curryhowardiso

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by curryhowardiso 7y ago
I think the point behind the Apple Card is to drive NFC payments adoption in the US. Australia has a near complete penetration of NFC while the US does not. Only time will tell whether we get the Apple Card, but due to the Australian Reserv
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by curryhowardiso 8y ago
To confirm, you meaning Stripe? Does this work in all banking jurisdictions?
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by curryhowardiso 8y ago
It's also due to the fact (which I also tweeted) that Kubernetes is not even supported on the stable release channel of Docker for Mac!
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by curryhowardiso 8y ago
That would be super cool, and I've noticed the branch protection features changing on GitHub, so perhaps they're thinking about this space too.
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
Yes but this is related to the legal basis for the claim, just because there are people who may have committed fraud, doesn’t give the government carte blanche to request any more than they’re legally entitled to obtain.
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
Will this be fixed when a "canonical" docker container comes out for it? Or perhaps two containers - 1 for dev & dev dependencies and 1 for "prod"?
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
This is potentially huge news - given that Apple just fought (and won) an antitrust/anti competition lawsuit in Australia in respect of not allowing Australian banks to use this NFC API! http://registers.accc.gov.au/con
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
I don't believe this answer deserves a downvote. I think this answer missed a (somewhat) negation in the middle of the parent posts' argument
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
Absolutely - and the argument that "Facebook usage is like common law licenses of invitation onto private property" tacitly assumes that Facebook is like private property, and that the moral justification of "my private prope
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
> Microsoft, Intuit and CheckFree announced the OFX standard on 16 January 1997. > Many banks in the US let customers use personal financial management software to automatically download their bank statements in OFX format, but most C
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
Have you seen plaid.com? Also - yes :)
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
> I'd love to collapse all of my recurring payments into a monthly report, that I can review and authorize. Yes, even just a list of the recurring payments (that is updated in realtime and that you can centrally discontinue) should
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
You could also do extended KYC based on this information!
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
Mate it's called a sandbox and reviewed apps... We're not talking about hooking up some PHP script to your bank account... and I'm not even affiliated with them!
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
Cards on the table: I work for a money transmitter "app" headquartered in SF (I say "app" because we still operate in a somewhat speculative niche in the industry) as a software engineer - but I have a degree in law as w
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by curryhowardiso 9y ago
Is the problem that the "stanford disruptors" are sticking to offering value as a payments facilitator/money transmitter and not trying to move up the value chain and get some banking licences? I assume this would be orders o
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what threshold of evidence would you accept that I provide to verify that I was indeed asked to write code at the US border? I'm almost certainly not going to provide it, but I'm still curious if you're will
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Sorry? I wasn't denied entry ever... Ahh the news.com.au article isn't worded very clearly: the person in front of me was denied entry (not me!)
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Sum* Sorry!
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
I was the person in the story and I'm pretty sure this person could! https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Hey there! I am the subject of the article and to my knowledge I wasn't 'assessed' in any formal capacity (certainly not at the level of cross-referencing anything with Wikipedia) I am thoroughly convinced that just getting d
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
I didn't tell the journalists the question because it wouldn't mean anything to their target audience. Most of these reposts (including this one in hacker news) have not reached out to me for additional or audience-specific detail
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Hey y'all, I'm the person they mentioned in the article. Because this is a fairly technical forum (and some people were asking about language specifics or runtime characteristics) I'll let you in on the question even though I
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
This is actually a great technical and legal question. And it depends a lot on the type of service you have, and which jurisdiction's law governs you and your service provider. On the one hand, we have the EU's "right to be f
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Yeah, who needs Uber when you can hail a cab in one swift motion
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
"The only real way to get better is practice." 100%
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Jesus christ the "Sydney tech scene" got absolutely reamed by Bloomberg in this. Was that really necessary? Do we even hold ourselves out to have a tech sector worth mentioning as such (as opposed to a few lucky breaks that would
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Omg now can someone please fix the apex domain? I don't want to live in a world where I can't like formal verification and modern website design
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Stripe changing the game again. Well done team Stripe!
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by curryhowardiso 10y ago
Soon: Situation: there are 15 competing standards.[1] [1]: https://xkcd.com/927/

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