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$100 a month on alcohol is like, 5-6 low tier cases of beer. That's just 5-6 beers a day. That's alcoholism to be sure, but the degeneracy goes way, way further.
If you work at a liquor store, you'll see the grandma who comes in 3x a week to buy a cheap plastic handle of vodka. Or the guy who buys a 12 pack and two shooters, every single day. Or the new mom who goes from buying 2 bottles of wine a week to 10.
But modern America has a modern lens, not a 600BC lens. Why ignore that?
Plus, allowlist and denylist is simply easier to understand.
I agree that if your entire job is coming up with this kind of stuff, that's a bit ridiculous. But I don't really see anything wrong with a few engineers spending a few hours a month to push company discourse in a more egalitarian direction.
Those people relationships are affected by race gender etc. You really have NEVER seen someone get on a great project because they're better connected, even if they are a worse engineer than someone who doesn't fit in as well?
It was a fairly popular variant of the game too, never had trouble finding matches
We're getting there and you can already use our product at 50k+ stores in the US.
Even in this market, merchants are still interested. We launched new ones this week.
Comparing us to Visa or Paypal we are rinky dinky af, no denying that. But we are definitely growing.
Your lens of investment vs currency is also very US based. Consider countries that frequently experience huge rates of inflation. Non-fiat money can be valuable for them.
Most who are getting fucked by this fiasco are retail who have never touched DeFi.
When did XRP blow up? I don't think the SEC is waiting for a rug pull or system failure to sue.
If you have a friend of a friend who you add on socials, and then you see their updates, and then you see them at a mutual party, despite not being well acquainted you are reasonably up to date with their lives. This can make the conversation flow better and you may form a meaningful connection.
Now I'm in the industry and so are 15% of my classmates from that time.
Coaching on the other hand, that's as nepotistic as any political field.
One thing that I like about my setup though is that there's a clear migration path to horizontally scale. Do you have a recommended way to move past pocketbase should an app get to that point?
I don't install anything personal on my work computer, but I wouldn't hesitate to open an email or pdf from a seemingly trusted source. I don't really blame the dev here.
What you propose is a reasonable solution, but I feel like it slams in the face of actual human behavior. Most people act the way I describe, even most tech professionals.
Life is complex, technology should support that. We should not have to dumb life down to match.