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Fintech Experts: How is this company doing this?
The company's name (no joke) is "Fintech" (fintech.com). They are the major player in processing alcohol-related payments; i.e., alcohol distributor A uploads an invoice for a few kegs retailer B bought, and Fintech processes the payment for them. They process 33M alcohol invoices a year.

I can't figure out how they are doing it. They refer everywhere to EFTs which, to my understanding, is ambiguous. Parts of their service agreement (e.g., [1]) talk about ACH, but their marketing (see example below [2]) states very explicitly that the funds don't go through them, it goes straight from Retailer's account to Distributor's account, which I didn't think was possible with ACH (for a third party to initiate an ACH between two other parties). It seems unlikely to be wire because they offer the service for free and wires are expensive.

A competitor, iControl, which I assume is using the same process because Fintech sued them for stealing IP, claims that "Our special banking arrangements and transaction volume allows funds to immediately clear a distributor’s bank account, same as a wire, but without the banks charging the distributor a fee for receiving a wire." [3] Wtf?

What are they doing?? Thanks everyone, I really just can't figure it out.

[1] https://test.fintech.net/fintech-electronic-services-disclosure.asp?Type=Retailer

[2] "Through EFT, each invoice payment is made automatically with funds moved directly from the retailer’s account to the distributors through the Federal Reserve. The distributor uploads an invoice, and the exact invoice amount is paid on the due date listed on the invoice without Fintech ever taking title of the funds." https://fintech.com/blog/touch-free-alcohol-invoice-payment-options-what-retailers-need-to-know-about-escrow-ach-and-eft/

[3] https://www.icontroldata.net/blog/how-eft-payment-processing-with-icontrol-can-improve-your-business
And worse targeted abroad. Russia, China, Saudi. They all target, sometimes kill, sometimes abduct abroad. Even in the US... Scary.
Agreed! I personally maintain a couple projects I consider feature complete.

Changes are very rare other than occasional bug fixes or breaking ecosystem changes, but that doesn't mean the code is bad.

The code is a hammer, you don't need the newest shiniest hammer. You just need the hammer that hits nails.
I wish brave forked ff… i guess i'll be working of my own fork of ff for the end of time for my family, going on 6 years or so now lol
I have already lived through a decade of (hyper)inflation in a different country. At the time the grassroots solution was to establish a shadow economy based on USD. I find it very interesting, in Chinese proverb kind of way, to see how the world will manage the destabilization of the USD that is already underway.
You know what? Just fucking ban me then. Between getting flagged because I voiced an unpopular opinion and getting flagged because I didn't memorize your 15 fucking rules I'm done with this place.
My ex-wife has worked in retail at all levels for 40 years. District managers intentionally force schedules to be broken up so breaks and lunches, outside of managers, are never needed. They intentionally over-hire to make sure they pay the absolute least amount. The average weekly schedule is 30-31 hours and those are broken up into 4 to 6 hour chunks. You may get a break if you're lucky. You may get a lunch if you're on for 8 hours. But the clear direction of the industry is to limit each worker to the least amount of hours, eliminate non-working time, and make sure benefits and overtime are never paid.
The Woz is at it again - - - Privateer ? How 'bout PIRATEER, with undoubtedly a crypto token twist of some sort . . . .
For personal data? I don't. If it's important, I make hardcopies, everything else is ephemeral and ultimately replacable. Not worrying about backups saves me a lot of time, money, and stress.
We considered this, but the vaccine clinics wanted to check our insurance cards which would give away the game.
At least according to company’s HR, yeah, it means an equal proportion.
We would be fools to disregard the thinking of great minds like John von Neumann, but even more fools to consider Gene Roddenberry a great mind. For the purposes of prognostication, he wasn't a mind at all; he wasn't even trying to predict what would happen in the future, but to dress up 19th-century Horatio Hornblower naval drama and 20th-century social commentary in whizbang clothing, so people would watch it and he could sell Chevrolets and vitamin pills. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28519184.
Clickbait garbage.
Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, says Dutch court
Here here! Are there any paid browsers out there? Or does Mozilla have any paid membership beyond "donate whatever you want"?
Recruiters.txt
Quite the opposite, I find it difficult to get technical content not on YouTube.

I'm not a fan of videos for learning anything technical. I'd prefer write ups, illustrations and photographs. Videos can be useful sometimes, but what it usually winds up doing for me is slowing down my pace.
I can't fathom to be honest to be back in a place where something like that is even a question.

