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bactrian commented on Ending Bitcoin Support   stripe.com/blog/ending-bi... · Posted by u/uptown
bactrian · 8 years ago
Stripe’s entire business is built on credit card transactions. They added half assed bitcoin support and then killed it.

This makes sense for a company that has every incentive to prolong a move away from credit cards.

As soon as we switch to a decentralized “currency” stripes business will begin its decline.

bactrian commented on America’s Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back and Hypersonic   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/adventured
melling · 8 years ago
China is already working on hypersonic weapons. They aren’t waiting for anyone.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a14512512/c...

bactrian · 8 years ago
China is always “working on” whatever the US is. Issue comes down to timing.
bactrian commented on The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday   twitter.com/CivilBeat/sta... · Posted by u/robin_reala
bactrian · 8 years ago
It’s almost so bad (even for gov work) that one wonders if it wasn’t designed like this recently as an excuse to run this “false alarm” exercise.

This is the kind of thing we would want the gov to do and lie to us about because most people can’t handle the truth.

“Put the links really close to tether so we can use that as an excuse.”

bactrian commented on America’s Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back and Hypersonic   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/adventured
bactrian · 8 years ago
“However, Aboulafia noted, such a capability could also be considered a destabilizing development if a U.S. adversary decided to react preemptively to such an aircraft’s existence.”

In other words China and Russia may contemplate fighting WW3 now rather than waiting to be leap frogged. Fun.

bactrian commented on Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime   eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01... · Posted by u/uptown
bactrian · 8 years ago
Oracle is downright evil in the most corporate way. No one with other options should be a customer or employee. Oracle needs to die with Comcast and the rest.
bactrian commented on Soylent’s Next Chapter   blog.soylent.com/post/168... · Posted by u/dankohn1
bactrian · 8 years ago
Good time to start a Soylent competitor if you’ve been thinking of it.
bactrian commented on US blacklists 17 firms from applying H1-B   gulte.com/movienews/61927... · Posted by u/artsandsci
praneshp · 8 years ago
Asking because I have no clue: You just linked to the top-10 H1B holders, not abusers, no? I see Microsoft on that list, and find it difficult to believe they are abusers.

From what I know from extended family, firms like the ones in the link do things like faking a job/resume, etc. Do the large Indian firms do that as well, in addition to flooding the lottery pool?

bactrian · 8 years ago
Microsoft hires thousands of H1B workers for generic roles like project manager and software developer.

Do you really think there aren’t Americans that could fill those roles? Of course there are but it would cost more. A true shortage would not affect Microsoft at all. They have as much money as anyone.

This is a dirty secret of tech that you can’t discuss without being labeled racist or xenophobic no matter how untrue that is.

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