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Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by ceejayoz »

anonymouse008 wrote: post #143
kgraves wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how are mobile notifications on the web going for iOS?

Said it in another thread -- SMS's are a tangibly better user experience. You get to say stop in the moment, instead of searching through opaque settings... you can set DND to certain numbers for certain times... The whole ecosystem is there and very few are playing with it.

Any iOS notification permits you to "say stop in the moment" - you just swipe on the notification and select "Manage". The options are pretty well thought-out.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by wyager »

edwinwee wrote: post #104
tracedddd wrote: post #80

I really despise this trend of uploading your ID and a selfie for verification. I know it makes sense in some legal frameworks, but beyond that I find it invasive and risky (and rude.)

It’s not really a “trend”—if you think about it, ID verification is already required when checking into hotels, buying alcohol, or when visiting a bank teller. As more commerce moves online, Stripe Identity was built to significantly reduce the number of organizations and humans that would touch your ID—in a faster, secure way that’s hosted by Stripe ( https://support.stripe.com/questions/common-questions-about-... )…

One of the nice things about the internet is/was that it requires less bullshit and red tape than many real-life interactions. The internet becoming as bureaucratic and oppressive as, say, international travel, is absolutely a trend - and a very harmful one.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by floatingatoll »

4b11b4 wrote: post #108
gruez wrote: post #99

The landing page contains logos for clubhouse, discord, and shippo, which are presumably companies use the service. Does anyone find those usages to be unnecessarily intrusive? Maybe it's just me, but a chat app or shipping site asking me for a drivers license scan + selfie would make me never want to use the service again. It's appalling how this sort of stuff is getting normalized, eg. google asking for id scans fo…

What's the difference between filling out your address in text versus scanning? Is your face not on the internet yet? Just curious what specifically would make you never want to use it?

Scanning lets you audit for photoshopping and sets a vastly higher bar for counterfeiting. (For example, Blizzard’s name change process requires you to cover irrelevant areas of your ID with actual paper, because no digital editing permitted.)

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27503674

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by [deleted] »

IgorPartola wrote: post #115
marvin wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not familiar with Stripe's situation, but there are non-public markets available for this kind of stock sale. You just can't buy from them unless you're already rich. I'd guess that long-term employees do have an amount of flexibility in that regard.

Can you form a mutual fund/ETF that invests into those kind of companies via the non-public markets and then sell shares publicly for the fund?

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Post by tootie »

gruez wrote: post #99

The landing page contains logos for clubhouse, discord, and shippo, which are presumably companies use the service. Does anyone find those usages to be unnecessarily intrusive? Maybe it's just me, but a chat app or shipping site asking me for a drivers license scan + selfie would make me never want to use the service again. It's appalling how this sort of stuff is getting normalized, eg. google asking for id scans fo…

I'd imagine it's for creators/sellers moreso than buyers/customers.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by client4 »

I've been waiting for a service like this. I suspect we're on the precipice of a new Internet split, where one can be accessed with identity and the other is anonymous as we know it now. In some arenas, like comment sections, I welcome removing anonymity [1]. In other arenas I wonder if it will be used to divide populations online in some futuristic dystopian manner. For instance, only citizens of the United States with Good Credit and Good Social Score are allowed to read the Financial Times.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

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