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I love this! My one request that would enable me to recommend this to my musician friends is an export feature, along with a promise of adequate notice before a shutdown of the app…

> Plaid would retain access to their credentials and use them to mine, aggregate and then sell users’ financial transaction data to third parties (including to the fintech apps tha…

(IANAL either) I understand and agree that part of the issue is that they, allegedly, underhandedly collected this data. My question is focused around the potential selling of that…

Thank you for the response — I know you're likely very restricted in what you can say here, but: You just settled a claim that you sold customer transaction histories, and from the…

The link mentions third party firms: > Plaid has settled a $58 million class action lawsuit over claims that the fintech firm passed on personal banking data to third party firms w…

I actually mentioned in a thread about Plaid in 2018 that they sold transaction history to third parties, and the cofounder came onto HN to explicitly deny that [1]. I actually fel…

> certain illegal acts (like breaking into certain websites, illegally obtaining documents, etc.) should be legal if done for the purpose of proper journalism This isn't the case i…

> If a stranger mentions being into crypto but then does not actually seem to know much about it, consider that they may simply be fishing for a specific type of victim. Or, more l…

In one of the biggest heists ever (still unsolved) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [1], alarms went off before the theft occurred. Interesting to hear this being validated a…

This is quite a bit of misinformation. From the article: > The account has also shown a preference for cultural conservatives in its “likes”, which these include ... Roger Scruton,…

Yes, and that being OK is the magic of how emotions work! That's the exact valid point being ignored. If you don't have a better response to a catastrophic nuclear disaster than "w…

I agree with you that your comment wasn't condescending like the above commenter suggested, but disagree about modern reactor designs. They'll always carry this risk. Sure, reactor…

I think that's exactly what the above commenter was saying in: "European nuclear advocates really don’t have a satisfactory political response to Chernobyl and Fukushima." If a cou…

I think degrees are remaining a requirement because a hiring manager and recruiter at a large company are risk averse. There's an old saying: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.…

Parent comment was responding to a comment that used the term "male." Responding with equivalent phrasing and saying "female" in that context makes a lot more sense.

It's fair to point out because people not in finance colloquially think of "bank president" as leader, not as "not leader, and not even actual president of the whole bank." As for …

> Dogecoin branded as Ponzi by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneaopolis. Important to note that this is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (m…

This is true, and it wouldn't suggest anything is amiss. In the US for example, there's a lot of factors in increasing labor supply: (1) From 1955 to today, women have gone from 36…

As someone quite into fashion (and worked in the space before), this is a very astute comment! Fashion trends in the past few years have often progressed increasingly into a level …

> Jeff Bezos wants to pay the least for the most amount of work, and the workers want the most money for the least amount of work. It sounds like both parties should meet themselve…

Good point! There's an old quote: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Large companies tend to be more risk-averse, so if there are two companies you can use for a service — $Pr…

America is certainly the country with the most opportunity for the most people. A shift that has occurred from the 1950s to present is that there is less of a guarantee of an upper…