Jonathon Cole
300 posts
Inspection on a $4M new construction in Colorado. Anyone know where this is? Builder? 👀
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Credit cards have built-in chargeback protections, you can dispute a charge up to 6 months later and the card network mediates. ACH transfers are essentially final. Reversals are only possible within a few business days, and even then the recipient's bank has to agree. The "knife vs gun" analogy doesn't quite hold: it's more like cash vs credit card. Once cash is handed over, it's gone.
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@jonathontcole @mercury Why does it matter if a shop was robbed with a knife (ACH) or gun (CC)? Wouldn’t police or whoever want to know more about the robbery? I’m genuinely trying to understand - hope you’re not seeing it as hate on Mercury, or patronizing. Why can’t I report the robbery?
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Ummm so we sent multiple ACH payments via @mercury to a vendor who never fulfilled their duties.
When we reached out to Mercury explaining we’ve been robbed through this scam, Mercury said they want nothing to do with it and won’t help because the payments went to a Mercury account. Yeah, the scammer use Mercury...
I don’t understand. Wouldn't you want to know more about the situation, as opposed to turning a blind eye?
Someone help make it make sense?
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@sabakarimm @mercury Banks are not the courts, and ACH is not the same as credit card payments. As much as you would like both of those things to be true, they aren't.
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@jonathontcole @mercury It literally is the banks problem. Otherwise they’re enablers.
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Comments off is a perfect example of how TripleWhale handles things.
Do something people don't like, 'apologize' for it, do nothing about it, and then ignore it forever.
AJ Orbach 🐳@AY_Orbach
I went viral for the wrong reason. I tweeted about Slacking an employee on his wedding day, logged off for nearly 48 hours to observe Passover, and returned to 1.9 million views and over 600 (mostly) angry comments. People criticized my intent, my leadership, and most importantly, the culture of the company I’ve spent five years building. I understand where they’re coming from. At Triple Whale, we pride ourselves on the passion each employee brings to work. It’s at the core of everything we do. And that excitement is contagious. It makes showing up every day a treat for me. But one of our values is also to act like a mensch — to operate with honor and integrity, and to respect both our customers and each other. I take that very seriously. So I’ll be the first to admit that my excitement got the best of me here. And for that, I’m sorry. To the employee I never should’ve messaged, and to all of Triple Whale, for not upholding that value. I care a lot about this company. Probably too much sometimes. This was one of those times. And it’s on me to set the tone — and I’ll be better. For myself, for Triple Whale, and for the ecosystem I care so much about.
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@baldatitiris @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Is 10% of people killing a bird, squirell, another small animal, etc really hard to believe? For me, its not.
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@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Here is the reference from that quote:
87. Lalo, J. 1987. The problem of road kill. American Forests 93(9/10): 50–52, 72.
That's totally nonsense. 10% of all drivers in the world kill a vertebrate per year on average? This is wrong.
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More than 350 million vertebrate animals are killed by human driven vehicles every year. In general, autonomous vehicles are much better than humans at dodging animals.
A compilation I made of @Tesla’s FSD stopping for animals, and often saving their lives:
TechCrunch@TechCrunch
A self-driving car in Austin killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/a-s…
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I am looking for a bookkeeper for one of my US entities that can:
1. Do simple General Ledger reconciliation every Monday EOD for T-7
2. File our US taxes for this entity
3. Respond on Slack or email in a timely manner
Any recommendations?
How much would you pay for the above?
~$20m USD revenue entity
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@bevel_health I’ve been a Whoop member for years, and this frivolous lawsuit would make me cancel. After you get the initial data on how your body responds to different factors, the product feels pretty pointless.
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Whoop filed a lawsuit against us, and this is our response.
TL;DW:
- June 2024: Whoop's Corp Dev reached out wanting to "explore collaboration"
- 5 months later: cease and desist letter
- Their demands: disable dark mode (ours defaults to light mode), rename common words like "Strain" and "Recovery"
- We pushed back. Our lawyers exchanged letters for months. Then they went silent.
- 2 weeks ago: sued us in Delaware with no warning
- Their 111-page complaint claims our UI copies theirs but many of their own screenshots contradict their claims
- Fun fact: Whoop updated their home screen to look like ours, not the other way around
Watch the video below to learn more ↓
Grey@greyngyen
@WHOOP just filed a lawsuit against us. A $10B company with 800+ employees is scared of us, a 20-person team making health tracking accessible to all. Rather than focusing on product and innovation, Whoop has decided to use its newly raised capital on lawfare. In this video, I share our side of the story, explain why their claims are baseless, and why we believe fighting back is the right thing to do.
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@Grap3s33doil @WhiteHouse @SecRubio You imbecile, that was referring to the supposed drone strikes in California from Mexico. Iran having a nuclear weapon is very much a threat to our homeland.
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From Day One, the mission was crystal clear: This was the final, best chance to wipe out Iran’s threat for good - so they can never have a nuclear weapon.
@SecRubio breaks it down ⬇️
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my bank froze my account for 'suspicious pattern of small deposits'
i had to explain to a fraud analyst that a program sends me $40 eighty times a day - roughly $3,200 daily
she put me on hold for nineteen minutes
the bot runs on polymarket's 5-minute crypto markets
eth up or down, btc up or down, new market every 5 minutes, 24/7
it connects via websocket to polymarket's CLOB, builds a fair value estimate, and fires gasless L2 orders on polygon whenever it finds mispricing above 6%
→ 80+ trades a day
→ average profit per trade: ~$40
→ profits auto-redeem to USDC
→ USDC bridges to my bank as ACH deposits
banks flag anything that looks like structuring
4.1 million suspicious activity reports were filed in 2025 alone
my account had 80 identical deposits hitting every single day
to the fraud algorithm i looked like a money launderer
the analyst asked me three times to explain what a "prediction market" was
i said "it's like if a stock and a sports bet had a baby and it lives on a blockchain"
silence
then she asked if i had documentation
i sent her a csv export with 17,000 trades timestamped to the millisecond
she unfroze the account, then told me i should "consider consolidating my deposits"
the bot doesn't know how to consolidate - it just wakes up every 5 minutes, finds edge, and sends me $40
i'm not changing a thing
the next SAR flag is her problem not mine
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@lucawashenko I run the ops side of a 9 figure DTC business. Will talk to you for free.
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@maxrubin1052 @HankVenture5 I live downtown, can confirm its a shit hole.
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@HankVenture5 Crazy how people who barely spend time in Denver are the most confident about how “dangerous” it is. Might help to get out there yourself instead of letting Fox News shape your entire view of reality.
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Downtown Denver is an absolute shit hole and anyone who claims otherwise is peddling something.
There are 10,000 homeless in Denver (730,000) which is one of the highest per capita in the country.
These idiots are gaslighting you.
Darren McKee@DMacSportsCO
Just reflecting on how great it is to go to downtown Denver. Avs tonight, Nuggets on Friday and Sunday. Rox opening day. 63k for Soccer today. Endless bike paths. My oldest son has been downtown for four years. Love downtown Denver and only gonna get better with Burnham Yard. One of the best cities in America. Excited to be there again tomorrow.
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@seanbarclayCO @HankVenture5 I live downtown and can confirm its a shit hole.
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@HankVenture5 When was that pic taken and year because it’s not current. Clearly you don’t go downtown enough and enjoy all the great things it has to offer. It’s got issues like every city in the world. Focus on the positive not the negatives.
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