prague60 (u/prague60)

prague60 commented on Stripe Identity stripe.com/identity... · Posted by u/thomaspark

edwinwee · 4 years ago

Edwin from Stripe here. The two cases are actually very similar. If you want to avoid ID documents ever being stored on your servers, Identity makes it easy to do that. (Just as Elements/Stripe.js makes that easy for card numbers.) On the other hand, if you want to score card numbers or ID documents (and there are sometimes good reasons for doing this!), Stripe makes that straightforward.

prague60 · 4 years ago

Conflating credit card #'s and personal biometrics/SSNs is your first mistake. You think they are the same, they feel the same, but the risk to the customer is so much bigger.

When a hotel copies my passport, they get a jpg. If they use Stripe, now I know they have my biometrics serialized to JSON. That feels way riskier and scarier to me, especially now that it's all centralized by Stripe.

We hear about our personal data getting leaked and hacked every day, and here is Stripe making themselves an enormous target and serializing all the data for malicious actors.

This feels like a really tone deaf misstep by the company.

prague60 commented on EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Australia dw.com/en/eu-blocks-expor... · Posted by u/the-dude

mrtksn · 5 years ago

I agree that EU is not the top dog anymore but I'm having trouble reasoning your logic.

AZ is UK-Swedish, Biontech/Pfiser is German-US but all this shows that EU is falling behind?

Wouldn't that count 2 for EU, 1 for UK 1 for USA? Is this some accounting trick where it ends up 1 US, 1 UK and 0 for EU?

Europe missed on the computers and internet but I don't see how EUs involvement in inventing the first two vaccines show that Europe is pathetic when the other partners are superior.

Actually, I think the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was also developed in EU(Netherlans?). Would that count as +1 or -1 for the old world?

prague60 · 5 years ago

I think their point is the EU was the weak dog at the negotiating table.

prague60 commented on EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Australia dw.com/en/eu-blocks-expor... · Posted by u/the-dude

jamesrr39 · 5 years ago

This is the second 'EU blocks export of AstraZeneca vaccine' headline (the other being the UK). It's interesting how the EU ends up carrying the backlash on both occasions, and AstraZeneca, who are the ones who ultimately over-committed and under-delivered, still comes out of it with relatively little PR damage.

prague60 · 5 years ago

Isn't this because the EU let the US/UK take priority of production? I was under the impression AZ was filling their fulfillments to US/UK just fine. This seems like EU just couldn't keep up in the horse race negotiating.

prague60 commented on EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Australia dw.com/en/eu-blocks-expor... · Posted by u/the-dude

kasperni · 5 years ago

Yes, the USA really set a bad example for the rest of the world by invoking the Defense Production Act last year, and Biden renewing it last month. Or did you think the EU is the only one playing these games?

prague60 · 5 years ago

The USA had this position from the outset, everyone was able to plan around it. I don't think it was the best position, but I think there is value in making its position clear.

This move by the EU just shows Van der Leyen's floundering and the EU showing again the limits of its efficacy as a governing organization.

prague60 commented on 1MB Club 1mb.club/... · Posted by u/bradley_taunt

prague60 · 5 years ago

My question for these kinds of complaints is, how do is it proposed we implement the same features and value that can be provided currently, with fewer downloas?

Could we have Facebook without a huge download? Is this saying the web should not have these features? Are we intended to download each new application separately on a PC like we do mobile?

I see so many complains about "the bloated web", but no solution that let's us keep the tremendous value the internet has given to the world. It just comes across so short-sighted and reactionary.