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martimarkov commented on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down   shaun.nz/why-were-never-u... · Posted by u/jemmyw
quantumwoke · 2 months ago
Nowhere in this blog does it mention what the business actually does, which is always a red flag. I've seen plenty of stripe bashing posts on HN that end up with the business being in newsletter scams or adult content.
martimarkov · 2 months ago
Oh no… god forbid - adult content lol. Yes regardless of the content if the business is legal and they only changed an address that’s not a reason to have this level of shit support and no way to escalate and contact a human…
martimarkov commented on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine   express.co.uk/news/uk/211... · Posted by u/ANewbury
MammaMia2025 · 3 months ago
No worries! Trump will call Den Von Deleten, whatever her name is -- and she will just do what she is told whatever is the thing she is told to do. Exactly like it already happened with EU buying $700B of natural gas. We paid just a bit over $100B to Russians for the same thing... but you know... Trump told, so here we go!
martimarkov · 3 months ago
Any source for this comparison? Also did the EU buy it or said they will?
martimarkov commented on Oil states thwart agreement on plastics   e360.yale.edu/digest/glob... · Posted by u/YaleE360
thrown-0825 · 4 months ago
EU only cares to the degree that is necessary to virtue signal to its citizens.

They are still buying natural gas from Russia at record levels lmao.

martimarkov · 4 months ago
It never said it will stop right away. It put a target and the process is called phasing out. The same way you migrate away from AWS. You don’t just stop your platform you move over while still using some AWS services.
martimarkov commented on UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts   fortune.com/2025/02/10/un... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
Aurornis · 10 months ago
That links to a post containing the actual letter from the lawyers, which is honestly more revealing than all of the articles and social media ragebait about the situation: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFlR1CrJ688/?img_index=4

I know people will default to believing the physician and not the lawyers, but from my read of the letter it appears UHC’s lawyers have valid points (don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger)

Specifically, UHC appears to have recordings of the calls and the paperwork which contradict the claims in the social media post.

The two biggest problems I see from my quick read:

1. UHC’s rep said the issue was non urgent and asked for a call back “when convenient to you”. This differs from the social media post claiming that UHC called and demanded she “scrub out of surgery” and “call right now”.

2. UHC has records of the doctor conceding that her office’s submission for inpatient care was erroneous and that they actually meant to request observation care. That’s why UHC was calling.

The fact that UHC came with receipts (recordings of the phone calls) and that the doctor even conceded the error during the call does not put the doctor in a good position. The original claim that the insurance rep demanded she scrub out of surgery immediately was a red flag that something was amiss with the story.

martimarkov · 10 months ago
I don’t record my conversations and if some lawyer tells me that they have a recording of me saying something I’d be more inclined to believe them. “Maybe I actually said that? Maybe I made a mistake? Maybe I don’t remember it now correctly?”

So I’d take it with a pinch of salt but the lawyers might be absolutely correct as well. I’m just saying I can see it as a tactic but maybe I’m a bit paranoid. Wondering if just I jumped to this conclusion?

martimarkov commented on New York claims a small victory in 'forever war on rats'   thetimes.com/us/news-toda... · Posted by u/lareading
yostrovs · a year ago
In New York City, the trash workers union prevents dumpsters from being used, which would kill jobs. Remember: trash is not a problem to deal with. It's a solution to unemployment.
martimarkov · a year ago
It absolutely is a problem to be dealt with. I understand what you are implying but it actually is a problem
martimarkov commented on Stream MongoDB Changes to SQLite via Ably LiveSync   ably.com/blog/how-to-use-... · Posted by u/martimarkov
martimarkov · a year ago
Hey,

I'm the PM of LiveSync at Ably. We started working on this quite recently after we established a partnership with Mongo and they deprecated Realm. I'm looking to expand the product to mainly cover the sync functionality of Realm but the roadmap is not set in stone yet

martimarkov commented on Google and Apple Face Billions in Penalties After Losing E.U. Appeals   nytimes.com/2024/09/10/te... · Posted by u/hellcow
throw310822 · a year ago
Since 2018. Can't help thinking that if with that money they had bought Apple shares, it would be now 3 times more.
martimarkov · a year ago
It would kinda be funny if they did as they probably not want Apple to get fined as now they’d be shareholders
martimarkov commented on Google and Apple Face Billions in Penalties After Losing E.U. Appeals   nytimes.com/2024/09/10/te... · Posted by u/hellcow
deafpolygon · a year ago
Guess it's time for the EU to milk that cash cow.
martimarkov · a year ago
Guess it’s time to follow the law of the land you operate in…
martimarkov commented on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/malermeister
beeboobaa3 · a year ago
> where the judge surmised that App store model was not just payments but the whole mechanism of tracking subscriptions, cancel and refunds, and standard pricing for purchases

Well, yeah. When it's your only goddamn choice it sure as shit becomes that. I can guarantee you it can be done for much, much less than 30%. But apple won't allow it.

martimarkov · a year ago
But that’s how they decided to fund other areas like having iOS free. I still don’t understand the logic behind the complaint. If the developers don’t want to pay, why not just drop support for iOS? If the answer is because customers are on iOS then… idk respect that this is the decision of the user. Don’t force me to install another App Store or give you my card data so you can charge me the same amount and keep more profit while compromising my privacy and security

u/martimarkov

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