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This is obviously comparing different things. Bootcamps and College are not replacing each other. But there is a difference between learning because you are hungry for knowledge (college) and learning because you are hungry for food (boot camp, you need to do your job). The former makes you better in the trade.

What happens if the corporate virus scanner kicks in and reads all listed files? Also, can I un-download files I just checked once and don't need to have synchronized any more?

Theroretically this is nice, practically it will render som unpleasant surprises.

It seems like a big step in the wrong direction. Sending invoices on paper should become a thing of the past. But even if you are sending invoices digitally, then choosing a common format would be the first problem. There are already several existing formats, from Edifact to XML based Oagis, with no winner in sight.

Rest assured that these petty JSON, vCard or the like ideas have little chance to work in real life, specifically if you need to compress invoices into the space limitations of QR codes... Real life B2B invoices are much more demanding.

When it comes to payment information, that is much simpler to solve. You don't even need to QR encode that, relatively simple forms with human readable numbers can be read by modern smartphone banking apps. I have two different installed (two different Swedish banks), works with most of the invoices I get home. The few that still come on paper, that is.

I am a bit disappointed. I understand that this was coming our way, but two weeks notice is very short.

This is exactly the kind of project we need these times. I hope this works out OK for these guys (I am backer #7). I hope it works out for us backers. Also I hope someone will later make a RaspberryPi image with almost the same functionality, ready to download and use (but, alas, you have to provide your own mail domain). Still, this is the right thinking. Email is the one protocol we easily can have at home, reasonably secure, with all the benefits and almost no negatives. My peers do not even need to know where the mails go!

I guess Raspberry Pi would be actually more expensive than this. Also, I think not having to set up this tech stack myself alone is worth more than 30 Euro...

Why is the author assuming that different URL ids necessarily translate to different images/uploads? The character based id could simply contain redundant parts, which favour certain images over others.

You can use a VPN to virtually teleport yourself to US or many other places. Some VPN-providers even give you a free month, enough to sign up for Dropbox. A friend of a friend of mine (...) did exactly this with Dropbox. ;-)

Now that is just cute. Paying fee for them "storing" my deposits?? Seems wrong. I assume they themselves lend the bitcoins in their possession to others, this is where banks make most money after all. Unless of course Xapo actually has tunneled vaults deep in the mountains of Tai Mo Shan where they store shiny piles and piles of bitcoins...

Yes, indeed, you are right! You are in the minority!