Winter (YC W22) is building a checkout widget for businesses to sell NFTs via credit card! We make it easy for anyone to buy/sell NFTs and take their first step into the crypto world. Check us out at https://www.usewinter.com/
We were a part of the latest W22 batch and have just finished fundraising and naturally looking to hire some key team members!
Please reach out if you're interested!
We compensate competitively, are remote-first, and give great benefits (you can even help us design them!). Reach out to me with your resume at michael (at) usewinter.com and let's chat :)
Ahh, a question I get a lot, thank you for asking :)
Stripe is a payments company -- they are great at payments. They offer a full suite of tools (like subscriptions) around payments. But this is not their core competency.
Usage-based billing has three core components:
* Defining pricing plans
* Metering usage to generate invoices
* Processing payments
Stripe is great at processing payments. But when it comes to defining usage-based pricing plans, and especially when it comes to metering usage, Stripe is actually pretty weak.
Pricing in Stripe is pretty brittle. You create products which have price IDs, and your code needs to understand these concepts. To evolve pricing for a customer, or to define a new pricing plan for an enterprise contract can be a pretty tricky thing to do.
And streaming usage data into Stripe is actually something that Stripe's docs recommends against. They recommend you aggregate your own usage metrics and post them infrequently into Stripe. Again, payments processing, not usage metering.
Kable's sweet spot as it pertains to billing is the first two items in that list. Pricing plans are super easy to define, manage, and evolve in Kable. Usage metering is our core competency. You don't need pricing concepts or external identifiers in your code. You record the *core concepts from your app* and Kable handles the rest.
As stated elsewhere, by asking the question you’re assuming the point is to have a rational argument on consistent beliefs - but it isn’t. It’s to gaslight and misdirect for political gain.
Bingo! Censoring a site because of censorship (even if misguided in terms) is like a kid saying you can’t play kickball because you didn’t invite him to play soccer (futbol)
Well, I'd argue that censoring a site because of censorship is like a society saying you must be do community service (or even be locked into a jail/prison)--as in, lose some of your rights--because you violated someone else's rights.
Northern Idaho actually has quite a lot of left-leaning politics/culture. Southern idaho is where all the conservatives live (and the vast majority of people generally).
yes, northern idaho, I remember all the left leaning skin heads. . . /s
It has more leftists than southern Idaho, but still, it's not exactly a bastion of progressive thinking. In fact, the state legislator doesn't have a single dem elected north of the boise metro, so I'm not sure how you're quantifying it?
Ehhh... I'd say that the left leaning people are basically all in the Boise area (Ada county) Sort of west center of Idaho. Beyond that, it's trump town pretty much everywhere else. Especially the pan handle where all the neo-nazis live.
Really only Moscow where the university is, and maybe pockets of CDA. Where-as Boise, Meridian, Twin Falls, and Pocatello are all fairly centrist/left-leaning.
"Northern Idaho" used to be shorthand for "extreme right wing" due to it being the location of the headquarters of the Aryan Nations and location of the Ruby Ridge standoff. Those references are over twenty years old now, so no idea how much that ideology survives there.
Even NPR's Maria Hinojosa couldn't find any "Nazi Town" in Idaho, as she had expected to. See the "Our Private Idaho" episode of "America By The Numbers":
https://shop.pbs.org/WC6542.html
Yes, I agree - the ISP block is censorship also. When China blocks sites with The Great Firewall, we all agree that's censorship. This is the same thing.
I stand by the actions of Facebook, Twitter etc, I'd agree this ISP has the same rights. Now where I could see it getting interesting is if consumers in the area don't have an alternative way to access content. I'd say if that is the case then this ISP here just opened up a door to a potential case to regulate them as utilities which means they wouldn't be able to do this. If the users do have a choice in the area then moot point.
If there is competition, one could think it's okay.
But if they are allowed, I imagine the competitors ask why they can't do that either. If they can, they'll block sites too.
Then what? Residents won't have any choice guaranteeing free access to all websites.
