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BobAliceInATree commented on Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address   johndcook.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/ibobev
johnisgood · 5 days ago
People use this against cryptocurrencies. It should be an argument against stupidity instead. You get a confirmation popup as well asking if you are sure about the address in many wallets.
BobAliceInATree · 5 days ago
No number of confirmation dialogs going to help anyone in determining that their 27+ digit address is mistyped.
BobAliceInATree commented on Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny   techcrunch.com/2025/08/02... · Posted by u/bingden
DenverR · a month ago
Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.
BobAliceInATree · a month ago
$20 billion sell price is no longer a “startup”
BobAliceInATree commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety   cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox
thehappypm · a month ago
In my opinion, diamonds really are the best jewel for a engagement ring. They are really the only gem that will really never chip, fade, or cloud over time. Alternatives like moissanite are great, don’t get me wrong, but they’re just not quite as good on the longevity scale. When you buy someone a diamond, they could literally do zero maintenance on it and 100 years later they still have a diamond that looks basically exactly the same.
BobAliceInATree · a month ago
Diamonds definitely chip.
BobAliceInATree commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety   cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox
BobAliceInATree · a month ago
Synthetic diamonds are so cheap now that even de Beers closed their online store.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2025/05/09/de-be...

BobAliceInATree commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety   cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox
aprilthird2021 · a month ago
I actually predict in a few years it will become more fashionable to wear other jewels over diamonds given the rate the prices are crashing at. When diamonds are competitive with all the other gemstones, people start looking at those the same way too
BobAliceInATree · a month ago
You're a few years too late, as this trend has been been happening for a decade at this point. You can find many articles online about how millenialls and now gen-z are ditching diamonds.
BobAliceInATree commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education   moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint
massung · 2 months ago
I use USAA for banking.

Something they do when they initiate a call to me on the phone is they start by making sure they are talking to me (they don’t ask me to prove it) and making sure I have the app on the my phone or access to a web page.

Then they initiate a MFA check within the app. I have to get it and read back a number. Then they ask me for my phone PIN or password. Once that’s done, then we can start talking.

BobAliceInATree · 2 months ago
You're giving a MFA number to someone that called you?!
BobAliceInATree commented on Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/neversaydie
Aspos · 2 months ago
I feel irrational hatred towards people who think "decimated" is a synonym of "destroyed".
BobAliceInATree · 2 months ago
That ship has long since sailed.

OED dates the first known use of "to reduce drastically or severely; to destroy, ruin, devastate" to 1660.

BobAliceInATree commented on Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year   techcrunch.com/2025/04/29... · Posted by u/GeekyBear
ToucanLoucan · 4 months ago
Incredible experience with this: our App Store account was from an acquired company that was no longer doing business. The Apple representative requested documentation that the no longer in use LLC was in fact, no longer in use.

When I requested what documents they might think a defunct LLC was creating that would prove it was defunct, they didn't have an answer. Same as others we ended up just making a new fucking developer account.

Hell of a first project as a team lead.

BobAliceInATree · 4 months ago
When I’ve closed down an LLC, I’ve received a document from the Secretary of State certifying such.
BobAliceInATree commented on How many supernova explode every year?   badastronomy.beehiiv.com/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
citizenpaul · 5 months ago
Based on this about 5.5 million stars are created every 30 minutes and only about 1 start goes supernova in the same period? This seems like it really reinforces the we are still in the early stages of the universe theory if the ratios are that imbalanced.

Still though the imbalance in those events makes me suspicious that we are missing something.

BobAliceInATree · 5 months ago
The vast majority of stars don't supernova.

Also, we're at the tail end of star-forming era. about 95% of all the stars that will be formed, have already been formed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/life-unbounded/the-s...

BobAliceInATree commented on     · Posted by u/mgh2
BobAliceInATree · 5 months ago
Not even a mention how this is deeply unconstitutional in the article. The media is failing us.

u/BobAliceInATree

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