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by venantius 4mo ago
Hey, this happened to me about two years ago! Forgot I was wearing my pump and walked into the ocean. Oops. I was on a Greek island during Easter weekend - the worst possible time and way to need emergency medical care. One thing I now do i
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by venantius 1y ago
I feel like this is closest to trying to compete with Charm’s Crush rather than anything else.
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Running MCP on a partner bank(griffin.com)
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by venantius 1y ago
I am not an expert, but I have worked somewhere MariaDB/MySQL was being used at scale. My preference today for Postgres comes down to the fact that its query planner is much easier to understand and interface with, whereas MySQL/M
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by venantius 1y ago
Among other things the big tech companies are literally planning to build nuclear power plants off this so I think the infrastructure investments will likely be pretty good.
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by venantius 1y ago
It is possible for all of the following to be true: 1. This study is accurate 2. We are early in a major technological shift 3. Companies have allocated massive amounts of capital to this shift that may not represent a good investment 4.
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by venantius 2y ago
As someone who runs an actual bank, the headlines around this story are super misleading. In no meaningful way will be Apple be treated like a bank in the way that we generally expect banks to be treated.
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by venantius 2y ago
Two people and a pet isn’t really a “collective”
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by venantius 2y ago
I made a headless bank.
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by venantius 3y ago
We wouldn’t fit either of your criteria. And yet - we now have a bank license (!) and should clear 15-20M in revenue this year. Sometimes hard things don’t make for overnight successes.
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by venantius 3y ago
Wooooosh.
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by venantius 3y ago
Our customers are other Fintech companies rather than normal humans :)
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by venantius 3y ago
Because it’s not a great fit for an event driven architecture.
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by venantius 3y ago
Actually, no - the regulatory sandbox cannot be used by prospective banks.
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by venantius 3y ago
It’s hard in the UK too! Just not “infeasible” hard. (Plus, it’s easier to finance as you don’t have those pesky Bank Holding Company Act regs dinging your investors)
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by venantius 3y ago
I wouldn’t say “given up” as much as “actively delegated”. The UK has essentially made a (political) choice that rather than cover the cost of policing finance through taxes, they’ll just make the banks sort it out for them. This is not gre
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by venantius 3y ago
There still isn’t a ton of choice in market - ClearBank is one of three other banks that actually have decent offerings. And having a good API is not enough; you need a holistic operating model that is aligned with your customer base, which
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by venantius 3y ago
The article is literally a summary of this book.
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by venantius 3y ago
I have had the fortune to find a job through HN and, later, to hire people who found my company through HN. So the system definitely works :)
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by venantius 4y ago
It’s actually quite common at certain types of organizations (typically foreign-owned) to appoint a local as CEO on a specific term and then to revisit when that’s up.
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by venantius 4y ago
We’re rolling out something similar for the UK with https://griffin.sh - aiming to get our bank license this year. Then expanding to the rest of Europe :)
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by venantius 4y ago
Hi! Griffin co-founder and CEO here. Yes, we're building exactly what Column is building but for the UK. Fun fact - Column's CEO is even an investor in us!
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by venantius 5y ago
I don't normally go in for insults, but the author of this article is a fool who clearly has no idea what the job of the CEO actually is. We are a very long way from being able to automate the job.
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by venantius 6y ago
This sounds like a nuanced view, but I think you have missed the point - we're using terminology that allows for us to talk past each other and that's part of the problem. At least in my experience, the Just A Job crowd are genera
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by venantius 6y ago
I guess the real question is: what will actually happen if the SEC wins this case (which we should assume they will). Ripple is vast and presumably has the resources to deal with any judgement against them. The ruling would have to make the
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by venantius 6y ago
What are the implications here for the Stellar project and Stellar Lumens? They seem like an awfully similar use case.
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by venantius 6y ago
To quote my father, who is a huge opera fan: "I've heard worse!"
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by venantius 6y ago
What are your thoughts on listing foreign companies? Asking from the UK.
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by venantius 6y ago
Seconded. I notice a lot of comments scoffing at this and talking about group disintegration - have now been part of the same “group chat” / squad for 6-7 years and it was inchoate but there even before then. We do everything described
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by venantius 6y ago
This headline buries the more material difference outlined in the article, which is the major difference between black/Asian Americans and other groups in how likely they feel they are to be treated with respect by the police in any in

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