@sperosck Really had to turn up my screen brightness for that one 😂
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Alexander Thor
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We just landed geo dimensions in @RillData - returns uniform geojson compatible coordinates regardless of backend db. Now to have some fun on the frontend side!
github.com/rilldata/rill/…
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@sperosck @MalloyDev Where have I seen that before? 🤔😂
The measure reference line on hover was sweet
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@MalloyDev Interactions in charts are applied to the same dimensions and measures across an output. Interactions including highlighting axes and legends, brushing axes, and tooltips.
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@_carlhannes Nästa steg är väl att begränsa till godkända appar som har en legal entitet i EU samt förbjuda installation av icke EU appar. 2års fängelse för en jailbreak?
Vore kul att knyta en KPI till resultatet och villkora avgång för alla som röstat ja om de missar KPIn
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Vad är det för jävla skräpland vi bor i som röstar Ja till det här??? Fyfan vad förbannad man blir.
omni.se/karlsten-sveri…
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Alexander Thor retweetledi
TONIGHT join us for the best happy hour of #DataAISummit, we'll be hosting @LloydTabb, founder of Looker and creator of @MalloyDev, for a fireside chat at Stable Cafe in SF.
Nearly 100 RSVPs have poured in, there's still time to join us for drinks & discussion in the cafe's secret garden:
rilldata.com/events/data-ta…
We'll be dishing on all things data, including the latest news about Tabular's $1B+ acquisition, DuckDB's big 1.0 milestone, and Cube.js' $25M fundraise.
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@EmmaBostian If you want a nice evening walk, Södra hällarna is very nice when the sun is setting. Stroller friendly!
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@_carlhannes Vettefan om jag tycker det hjälper algon heller. Känns som om jag behöver scrolla minuter in min "For you" feed för att hitta något vettigt nuförtiden så blir bara sin vanliga "followers feed" för det mesta och echo chambern förblir intakt :)
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När jag började twittra hade jag en stark anti-block policy. Jag höll mig från att blocka enbart för att få höra andra narrativ även om jag kanske inte alltid höll med.
Det höll fram till covid, och med varje dag sen dess har blocklistan bara blivit längre och längre 😂
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Alexander Thor retweetledi
Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward.
We’re still learning what is best for PC players and your feedback has been invaluable. Thanks again for your continued support of Helldivers 2 and we’ll keep you updated on future plans.
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Amazing to watch @helldivers2 implode in real time over this PSN fiasco. Such a shame, it was a great game
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@laurenbalik Add in Klarna to the pile which is the majority of internet purchases (and available via Stripe). It's probably a far bigger driver then Swish
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I have zero faith that 99.99% of X can understand the intricacies of European banking rails and currency settlements.
Yet we shall sally forth. 🦅🇺🇸
Swedish banks maintain the Bankgirot, their clearinghouse. The Swish app has been a part of their system for the past decade and the Swedish banks have liked it as Swish provides volume.
They want this volume.
In 2022, Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, set up the RIX-INST or "Riksbank Instant" clearing system to get power back from Swedish private banks.
The Riksbank had always maintained a weekday, roughly normal business hours system, now known as the RIX-RTGS which is now primarily used for large transactions and wholesale/aggregate settlement.
This new RIX-INST was set up and debuted in mid 2022, only as Sweden's currency, the Swedish crown (krona), collapsed relative to the euro/dollar.
The RIX-INST also runs on TIPS infrastructure. TIPS is the European Central Bank's clearinghouse.
The Riksbank wants Swish volume direct to their rails without other middlemen, and they've moved the infrastructure to the euro's central banking system infrastructure.
So let's check in and settle up here.
-Swedish equities are a scam. Anything European with a pulse can IPO in Sweden.
-Swedes hold a disproportionate amount of their own personal wealth in Swedish equities.
-Swedes are in heavy debt. Swedish banks are in heavy debt.
-Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, just moved the rails behind the Swish app to a system based on TIPS, which is run by the European Central Bank, which runs the euro. Since this was put in place earlier this year, the Swedish crown has only devalued to the euro. All of the Swedish banks owe money to be paid back in the dollar/euro.
-The Swish app doesn't properly handle transaction volume during lunch time, dinner time, or on the 25th of the month per their own app's documentation for merchant developers. (Read my below, last post)
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Enter Stripe @stripe: the new player in the game of looting the common Swede.
Now that the Riksbank is taking over the settlements directly from the privately-managed Bankgirot to an ECB-based system, the vultures at Stripe are moving in and they will drink the Swedish milkshake.
Stripe will take every arbitrage and volume opportunity they can presettling in a source currency and holding float until payout in target currency.
Stripe's integration into the Swish app was literally announced almost in tandem with the Riksbank starting the move to RIX-INST from Bankgirot this past quarter.
It's comedy. It's all pitched as "consumer choice" and "consumer convenience" but it's just devaluing the Swedish crown further.
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Pre-settlement is in the Swedish crown. Post-settlement is the merchant currency.
And what merchants in what countries can now loot Sweden on one side of the multi-currency transaction, with the float held by Stripe?
Easy: all the merchants in Europe.
