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This is why I was excited about Libra (later renamed to Diem.) which was Meta's feeless digital currency that was scrapped. It could have been a Western WeChat Pay, which charges no fees up to 200 RMB ~= 20 GBP.

I don't see why they should get to shave a slice off of every transaction. It takes relatively little upkeep and they rake in huge profits.

The fees nudge businesses to use cash (well, to avoid tax too, sometimes.) or set a minimum transaction amount, which can mean fewer customers through the door.

I think a new, public infrastructure competitor could be healthy for economies worldwide.
Basically, instead of asking 'why?', this flips it to 'why not?'. Good point.
I'm glad X was taken private so they can do stuff like this without worrying about the effects on the public market. It's been too easy to push through censorship on social media platforms, I'm glad at least one has the strength to push back.
Sure, no problem with their use against companies.

I don't care about the cost to Delta in that video, but I do think this particlar strongarm tactic was way over the line, due to the significant financial impact it could've incurred to innocent bystanders
So basically, if you use that to buy something, you have no post-purchase protections from the payment provider itself (chargebacks, extended warranties, price protections, etc.?) like the kind credit cards will often provide?
meh. if it's about shipping broken e2e or reporting vulnerable minorities or the usual, then they would be obliged to break it and/or exit the given market.

yes, I (also) think the EU pro-consumer regulations are good and Apple ought to adhere to them simply because it's the virtuous behavior, but ... they have show time after time that they prefer (virtually amoral) profit maximization.
The total annual digital payments volume is estimated to be $11.5 trillion. Given that context a few billion dollars in profit off the top to add ease of use, security, fraud prevention etc. into the system doesn't seem all that absurd.
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One aspect of jax that’s rarely touched on is browser stuff. Completely aside from deep learning, it’s straightforward to compile jax to a graphics shader you can call in js, which in this insane world is actually my preferred way to put numerical computing or linear algebra code on a web page.
Brazilian here. I find it very bad when someone from another country criticizes our Supreme Court, especially when it seems driven by ideological motivations. As others have pointed out, similar situations occur in other countries without bring Elon's comments

Brazil doesn't have an equivalent to the U.S. First Amendment, and that's not necessarily a problem. Our legal framework reflects our historical and cultural context. Why he feel the need to impose his vision of what's best for Brazil, without fully taking account our legal and social nuances?
I'm a different person than you replied to, but I agree with them.

Your previous reply was to:

> Why would we try to answer that question without discussing how humans think?

And by replying to that with

> Coz we simply don't understand how we understand, period.

Well, when we don't understand how we understand, that is exactly when we should be discussing how humans think. Or at least how we think we think. And the bat and a ball example relates to research about how we think we think.

So yeah, your reply definitely comes across as saying the first half, "So we shouldn't discuss it", while finishing it with "period" also suggests "or try to understand it at all".
It would be interesting to listen to an interview with the Dwolla founder and see why they pivoted from their original idea of replacing card networks / ach and building a new payment network from scratch.
Haha, I was wondering how the author did subtitles for the text to speech. Turns out they painstakingly hard-coded every one: https://github.com/AndreiBalan-dev/there-is-no-website/blob/...

I'm not even disappointed, I'm impressed! That must have been a lot of work.
sense... this comment makes none.
Elon Musk, who's companies take plenty of government spending and incentives? Sounds like a socialist to me.
I do not understand in what context your comment is a response to mine.

I also don't know who you're quoting. Probably the straw leftist you think you're arguing with?
At a quick glance the answer is yes. The power to silence speech the government speech the government deems fake is the power to silence speech the government doesn't agree with.
The answer to fake news are outlets that allow free speech against the fake news like we have in the united states. Unless billionaires buy them all up and prevent the actual facts from coming out of course.
ya, he/she preferred it when the nypost couldnt share a real article about hunter biden's laptop. I honestly cant believe people want to live in a world where anything (beyond the obvious illegal content like child porn, slander etc) is censored. If you dont like, it ignore it.
Google torrent lawsuits. Tens of thousands of people have had their lives ruined due to torrent use.

Claiming that there's anything illegal about adblockers is a real stretch, although I can definitely believe that they will eventually be outlawed either by statute or through some torturous legal argument agreed to by corrupt judges.
You'd need a wide screen to make more than 3 articles pleasant, I think. The more you open, the more you'll want to rearrange or be able to increase/decrease or tile vertically.

For example, on gwern.net, we have a very nice Wikipedia popup integration (which is in some ways better than OP - eg we follow redirects and handle dark-mode natively), and while most readers never notice it and will use it in the basic recursive popup mode like https://gwern.net/doc/design/2021-04-01-gwern-gwernnet-annot... , it doesn't do just recursive popups.

