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San Francisco, CA. Checkout.com. Ex: Ingenico ePayments, Veem, Bold Financial Technologies, Eventbrite, PayPal, American Express. Projects: Cheeko B Pet Boutique, Canine Ties, MessageDesk.net, Pricetack.com, RunwayPOS.com.
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pbreit··on EFF is leaving X
Much fewer bots on X than Facebook. I think you are completely wrong.
pbreit··on EFF is leaving X
"X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago"

Does anyone believe this?

pbreit··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
Same as Block booking crypto trades as revenue.
pbreit··on US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
Maybe just allow "insider trading".
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
No. And multi-resident dorm rooms much less so.
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
Very small percentage of students (the primary audience) are touch typists.
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
It's a show-stopper for the main audience: students.
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
I would say the vast, vast majority of people are completely unable to use a non-lit keyboard in the dark.
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
Can't see the keys in a dark classroom or bedroom.
pbreit··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
I would say Malco is not Apple and I have no idea what a vice grip is.
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
I'd go further and suggest that metal is a lousy substance for laptop enclosures.
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
I would say "No keyboard backlighting" is a true show-stopper for a huge portion of the target audience (students).
pbreit··on MacBook Neo
"No keyboard backlighting" is a show-stopper. Nuts.
pbreit··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
I think this could stick. The supply chain competence needs to get built in the USA.
pbreit··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
Why is this getting downvoted? It's good faith and probably more accurate than not.
pbreit··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
All of driving is designed for visual.
pbreit··on Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
How well does PG work with 10-20 million (financial) records per day? Basic stuff: a few writes per, some reads, generating some analytics, etc.
pbreit··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Does that label have much impact on anything? Does it paralyze human nature?
pbreit··on Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe
So it's mainly a nationalism thing? Is that enough to displace the superior option?
pbreit··on Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe
The merchant/processor/issuer network with all the correct incentives is (nearly) impossible to replicate. Visa and Mastercard work more or less, perfectly.

The only entities that need/want "instant, non-recourse payments" are fraudsters.

pbreit··on Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe
How is that better than a card payment? Cards are accepted by far more merchants, have dispute rights, are inexpensive (in Europe) to process, supported by Apple & Google Pay, superior checkout experience, etc.
pbreit··on Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe
Industry observer Dwayne Gefferie took a stab at it (although I'm still highly skeptical): https://dwaynegefferie.substack.com/p/epi-european-payments-...
pbreit··on Use protocols, not services
I always thought SMTP would make a good webhook delivery protocol.
pbreit··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
What was their original mission?

My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.

pbreit··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
Smart, successful people offering products and services that lots of people want does not align with your politics? What are your politics?
pbreit··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
Why is that?
pbreit··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
The only reasonable argument I can think of is that the fantastic wealth accumulated at the top was substantially driven by the $37 trillion of debt the USA finds itself in. And it needs to be clawed back somehow.
pbreit··on Some notes on starting to use Django
I much prefer Python but am not really seeing any point to doing anything other than JavaScript for web projects at this point.

I also do not see much reason to do more than emit JSON on the server side.

pbreit··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
How long do they last?
pbreit··on The hidden engineering of runways
"Sign in to confirm your not a bot"...gone.
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