That’s virtua, not virtual.

I really dislike using the term “virtual” for online meetings. It implies the meeting isn’t real, or isn’t authentic, or like it’s imaginary. The meeting simply uses video cameras instead of a conference room.

Backed by $1 in the legacy banking system

Yes, other memecoins used to also be pegged to the dollar, but they lost their peg, like TerraUSD and Tether.

which represents exactly $1.

Until it doesn’t.

It’s no different than a number in your banks database, except it’s in your custody, like cash.

And it’s not a real currency, it’s a memecoin.

Is your bank’s database a currency?

No, my bank’s database is a database, it refers to a currency that is real because it is accepted for paying taxes, fines, etc.

but I’m happy to teach you about the industry if you’re interested

There’s nothing you could teach that would be valuable to learn. You seem to be in on the grift, looking for another person to get in on the pyramid scheme. Good luck with that, but I’m not interested.

Like a number in the database at your bank. No different than that.

Except that my bank stores dollars, not memecoins.

Are you saying that is a different concept than usdc

Yes, because “USDC” isn’t a currency.

USDC is absolutely a token on many different ledgers that represents a currency.

No, it is a speculative investment. If it were a currency it would be something people were using to buy things, accepting for selling things, using to pay taxes and fines, using to invest in something else, etc.

It’s not a currency, it’s at best some kind of intermediate thing used to buy even more speculative “investments”.

The customer was using cloudflare IP addresses, which is causing a knock-on effect for the rest of cloudflare’s customers and putting cloudflare as a business themselves at risk.

Right, so sales should not be involved in any way.

The alternative was for the customer to use their own IP addresses as cloudflare advised .

Again, sales should not have been involved in any way.

I’m not sure what you think ‘Business development’ teams do but I certainly wouldn’t be expecting engineering advice from them.

They are at least not identical to sales. They work with sales, but there’s at least some engineering component of the job. In this case if you were told you were meeting with the business development team, you’d expect that there would be talk about an engineering solution to the problem. Not just paying cloudflare more money.

I’m 100% on the side of CF.

100%?

We scheduled a call with their “Business Development” department. Turns out the meeting was with their Sales team,

…

So we scheduled another call, now with their “Trust and Safety” team. But it turns out, we were actually talking to Sales again.

This is the part that’s ridiculous to me. If CloudFlare thinks they’re violating TOS that’s fine. If they’re willing to let them continue with their business as-is as long as they pay more? That’s fine. But, scheduling calls with one group and it turns out it’s actually CloudFlare’s sales team on the phone, that’s ridiculous.

The difference is that medicine, as a concept, is useful.

Nijjar was wanted

As in, was a suspect? I assume he was never tried?

The US didn’t inform or take permission from Pakistan to send in SEAL Team 6 to kill him.

Yes, the US gets to throw their weight around because nobody wants to go to war against them. It doesn’t make it right.

The deflationary spiral:

• Falling prices discourage spending (or encourage waiting to spend)
• Companies get less income, so they cut costs, laying people off or forcing people to accept wage cuts
• Workers have less spending power
• Consumer spending falls, causing businesses to cut prices just to move existing inventory
• Repeat

Falling prices might sound nice in the abstract, but almost everybody has a job that depends on someone else’s spending. If their spending drops enough, your job is in jeopardy. If you lose your job, then it doesn’t really help you that prices have fallen.

How do you know? Apparently you’re not capable of reading the label!

So, despite the ingredients being listed, you’re still confused? Do you have a brain injury?

Barely any information on it? My guy, are you blind?

in the EU with “honey blend” you’d expect a blend of different types of honey

And, in the US you’d expect it to be something blended with honey. Different expectations, neither one of those expectations is unreasonable.

as it wouldn’t be allowed to be call honey unless it was pure honey

Right… and it’s not called honey, it’s called “Texas Honey Blend”. If it were honey it would be called “Honey”.

Having to decipher “made with real honey” to mean “its not real honey” is just fucking odd.

You don’t have to “decipher” that, you just have to look at the fact it’s a blend, not honey. The “made with real honey” is just additional confirmation that yes, it’s not pure honey.

Flip it over and look at the ingredients and its just a list? Why no percentages?

Because different food rules? Why percentages?

Gourmet stuff comes in all sorts of weird packaging

Gourmet stuff doesn’t come in bear-shaped plastic bottles.

No rules for food labelling is wild.

It would be, if it were the case. But, that’s definitely not the case here. It’s just different from the rules you’re used to. The core of your comment seems to be “this is different than what I’m used to, and I’m shocked!”

It isn’t that bad.

It says “made with real honey”, which is a pretty big clue that it isn’t real honey.

It says “texas honey blend”, again indicating that it’s honey blended with something.

And, as for “gourmet” it’s in a plastic bear-shaped container, it’s not a luxury item.

If people want to buy stuff made from high fructose corn syrup, shouldn’t they be allowed to do it? How much more obvious does it need to be that this isn’t pure honey?

I don’t know of any company that just runs mail servers. If you’re running your own mail server, you’re likely doing it on a small virtual instance. Adding web to that is easy. If you want a web frontend for email, there are plenty of options, although personally I just use IMAP.

The whole reason that Google exists today is that their PageRank algorithm was a great way to identify good content. At its basics, it worked by counting the number of pages that linked to a certain page. More incoming links meant the page was more useful. It didn’t matter how many relevant search terms you stuffed into your page. What matters was votes from other people, expressed in the form of linking to your page.

But, that algorithm failed for 2 reasons. One is that it became cheaper and easier to put up sites that linked to sites you wanted to promote. The other was that people stopped blogging on their own blogs, and stopped creating their own websites, and instead used walled gardens like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. That meant it was hard to measure links back to a site, and that it was easier to create fake links.

So, now it’s a constant war of SEO people vs. Google Search Quality people, and the Google people are losing. Sometimes there are brief victories for Google which result in good Reddit results appearing higher up. Then the SEO people catch up and either pollute Reddit and/or push Reddit links off the first page.

It would all be really depressing even if it weren’t for generative AI being used to pollute everything. With LLMs coming in and vomiting their content all over everything, we might be forced back to the bad old days of Yahoo where some individual human curated lists of good things and 99% of content was invisible.

I run my own mail server. It’s a pain in the ass and I don’t recommend it. But, trust isn’t really the issue, and the only certs I use are from Let’s Encrypt.

Yeah, but it’s bullshit and I’m calling it out, and I’ll continue to call it out, so stop it.