It's actually basically a full-blown tiling WM with keyboard shortcuts! You can have an arbitrary number, drag & resize, resize them to fullscreen or aligned to an axis, etc. So you can popup as many as you want to fit on your screen and rearrange them like in this demo screenshot: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/js/2023-09-14-gwern-gwernnet-popups...
> You cannot add things to the laws of physics

This actually doesn't apply, as no new law was added or updated, and no existing law was violated. Afaik, the 1:1 correspondence you claim is a feature of AdS/CFT which is just a toy model that you're peddling. If our universe is more like dS/CFT instead, then a strict correspondence is not that clear.

No one here said anything about Star Trek or laser holograms, so such childish imaginations must be coming from your mind. With your level of confidence and arrogance, you would never have been able to detect the findings that the authors did. With your attitude, it will be a surprise if you ever discover anything at all. It is exactly due to your extreme inability to seek or study exceptions that you and others like you have been unable to expand the frontier of knowledge, whereas the authors of this study had no such flaw holding them back.

> washing hogs

Restoring to such immature language is a sign of lacking the basic mental capacity to hold an argument.
I thought chargebacks were generally considered a pain: for merchants because it's used by abusive customers, and by customers because it means the merchant (or rather, their payment provider) needs to play a guessing game about whether you're going to do a chargeback and may baselessly deny you the purchase, as well as increasing the cost for everyone due to this increased risk the merchant has

Or maybe it's just me but I greatly prefer the non-algorithmic non-pay-on-credit mechanism where I simply pay for my purchase and the other party has no reason not to take my money (and the bank no reason not to issue the payment method to everyone: as an EU foreigner in Germany without pre-existing German credit score, getting a card at all was a pain, no matter if I could guarantee it with some insane deposit amount... I have the money, they just didn't want to issue a number to pay with because of algorithm magic). Now that I got that card number by co-guaranteeing with a German, purchases often fail like when I use mobile data which is from a Dutch phone number and so it looks foreign and I guess smells like non-standard situation → must be fraud, let's deny the purchase

Digital replacements for cash, like the aforementioned iDeal system, just always works and is available to everyone with a bank account in the Netherlands (iirc they're looking to start using it EU-wide because the costs are so low). No need to pre-pay either (like with paypal credit) because it just draws from your regular account. Another advantage is that it is owned by the banks collectively so you're not giving a ton of information to a third party, like most German-native payment options requiring to verify a phone number before you're allowed to pay the merchant for absolutely no reason other than tracking
No, it more like “rewrite the rules” either by litigation or politics.
sounds like you're reinventing nagios, which has well addressed all of the above. If nothing else, lots of good solutions in that ecosystem like push/pull.
The brazilian PIX is a digital cash transfer from bank account to account built by our central bank. It doesn't handle fraud and chargebacks which must be done by the seller or third parties.
>Note that rich people (and at least one prominent ex-President, and I don't think he's the only one) actually do operate by that principle. They go on and enjoy their life, largely don't pay their taxes, and then hire an army of lawyers and accountants to clean up the mess when the IRS goes after them.

While many rich people do commit tax fraud, it's worth nothing it's usually not as straightforward as "largely don't pay their taxes". It's not like they get a bill from the IRS and just refuse to pay it. Instead, they use a combination of legally gray tactics to reduce their tax obligations. eg. for peter thiel, he put a bunch of paypal stock in a roth IRA pre-IPO, allowing him to avoid taxes on much of his exit. Was this legal? Was the valuation he used when he put the stock in the roth IRA correct or artificially low? You could argue either way, so you could plausibly do it while keeping a clean conscience. The same applies to AI startups. They argue what they're doing is covered under fair use, and there's plausible legal arguments/precedent supporting that. It's not like they're doing something obviously illegal like duplicating DVDs and selling them at a shady street stall.

Also it's unclear what "prominent ex-President" you're referring to, but the wikipedia article for donald trump only says his foundation was charged, not him personally.
I really appreciate HN. There aren't many public online forums were one could ask about a user comment made on a related post posted years ago and in less than 20 minutes get two different responses linking to the comment from 15 years earlier.

