sale is a lot though, no?
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Where's the Sympathy for Lonely Young People?(bloomberg.com)
2 points by xoxoy 6y ago|0 comments
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Visa, MasterCard Debit Fees Are Hurting Retailers, Sen. Richard Durbin Says(wsj.com)
4 points by xoxoy 6y ago|0 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
if you haven’t stolen actual files or documents with you, then it’d be a very tough case
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by xoxoy 6y ago
it wasn’t ambiguous at all. he downloaded related files directly to a personal hard drive when he left.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
yes it’s PR speak - does an “Apple Fellow” that manages a few products sound like a step up from Chief Marketing Officer to you?
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by xoxoy 6y ago
Interesting choice of words. Very carefully says nothing about retiring - it seems like he was simply demoted and now just advising Tim Cook.
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Kodak Loan Disclosure and Stock Surge Under SEC Investigation(wsj.com)
28 points by xoxoy 6y ago|2 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
I take it you haven’t played “Last of Us”? It’s quite literally the entire premise of the game (what if Cordyceps infected humans?) Funnily enough that game has probably taught more people about zombie fungi than biology textbooks.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
what if Trump’s new USPS head Louis DeJoy is purposefully cutting the budget and thus slowing mail delivery to mess with absentee ballots ahead of the election?
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Consumers, Flush with Stimulus Money, Shun Credit-Card Debt(wsj.com)
2 points by xoxoy 6y ago|0 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
no i don’t think that works i mean the US one would be wholly owned by someone with own dev team servers etc the non-US one would have to be a separate app with own team too. it doesn’t seem to work

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