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NatWest Direct Access API

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:29:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bankofapis.com/solutions/direct-access

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640225

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New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:16:11 +0000

He can do whatever he wants, as long as he's not helping enemies of America.

Ok let me rephrase my comment:

Maybeeeeeeee Musk shouldn't be helping America's enemies?

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:13:33 +0000

>> You can sell ads without targeting.

> You can, but that's not really what Google is selling anymore.

Wrong again. Google's thing is search ads. Those target keywords, not user data. User data is a side-gig for Google, mostly thru youtube, maps, and gmail.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:16:50 +0000

No, it's not semantics, and it shows that you have no clue what you're talking about.

You can sell ads without targeting. In fact you can even sell ads without users.

Source: I worked years buying and selling online ads.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Forget spaceships; I just want my music"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:10:40 +0000

If it's not available for download, it's not something I would be interested in :-) I understand that people are different.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:06:57 +0000

Maybeeeeeeee Musk shouldn't be conducting personal foreign policy?

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:54:56 +0000

The advertisers don't pay for google storing my data. The advertisers pay for ads displayed and ads clicked. How google does that is an implementation detail.

Google does that by storing my data, many kinds of my data. You making the distinction between data that "the user knows and understands" versus data that "is obscure to the user but advertisers care about" is a matter of marketing, in that as the former is easier to charge the user for.

My point is that the argument of "you're not paying for storing data X therefore fuck you" is a silly one, because you're also not paying for storing data Y, and neither are the advertisers.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:26:09 +0000

> but you're not paying Google to host your data.

Funny, because they never seen to have problems hosting the advertising/surveillance data they collect on me. They never went "sorry we can't track you any more for free, will you type in you card number so we can keep surveilling you?"

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Taco Bell Programming"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:29:24 +0000

My take-away is that you should use reliable tools, and as few as possible. If you read it like that then the reason to not do what you said is that `find` and `xargs` are more reliable than what I realistically be able to achieve with ifs and cats.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Tesla FSD Timeline"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:49:04 +0000

"We can do this now" is not an optimistic timeline, it's a lie.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Tesla FSD Timeline"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:42:19 +0000

> extremely confident

There's also "this is quite deep" - it's usually not.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Forget spaceships; I just want my music"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:09:47 +0000

> Download the MP3 from where?

My guy, this has been solved for about 25 years.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:07:15 +0000

> I will try this out as a tool to manage my private tasks.

I'd like to hear more. Do you think that full-fledged issue tracker is a benefit, even if you're not working with other people?

My intuition is that if you have multiple tasks in a project, and you're the only one working on them, a simple list should be enough?

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:04:53 +0000

Django ;-)

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Forget spaceships; I just want my music"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:09:53 +0000

My kid is only 2 years old, but when he can understand the concept I will be sure to teach him that he doesn't have an arbitrarily large choice, he can only choose from within the options we have available.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Forget spaceships; I just want my music"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:53:56 +0000

- Download mp3

- Play on VLC.

Not complicated.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "How Britain Put One of the Best Health Care Systems on Life Support"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:21:17 +0000

They're both bad in different ways. The right only understands one thing: spend less. The left only understands one thing: spend more.

A country is a system too complex to make decisions top-bottom like this.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "How Britain Put One of the Best Health Care Systems on Life Support"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:08:10 +0000

Getting an appointment with the NHS to pull a wisdom tooth, right now, takes between 6 and 9 months.

I had never used the term "socialized healthcare" unironically before, but now it's starting to sound like there's some truth to it.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:55:57 +0000

> But they historically had several feed systems [1] [2] which were fully under their control.

I don't think Google's fear is who's in control of any one particular RSS. I think Google's fear is what if people realize that, for the purposes of subscribing to updates from a source, RSS is objectively better than Google. They're afraid of losing the mindshare of being the unquestionably better option for everything.

New comment by sertbdfgbnfgsd in "Why I created Banner Blog"

sertbdfgbnfgsd — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:34:02 +0000

Don't worry, your website won't be on the first page.

You sound like those guys who don't go to the gym because they're afraid of becoming huge and muscular. Don't worry, it won't happen by accident.