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New comment by chrncirurp in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

chrncirurp — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:11:33 +0000

> Why bring up Taiwan and China? This feels incredibly cherry picked?

It’s because many times the obvious intuition is incorrect

He could’ve compared Singapore and China too

chrncirurp — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:09:09 +0000

> You don't need to join a union to push back against unethical feature requests.

If you push back against unethical feature requests:

No union: you get fired

Union: you still get fired

chrncirurp — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:36:20 +0000

> I think the point is that at small scale a single accident poses a risk of ruin to your small operations.

At big scale, a single big accident poses a risk to ruin your big operations.

chrncirurp — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:32:29 +0000

> That doesn't sound like a one-trillion-dollar company is supposed to operate, does it?

It’s not a one trillion dollar company anymore.

Anthropic won enterprise and Gemini is taking ChatGPTs consumer subscriptions month over month.

Morale at OAI is all time low right now.

chrncirurp — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:05:11 +0000

> No well-paid workers (or UBI), no consumer economy. Their call.

Maybe you’re right.

Maybe you’re wrong.

No point wasting money on UBI before it’s a problem. Let’s wait and see if UBI is actually required.

That is, do people actually protest and vote. Probably not.