A day after praising Chase for having spend tens of billions of dollars to be able to put an in-app banner to First Republic clients I am reminded that many U.S. banks believe languages spoken in the world are English and Other.
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SEC Takes Legal Action Against Binance Exchange
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If you also enjoy the scent of warm buttered justice you can read the rest: https://
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Legal Compliance and Corporate Risk: Why Humor Matters
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This is why Legal has no sense of humor, by the way. You say “I joked with a colleague”, the lawsuit will phrase that as “you admitted”, potato potatoh. (I do not in fact think their Chief Compliance Officer was joking, not in the usual sense of the word anyway.)
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SEC’s Legal Writing on Tech Regulation Sparks Industry Discussion
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I do not want to break into the strategic popcorn reserve prematurely but the SEC’s legal writing is sometimes hilarious and devastating.
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Gig Economy Workers Access Instant Payment Solutions Today
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Think like “Paycheck from a local McDonalds franchisee for $434? You want to wait 4 days or pay $2 and get it today?” (Indicative numbers here.)
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Capitalism and AI: Monetizing Previously Free Access
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In part this is letting customers buy access to something that is frequently offered as a courtesy, which is a mode of capitalism that frequently discomfits at least some people.
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Credit Products and Regulatory APR Disclosure Challenges
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It is fundamentally a credit decision, right? And fundamentally a credit product, right? But presumably it is not described as that, because I can’t imagine any bank wants to calculate that APR in a conversation with e.g. regulators.
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Google’s Multi-Year AI Music Strategy Over Simple Automation
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I considered back in the day having a 1-800 number ring a Twilio app to tell someone “Yep, you called us. Why did you do that? Send an email.”, but some residual salaryman sense of appropriateness thought that uncouth, so now G is doing a multi-year Gaga and Beyoncé duet.
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Google’s 200+ Calls: Data Scraping and Business Privacy Concerns
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Google has now called me more than 200 times, having scraped my business number from public filings, asking to verify it so that they can expose it in search results / verify my Google Local listing. This is more than all other sources of calls. Combined.
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Using LLMs to Boilerplate Ruby Test Cases Faster
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(Particularly helpful for me since I always have to lookup an old project for “How does one structure ruby test cases with mocha again?” Literally faster to have the LLM boilerplate it than it is to copy/paste and modify.)