dgivney
Lets break this done.
> global state,
PHP is stateless.
> poor encapsulation,
Encapsulation in PHP is mostly consistent with Java.
> inconsistent APIs,
PHP is written in C and an original design decision by those C programmers was to make the APIs consistent with libc.
> and difficult-to-enforce discipline.
Its very easy to enforce. All modern projects would run tools like Pint, Phpcs & Phpcbf to enforce their code standards and preferred style in their CI Pipeline.
1. When you say 'Our Partners' invest the money - who are they? Are they US entities and/or how often are you and your partners audited? Will you and your partners make those audits public? I think that would be a selling point over the other stable coins.
2. You say that I can _always_ redeem my $1 Glo Dollar for $1 USD again. But if you're buying US Treasuries - only a few can redeem it when they want no? Others will have to wait for the bond to mature to get their money out. What percentage of reserves are kept in cash vs assets?
3. You don't mention how much basic income my $1 USD in your example above will generate. How much _good_ can I expect to generate with my $1?
4. Swapping $1 USD for a unit share of some US Treasuries seems like a simple transaction that would get played out millions of times everyday. Where does the crypto play fit into this?
> Brale initially retains 100% of the earnings on the first $2M of assets backing the Glo Dollar.
While trying to find these answers I noticed this statement at the bottom of your website. That's quite murky and I think you should mention that up front.
https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-e...
and historically aggregated: https://www.aer.gov.au/wholesale-markets/wholesale-statistic...
It's worth noting that Binance operates BUSD, a stable coin pegged to USD which according to their website saw a 25% reduction in net asset reserves between Nov 2022 to Dec 2022 (https://www.binance.com/en/busd) - if that trend has continued that may be why they need a short-term supply of USD.
He cashed out $300M at Series B and took a $1B loan from FTX. So yeah, ~10% went to Lambos and the rest of the $10B to his gambling habit.
"Only you and the search engines should know the key.. so obviously, we want you to host it in plain text, in the root directory."
https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/17/1087245041025....
> You could use these savings to invest in stock markets, day trade with them, and - hopefully - make a profit.
I wouldn't recommend his advice..
Choose your stack and beanstalk deploys to a load balanced, autoscaling group in your VPC. You can attach a RDS when you choose your stack. And all resources can be managed separately or through CloudFormation. Beanstalk also supports container deployments.
From the website > "You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. At the same time, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time. There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk - you pay only for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications."
I noticed this in China, a densely populated mostly right-sided country. Whenever a British engineering firm would install escalators they would set the direction opposite to the flow of human traffic. You would walk up to it on the path on the right side and be forced to cross the path of oncoming people to use the escalator on the left before having to cross over again once at the top.
Kudos to Dave for a great read, he's inspired me to dust off my own EeePC!..
Congratulations on the launch - I just had some thoughts that I wanted to pass on.
I signed up with a disposal email. Once I was logged in, the process seemed very intuitive and straight forward. However my experience was that this is something that really should have been a free calculator accessible on your website and not something that should require the hassle of signup & email verification. In fact, it took longer to register an account than my total session time using the product.
Once I had generated a plan, I clicked on the logo at the top and I was taken back to the public website and had to login again. On login, all my changes had been reset to the default which made me wonder why have an account in the first place?
Your mission sounds noble and I wish you well on its execution. I also liked your name and branding. It's a product I would trust in that regard.
I was thinking about this and when you look at the top keyword searches on Google, it's dominated by people searching brands each year, so I think Google is just naturally optimised for this. I think any Search Engine designed for the masses would probably have to behave like this too. https://www.siegemedia.com/seo/most-popular-keywords
I agree, I think the early web was used more for general information rather than specific brand information (and was more useful for people like myself). I'm not sure what is needed to get more results such as university papers or personal web-sites as I think that people use the internet differently now and that the link structure reflects that.
It's interesting that Google isn't used to search for people anymore (I couldn't see any people in the recent top 100 keyword search data).