Perhaps it helps the topic was "increasing retention". :-)
You should expand on that more if it's actually unreasonable.. because what you wrote sounds exactly the same as the US. The court can issue legal subpoenas, and if they aren't complied with by the deadline specified, the court has the right to enforce those orders, which can include jail time. That's an important tool for the rule of law and an independent judiciary.
Surprisingly forward looking for the US government
How do you know that they’re similar? As the source article describes, the court has not published the orders they’re asking Twitter to enforce, and they don’t seem to be available at all to the public.
Sure, obviously I was referring to roles where it could happen and/or include help others in your team when an emergency situation arises.
The judiciary system in Brazil is a little different than the US one. It does not make Brazil a dictatorship as many of Bolsonaro's supporters claim, nor does an article in NYTimes.
I wish Oracle did a better job for Java GUI, sigh. Java could be more lightweight than electronjs as a cross platform desktop GUI stack. Swing is the only one officially supported, but, it does not look that great on the screen.
Free speech includes things that are offensive to your sensibilities. There's a lot of this unhinged stuff on X - no question - but IMO I've seen so much more good, critical discussion come out of the Elon takeover that I'm firmly in the camp that says it was a net good.
Well, when certain users have behplden themselves and their creature comforts to the corporate teat, that is expected to happen. Somehow, I doubt most Youtubers actually have the chops to set up their own hosting/streaming operation, plus maintain relationships with advertisers who pay their bills.

Does it not make sense then, that when such people have their livelihood threatened by the Ur-Intetnet ethos, that they turn against it?

I don't condone or support it, but I can understand how the shift has happened.
The challenger to these will solve for a different problem. Not every transaction needs complex fraud detection or being able for the customer do to chargebacks.

For a 3% discount, would customers agree to use something that worked just like cash, where the transfer was instant and couldn't be undone? Then you don't have to worry about fraud, chargebacks, etc.
Initially the internet was a chaotic place where anything was accepted. This stopped around the early to mid 90s. Then the pendulum swinged the other way and governments started imposing more and more restrictions - from copyright, to actual information filters and now trying to dictate international companies what their citizen are allowed to see. Like any pendulum, it will likely swing the other direction soon.
> The reason we have copyright laws is that sufficient people with power believe that the world is better with them than without them

You could equally say:

The reason we have copyright laws is that sufficient people with power believe that the world is better for them with them than without them
I disagree. Motivation will keep you reading the material, but that alone will not make you remember it that much better.

When you're motivated about something you can practice, you may remember more by doing it (which also acts a spaced repetition). But good luck trying that with, say, astrophysics or macroeconomics.

When motivated, you're also more likely to pick up other books on the subject, which is another form of spaced repetition.
That's fine until you want to conduct business, such as accepting advertising, hiring employees, or even taking direct to consumer subscription payments, in a country.
The platform is absolutely overrun with bots and extreme racism and sexism (as well as extremely racist/sexist bots). It’s a complete tire fire, advertisers are pulling out en-masse because they don’t want to be associated with this cesspool, non-bot users are fleeing, the company is outright tanking.

Musk bought it for $44 billion in October 2022. Over the first 13 months under Musk, we saw X internal memos marking themselves down to $19 billion, then Fidelity marked down their investment to a level implying a $15-16 billion valuation, then in November 2023 they marked it down again to $12.5 billion. All signs point to it losing even more value since.

I’d be surprised if X doesn’t declare bankruptcy within the next few years, Musk has rapidly taken it from social media giant to poor man’s 4chan.
It sounds very misleading to frame those responsible for storming into the Congress on January 8th, while attempting to "stop the steal" that the elections supposedly were, as simply "at best rioters, to 17 years in prison because they broke some stuff".

This would only sense if you also believe the rioters of 6th of January that stormed the capital also "just" broke some stuff.

Otherwise, this argument is just not okay.
There are many applications need a larger screen GUI still. Mobile Apps won't cut it.
He’s dead serious.

Uber got its start by flouting taxi rules. By the time the backlash started uber/lyft were too popular for governments to shut down so instead most governments created an awkward different category for them, so there’s at least some regulation applying to them.

If Uber had tried to work thru the regulation they would have never gotten off the ground or have been as loved by users. Taxis in many ways suck, and that was their opening.

Speaking of which…Uber is a master of regulatory influence. When California threatened to classify their drivers as employees, they successfully passed a proposition (prop 22) with the California public that promised more benefits for drivers…but kept them as independent contractors.
The fact that this is not happening at a grassroots level in the US would suggest that it's not as big a deal to Americans as the Europeans in this thread think it should be.

Speaking only for myself, I've found that when I joined a company whose time-off policies I didn't like (only one so far), I just asked for more time off as part of the deal. The response I got was "sure. It's easier for us to give you more paid time off than more money."
The poster your are responding to said nothing about their own stance, only conjecturing about Musk's stance and the current zeitgeist.

