Does anybody if would be possible to link NFC tags with Spotify links THAT AUTO-PLAY? It’s the latter which I‘m struggling with. Normal Spotify links still require to tap play on the device, correct?
This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I am currently preparing for a workshop with children in which I want to let them “draw” their own website/web-apps. So far I did not plan to let them create their own fonts, as I did not know how to, but now I know. Thanks to you!
Ps: if you have any other ideas how to make such a workshop for children more exciting, please let me know! For instance, I wanted to let them create paper prototypes and then turn them into working click dummies so to cross the bridge between analogue and digital in way that feels natural to kids. Btw, by “kids” I refer to children at the age of 8-10 years old.
Absolutely not, at least if you don’t think in terms of personal fame but impact you have on the people you live with. It’s something that becomes super apparent when you have kids. You pass on so much and that will live on forever, in a million remixes. I love that idea as it gives a lot of meaning and purpose even on the small little moments and things in life.
Apparently, the problem is not that the money would be gone but that it’s just somewhere else because only BaaS middleman Synapse has access to the actual reconciliation how these funds distribute across individual fintech end users. According to the article, this is because of „very large bulk transfers“ which did not identify ultimate creditors. I am still puzzled how that can be. If end users top up their digital wallets, they typically send money by means of a real bank transfer to a client money account at a real bank. So at least at this initial point in time it was clear to the underlying banks who owned the money. Apparently, end users then spent money through user-facing fintech apps (I.e., „Yotta“) which is where the problem must have started as reconciliation of funds sat with Synapse only but not with the underlying banks…?
It would be great if someone with more background could comment to clarify as this case is potentially relevant to many other fintech / banking-as-a-service offerings out there.
Ok so as I understand it the flow was something like:
1. Individuals deposited to Yotta
2. Yotta sent deposited funds to Evolve Bank via Synapse
3. Evolve Bank received "lump" deposits with no record of whose money was whose
So somewhere between Yotta and Evolve Bank the money was pooled and records of whose money was whose was not forwarded. (Note that the FDIC now requires that the receiving back keep a record of whose money they're receiving because of this case.)
Synapse went bankrupt. Supposedly Synapse's estate can figure out where everyone's money went, but they have no money to hire an auditor. Meanwhile Evolve Bank says they didn't receive all of the funds so there's something like 90 million that is "lost".
Finally, the FDIC ruled that individuals had business relationships with Yotta, and those business relationships are not insured by FDIC, so any recovery of funds from Yotta would need to be pursued in Civil Court.
No criminal charges have been filed yet because it's not yet clear where the money went or who could have stolen it. The Madoff case didn't have this element of mystery because there weren't multiple layers of intermediaries to muddle things, and because the case was blown open directly by Madoff's confession.
Law enforcement is eventually going to figure out the answers to these questions, since they are knowable if you dig deep enough; it's just that this takes time. And then I would bet there will be criminal charges.
I don't have more context than what's in the article but what it sounds like is they've lost access to the database that says $2000 from this pile of $10MM belong to John Doe, because the company that hired the devs who understood this stuff is bankrupt, and the involved parties can't seem to reach an arrangement to bring in a cleanup crew. I don't think any money is actually missing.
Ultimately a modern bank is just a software system pushing around the proverbial proto between some databases and other financial software systems.
Yes but some of those databases are highly regulated and some are not, and the distinction between those (and in some cases deceptive advertising around it) is the crux of the issue here
I do get the point that following news constantly all day long is a bit like doom scrolling and doesn’t add much to a good life. However, I would not go as far as saying „complete waste of time“. It is Saturday morning and I just read a long interview with Wladimir Kara-Mursa, one of the Russian opposition politicians who was recently released from prison as part of a prisoner exchange. In the interview, Kara-Mursa talks a lot about his time in Russian jails, Putin‘s system, and being a opposition politician in Russia. Does it to relate my everyday normal life here in Germany? Well of course it does not at first glance. But at second and third glance it does and most importantly it helps me appreciate what I consider my normal everyday life in a democracy and it informs my decision making when it comes to the upcoming elections and the way different parties position themselves towards Russia and the war in Ukraine.
That being said, I don’t think it makes much sense to follow any type of news all the time all day long, but I would really miss it if it was no longer available as it helps me put things / my life into context and make more informed decisions at the ballot box. And sure I am willing to pay for that type of journalism.
I have been driving an ID.4 for almost three years by now. I consider much of what others criticize here in terms of UI, touch-sensitive buttons etc. to be „not great“ either but it did work for me. I didn’t really care to be honest.
What did not work for me was the re-charging experience on longer trips. I do not want to „subscribe“ to anything just to recharge my car in a reasonable amount of time. But even with a hypercharger it still takes way too long and without the „right“ subscription you feel like they steal your money from you. This is the worst from my POV when it comes to EVs, this is where they felt like inferior technology and business model to me as a consumer. Guess what, even though I was always a fan of EVs and hybrids (even drove three different models of Toyota Prius prior to my ID.4) my next car will be a traditional one (Hyundai Tucson to be precise).
3 bullets on „what I‘ve learned today“, followed by 3 bullets on „what I will do next“.
This makes sense to me because a) content-wise I consider learning / making sense of what I experience in my life to be both intellectually and emotionally interesting and b) text-length-wise 6 bullets force you to really boil things down to the core
Have a look at reforge. I once participated in their course on retention and really liked it. Most of the courses are at the intersection of product/engineering/marketing, a good interdisciplinary mix I believe. However, every cohort and course is different and I also experienced a not-so-good one as well.
An aggregator that aggregates other aggregators? Actually it’s even more complex, as many of the established aggregators already collaborate with each other behind the scenes.
Very meta-meta-ish. Exciting, but also a lot of dependencies. Good luck!
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