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Having worked on the banking side, I’d say it’s because bankers hate technology. You’d be amazed at what some people will do to avoid it. I had one guy retire in 2005. When a new account manager took over his clients, we learned he’d been telling all of them the bank didn’t have email. Just because he didn’t want to adopt it.

It is. Illegal stuff happens all the time.

Yup. I’m just pointing out that tips get stolen that way very often. You should ask the server you think your tipping if they get those tips. Far too often you’re just overpaying for coffee.

I feel like stripe changed their api every day. They support legacy apis forever but you could definitely have a full time job keeping up with the latest version of stripe.

I didn’t realize this was Zed until reading your comment. Now I’m smirking thinking of Mr. Shaw getting frustrated by implementing payments “the hard way.”

I used to tip the highest option at the “woke” coffee shop that I went to on the daily. Then, I asked the barista if she got the tips. She said the employees never saw any of those add on tips and I should give her cash if I wanted to tip _her_.

I’ve talked to one of the founders of stripe on the phone after tweeting a complaint about their product. This was probably ~2014 but I’ve been an advocate for them ever since. It feels like a personal slight to read this blog post. Hopefully, they fix these issues because I like feeling good about using stripe.

Just to explain, people selling stolen cards have a reputation that makes them money. If they have a reputation for selling cards that have already been burned, they can’t sell each card for as much. But, I’d they have a good way to test their cards, they can get a reputation for only selling cards that still work. This lets them sell each card for multiples of what a fraudster with a bad reputation can charge.

5% is huge. Like, ban your business from taking credit cards huge.

This happened to me with Citibank. But, I called citibank and got a new card number. Then, citibank gave the new card number to the fraudsters when they tried to charge me the next month.

Unfortunately, I’m going through a divorce right now so I can’t cancel that credit card. But, as soon as I’m free that’s on the top of my list of things to do to start living the rest of my life.

I don’t think “liberal” or “conservative” are the most important adjectives to describe this woman. First and foremost, she seems stupid. Her ideas about liberalism are dumb and her conservative truth teller is Candice Owens.

Sorry, but she’ll be suckered by another grifter selling another pipe dream next week.

I don’t understand snaps. They really make me only want to run Debian.

Does it give you the callouts based on the areas that you’ve clicked? I’d love to know how you did this. I should have done something similar on a project but we never quite figured it out.

Doesn’t Airbnb provide insurance?

Yup. Why break 2FA when we could have the Obamaphone program work with the case workers so that they don’t loose track of people in the first place?

Also, homelessness isn’t the problem we think it is. It’s millions of problems. Any solution will never help more than a subset of the homeless population. We need to iterate on small solutions to make progress.

Do these devices not have any hard drive at all? Why not have 24 hours on the device and upload when your wifi isn’t being jammed?

It blew my mind in San Francisco when uber and Lyft had huge wait times but I could hail a cab on the street no problem. The cab had free water in it too.

Agreed. I love the idea of not negotiating pay all the time.

AT&T had a project to run fiber into every home in America in the 90s. It was scheduled to be completed by 2000. Then, the Bush administration broke them up...

My favorite web framework is still Bash on Balls but I like to see that Frotran has entered the game.

I feel like the real problem is the technology not the law. The technology is kept by the intelligence agencies who then ask the courts to give them permission to use their own systems.

Here's my fix: put the systems under the control of the Judicial branch. This way, Intelligence is not asking for permission, they are asking for access. The tech who does the search is going to answer to the branch of government that cares about the law rather than the branch of government that has the conflicts which create the rush to misuse the systems.

Not your question but I think the bash source code is the worst I've ever seen.

One piece of data they cannot access is firearm ownership. It is illegal to use a computer to store information about guns in America.

Why are you comparing regional prices to national income?

I think you're misunderstanding the difference between sobriety checks and these inland boarder checks. In a sobriety check, you retain all of your rights as a citizen. In these boarder stops, you are treated the same as someone entering the country who does not enjoy the rights of a citizen in the country.

Our prison system in America is so much worse than mugshots. We have a system where you can buy your way out of jail until your hearing (i.e. parole). But, it's not available to poor people. Guess who have worse outcomes. It's so bad that many poor people spend more time in jail waiting for their hearing than they would have spend in prison if they had just plead guilty right away. Guess who tends to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit because it's the only way they can get out of jail.

I guess my point is you don't get things like Mugshots.com because you run a fair and equitable justice system. You get Mugshots.com because some people want to get in on our prison system racket but they don't have enough money to bribe a politician.

They will need to be extradited to California to face prosecution according to the article.

I feel like any app should implement a pattern like this:

   action -> UI recognition of action -> display API response

For actions that succeed 99% of the time, I think the "UI recognition of action" can be the success state. For actions with higher failure rates, the "UI recognition" should be a spinner or something to show the user that work is being done.

If you've got a project where it's not acceptable to show "success" -> "oops I mean failure", just go with the spinner all the time. But, it makes a huge difference if you respond to a click in < 100ms vs. > 100ms.

I hate ycombinator comments like this. Now I need to go procrastinate by writing a tool where I can go through the YC application every quarter.

Makes you think they don’t really want to go after the buyers.