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but was GitLab sold? I don't think so

So, what does Block actually do?

Square point of sale payment processing for businesses, Afterpay BNPL, and then the consumer side CashApp business. And Tidal Music streaming for some reason.

They hire people, and then they fire them!

CashApp

Square is still a much, much bigger portion of the business than CashApp.

    Square’s ecosystem is expected to contribute $1.77 billion, while Cash App is expected to provide $58.3 million to transaction revenues.

I'm guessing this is your card bouncing a repeat purchase from the same vendor with the same value

That I'd not know, although it'd be very uncommon and has not happened. In the EU 3ds is a very standard process, the the payments require an explicit approval (national id cards/smartid, etc.)

3DS also requires a smartphone app, at least at my bank

Yeah weird, I've seen some vendors reject the purchase even after a successful 3ds validation, looks like something in the vendor/payment processor (rather than the bank) side

I wonder how much Meta wrote off with their Metaverse adventure

Well that was a 100% certifiably genuine ridiculous loss.

It is interesting how corporations develop personalities, that can do some things well but reliably fail at others. No matter the funding, personnel or efforts. And in this case, by developing a personality I mean enabling Zuck.


About $16 billion a year, every year since 2022 or whatever. You can see RL spending in their public financials. Every company deducts ("writes off") R&D spending.

If it wasn't every last penny of their spend then they weren't being honest with themselves.

Honestly it's not spoiled to want to use the hardware you paid for

Cool, you do that then. I bet you'll get a gold star at the end of the year

Exactly this

People of a more autistic orientation here seem to think this is a no-no when in fact it's quite the opposite

The note was investigated. Not the person.


Well yes I don't think anybody's monitor can render it anyway

Feels like the old CRT days might've had some interesting things you could do.

Unfortunately no, they used RGB just like modern monitors.

The only kind I'm aware of is the Beam Index tube (aka Indextron), which used invisible UV phosphors to synchronize the beam. (Avoiding the need for a shadow mask, making the tube brighter and less sensitive to magnets.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam-index_tube

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_b7omGhw7wc


But in principle the phosphors used might have some power outside the visual spectrum, making them look different to an eye that can see into the near UV or IR. A lot of UV in particular would be filtered by the thick glass though, I guess.

Tetrachromats from my understanding don't see more of the spectrum, they just have better discrimination of the colors within it.

Thanks though last time I tried that it gave me the mother of all motion sicknesses

Talk about going all the way to write the story and seeing the point go by

Your boss liked Julius. People liked Julius

You're not going to convince people they have to pay more attention to the technical guy that can't string a though together and answers in a grumpy mood

Be more like Julius and you might get more of his laurels


Nah. Avoid companies that can't see through the Juliuses. Because there will be other disastrous consequences to their bad decision making processes.

> Avoid companies that can't see through the Juliuses.

Good luck with that


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