edubs25

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by edubs25 7y ago
define small? My partner worked here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LafargeHolcim They used gsuite for email, o365 for other aspects. Required iPhones if you wanted a device - wouldnt allow android at the time... but
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by edubs25 7y ago
Credit card networks can vary regionally even under the same brand names (like MC/Visa). They are not ubiquitous. Depending on the network the merchant is using, they may or may not be able to connect to your specific card's issue
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by edubs25 7y ago
Probably because the party doing the ACH is a third party agent/ISO but the checks are probably cashed directly by the management company. The thing that your management company probably wont tell you is they get some kick back on the
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by edubs25 7y ago
Yeah, the only good use cases I heard for wanting real time payments had to do with businesses not wanting to keep cash reserves on site at all times. The two I recall were (1) in businesses that have variable payment demand (think scrap ya
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by edubs25 7y ago
Snarky answer - there's no real motivation to change it and from an institutional perspective it's not broken. - it costs a lot to fix or redesign a money system moving billions of dollars in volume per day - change is risky - any
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by edubs25 7y ago
I think it depends on context - I'm guessing you're thinking about flow of funds where as others are thinking about the actual process of running ACH files through the network. As an end consumer or other entity(like a TPA or bank
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by edubs25 7y ago
If you schedule the transfer via the bank that is receiving the funds, they will usually eat the cost and not pass it onto you as the consumer. Smaller banks [which are most] will submit ACH files up to larger banks [like Wells Fargo or Ban
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by edubs25 7y ago
Sad part that I've seen... worked on an implementation of Visa push payments at a TPA/ISO (I think it was formally called something else by Visa [Visa Direct?]) - it was designed as a real time payment system to make small payment
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by edubs25 7y ago
>One thing the article got wrong is that the Hacker News community is not limited to Silicon Valley. I thought the article was pretty clear that Hacker News user base is predominantly North America and Europe, not just the valley? I don&
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by edubs25 7y ago
I looked up the sales material for the software team I used to work on - https://sw.aveva.com/blog/visualize-asset-performance-manage... Digital twin is right in the subtitle XD
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by edubs25 7y ago
I always forget that this is possible to look up - ty
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by edubs25 7y ago
Is this only applied to 'real time' modelling or is 'near real time' also included? Curious because I used to write software for IIOT predictive analysis (3 years ago?) and I never heard the term 'digital twin.&#x27
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by edubs25 7y ago
Okay, first off, who has said these medical workers are being murdered in cold blood due to the locals beliefs in witchcraft. All that this link referenced is suspicion, they didn't say suspicion of what. This region of the African con
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by edubs25 7y ago
I get your point - my issue was with the long history of cultures being called 'civilized' or 'advanced'. These terms are still too commonly used and mostly out of ignorance of their origins. Just to throw it out there -
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by edubs25 7y ago
Even if that specific example is false, there is a rich and well sourced history of African Americans (and other marginalized groups) being used in medical experimentation in the US or by US organizations. Edit - my family (Cameroonian) alm
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by edubs25 7y ago
> easy to manage or control; well organized or ordered: > having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc. So the US meets these characteristics by your logic but DRC does not? Have you traveled much in rural/poor US? Have you
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by edubs25 7y ago
>Ebola should actually be easier to contain in any civilized country such as the US. Quarantine measures and disposing of infected bodies properly would limit the pandemic. I would be careful of the use of the word 'civilized'
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by edubs25 7y ago
Is stripe actually the one blocking you? Card brands regulate which MCCs are allowed to be signed on by acquirers. It could be Visa, Amex or Mastercard.
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by edubs25 7y ago
You could easily pass or fail automated tests for PCI DSS and it would have no correlation to whether your business was found compliant or not. The premise of this makes no sense.
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by edubs25 7y ago
edit I'm using security as an example of a regulated aspect of software/IT systems. I am aware there are others. 100% agree - My point was more that regulators tend to use policy and process artifacts as proof of security compli
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by edubs25 7y ago
> In highly regulated industries like finance, bad software can cost you billions in fines from regulators. You're assuming the regulators are low-level enough to identify a flawed system. A lot of regulations are applied at a polic