Ad hominem is the second last refuge of the incompetent; or in other words, argue the point not the person.
From my experience it's only been electrify america chargers that have been down. I've never experienced an issue with Rivian charging, and I use that more frequently.
I have literally never seen this. I don't doubt it can happen, but for that to work it'd rely on the fraud team to 1) know exactly what a letter from the Austrian tax office should look like to notice if there isn't a URL if those letters do have one, 2) if the scammers were to include one, it'd require them to be certain enough about the URL that pointing it to a suitable fake one would be insufficient.

I'm not convinced the fraud team wouldn't be easily fooled, in other words.

Not that I'd want to try; but for someone already breaking the law there's little reason not to.
Then why does Moraes need to censor people on Twitter? If the argument is ironclad, shouldn't it be able to defend itself from speech?
It's hard to tell, right? This is a guy who also thinks the biggest problem at Google is people working from home. You just pull on the curtain for a moment and the whole thing gives way, revealing mostly clueless people just going with the flow. If it was still en vogue he would be talking about "getting to blockchain one" instead of AI. Sort of like that moment Elon opened his mouth about software development; no wonder they are friends.
In the context here, a takedown request would be preferred. It would indicate the judge being willing to accept a takedown in lieu of putting the poster in prison.
how doestm the enforcement story look in Japan? how big market it is for Apple, how's their historical compliance posture, etc?
And what happens when you pour vinegar on them?
You seemed to have jumped off a cliff. Can’t follow your logic.

The copyright issues are between businesses for the most part. No one is suing AI. And the claim isn’t that AI is capable of generating copyrighted works. The claim is that the training of the AI used copyrighted materials which is infringement when it pretty clearly falls under transformative use.

And again, fair use applies to people and the businesses. I could maybe see your logic if you were ranting about businesses getting fair use protections and then getting a vote, but your moral panic about AI here is completely misplaced and seems to completely miss what the article is about and what my comment is trying to say.
There is a reason they changed their name.
You're absolutely right about that. Unfortunately there is a parallel consequence-free life track for rich people. My comment wasn't about them.
Might indeed not be in his self-interest, but yes. He talked about it in his discussion with Trump on X. Here's an article about it: https://www.nbc24.com/news/nation-world/elon-musk-pitches-co...
It’s the opposite really. We will skip OpenAI and go to media companies that are proficient in using available ai tools.
Not really. Taxi medallions are required to let you pick up someone else that hails you on the street. It is not required for a drive scheduled elsewhere like over the phone or the Internet. They weren't breaking laws, at least in the US.

Most of the regulations applied to Uber were new regulations introduced after their ride to popularity, often crafted with the express purpose of curbing Lyft and Uber.
The "performance angle" isn't really an angle. It gets bandied around by junior devs new to React, but it's not the primary selling point of React - in fact, it's not a selling point at all. Don't believe me? Just go to http://react.dev and look - no where on the site does it say that React is a hyper-performant library. It's not! If you need blazing performance, you're best off using something much more minimal, or even vanilla JS.

When people say that React is fast, what they mean is that React can dom-diff faster than a naive O(n) approach. It means that updating a component with a thousand nested divs won't crash out your browser, like it might if you were to write the code by hand. It doesn't mean it's an objectively high-performing framework.

What React is good at is forcing you to write code in a clear, comprehensible way. Having every engineer on your team obey F(props) = state is a strict improvement over virtually any other paradigm. (Yes, you can still make a tangle of components if you try hard enough, but the complexity of the tangle is capped significantly lower than the complexity of a tangle of JS without any framework attached.)
Far more.
This is the purpose of Zelle, Venmo, money wires, and checks. But there are many problems they don’t solve, that customers and sellers prefer to be solved and are willing to pay for.
Good timing. Just the other day, I was reading up on $current_year cross platform GUI solutions, like the back and forth discussions on the merit of React Native vs Ionic or Capacitor, or whether the "future is Flutter" or how Google may go all-in on Kotlin Multiplatform and abandon flutter. You know, the usual drama.

Then I remembered some years ago, in this similar situation, I decided to learn (invest time on) JavaFX when Qt, gtk, Xamarin and web tech were the alternatives.

Well, yesterday I googled, after all these years, if JavaFX apps can be run on Android devices (spoiler: no, or not in a usable way)

Now, in hindsight, I know that I put my egg on the wrong basket by focusing on Java and JavaFX. I was deluded on their write once run everywhere promise. I feel betrayed by Oracle due to their detaching of JavaFX from default JDK.

I think if I chose to focus on a web tech frontend framework (or even Qt) I'd been better off.

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