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Nah I don't think that's what I did. As another commenter said maybe that's how it came out (sorry), but not the intention.

> Take a step back and ask why - intention and tone are two different things, and if you get the latter wrong then we will misunderstand the former.

Good point, OK.

> you know better than them what they’ve done wrong

Hardly, since I just agreed with what they said. I suggested what IMHO is a good way to make up for it. Nothing else.

> that you have to tell them

Sure, I have to. I think everyone should say something in cases like this.

I am not assuming anything. I made a suggestion, nothing else. They're free to do nothing if they feel like they already did enough. You're assuming I'm assuming <...>, which goes against the HN rule to assume best intentions.

I don't see anything patronizing or showing superiority in what I wrote. I am saying this as a peer, not as a superior.

It's kinda weird to expect people not to make mistakes such as this if nobody tells them it's wrong. And it's normal for people to tell other people they do bad stuff if they do.

My free funds are currently 100% dedicated to helping Ukraine and will be until Russia falls back to 1991 borders.

Nah, I'm really not the kind of person that says nothing to this.

Was I supposed to say "great job" to this? Lol.

If an app is popular only with terrorists and child rapists, it's a weird choice for a business.

Of course... If you send someone unencrypted data, they can read it. Companies at least have to follow some laws regarding the data - don't expect that with private instances (not controlled by you).

Eh... Was it really that hard to guess what they're gonna do with it? How long ago was that? It's not like their abuse of [foreign] workers is anything new.

What kind of company gets an app popular with drug dealers for their internal communication?

In the US there are also authorities making sure (especially medical) machines are in good order. Perhaps the investors trusted the authorities?

> Investors losing their skin? That's all risk/reward. They took big risk for big reward but lost.

No, it's not OK and it's not all risk/reward. The risk is whether the product can succeed and be better than others' products/services - not whether the company you're investing in is a fraud - that's what the legal system tries to prevent.

Many electrical outlets now have USB ports... And now it's supposed to be USB-C... And then something else - it's going to be just as hard.

The alternating left-to-right right-to-left lines were done because you could read it easier that way - they used to have gigantic books/scrolls, the lines were very long.

It does matter, the risk calculation gets way worse once you start counting in the possibility of fraud. It's going to be 9/10 if each one of the 10 actually try their hardest to succeed. It's going to be 10/10 if fraud isn't prevented.

> Even in case of "corpo disallows it" (for whatever idiotic reason) it can be turned off one way or another in OS...

Corpo can disallow that too via central policies

> This is possibly the biggest financial crisis in the history of everything.

Isn't that a huge hyperbole? I really don't see how it could even remotely resemble anything at all what it was like in 2008. It's no more than a footnote in practically every single country other than the US (and there probably too).

2 days - I get the BTC around noon, transfer it immediately, in the evening I get a confirmation from the recipient that they got it, and then I see them transfer it to someone the second day. Sometimes it's just 1 day.

I'm usually sending around $500-$1000 once every 2-3 months (per contractor - I work with multiple).

All of these options you listed are significantly more expensive, and some of the contractors I work with don't even have that option due to KYC requirements - these people don't have access to functioning governments, they don't have passports. Also, most of my contractors don't use/have bank accounts (because where they live it costs money to have one) - so no way to take out the money if they used these services.

I did this dance at least 100 times and never ever had a problem with price fluctuation. Bitcoin is pretty stable on a 3-day timeframe.

I pay for software engineering work done in Africa and sometimes South-East Asia.

I don't hold Bitcoin. I use it for cross-continent transactions. I buy it from people in my city using a local FB group or (way in the past) Localbitcoins.com and then send it to the recipient. They usually use Localbitcoins to convert it to their own currency AFAIK. The fees (transfer and exchange) are much lower this way - usually less than 0.5% all things considered. Compared to $100+ fee to just transfer the money + 5-10% currency exchange fee (both my and the recipient's currency aren't the most well known).

From people around me, in person.

I don't hold Bitcoin. I use it for cross-continent transactions.

It works in real world without any exchanges. All of them could crash and burn and Bitcoin would continue on.

I'm a user of Bitcoin and I never used any exchange.

I write programs cca 2:1 comments:code and it is consistently praised for its readability during code reviews and by later maintainers that have to add features to it.

Why is it so hard to just go work at another one of the thousands tech startups and companies?