If that was the case, maybe they would have responded with that instead of covering up the evidence

You better watch out for those windows on your way down

There’s a big difference between a reference implementation and a proof of concept. A proof of concept just shows it’s possible at all, but a reference implementation is meant as a reference for “you should do it this way”. Expect most companies to just directly copy the reference because they’ll feel it’s a waste of time developing their own system that’s in compliance.

I’m sure that you’ll be spending no less than $500/month on electricity before you even show up on the list.

Yeah, I appreciate the reference, it’s just that my brain got stuck on the comparison breaking due to using percentage instead of some absolute count.

It already goes over 100% market share after only 8 squares. 512% seems like a weird place to stop? How can you have more than 100% market share?

Ah interesting, so the European banks have agreements on how to settle wire transfers quickly, but going outside those SEPA agreements gets you about the same experience as US wire transfers.

That SEPA system seems kind of nice, since in the US it’s been up to a bunch of private companies (like PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard) to pick up the slack and enable instant transfers. We’ve only recently got the Zelle system, which is free and instant, but even that’s just run by some corporation that went around making agreements with banks on their own.

Unfortunately, for this sort of international transaction, the only real options are: Credit card companies (via credit or debit), SWIFT wire transfers (slow and expensive), or Crypto (volatile and maybe slow depending on which one).

I’ve had annoying times trying to purchase parts from a small UK company, since my only option was wire transfer with a $65 fee, or calling them long distance and giving a credit card over the phone at 1am my time)

ACH is Automated Clearing House, which is US-specific and what’s used for faster bank-to-bank transfers than wire. They still take up to a day or two to clear. I suspect what you are calling a wire transfer is not actually the same thing as a SWIFT network wire transfer, which is what’s used for international transactions. German banks charge the same fees for those: https://wiretransfer.io/deutsche-bank-germany-wire-transfer/

German banks might have arrangements for doing domestic transfers more quickly, and obviously it’s instant if the recipient is at the same bank, but I don’t know that that’s considered a wire transfer anymore. It would be a direct deposit/debit through some other bank-bank system. (In Canada this would be like Interac transfers, or Zelle in the US)

Maybe it’s different in Germany, but at least in the US, wire transfers have a fee. My bank even charges me $5 just to receive a wire transfer, and if I wanted to send money internationally it’s a $65 fee. It’s a terrible system to buy things too because it takes days for the transfer to clear.

Another comment mentioned ACH, but that is not the same as a wire transfer.

$100B would put you at #19 richest person. If taken from Elon, he wouldn’t even lose a spot…

This looks quite similar to the Japanese Gardens in Seattle! I didn’t realize there were more in the PNW, I might have to do a trip down to Portland to check it out.

This sounds like it’s a problem no matter what method of communication you use, unless you keep no address book and memorize everything.

Phone numbers cost money, which means they’re not easy to create in bulk, and therefore banning or blocking spam numbers is much easier than if it was open sign up.

Signal doesn’t use SMS anymore, and all messages are sent over encrypted Internet protocol. Any servers in between won’t see the phone number, it’s not needed to deliver the message, it’s using an IP address at that point and the entire message metadata is encrypted. Signal is the only one that can see the phone numbers, which they use to identify multiple clients as a single user and route messages accordingly.

If you don’t trust Signal to run an unmodified server without malicious modifications, then why would you trust their build of the APK?

To truly be safe from Signal’s influence you would need to audit the source code and build it yourself.

Personally I have no problem using Signal’s servers

Yeah, pretty sure I remember clicking skip on this as many as 5 years ago. Google Maps has asked to store your home address for as long as I can remember.

Grammar is the least of your concern if you’re letting the magic smoke out

Ironically HoloISO also can’t be installed easily right now since all the prepared downloads are missing. You could maybe built it yourself from source, but I haven’t figured it out…

I opened this issue several months ago: https://github.com/HoloISO/issuetracker/issues/59

Thank god we were able to ditch flash player!

I guess the stuff I buy is an extra tier above then, because I definitely only spring for the platted through-hole double sided boards. I’ve cut little sections of my supply to use in various projects.