Yup, I was kind of amazed at how the situation played out a few years ago with Wheeler and then onto Pai. You don't need the same type of net neutrality laws if you just make them utilities, but ISPs of course know this and made sure that wasn't going to happen then.
The worse one would be that they actually can block sites and access to the internet is forever changed, now at the will of the ISPs. (fortunately, this would be more plausible under a Republican government, and they're leaving.)
> Now where I could see it getting interesting is if consumers in the area don't have an alternative way to access content.
Assuming private companies have the moral right to fully regulate their services, they're just blocking a specific resource for violating their policy. If you build your case on blocking Facebook, you must argue that the utility chain leads all the way to Facebook. It is all or nothing.
There exist many utilities that themselves are built on top of other utilities.
The reason something should be an utility has to do with competition and how much power customers. The primary argument in favor of having Internet providers be an utility is that creating an competing Internet is not really an realistic concept, and the power customers of ISP has in their customer-provider relation is close to nothing. Utility laws exist to solve this specific situation in the market, and making every single company an utility would not be very efficient way to make use of those laws.
Let's examine two cases for an ISP utility. They both lead to the same conclusion without turning everything downstream of ISPs into utilities.
1. The utility of an ISP is that of an ad hoc communication platform. Here we must ask why an ISP is an ad hoc communication platform and Facebook is not. Either both are or neither is.
2. The utility of an ISP is derived from providing access to Facebook. Again it is either both or none.
Ah see, I disagree that an ISP is in itself an adhoc communications system.
An ISP hooks up the wires, lays and maintains the infrastructure for web connections for which you can build communications on but are not in themselves sufficient as communications. You can also build more than just communications on ISP infrastructure.
As examples, you watch Netflix on the infrastructure of an ISP but Netflix is not communications and you may bank on your bank's website on an ISP and that is not communications those are movie watching and banking respectfully.
I could continue to provide examples, but my point being is an ISP is not in itself sufficient for communications to be established and that you can establish more than communications on an ISP and that is why I don't agree.
I agree a private business may do what they will within the bounds of our laws, so yes, but my framework for how I handle this would have ISPs regulated as natural monpoly which would make them a utility without that choice and that takes care of your concern. In their current state, however, you would not be wrong even if I wouldn't like it.
"BiG tEcH" People only use this term when they're mad that they can't call for the hanging of American citizens or the burning down of our government.
Amazon, Twitter, FB, Apple, Google—none of them have to tolerate calling for murder and destruction and they aren't going to risk liability by ignoring it and letting people come to harm. If you feel like not being able to call for lynchings of left leaning Americans is curtailing your speech then you need to reflect on why you want Americans dead so badly.
I might be totally wrong, but isn't this a good way to get orphaned processes? Kill the parent arbitrarily with SIGTERM (I don't think this automatically cleans up the children/forked processes) and viola, you've got an orphaned process.
Using this would require whatever process you start to handle SIGTERM properly. Most processes spawning children do this, but it's no guarantee and one needs to be aware of this.
In my experience, processes doing IPC with parent gets notified of parental death by EOF on the socketpair/pipe it's using to communicate with the parent. This is easy to reason about and most people check return values from I/O functions. Parents spawning children and only caring about SIGCHLD are more prone to not have the correct signal handlers set up by its dev(s).
IMO, any process spawning children w/o proper signal handlers are not good citizens.
I don't know, APIs are becoming extremely easy to use nowadays. I've managed to create my own simple arbitrage script in about an afternoon using APIs from btc-e and coinbase. I don't have it live and probably never will (written in Python, can only imagine how badly I'll get burned) but it was a fun project!
Winter (YC W22) is building a checkout widget for businesses to sell NFTs via credit card! We make it easy for anyone to buy/sell NFTs and take their first step into the crypto world. Check us out at https://www.usewinter.com/
We were a part of the latest W22 batch and have just finished fundraising and naturally looking to hire some key team members!
Please reach out if you're interested!
We compensate competitively, are remote-first, and give great benefits (you can even help us design them!). Reach out to me with your resume at michael (at) usewinter.com and let's chat :)