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This ‘pause’ IS for green card applicants (immigrant visa)

this is what is most interesting to me as well. does any of this actually go towards helping the impacted children and families?

>The settlement resolves claims brought by 29 U.S. states, and will end a federal trial that had been one of the highest-profile tests yet of allegations that social media companies harmed young users.

>Wednesday's settlement also resolves lawsuits by California, Illinois, New Mexico and Washington, D.C., over privacy claims related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the consulting firm collected personal data of millions of Facebook users. Those states will receive $459.3 million to resolve those lawsuits.

Plaid has an option to let the client/provider accept plain account + routing numbers, a lot of apps for whatever purpose don't use it.

routing+account numbers are not that sensitive. that's been API for how we transact money since pre-historic times. plaid gets access to your online account with access personal data, security details, documents, transactions, statements, write-access etc.

In my experience, isolated (repeated) data storage paradigm is even more common at large organizations. They share data via services, ETLs, event buses, etc.

On one hand, the market seems to react to these appropriately. On another hand, the market has a short-term memory and prices go back up.

It's unfortunate Auth0 was acquired by them. Have used it from the beginning and it used to be a great product before the Okta acq. Now it's just constant sales emails, expensive pricing, not much new feature launches, most features are very enterprise focused, bunch of bugs, frequent outages.

Somebody described Slack vs Teams this way:

- Slack is so easy and fun to use that we use it for things we shouldn't be (fun channels, fun integrations). It creates too much noise and hard to extract signal. It ends up being distracting past 100+ people company.

- Teams is so bad that people try not to use it. It forces you to use it minimally because everything is terrible. It actually ends up being more productive than Slack.

US doesn’t give out a permanent residency based on how long you lived in the country. There’s only a few common paths to immigration: employment sponsored (2-20 years), marriage based (1-3 years), other family based (2-20 years), investor based (1-3 years). Student or tourist years don’t matter.