Go look it up on Stripe's website about Swish.
Every transaction with a merchant with euro payouts just further devalues the Swedish crown. Every single time a Swedish person uses Swish, now on RIX-INST which is really just TIPS, and the opposite side of the trade is the euro, with Stripe holding float in the interim, the Swedish crown loses incremental value.
Period.
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Sweden has no leverage on the euro at this point. The RIX-INST is the final straw in acquiescing. There is no way the Swedish crown doesn't crash as the banking system of Sweden has sold out the Swedish people to float garbage equity on Swedish markets and have their own people buy it up and the Riksbank has already sold out its own private banks, heavy in debt to the euro/dollar, and moved to the ECB's TIPS system.
Swish is just the first major move to Sweden's inevitable adoption of the euro.
Also, again, Swish doesn't guarantee transaction volume during Swedish lunch time, dinner time, or on the 25th of the month.
Swedish politicians and central bankers are part of the single biggest ruse going on in Europe right now and they're using NATO/Russia as media cover.
Steven Balik@laurenbalik
Here's how dire the currency situation is in Sweden. Even the best macro people in the world haven't looked at the fragility of what's going on in Swedish crown settlements. Background: 1) This Swish app is used by 8m+ of Sweden's 10.5m or so eligible citizens. The Swish app has become the system of transaction as physical Swedish crown has moved to mostly digital. 2) Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, took over the Swish app earlier this year from Sweden's private banks. The plan is to fully move the transaction rails to custody of the Riksbank RIX-INST away from the Bankgirot private network run by the private Swedish banks. 3) This last decade's decline in circulation of physical crown/move to digital-for-everything has been partially responsible for the devalued the Swedish crown relative to the euro/dollar. This is not the primary factor, of course, but it's an accelerant. 4) Given 3), the move to the Riksbank clearinghouse away from the private banks' Bankgirot 2) will give the Riksbank greater control over transactions in the Swedish crown. --- Now here are several problems. --- 5) The Swish app, which holds Sweden's currency together, is a piece of crap on the back end. This bucket leaks arb constantly and the Riksbank won't be able to keep up with it like the private banks could through Bankgirot. It's so bad. This Swish app that holds together a sovereign currency by processing a plurality of transactions isn't be guaranteed to work during: -lunch -dinner -on the 25th of the month, when many Swedes are paid their monthly wages When a bunch of Swedes take lunch break and ping the POS systems at restaurants or cafes with Swish within the same hour, the ability to actually run transactions through the system is compromised. Same at evening commute/dinner time. Same on the 25th of the month when everyone gets paid and spends their money on stuff. They built this app that holds their whole currency system together like it's something from the bottom half of a Y Combinator cohort. These are very low transaction volumes per day, just a few single digit millions of transactions at max running through Swish. The population is not that big. And the app can't handle it on the back side. Instead Swish is adding front end features like scanning bar codes, which they debuted to merchants and consumers just this last week. I have zero faith that any of this is being taken seriously. In fact, I think that if many Swedes knew their Swish app, which is effectively their currency at this point, is held together by glue, they'd panic. Also, the Riksbank RIX-INST was only debuted in 2022 to handle settlements off hours not handled by their main system, now differentiated as RIX-RTGS. I am not confident that moving Swish to RIX-INST is going to go well compared to the private banks' Bankgirot. RIX-INST was built by lowest bidders. One DDoS attack on Swish lasting just a few hours can crash Sweden's currency, especially if on the 25th of the month, when payments volumes spike in Sweden. It's that fragile. Even better, lately Swedish employers of lower income and workplace staffing jobs have been starting to use a service called Cappy. Instead of running payroll more often, Swedish employers give their employees an opportunity to take out money against their future paychecks, all paid out through Swish. There is one chokepoint in the entire Swedish economy and it's the Swish app. And the Swish app can't guarantee transaction processing during lunch time, dinner time, or on the 25th of the month.
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@irregularbi So stealth that even the dns record hasn't propagated yet? :D
And good luck! I hope the future of AGI consists of 90ies techno references
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After 4 yrs being a Head of R&D at Astrato.io, inventioning a new and groundbreaking approach to Business Intelligence and dimensional querying/SQL, not even recognized yet here, I need to leave to build smth even better with AGI. Orionbelt.ai
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Alexander Thor retweetledi
Dashboard sprawl sucks. Ironically, too many dashboards is actually worse than having too few.
Why? Here’s a short 🧵…
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@laurenbalik @thoughtspot @stripe Crash even more you mean? :D
The Riksbank is always fair game for criticism but I guess it's related to RIX-INST?
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I can either publish a detailed blog post about:
-My 8-point plan of action for fixing ThoughtSpot @thoughtspot
-How Stripe @stripe will crash the Swedish crown (krona) because the Riksbank is incompetent and ripe for plucking
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Physical containers > Docker containers
Rill Data@RillData
.@BlueCargo_ is a Detention & Demurrage mitigation platform that works with 300+ customers & tracks over 15 million container events. Learn how Rill empowers their data analysts with self-serve analytics & end-to-end monitoring of shipment lifecycles. rilldata.com/case-study/blu…
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