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thiscatis··on Plaid Layoffs
Exactly, and as a regulated company you get audited on your affected leavers process with proof of time stamps for access removal.
thiscatis··on Plaid Layoffs
Exactly. There are bad and worse and less bad ways but someone is always going to be pissed. You can’t soon layoffs to those affected as good news. Except for some who already got an offer somewhere else and just hit the jackpot.
thiscatis··on Plaid Layoffs
Perhaps group policies are annual with a true up / down later in the year and best to not renew and let them sort out their own policy?
thiscatis··on Plaid Layoffs
I guess no annoying Woven by Plaid posts on LinkedIn for a while.

Success to these affected people, one rule I always remembered is don’t do layoffs in December, so extra brutal.

thiscatis··on Autonomous trucking upstart Embark has gone from $5B+ to basically worthless
The original title mentioned this is a YC company but this has been changed now.
thiscatis··on Startup Restructuring 101
This stood out for me as well, I guess it's just meant as hyperbole.
thiscatis··on Americans to Provide Biometrics and Pay Fee Traveling to the U.K. From 2023
And still be assumed a Syrian terrorist selling weapons to North Korea with proceeds that were laundered from a Mexican drug lord by default by the “friendly” folks at the border.
thiscatis··on FTX balance sheet, revealed
Not just Sequoia but also Temasek, the Singapore gov’t fund and they’re keeping quiet about it since the binance bailout fell apart.
thiscatis··on Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex—And Maybe You Should Too
Big cheques, barely DD.
thiscatis··on Crypto.com preliminary audit shows 20% of its assets are in shiba inu coin
It’s their customer balances.
thiscatis··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
Sequoia already deleted the fluff piece they put out about SBF so they’re clearly embarrassed / afraid of legal fall out. And sequoia being embarrassed doesn’t seem interesting to you? And this is just one of the VCs putting crazy money into a scam. This plus the Bahamas coed dorm and the political ties is already enough for a 2 season Netflix series.
thiscatis··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
Too bad Jonah Hill will be too old once the movie comes out about this whole saga. He would have aced it as SBF.
thiscatis··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
StableGains literally committed fraud and YC still invested in them. But talking about it here gets the YC apologists out en masse.
thiscatis··on Ask HN: Where do you escape for non-clickbait thoughtful/informational content?
Ft.com is worth paying for. Especially the big read, weekend FT articles and some opinion pieces.
thiscatis··on Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
It’s called Stripe Billing, not Stripe MDR. What a pointless exercise but I guess someone wi have some takeaways from this, not sure which one though.
thiscatis··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
Any time now Edwin or someone else from Stripe who gets pinged when a story hits HN frontage will come in here and post some copy paste “pLeASe eMaiL me”-apology and then everyone can feel good about themselves again. But in the end nothing changes.
thiscatis··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
I can’t believe Fireworks is already considered “once upon a time software”. It’s what got me into webdesign, together with Dreamweaver.
thiscatis··on Launch HN: Boostly (YC S22) – SMS marketing for restaurants
> “Do you want to join our text club and receive offers from us” at the time that they order food

No.

thiscatis··on [dead]
Interesting. You mention your family and yourself. Does that include children? Are they ready for this change?
thiscatis··on Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
Exactly this, it’s for show to indicate what a cool down to earth company Stripe is.
thiscatis··on Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
We did that last time you offered and never heard back.
thiscatis··on Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident
They could have owned the transactional mailing space with Mandrill but Mailchimp'ed it.
thiscatis··on Investing in Flow
Fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, you’re a visionary Adam.
thiscatis··on Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
Hopefully this will give more stable gains for them and less https://www.stablegains.com/
thiscatis··on TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business
Unbelievable right, going through someone’s reddit history to try to defend a corporation and do some victim blaming.
thiscatis··on TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business
Watch the Stripe apologist come out in force soon. They’ll brand you as 100% running a crypto CP arms dealing coke selling dark net platform owner because surely YC darling Stripe would never mess up like this. Truth is they are just horrible.
thiscatis··on Slack Is Down
Because someone’s OKR or some other metric depends on it and they will keep it from being on the status page as long as possible until there’s no denying.
thiscatis··on Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7% that of AWS
*most likely polled at 10 companies where Cloud means that they just stopped paying for Windows XP support extension.
thiscatis··on Ask HN: What are you using to manage in your team the projects/features?
We’re pretty happy with Clickup as the non-tech people also know how to use it. Also a lot of the automations and integrations are pretty well done.
thiscatis··on Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire
Thanks for these sources, English is not my first language but I get how could have been perceived insensitive.
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