Thembo McBembo

There’s a secondary problem.

If a user has money in their account and the app creator goes under, they lose access but the actual bank hasn’t failed. Insurance on the account doesn’t kick in because there’s no bank failure to mitigate, but the user still doesn’t have access to their money before.

These regulations weren’t written with banking-as-a-service in mind, and don’t hold up well now that it’s not a weird edge case but a primary way companies provide banking services.

This is fascinating!

Let me know when it does surgery on a grape 🍇

Immediately after, every single ISP in my area introduced “data caps”. If I use more than 1TB of total data in a month, they charge exorbitant fees. Fortunately, you can pay to remove these caps! …for nearly twice the monthly price.

I recommend looking at the summary on Wikipedia. See the “Response” and “Publication History” sections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Publication_history

Similar research has been falsified, the third author of this paper left the university months ago, some authors filed patents on the material years in advance, and the underlying mechanisms haven’t been thoroughly explained.

However, they presented it in a way that is EXTREMELY straightforward to reproduce. There’s even a live stream on Twitch of someone working on it: https://www.twitch.tv/andrewmccalip So I doubt they’d make a claim that large when it’s so easy to disprove, and we’ll know for sure in a matter of days, most likely.

I’ve been a fan of “Working Code” so far, no off-color beats yet

https://workingcode.dev/

I use “Tab Stash”. Usually easier for me to navigate and manage than bookmarks, and keeps my browsers uncluttered.