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paperpunk commented on Fintech dystopia   fintechdystopia.com/... · Posted by u/LasEspuelas
jernejzen · a month ago
As someone working with African companies (legitimate businesses, mid-sized transactions), the key use case is payments in stablecoins—their banking infrastructure doesn’t allow for reliable and consistent foreign remittances. These deals would be practically impossible without stablecoins.

(And to be clear, I’m someone who has never been particularly enthusiastic about crypto or blockchain.)

paperpunk · a month ago
Can you give more details on this? Why is it that the existing banking system cannot do this kind of foreign remittance? E.g. correspondent banking via Swift?

Is it high fees, is it overly burdensome sanctions/AML checks, something else?

paperpunk commented on Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?    · Posted by u/justsocrateasin
poisonborz · 5 months ago
To any managers here, please avoid and forever forget blank cheque questions like "how are you". Makes the mood instantly superficial.
paperpunk · 5 months ago
Maybe it’s a cultural difference but to me that is just normal friendliness and ice-breaking. I’m quite happy for my manager to ask how am I and to have a 2 minute chat about life outside work before diving into the 1:1.
paperpunk commented on No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones   popularfintech.com/p/no-o... · Posted by u/kazanins
ForHackernews · 7 months ago
How are they incompetent? My boring old bank has never lost my money, it sends out bill payments on time. Those are the main things I ask for it to do, and it has done them competently for decades.

As far as I can see, none of the fintech/web3/crypto-nonsense companies can be trusted to do those things well.

paperpunk · 7 months ago
How do you know it’s never lost your money? Do you audit each transaction on your statements?
paperpunk commented on How to Send a Swift Wire for Developers   iso20022js.com/guides/how... · Posted by u/svapnil
paperpunk · a year ago
nit: it’s been called ‘Swift’ for a while, not ‘SWIFT’.
paperpunk commented on How to Send a Swift Wire for Developers   iso20022js.com/guides/how... · Posted by u/svapnil
acheong08 · a year ago
> you will need to configure the bank to allow for direct transmission. This is a process that your bank will need to complete with you.

How easy is this process? Are all banks required to provide such a service? How about countries outside the USA

paperpunk · a year ago
This is frankly the actually difficult part of the process. ISO20022 is just a way to send messages, your actual commercial and settlement arrangements still need to be done. Banks are not required to provide such a service, you will specifically need an arrangement with a bank that offers that. Or more likely with an intermediary like Wise which will abstract the distractions like ISO20022 away from you.
paperpunk commented on Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks   turquoisehexagon.co.uk/re... · Posted by u/rahilb
paperpunk · a year ago
Works great. Now just make it sync with JIRA too.
paperpunk commented on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2   apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/hnuser0000
FumblingBear · 2 years ago
Personally, I'm excited for the productivity aspects of it. I think my main use case will probably be relaxing in my comfy chair with a macbook on my lap projected into a much larger screen with some other floating windows like documentation, youtube tutorials, etc. off to the sides. I currently don't have any extra screens for the macbook, so being able to utilize some native apps for stuff like that seems quite helpful!

That aside, I'd imagine I'll use it for watching movies and tv since I live alone currently and could enjoy the immersion without blocking other people out. I already have a PSVR 2 for gaming so I'm not too worried about the potential or lack thereof for games. One thing I'm going to try out though is game streaming services like Geforce Now. If I can play really high fidelity flat games using a M+KB / Controller on the headset that would be awesome!

paperpunk · 2 years ago
For what it's worth I currently play flat games on Quest 3 via Xbox Cloud Gaming (i.e. streaming) [1], in passthrough mode (i.e. mixed reality with the virtual screen floating in the air) using a PS4 controller paired with the Quest 3, and it's definitely very playable, if much lower visual quality than just playing it on a 4K TV (30hrs into Starfield at the moment). But I like it because I can take my giant floating screen in any room of the house or in bed and don't have to stop when my partner wants to use the TV.

I'm pretty sure this will work on day 1 on Vision Pro since Xbox Cloud Gaming already works on Safari with PS/XBox controllers paired to Macs/iPads/iPhones, and with the supposed higher quality display, passthrough, and user interface (the Quest hand tracking is insufferable) I expect it will be even better.

[1]: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/12/13/play-xbox-game-pass-w...

paperpunk commented on Microsoft gets green light in UK to buy Activision   bbc.co.uk/news/business-6... · Posted by u/mystcb
mathieuh · 2 years ago
They keep talking about cloud streaming, is anyone except executives at these companies taking cloud streaming seriously? Every time I've tried it it's been a mess of latency and fuzzy graphics. If I were at the CMA I'm not sure that's a factor in this deal that I would have given much thought at all.
paperpunk · 2 years ago
Not my experience at all.

Was able to do latency-sensitive gaming like VR gaming from a Shadow PC 200 miles away. Have happily streamed PC games to my phone whilst out and about on 4G networks. I suppose if you're comparing it to 4K ultra quality local gaming you might find it much worse, but for someone who only has a MacBook Pro I found it performed significantly better to stream the game from a PC elsewhere than to try to run Mac native versions of games – and also just let me open up high quality games very quickly from many devices without having to mess around with cables and device drivers and all that stuff.

My partner streams the Xbox games to her Surface laptop which is definitely not powerful enough to play them natively.

That said I know it's still fairly niche, but I think it has a shot of tapping into a much broader casual market than e.g. PC gaming and consoles which require people to already care enough to do a big upfront investment.

paperpunk commented on What would a “good” WebMD look like?   blog.tjcx.me/p/why-is-web... · Posted by u/tomjcleveland
paperpunk · 3 years ago
I've been involved in an attempt to do this at a smaller scale, for a specific discipline: https://maxfacts.uk/ – which aims to be a complete resource for patients and professionals in the oral and maxillofacial field. Like WebMD, but up-to-date, properly researched, and very thorough.

The linked article here talks about having structured, quantitive information, but I think this might be an engineer's view on medicine. The reality on the ground is much messier. We tried to give people enough information on medical practice, explanations on the biological/chemical mechanisms, and other resources to make their own informed choices about their treatment and care. For example, trying to explain the mechanics of taste, and texture for eating food so that people can understand what kind of adaptations they can make to improve their quality of life. I think we probably fall short of that goal sometimes because our material is overly technical or scientific but it's a work-in-progress.

paperpunk commented on My macOS keyboard shortcuts   jamieonkeys.dev/posts/key... · Posted by u/donbrae
zwaps · 3 years ago
Conversely, switching from Windows/Linux to MacOS is also very painful.

For instance, why is there no way to minimize to desktop? Having to use Command+Button to go to beginning/end of a line? A horror for coding.

My favorite pain point: @ in some regional keyboard layouts for Win/Linux is ALTGR+Q, whereas the keys with the same physical action in MacOS close the program. Fun when writing emails, or using passwords and logins.

Also, whether its due to capability or lack thereof, MacOS has the most custom UIX apps/addons/plugins of any OS. Heck, our corporate Macs come with some of those preinstalled.

paperpunk · 3 years ago
> For instance, why is there no way to minimize to desktop?

There is I think. Something like Cmd+F3? I use this a lot.

u/paperpunk

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