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Re:Clerky Is Joining Stripe on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:13PM (#49473575)
Stripe buying founder relationships at incorporation… smart move I guess?
This is the way
Re:To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:30AM (#49253736)
Who eats the loss if home values fall before the resale restriction lifts?
AI-referred traffic usually shows up as “direct” in analytics, so a claim like this is hard to verify without real attribution instrumentation…
Isn’t that what they said about every bubble?
Meetup users were sunk-cost locked in. Airtable’s buyers already have easy alternatives… so that price-hike playbook carries real churn risk imo.
Re:Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:10PM (#49140697)
The only communities I still actively follow are football/soccer related. Not much slop there… yet.
Just goes to show how bad the general advice you get from internet strangers really is…
I don’t understand. If you’re home more, you’re already likely to pay more in utilities. But now landlords want to charge more for “wear”? Sounds like greed to me.
Same playbook used by BNPL and neobanks…
Wait - is this finally crypto’s mass adoption event we’ve all been waiting for?
Re:Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:04PM (#49044120)
Smart move, I imagine OpenRouter’s business model is very appealing to Stripe.
Re:Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:03PM (#49044114)
Wow. That sounds horrendous. Sounds like an AI was deployed and there’s no human to take accountability. Time to find an alternative I guess…
Sounds like Google is the only honest company in the market. Cash burn alone doesn’t mean much, it’s free cash flow vs return on invested capital that’s the real signal imo.