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hippich commented on Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider voidfox.com/blog/payment_... · Posted by u/progval

kaishiro · 10 days ago

That's not actually the only issue, unfortunately. Steam did in fact accept Bitcoin for a while, but it was dropped in 2017, with Newell stating:

> “We had problems when we started accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment option. 50% of those transactions were fraudulent, which is a mind-boggling number. These were customers we didn’t want to have.” [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steam-co-founder-reveals-why-...

hippich · 10 days ago

While volatility indeed can be a problem (depending on how the whole thing is setup), I fail to come up with scenario of 50% fraudulent transactions... Does anyone have links to more details on what kind of fraud they meant?

hippich commented on Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

mistersquid · a month ago

A popular meme YouTuber ("Daily Dose of Internet" [0]) featured a clip of someone lighting their tap water on fire. Commenters explained that flammable water is common in places where fracking pollutants have contaminated the ground water.

Among the many examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfHcypKLxgc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP5fIKqobm0 (This is not an example of fracking pollution, according to child comment.)

I was stunned, to say the least.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@DailyDoseOfInternet

hippich · a month ago

First video comment from author:

The rods in my hot water tank were separating the hydrogen and oxygen. Called electrolysis

hippich commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik

glp1guide · a month ago

> For semaglutide, the newest and most potent GLP1.

Tirzepatide is the most potent GLP1

https://glp1.guide/content/semaglutide-vs-tirzepatide-clinic...

hippich · a month ago

Can't find the post on Reddit right now, but someone broke all three down and it is more nuanced. They act slightly differently in different areas.

Before I started experiments on "my lab rat" with retatrutide, I found that combination of the about half max dose of semaglutide and 1/3 of Max dose of tirzepatide had the best combination of losing weight and lowering side effects. But another "lab rat" did not respond that well to this combo and we keep adjusting it.

Retatrutide so far looks the most compatible, but it is sample of 1.

hippich commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik

exabrial · a month ago

I think this is pretty far off the cusp and seems like a bit of reddit logic "health insurance is scam, internet said so".

Health insurance is one of the rare services where incentives between consumer and business are well aligned. The vast majority of people are healthy. Healthcare is expensive in the US because the uninsured population continues to rise out of "they're not making me pay for it": There are entire tranches (in the US) also don't buy insurance and use the ER and abuse EMTALA for their primary care (most of this is actually unintentional in my opinion, it's less educated populations in the US who are repeatedly taken advantage of and left to ride on government, which is extremely eye-wateringly bad at spending money). Personal experience here working in an ER.

The real pathway in the US to success is getting those populations onto private health insurance. Obama tried a heavy handed "health insurance mandate" that hilariously somehow passed the supreme court, but was so laughable mis-aligned with American ideals even Biden wouldn't enforce it.

What is apparent though is these populations are completely willing to pay bills like their cell service, gasoline, car payments, etc before investing in the most important thing (their health). This gives me hope there is a way forward by riding these perceived essential services somehow. I'm not really sure what the answer is here, but there is at least opportunity for some creative solutions.

I also think the disagreement here between red vs blue isn't the outcome: both want people to be healthy. Red doesn't want single payer, whereas blue does. Red ignores the fact these systems don't exist, blue ignores the fact that no other country in the world has the diversity of America and there are not functional examples.

hippich · a month ago

I thought about it quite a bit and I came to conclusion that it is not 100% alignment between consumer and insurance, like it would appear on the surface. To me it seems insurance in the long term is interested in health services becoming more expensive (bigger pie they can manage), but steadily. I.e. it will affect insurance negatively if costs will suddenly increase by alot in a single year while premiums are locked in. But if it will keep inflating steadily and predictable - it only gives them a larger chunk of cash to manage and profit from. There are of course limits, so it needs to align with income inflation to avoid situation where their pie is shrinking because people/government simply can't afford it anymore.

hippich commented on '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/nan60

ajsnigrutin · a month ago

It's funny how mcdonalds did everything in their power to make it almost impossible to run their mcdonalds app on a rooted phone, but their backend infrastructure is beyond broken (security wise)

hippich · a month ago

Btw, I wondered why they flight root on the phone at all?

hippich commented on Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021) kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Br... · Posted by u/sebg

bmitc · 2 months ago

Small claims is such a huge headache, though. It's far more expensive for anyone person than the company.

hippich · 2 months ago

First time - when you learning all the details - may be. But it wasn't that bad. I represented myself vs insurance company with the lawyer. I did not get full claim amount, and could do better, but I got more than what insurance wanted to settle for.

hippich commented on Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021) kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Br... · Posted by u/sebg

kevin_thibedeau · 2 months ago

Take them to small claims court for each violation.

hippich · 2 months ago

Ianal, but afaik small claims are for purely money claims. I.e. you have to prove to judge/jury exact amount of your loss. It works well in case of fighting over debt. But more abstract damages are likely outside courts jurisdiction...

On the other hand... It is cheap to try and see what happens, as long as expectations are right.