We use spotless. We use prettier. Nothing passes the build if you don't adhere to the style rules. You may disagree with some stuff. Make a case! Change the rule definition, apply them and show the PR to a representative cut of the developer community. You might get it through. We've done a few like that in my time here. Or you might realize what that rule change really means in some cases and the PR is ultimately declined. Has also happened. Ruled looked good for the place that triggered the want. Sucked in most other places, so we decided not to do it.

If you have a guy that can't live with not getting his will 100% of the time my advice is to try and get rid of him as soon as you can. Or run yourself. Not healthy in the long run and frankly "I'm too old for that shit. Now get off my lawn"
Facebook can afford to hire 100,000 moderators. That would let them review every account every year. 100,000 * 2000 hours a year is 200 million hours. They don' actually need to do that, so they can have multiple moderators review some accounts instead.
I found a small Pentium 100MHz desktop in the trash back then, stuck a spare pair of 3com NICs in it, and loaded up Turbolinux that I got with a Linux magazine.

Followed the Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO (http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/howto/m-html/ipmasq-HOWTO-m....), and I soon had it running the network in my apartment building with a cable modem and 100mb SMC hub (also from a dumpster)

A couple weeks later I came home to find the internet "not working", it got hacked (I never applied updates), and I replaced it with Freesco and never looked back.
Surveys to farm your password reset answers.
when did "In-browser screenshot tool" become a key feature, seems like a job that most operating systems handle quite well.

Anyone who uses this feature, feel free to chime in.
Downvoted for knowing what you're talking about.
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> This just shows that economists are poor historians

F*ck me, if that's the only thing you take away from this thread I'll have done my job. The problem is they keep taking that poor history and using it to spin tales about humans as greed-stricken robots who'd sell their grandmas if it would generate a dollar more value than whatever you want to price a plate of fresh-baked cookies at, and the bigger problem is we've built an entire society and economy off their collective delusions.
> the decoy based privacy protocols Monero uses are not really private at all.

This is simply not true, otherwise you should present real evidence. It is not perfect, but nothing ever will be, and Monero continues to move forward and use the best technology available. Research continues, and they hope to move away from "decoy based protocols" altogether eventually, but the tradeoffs have so far been too great. Unlike bitcoin, it is able to do large changes, since there is a completely different development culture
I had a sony xperia pro for a while, but performance was clagging no matter what custom Android build I used. I do miss hardware qwerty keyboards
I'm so glad I went to high school, it was really tough but I don't think I, or the vast majority of 13, 14, 15, or 16 year olds would be mature enough to take full advantage of college. High school isn't just about learning trigonometry, it's about easing your way into learning what it means to be an adult. I don't think you can do this surrounded by peers who are 30-60% older than you at such a young age. Maybe I could have skipped high school, but I'm glad I didn't.
a postgres based graph database https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26345755
The best (meta) Adam Curtis piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
> Unfortunately, right leaning in the US has come to include views that run counter to science, diversity/inclusivity, and human rights for all (right to vote, right to choose). Are these views welcome in tech companies? Not generally.

That kind of phrasing is pretty obnoxious. You might as well as "unfortunately, [to be] right leaning in the US means hating puppies and disliking fun." It's needlessly provoking and lumps people into a lazy stereotype.
The WP interface was an aesthetic delight. I miss it
Super off topic but I had no idea .java was a TLD
Put a generator on the hub to get power from. Then a readwrite head instead of media. The head is the hard part, you need to make it thin.

It should be possible, but I don't have the electronics to attempt it. Nor do I have the time.
Would you characterize the exercise you used to lose weight the "long slow fat burn in zone 2" that is all the rage in trainers, or high intensity anaerobic zone 4 work?
That's not true at all. Lots of folks choose (IMHO incorrectly) to take the options.
Interesting idea - I would like to try it out.
There is one problem: freedom is necessarily also freedom for people you don't like. There's no way to make living free for good guys, and limited for bad guys. Limiting things for bad guys, you also limit them for everyone — hopefully to a lesser extent. By putting a lock on your door so that a burglar won't enter, you also prevent your friends from entering.

There is a certain balance of downsides and upsides of limitations on freedom. If you move the "safety" knob all the way to maximum, you will get a high security prison with creature comforts. Indeed, being watched and tracked at all times, and limited in what you do and where you go, you can definitely be kept out of the harm's way. If you like the motion towards this, welcome to mainland China. (If you want an antidote, re-read the Brave New World.)

