H800s were made to match Biden's export restrictions. They were banned in late 2023 but a lot were sold to China. Having 2k is quite small compared to the bigger players like BABA (200k employees) and Tencent (100k employees). And those sure have access to the few H100s that were smuggled. But unlikely for a tiny company like High-Flyer/Deepseek (160 employees).
The services mentioned have more or less the same terms of use policies.
Can (Transfer)Wise lock your account? Yes
Can (Transfer)Wise keep your money for 6 months? Yes
Can (Transfer)Wise take money from you due to damages? Yes
Also, if you want to dig deeper, look up where/who is doing their customer support, who has access to your financial records, and who makes decisions to approve measures against you.
My personal experience with (Transfer)Wise - an intern with 6 months of experience (according to their LinkedIn) locked my personal account together with 4 business accounts. Why? Lack of training and a bad day at work/home.
I've seen plenty of stores selling stolen merchandise and pirated goods via PayPal so these terms of use make a lot of sense to me.
Any of these companies can lock you down including any bank. I am sure Wise made damages to many people. Paypal does this as core of their bussines strategy though. It happens to everyone. Especially if you can afford to pay (which they see).
My personal experience with both Paypal (we are forced to use) and Wise is that Paypal does is setup completely against users. There are many hidden fees, no guarantees and they just exploit their position. For example if you are based in country with different currency than the one you are in (somebody sends you USD and you use EUR) Paypal will automatically convert the money to EUR with their outrageous fee (basically taking 5% just on top of all other charges). There is no way to avoid this, you cant send money to USD account even if it’s in country you are based in.
Wise on the other hand saves people money. The fees are visible. Conversion rates are better than what most banks give you. Their services evolve (like you can get debit card now).
Paypal and Wise in my experience cannot be further from each other.
Wise simply does not work on many countries because of the way that they use to send the deposits, it is not a direct bank transfer, far from it, so it just doesn't work to receive money (speaking from Uruguay)
Not sure about the other payment apps, but few financial services consider it a violation to use them to receive payments for services that "depict or appear to depict nudity", "depict [...] illegal drug use", "depict [...] hatred or discrimination of protected groups or individuals".
If PayPal is actually going to enforce this, it will obviously have to remove Netflix, Steam, any book store from their platform, since they run terribly afoul of most of the above.
I think you might be right about the policies as written, but one can make a reasonable argument that behaviour in practice is relevant, and that one might generally like to promote diversity in the market place instead of one powerful incumbent.
So if Transferwise and PayPal are equally bad, you might still want to give your business to the smaller company?
> So if Transferwise and PayPal are equally bad, you might still want to give your business to the smaller company?
Actually, it is not that straightforward. One should check what kind of customer service is available, where are they located, who has access to the account and information and yada yada yada.
PayPal is a much safer choice than Wise in this aspect.
The issue started 5h47m ago for us.
The Stripe status page is unreliable like everyone's else status page.
The Stripe API returns "An unknown error occurred".
The only source of information has been Twitter but it is not very credible - 3 hours ago, Stripe tweeted that the issue has been fixed just to find an avalanche of counter replies.
The issue with expanding the screenshots on mobile needs to be addressed
I think there is room to charge more.
I would price it as annual subscription at $29-$59 per PC. The current price of $5 makes it look cheap and toy software. Sign executables and install ssl certificate on the website - you are missing on a large number of early adopters if you skip it.
A high price tag will keep users away.
Why paying for something without knowing if it fits to your daily workflow?
Asking for money after some period of usage is the right way.
Well, if I'm in an intersection or something, and there's a bicyclist coming from the other direction, I usually... dunno... look at them? They usually look back. Somehow makes it much easier to read the other person and see where they are going.
I do the same when I'm riding a bike near an intersection and there's a car coming in the opposite direction.
To me, the voice did not match the way characters were moving. It seemed very unnatural and not polished. Quite a big diff in sync between audio and video on my end.
I need to agree with you on this one, some of the NPCs throughout the story have terrible voice acting, but I can forgive it because they're a small part of the game. But the players' character is something that bothers me everything he speaks, it feels so emotionless, and often doesn't match the environment they're in.
Something I will never understand... your character never uses personal pronouns in reference to their self.
And I don't mean gendered pronouns, just pronouns like "I" and "We". It seems none of the characters do.
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Instead of: "I need to get lunch"
It's: "Need to get lunch."
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"We need to get in there, and we need to do it fast"
"Need to get in there. Need to do it fast"
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"I'm tryin' alright?"
"Tryin' alright?
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"I like chocolate"
"Like chocolate"
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It's even more grating when you add in the forced sounding "Gruff Guy" voice the male V uses. I don't know what kind of weird tough guy vibe they were going for but it's like nails on a chalkboard sometimes.
Might have something to do with the fact that the dialogue was apparently originally written in Polish, which usually omits subject pronouns (they can be inferred from the verb form). If the translator was Polish, they might have carried that over to English.
I heard something like this, but I figured with a 100 million dollar budget and an A-list actor, surely they had editors who would catch an error made through out the entire game, right?
I wanted to believe it was a poor stylistic choice to go with the "gruff upstart" image, but yeah I guess it really just might be basic translation issues...
Playing the game in Polish feels weird... as if the dialogue was originally written in English and then hastily translated. It's nowhere close to the first-class feeling of Polish version of TW3.
That seems odd, because I saw a marketing video where they showed the band Refused working with an English language coach whose job it was to a) go over the lyrics and b) the singer's pronunciation/enunciation to make that in-game band that Refused is playing seem more of an authentically American band instead of a bunch of Swedish dudes.
Leaving the personal pronoun out indicates more humility, and it could also indicate dissociation, like lying. It's ambiguous and/or contextual, though.
Something is definitely off with the voice acting in Vs' (male) voice, I can't quite put a finger on it, but most of the responses just don't match with the conversation that's going on.
