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saarons

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About saarons

Co-Founder/CTO at Modern Treasury (https://www.moderntreasury.com/)

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    If anyone remembers gToons from Cartoon Orbit there's also this: https://gtoons.app

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    Comment #36145756

    CTO of Modern Treasury here. We're very happy with the quality of the client libraries being generated by Stainless. It also integrates nicely into our workflow, we've got the rele…

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    Comment #32502897

    Big fans of Vanta over here. Compared to everything else in the market, they were clearly the furthest ahead for our SOC2 needs.

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    It was also done in The Animatrix [1]. In order to defeat the robot uprising, the world agrees to block out the sun and starve the robots of solar power. It also backfires on them.…

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    Comment #22208994

    I'm sure everyone's setup is different but I did this for about 8 years and had to stop recently due to a variety of problems. The first being the lack of support for group messagi…

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    Comment #21941063

    Modern Treasury (YC S18) | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Full-time | ONSITE We're looking for Full-Stack Engineers to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will build …

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    Comment #21380207

    On the consumer banking side I would agree with you, not many individuals have complex enough banking needs where programmatic access would be a value-add. However if you look at b…

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    Comment #20871675

    Modern Treasury (YC S18) | Fullstack Engineer | San Francisco |ONSITE | Full-Time | https://www.moderntreasury.com Modern Treasury is looking for a Fullstack Engineer to help us au…

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    Comment #20824779

    We've heard (unofficially) the cap will be raised over time.

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    Comment #20824762

    On the bank side, one of the main providers offering RTP payments to businesses right now is JPMorgan Chase. If you have a commercial account with them, you can originate RTP payme…

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    Comment #20822807

    Historically Americans have been wary of handing out their bank account information because that's all the information needed for a bad actor to issue an ACH debit and pull money f…

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    Comment #20822691

    "because they can" is probably the best answer. Before RTP, which is still rolling out, wire tranfers were the only way to do same-day, non-reversible, high-value payments. On occa…

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    Comment #20822612

    CTO of Modern Treasury here. Banks are actually starting to setup a new payment system between themselves called Real-Time Payments (RTP) which has a lot of the same benefits as wi…

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    Totally agree on the interest use case, that's exactly where precision beyond 2 decimal places is needed. For payments specifically it makes sense to keep it at 2 because all the p…

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    Comment #20575897

    CTO of Modern Treasury here, like the other replies said it's much safer to use integers so we can bypass all the complexity (and gotchas) of floating point.

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    Comment #15096032

    The lack of acks is why most companies receiving money through ACH will "season" the transactions for a set amount of time. Most of the returns occur in the first 3 business days s…

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    I love these types of videos that dive into the nitty-gritty of how certain games work. I wish the author would have explained more why there is no position that the coin spawner w…