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New comment by blasphemers in "OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’"

blasphemers — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:14:42 +0000

Wasn't Bernie saying the government should confiscate half of OpenAI and Anthropic. This seems like sama is just trying to get ahead of it.

New comment by blasphemers in "PyCon US 2026: Why we're asking you to think about your hotel reservation"

blasphemers — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:33:23 +0000

Yea, I've seen this a few times now on here where people are acting like ICE is going to arrest them for being here legally for a conference.

New comment by blasphemers in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

blasphemers — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:49:42 +0000

Visa/MasterCard take like 0.3% the rest of the interchange fee goes to the issuing and acquiring banks.

New comment by blasphemers in "Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language""

blasphemers — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:19:58 +0000

Ruby is strongly typed

New comment by blasphemers in "Ruby is not a serious programming language"

blasphemers — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:05:47 +0000

I feel like there used to be a time when wired magazine was worth reading, but I can't even remember when that was at this point.

New comment by blasphemers in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

blasphemers — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:58:42 +0000

GitHub hasn't been moved onto azure yet, they just announced it's their goal to move over in 2026

New comment by blasphemers in "Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape"

blasphemers — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:54:20 +0000

Is the cost of a dining room socialized if a restaurant does take out? It's a business cost that was from it's inception sold as a way to increase potential customer base and reduce risk, which is still a valid and correct way of looking at it considering bounced checks don't get paid out to merchants and cash gets skimmed.

New comment by blasphemers in "Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape"

blasphemers — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:10:59 +0000

What payment provider is allowing payments without accessing the customers current funds? With a CC, you can charge $1000 with only $100 in your bank account. That is not something you can do with ACH, check, cash, etc. Pay Now Pay Later providers like Affirm would also allow this, but I'm not sure what that looks like from a merchant POV

New comment by blasphemers in "Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape"

blasphemers — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:19:34 +0000

Visa's fee in the US is also only 0.3%. Most of the interchange fee goes to the issuing bank and is used for cardholder rewards/benefits.

New comment by blasphemers in "Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape"

blasphemers — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:31:46 +0000

Except the networks are not forcing their morals onto anyone, they are not payment processors.

New comment by blasphemers in "Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape"

blasphemers — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:29:00 +0000

Visa/MasterCard are essentially a network of banks, they only get a small percentage of the interchange rate. Most of it goes to the issuing bank which they use for rewards.

This line of thinking also ignores an important aspect of credit cards that benefit the merchant. 2-2.5% is not that much when it means you can sell to people without worrying about if they can pay for it. When that customer ultimately doesn't pay their CC bill(look at how high CC debt is), the issuing bank still needs to pay the merchant.

New comment by blasphemers in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

blasphemers — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:41:21 +0000

Besides a complete stranglehold on labor markets in a number of industries where the government is required to use union labor for infrastructure projects and they limit the number of laborers to drive up price. Or how about the Plumbers union that forced the city of Chicago to continue installing lead pipes until the federal government had to force them to stop. Beyond that, the power to promote good workers or make necessary changes across the org. For example, why doesn't Chicago have any driver-less trains and a conductor shortage? The unions are preventing both.

New comment by blasphemers in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

blasphemers — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:27:43 +0000

Russia defeated the Nazis, so everything they do and have done from that point is good right?

New comment by blasphemers in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

blasphemers — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:57:24 +0000

The thing holding back unions in the U.S is the unions themselves and the laws around them. Once a union forms, they have entirely too much power.

New comment by blasphemers in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

blasphemers — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:24:16 +0000

That's not the case at all. His blog is his personal blog, not 37Signals, and he has never said employees were not allowed to share political opinions outside of work.

New comment by blasphemers in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

blasphemers — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:16:42 +0000

Isn't rubygems distributed as part of Ruby

New comment by blasphemers in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

blasphemers — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:03:44 +0000

He was brought back for the last RailsConf since DHH started RailsWorld after he was removed as a speaker for previous conferences.

New comment by blasphemers in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

blasphemers — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:29:09 +0000

The us government is heavily involved in healthcare, so that's a terrible example.

New comment by blasphemers in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

blasphemers — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:21:21 +0000

The IRS was literally caught targeting conservatives less than a decade ago.

New comment by blasphemers in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

blasphemers — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:31:23 +0000

Part of Satya reorg in 2018 moved windows into a weird leadership structure where it was part of bing iirc. I think they recently finally fixed that org mistake and hopefully they quickly push an improved windows 12.