Alupis

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    "Do not try to solve all life's problems at once... 
             ...learn to dread each day as it comes."
      -- Donald Kaul

    "The spirit of C: Trust the programmer... 
             ...no matter how insane he is."
      -- Paul (Fiddling Bits)

    "We all know Linux is great...
             ...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds."
      -- Linus Torvalds
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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
This just isn't true.

PayPal isn't a bank. They're a processor. People run afoul when they keep large amounts in their processor account instead of doing free nightly sweeps. They also run into trouble when they do weird things - like new accounts receiving large funds from international sources, etc. PayPal (and all processors) are required to investigate those instances until you have an established relationship with them - and they'll temporarily hold the suspicious funds while that happens. Business accounts have predictable, established patterns.

99% of the horror stories you hear fall into one of these categories, or both: 1) New Account 2) Unusual Account Activity

PayPal processed millions in annual payments for my previous company, without any issues.

Comment · 4 months ago
> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-dealt-bide...

That would be your politics coloring your memory.

Comment · 4 months ago
The courts struck down many Biden policies as well. People just give those a pass because "SCOTUS is rigged" or something...
Comment · 4 months ago
> you're seeing this as some kind of clever invariant of politics, but it's not. People are blind to politicians on their side because Donald Trump

Yes, sure, it is I who is blind...

Comment · 4 months ago
It'll never stop amusing me how blind we are to politicians that are "on our side".
Comment · 4 months ago
> More like "the whims of an eighty year old in cognitive decline..."

The previous administration was totally not exactly what's described here...

Comment · 4 months ago
It's very fashionable to hate on the current administration, despite what the previous administration was doing. That's reality and I'll be punished to hell for saying so.
Comment · 4 months ago
Every ultrasound device makes sound, sometimes a lot of sound, because it's vibrating all of the materials, liquids, and air around it.
Comment · 5 months ago
In the book "Turn the Ship Around", these questions are only temporary, and are part of how the leader transforms the team from traditional Leader-Follower into Leader-Leader.

These questions condition people to think ahead, and eventually present the information unprompted.

This ultimately is part of Intent-Based Leadership, where "followers" present the "leader" with their intentions, information and reasoning - and the "leader" just agrees usually. This in essence transforms "followers" into leaders, since they are the ones deciding what happens, when and why.

Marquet goes so far as to even avoid giving orders, instead just approving or questioning the intentions of his team. It took him a long time to get to that point in reality, but it's a really interesting take on leading highly intelligent, skilled teams.

Comment · 5 months ago
"Turn the Ship Around" is fantastic. It's a short audio book (about 6.5 hours), if that's more up your alley. Definitely worth a read/listen.

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