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by fro0116 7y ago
Yeah, Mercury's going to have to up their game if they want to stay relevant. I remember my disappointment when I found out I had to park 250k in a 0-yield checking account to qualify for the 1.5% yield on a savings account that can on
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by fro0116 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure, there was the rather plausible speculation that the 3% from Robinhood was a loss leader that wasn't meant to last long, in order to drum up hype for the launch. They could very well have been planning to ear
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by fro0116 7y ago
From the first sentence under the "What are securities" section: > SIPC protects stocks, bonds, Treasury securities, certificates of deposit, mutual funds, money market mutual funds and certain other investments as "securi
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by fro0116 7y ago
Surely I can't be the only one irked by the fact that they're bringing the concept of "copies" and "borrowing" to what are just bytes sitting on hard drives that can be copied and transmitted at 0 marginal cost
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by fro0116 7y ago
IANAL, but according to this: https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects > SIPC protects against the loss of cash and securities – such as stocks and bonds – held by a customer at a financially-troubled S
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by fro0116 7y ago
From the deafening silence I'm going to take the less charitable interpretation that it's meant to enable Cloudflare to essentially sell Warp users' IPs to Cloudflare customers as an added perk.
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by fro0116 7y ago
I wished on more than 1 occasion that I could just use one of my ZeroTier nodes in other locations as an exit node and tunnel traffic through it though. I think that might already be possible but it'd be nice if the configuration was a
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by fro0116 7y ago
Wow... this is actually quite tempting for $595! Are there any limits to how much you can make use of this offer or the kinds of spaces available? _Surely_ they won't let you just camp an entire private office in SF all year round when
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by fro0116 7y ago
They have an app now, works much better than the text receipt feature in my experience so far: https://brex.com/mobile/
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by fro0116 7y ago
Brex also has a Ecommerce card that's based on projected monthly sales: https://brex.com/ecommerce/ That might be more directly comparable to the Stripe card.
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by fro0116 7y ago
Most successful companies do both. Listening to your users is of course important, but it can't be a wholesale replacement for data driven aggregate behavior analysis because people have their own biases can forget things (and sometime
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by fro0116 7y ago
> forgetting the kind of person who is techie enough to use RSS feeds is probably techie enough to turn off telemetry More like they have no choice but to ignore them because these are users who explicitly chose to be ignored. If you wan
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by fro0116 7y ago
That explains why everybody puts up with it. It doesn't explain why a startup like Mercury can't come along and shake up the status quo by not nickle and diming their customers like the greedy fucks that are the incumbents. Missed
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by fro0116 7y ago
Interested in learning more. Could you provide some sources on why Qualcomm Atheros is "Tier 1"?
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by fro0116 7y ago
> I can totally understand it in cases where the alleged offense is something like uploading copyrighted content to YouTube, where there is clear evidence and an audit trail saying "Here's what you uploaded, here's when yo
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by fro0116 7y ago
I'm curious what the article is referring to when it comes to collision resistance. I was looking at the GitHub repo posted below and saw only claims of "strong" collision resistance: https://github.com/google
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by fro0116 8y ago
I use Google Voice extensively too. The problem I often run into is a bunch of services (like Uber, and one of my credit card companies Synchrony Bank) don't accept Google Voice numbers. What do folks usually do in those cases? Are the
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by fro0116 8y ago
I can absolutely imagine why existing tech companies would be interested if the protocol became so popular that they'd be stupid to ignore it and start from scratch with their own protocol, like XMPP was at one point. I'd be more
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by fro0116 8y ago
Being somewhat of a functional programming zealot (coming from the Clojure camp, so please excuse me if these are stupid questions, considering my lack of familiarity with typed functional programming in general), this is something that has
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by fro0116 8y ago
Thank you for providing your side of the story. While I can no longer edit my post to point to this, I have upvoted this post to hopefully bring some visibility to it, and encourage others to do the same. Until someone can provide a chat lo
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by fro0116 8y ago
To quote one of the follow up comments from the author: > If you go to matrix.org and look at the list of about a dozen or so servers: you will find that none of them actually work except the reference implementation, and maybe sometimes
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by fro0116 8y ago
I had a pretty positive view of Matrix until I came across this post and the follow up responses from the developer behind an unofficial Matrix server implementation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365968 I'd s
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by fro0116 8y ago
I'm a huge fan of the WebTorrent protocol too, and think it has potential to completely transform the content distribution paradigm on the web. However, the JS implementation leaves much to be desired. It's a huge resource hog com
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by fro0116 8y ago
That's one way to see it, and it's certainly not unreasonable to see it that way. But looking at it another perspective, you can also argue that making MMOs with persistent worlds that can only be supported by subscription has bec
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by fro0116 8y ago
> World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, and EVE Online all still successfully use the subscription model (with varying levels of free trials). The most recently released game in that list is Final Fantasy XIV, which was
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by fro0116 8y ago
> The designers of free-to-play games, by using an intermittent variable to dole out small prizes, found that they could keep players engaged—and spending—for longer. I'm really glad the article also touches on the loot-box phenomen
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by fro0116 8y ago
This reminded me of an IndieHackers episode from a few weeks ago, where they interviewed the founder of https://pioneer.app/ , which attempts to use gaming mechanics to motivate people to work on interesting projects and be
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by fro0116 8y ago
Well said. Reminds me of something I heard in some interview about what makes the valley special that really stuck with me. It goes something along the lines of: "There's no other place quite like the valley for starting and scali
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by fro0116 8y ago
> user configurable keyboard shortcuts This is one of those things that's sorely missing for me. Firefox has keyboard shortcuts for most things I want to do in it, but they're often really inconvenient and I'd like to be a
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by fro0116 8y ago
Another really cool project that makes use of CRDTs for collaborative editing is xray from the folks who worked on Atom: https://github.com/atom/xray#text-is-stored-in-a-copy-on-wri...

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