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, that is, liberty is a somehow unsafe condition, else vigilance won't be needed. Some people prefer certain upsides of liberty more than certain upsides of safety. Such people founded the U.S., and it still shows here and there. (Not much, of course.)
So have I, except it's been three companies. One of them, ThoughtWorks, had built-in code review in the form of pair programming. I don't really have data on productivity, one way or the other, nor a strong opinion on the desirability or benefit of mandatory review. I was just addressing the specific comment of "Not much time is lost" above. Ç'est la guerre.
The only people who praise this book are literature majors.

It was a disappointment from beginning to end.

I couldn't understand why people thought it was so great. It didn't feel like an epic. Maybe for its time it was fun to read, but you really have to be deprived of all stimuli to enjoy it (unless you're a literature professor who has to read it). Like maybe stay in a prison cell for a few months. Then yea, it's a pretty fun read.

It's certainly interesting as a cultural artifact. If you wanted to buy a book explaining the Don Quixote craze, how it introduced parody characters to the mainstream, that would be an interesting book.

And I have nothing against Miguel de Cervantes. My gripe is with the people who recommend this book because it was required reading for their literature major, next to Moby Dick and Shakespeare.

Part of me thinks it's so celebrated because it's such a big book. It's like some kind of weird d*ck measuring contest if you want to seem cultured and learned.

It felt like one literal crazy dude going on disappointing adventures and then (spoilers) it just ends with him dying, having regretting everything he did, which in my mind, sums up the book pretty well.

It wasn't 100% bad. There are moments where it's redeeming, but it doesn't live up to the hype; it doesn't even live up to being average.

I strongly recommend people with a sense of taste do anything else with their life. Like if you're not part of the literature cognoscenti and don't mundanely read something just because it's assigned to you, skip this book.

You can literally do anything else and it would be more interesting. Watch paint dry and snails race. You can use Don Quixote as a door stop.
As a Canadian that’s hilarious. “Were going to pay you much less than other countries do and we’re actually doing you a favor”.
> Your wallet contains a private key that can prove ownership of "outputs" from previous transactions on the blockchain.

If that private key is compromised can law enforcement read your past transaction history?

And if law enforcement compromises the private key on the other side of the transaction can they connect the two of you, and all your prior mutual transactions?
Rule of law & democracy began when people had far more privacy than today. The founding motivations for the USA included resisting privacy abuses like 'general warrants' – the state peeking into everyone's business, without specific suspicion, to find criminals.

The modern level of financial surveillance – KYC, etc – is only a few decades old, and collects more info for the state than any 'general warrant' could. Even in fairly-free countries, the burdens & murky liabilities created by turning every financial agent into a part-time police informer has the effect of persecuting & impoverishing disfavored individuals & groups – even those who've been convicted of no crime. In unfree states the same surveillance helps quash all kinds of dissent.

A blind faith in authorities' use of financial surveillance ignores history & the current reality of billions living under untrustworthy regimes. Many hardly even pretend to offer "rule of law & democracy".
There are issues with the imbalance explanation. w.r.t obesity, the least wrong (and most explanatory) equation will relate calories going into adipose tissue, and calories being taken out of adipose tissue.

Then another less wrong equation can relate calories absorbed by the digestive system and the calories burnt by the whole body.

These are not the same equations as calories eaten vs calories burnt. And the quantities are not easily measured.

Depending on exercise, and other potentially unknown environmental or genetic or other conditions, the body will put energy into tissue other than adipose tissue.

Not all energy eaten will be absorbed. There was a recent study which showed how eating fructose expands the gut lining to be able to absorb much more nutrition. We do not know all the regulatory mechanisms that control absorption. Nor all mechanisms that control hunger.

We're far from understanding all aspects of nutrition. The imbalance equations needs to be refined, if people are looking up to laws of physics to explain this matter.
I'm not holding my breath for Microsoft to 'extinguish' Linux. That's not really how open source works, especially Linux given the sorts of folks who develop it.
I use Firefox every day as a backup, but my primary browser is qutebrowser. I would fully switch in a heartbeat if Firefox allowed full keyboard shortcut configuration. Tridactyl gets pretty close, but the fact that keyboard shortcuts stop working in certain scenarios is a nonstarter for me.
I'd assume them being very cooperative with rights holders makes it a lot more difficult for other companies to enter the market and disrupt them.

