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Does that mean my schema and data are sent to your OpenAI agents?

What's wrong with select for update? I've found it useful in a few places. It is that fixed when there is an append only source of truth?

Any pointers to network configuration to tune? Some TCP stuff? How much does it matter on that VPS network?

I'm sure they aren't. Folk (like me!) love Kago.

Any context for the ignorant?

It's of topic but, what if our current civilization is failing them? Like, of the system is broken and an individual acts to protect themselves or their family, the individual is still blamed.

That's how revolution starts.

And there are many revolutions that we (in USA) claim are good! Our own, from Britain, the French one. Of course others are bad (depending on where your vantage)

It's just that, sometimes the murder is (retrospectively) justified. Like in a war, they're killing us so we kill them.

But class war isn't fought with uniformed combatants.

And, in USA at least, many of our politicians are bought quite blatantly. If they aren't serving the citizens perhaps they have thrown out civilization and the social contracts first?

It's all quite complicated.

In general though, murder bad and government should serve the poorest citizens forst, corporations last.

Oh, yea, "you're holding it wrong"

Greenhouse automation. Smart(er) home thermostat. Lighting effects on wizard staff.

The Zig group claims that Zig can interop with C based libraries w/o too much work. It's one of the reasons I'm digging into it now. But I don't know anything about CUDA and have only done trivial Zig<=>C tests (like my Zig code working with libpng) so far. Are their claims BS? Is Zig just not mature enough? Something else?

Maybe cause that comment up thread reads like it was written by a zealot rather than presenting well reasoned arguments.

And sometimes the axel is short (narrow), so the tires are on the rail. It's funny to see them on a standard road.

I hate that you are both correct.

And even if it did go closed-souce, your existing install can run for ages because the vendor cannot force upgrade. One of my favorite features of FOSS.

Simply: the Bureaucracy exists to perpetuate the Bureaucracy.

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...

Or, you could be a government agency that implemented a method for citizens to upload compliance data - so they have to upload broken CSVs into a broken queue system. Get the worst of both worlds, and deployed as a green-field project in 2021.

Sorry. I'll try one more time then.

Stripe is currently passing on these revenues. Stripe has been hostile to these revenue streams for more than a decade.

You seem to think their behavior will change after an acquisition. An acquisition that is also a (dangerous) market consolidation. I don't think they will.

How is PayPal not subject to MC rules when MC is used as a funding source for a PP account that purchases cannabis-adjacent services? Is it magic? Is it some plausible denial thing?

Also, if their only motivation is money - and lets assume that is true - then taking a few billions in high-risk money puts their other even-larger billions at risk.

Do you see that? Yes, they could get new revenue of ~30B adding to their existing ~5B. And assuming several billion in high-risk (4B?) now the question is...would you throw away 4 dollars of your 40 dollars to reduce the risk of the remaining 36? While also knowing you can grow into other lower risk markets? Would you throw away 4 high risk dollars to replace them in two years with 4 new low risk dollars?

You're obviously much smarter and more knowledgeable than me. I'm just going to abandon this conversation.

PayPal lets cannabis adjacent business get paid via MasterCard as a PayPal funding source.

Perhaps you are confusing cannabis with cannabis-adjacent business (grow lights, compliance solutions, etc)

It's not billions. My assertion is they will throw away processing millions to ensure they can continue to process billions.

You'd ignore a pence to pick up a pound.

And yet some on this thread seem to think Stripe wouldn't shut off valid, law abiding paying customers.

Stripe only accepts the ones where there is cross-over and relationships between high-level employees and investors.

They restrict the ones that are smaller and independent.

I think that Stripe will shut off paying customers BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN THEM DO IT. That is what first hand knowledge is.

The thing that really doesn't make sense is that Stripe selectively applies their written terms of service and policies. Do you understand that?

As written Stripe has "morality police" - do you think that is a real thing?

We all know it's a risk thing; we all know it's a money thing.

And from experience I think it will happen. It will match Stripes current behavior pattern - regardless if their motive is money or morals. In fact, I think it will happen because it's obvious it is about money.

I know it's about risk. Perhaps my point was not clear?

Simply put: Stripe selectively applies their own policy about "restricted" transaction types.

I'm sure that PayPal does serve them (first hand knowledge). I'm sure that Stripe selectively restricts them (first hand knowledge).

I do believe that Stripe will execute they same Stripe pattern in the merged company which will reduce choices in the market for businesses.

Or, because as you say it's money (I agree) the Stripe will put their "morals" in place - with the financial result they reduce risk, get less chargebacks and lower costs - then pass the savings on to the C-suite.

Morals, generously interpretation of the usage, was just to indicate that Stripe has a more narrow risk window.

Only an idiot would think it was about actual human-grade morals or ethics. Let alone that there were actual morality police.

Then how do other processors go over the Visa and MC rails for these transaction types? How does Stripe allow some and then block others?

Not good. Stripe makes restrictions that PayPal allows (cannabis adjacent, adult adjacent) that Stripe blocks. Many vendors will be negatively impacted by Stripes morality police and selective application of their policies.

Or every teacher gets classroom supplies for five years.

Or treatment programs for addicts. There are a lot of economic benefits to helping folks on the lower side of the income spectrum.

In the dot-com situation earnings "didn't matter" as long as there was growth. We[1] all believed profit would come eventually. The lesson learned from that experience was that earning do sort of matter. It turns out there is a limit to selling dollars for dimes. Since then revenue, profit and unit-economics ("fundamentals") have gotten almost as much attention as they deserve.

[1] a broad and poorly defined group of "we" - typically investors and tech-bro types.