That is exactly what you never want to do under protectionist policies. Domestic producers are shielded from Chinese competitors. This means they are under less pressure to reduce prices and innovate.

I wouldn't read too much into the national security justification. It's a political argument to an economic policy.

> I wouldn't read too much into the national security justification. It's a political argument to an economic policy.

Have you seen what's been happening in Ukraine? OTC drones are critical military equipment now.

Not having a domestic drone industry is like not having a domestic rifle industry, you cannot have an infantry without it.

If this is about military capability, why ban all foreign manufacturers, including proven innovators like Helsing and Baykar? Instead of blanket bans, targeted contracts could leverage Ukraine tested designs while building domestic capacity.

Innovation happens under competitive pressure. The US just created a domestic vacuum.

The national security justification is that we need expertise building/designing drones. We won't get that if we allow China to out-compete domestic manufacturers.

I started learning the guitar years ago, but lost motivation once I got into university. Maybe I'll give it another shot and use this as a refresher on the theory!

Anyway, one small nitpick on the website: When on German language the word "FUNKTIONSHIGHLIGHTS" overflows on mobile. I would replace it with "WICHTIGSTE FUNKTIONEN" as that is two words.

Good luck, the website and App look nice!

Thanks for the feedback and I hope the app will be useful to you!

Out of curiosity, what made you pivot from a web/translation editor to recovering stripe payments? Was it primarily because of the teams prior experience in payment recovery or something else?

Yeah, we're all coming from a FinTech background so it was a better fit for us

As much as I like SEPA it is primarily for bank transfers.

The way that payments work through SEPA is that the merchant pulls the money from your account. Legally they require a "mandate" - this can be as little as a handwritten signature on a document.

Security is essentially provided by easy reversal and strong penalties for abuse.

As opposed to blockchain where reversal depends on the grace of the merchant.

I've often wondered whether payments providers entering the blockchain space (like Visa/Mastercard) would act as trusted intermediaries for dispute resolution. Kind of a 2-of-3 multisig to disperse the funds in escrow.

One of the most common examples of smart contacts is a reversible transaction with dispute resolution by a third-party.

Infact you could implement exactly what you suggest in a similar way.

I'm sorry but I'm big into crypto and have never seen a contract like that deployed in the wild.

And I actually use crypto for payments more than most people. I used some just last week to buy a replica rolex from a chinese dealer because they gave a better price than credit cards.

You've never staked a token? Every single major chain and most exchanges have staking contracts deployed which are essentially the same thing (you can't access your tokens until an oracle says so, or you cancel out).

Vibe coding by itself isn't a problem.

The problem is vibe coding AND negligence. Good software practices like testing, code review, documentation are bound to catch the LLM-isms.

No offense on the author, the project specifically calls out that it's a "young" project in the footer, so I personally wouldn't expect it to be quite up to spec yet.

When you look at the market with a zero-sum perspective it becomes apparent that both active and passive investors earn average market returns - collectively they by definition are the market.

However, active investors have higher trading fees/management costs, so they are bound to perform at least slightly worse on average. It's just mathematics.

I am completely at a loss for words here.

That's a common pattern in trading strategies with negative skews or tail risks. Even large hedge funds, like LTCM, can fall into this same pitfall.

For anyone interested, I can recommend the book "Systematic Trading" by Robert Carver. You don't have to be into algorithmic trading, the sections on risk management and positive vs negative skews are already worth the read.

Interesting question, here are my few cents.

Exports are more "expensive" for countries with reserve currency status. This is a problem for countries that export many primary and "low-tech" secondary sector products. Countries that export many "high-tech" secondary sector products can usually still thrive.

This leaves us with the usual suspects: US, China, Germany (-> EU) and Japan.

I get it that "click here" is not descriptive, but so is simply linking "Amaya". What is it? A person? A fruit?

People don't read websites linearly, in the best case they skim read all the buttons and links. I personally would include the verb as it gives important context and is a clearer CTA for the "skimmers".

Amaya is W3C's... "Download Amaya"!

From an economic perspective it requires LLMs and humans to have comparable outputs. That's not possible in all domains - at least in the near future.