If tomorrow you come with an alternative that pleases customers but irks IP lobbies, you'll be fighting that battle alone while Youtube continues business as usual. Today the only alternative is pirating related, and it is notoriously a tough business model now that financial system players can just cut offending companies off their network.
We see issues with NV multi-monitor configurations, and are still trying to figure them out. Also, the whole story of multi-windows should improve in the future: there is a good opportunity to share WebRender context between them, but we aren't doing this yet.
Whatever their other reasons, it seems certain they’re enriching user data for tracking and resale.
Galvanick
And it has to be transported physically so there is actually a limit to how much illegal stuff you can do.

There is a reason that the scams and ransomware use Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency instead of cash.
+500k doesn't fall on to the category you mentioned.

They likely don't have many cars.

Many can afford to live close to schools and offices, so they won't use road as much.

They also pay for their own healthcare.

We haven't factored in social cost of raising kids who cause problems to society

I doubt it is that clear cut to compare upper middle class with poor people to see who costs more to the country's infrastructure.

In any case, from everything you mentioned, it seems way way better to tax on luxurious goods.

Buying Mercedes Benz? Tax is 2000%. Good luck. Buying a yatch? Here is 100000% tax. A private jet? Here is 10000000000% tax. A second/vacation home? It's 100000000% tax. An island? Here is a trillion % in tax.

There problem solved. But for some reasons no politicians and thier supporters (Dems or republicans) never ever think of this solution.
> All I had to do to drop my meat consumption by 80-90% was to live with someone who introduced me to plenty of tasty meatless cuisines and meat alternatives.

Great, I'm glad that works for you.

> Frankly, cutting meat consumption in half is usually easy and would already take us a very long way if done universally.

That sounds like a good idea, but it's harder to implement than you think, I think.
This thread is about vegans…
This is great, I badly need this too. Now if we can get recruiters to honor this just like the search bots do..
Out of curiosity, what have you changed in your fork of Firefox?
I thought the windows 10 defaults manager was plenty user hostile enough. It’s interesting to me that they’re doubling down on the dark patterns. It’s been effective, though, most people seem to just accept and not really question all the atrocious things win10 does, really setting the stage for whatever crap they’ll do in win11.

I am so glad I no longer work at a company that uses windows (or dotnet, or their cloud platform).
To be part of a society there needs to be a compromise. I agree not to not to steal things in exchange for knowing people aren't allowed to steal things from me.

That I understand, and the same for the quarantine rules. But things have been getting really complicated lately. As you have pointed out, these agreements aren't feeling like community decisions and technology has been making the application of law humanless and arbitrary.

If I forget to pay for a loaf of bread, walk out the store, and then go back to pay immediately, it would just be a human misunderstanding nd everyone would be happy with that outcome. Societal dues paid.

But if instead a facial recognition camera tracked me leaving and the security gate detected the item unpaid then the matter goes into an automated system and even if I realise my mistake and pay my societal dues the system doesn't care. If we aren't careful it could elevate the system above the society, and lose its original purpose of helping resolve social conflits. Instead it would just apply law without the capacity to fully appreciate it's role of societal mediation.

There are things in Australia that are already like that. Expired registration cameras for example. A police officer can suss out the situation and see if you just forgot to do it this morning, or if you are constantly driving without insurance. The camera can't figure that out, so a simple mistake can cost you.
Medical Feudalism is just how things work in the United States.
With meat eaters it’s a superset. We’re not missing out on anything.
This is almost certainly an example of the Seinfeld Is Unfunny trope[1], where older things seem boring and lame today, because the state of the art has moved forward so much, even though they were completely groundbreaking and genre defining when they came out.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
The solution is simple. Facebook needs at least 100,000 human moderators. Clearly their engineering team isn't able to solve the problems facebook creates.
Great! Please email support@tingy.video
Thanks for the perspective, I have only done data analysis after the data is generated, and never have actually had to deal with an IRB directly for the design of a study.
quote from video

> the audience didn't notice the chasm between argument and conclusion.

due to all the crap he throws up on the screen.
It is possible for everything in this quote to be true without contradicing the grandparent, because the quote doesn't explicitly address whether any of these animals were eating a caloric deficit.

It is physically impossible to gain weight while eating a caloric deficit. The same kind of impossible as perpetual motion.
I wonder when this BS will end? At some point in my life I graduated from a military boot camp. At the end of camp all overweight people were lean, slim and muscular. No special diet were given to overweight people to achieve that result.
From HN News Guidelines [0]
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Please don't do things to make titles stand out, “

The title you wrote isn’t even in the article as far as I can tell. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html