I'm surprised these 0℅ APR guaranteed for 15+ months credit cards are still on the market. Still, dozens; every single bank or cc company.
How can it be cashflow positive for them? They have to end up with +5% each year to justify it. Arguably at least +6-7% accounting for the administration cost.
Given the average APR on the actual balance then is around 23%, they have to estimate that +40% of customers fail to repay the balances on these in the intro 15month period and will be able to keep paying the 23% for at least they year.
Sounds like a big gamble to me, and something doesn't add up.
What am I missing?

Why does IMF mandate the devaluations?
Just to make the local labor cheaper for exports and INTL investors?
Peruvian Bull 🇵🇪🐂. Sharp monetary analysis/theory. nostr:npub159xcmvys8az0s5z8whjwr4senal5px6sjgmskvhyq2u0fkwpk2ds0zg2g6 by an enlightened economist 💜✌️
Yup, very well summarized despite being rather deep than shallow.
I loved the metaphor with the map about the conflation of the financial statistics and indexes for the actual real world economy. And how all the Keynesians and FED are focusing on managing these indexes while not realizing they are undercutting the markets' productivity with every single decision.
That's what I'm concerned about too. Especially with all this "ETF coming" hype.
For the personalized feeds, you could curate both content & algo for each.
1) memes:
- all memes, excluding nsfw
- ranked by engagement volume
2) (protocol) news
- few credible sources
- ranked by recency
3) Instagram/photos from friends
- excluding nsfw
4) "global" (not seen yet)
- all my follows, excluding the cache of already seen notes
- ranked by engagement
I will design something and will show to the man(jb55), I think is super interesting to allow you to see what you would like to see on your favorite client. Thank you nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4 💜
Would be cool if you can curate multiple of these personalized feeds, and be allowed to just swipe between these feeds.
Makes sense. I liked them for being a predictably a solid spot to work from; other smaller coffee shops could be a hit or miss in that sense.
But as you, I've seen declining quality of service and spaces from Starbucks as well in the US. For sure would recommend to try other SMBs by now.
Why do you frequent it then? Why are the alternatives worse?
I like the basic precaution idea of minimizing the possibility of getting my identity data easily triangulated across different services, and risking some costly exploits/hacks/persecution anytime in the future.
It's nice that people get to understand this more and more, and everyone using pseudonym helps to normalize it even further.
I have to admit, I thought it can't work, and it turned out surprisingly good for an MVP.
Still, valuable and pretty accessible 101 into UX.
The title is little paternalistic, clickbaity advice, but the lessons and visual explanations are pretty good and in describing the good and proven user behavior/interaction patterns.
Editor made a mistake here. They were supposed to say "fascist views".
Forever 21 data breach affects half a million people
Clothing giant Forever 21 said a data breach earlier in the year affects more than half a million individuals. A data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general said the fashion giant was hacke...
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/forever-21-data-breach-half-million/
Ridiculous. Why would they ever collect all these in the first place 🤦♂️
Of course, no one will bear any responsibility, and even if, the data can't be made private back.

⚡️ NOSTR ZINE ALERT! ⚡️
Last week I had an idea after attending a local punk / hardcore show. These are the people we need to get on Value for Value, Bitcoin and Nostr.
They’re mostly young, non-conformist (or at least, they have an ember of that in them that needs to be ignited). Also, the punk scene is already famously scrappy and DIY-centric (tape labels, zines etc.).
So, I made a Zine… (my first Zine ever). It’s about Value for Value and Bitcoin. I made it for me (and everyone) to hand out at your next music event or show. It’s printable on a standard piece of 8 x 11 paper.
Get this in the hands of local musicians! Let’s get more people on to the Value for Value and Bitcoin standard!!!
All you need is,
* a printer (b&w or colour)
* some scissors
* the ability to fold a piece of paper
All words and imagery are a remix of content from the nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg blog and nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc value4value.info website - thank you for the words and inspiration. And thanks to the Podfather nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7 for being a leader in this space!
https://i.imgur.com/wa8KKVe.mp4
Printable version:

How to fold it:
Nice work!
I understand, but I hope that they spent too much trust capital on covid and that the false flags and mass psychosis were easier before than eoupd be now.
Ironically, people got vaxxed against the psyops at least as much as against the covid.
Against who?
US was able to start their sidechain wars in last 20 years because they targeted midsize, mediocre - important emerging market countries. And US people didn't bother enough.
I don't see any possibility of kinetic war against BRICS block.
Economic war - sure, already underway. But bloodsheds with even more direct US involvement than UKR... Idk...
Government officers very rarely bear any costs(financial or other) for their decisions.


