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Coffee badging seems like a way to hack the RTO system but there are flaws, not the least of which is the term’s fuzzy etymology. Urban Dictionary says the badge in the name is the building-access card that a worker uses to swipe into the office just long enough to sip a mug of joe; others say that’s too literal and claim the badge is actually an imaginary award for showing face—like a Boy Scout merit badge pinned in the boss’s mind instead of on a sash.
Want to Beat Your Return-to-Office Mandate? Try ‘Coffee Badging’ at Your Own Risk
wsj.com
Terminating security services for content that our team personally feels is disgusting and immoral would be the popular choice. But, in the long term, such choices make it more difficult to protect content that supports oppressed and marginalized voices against attacks.
Cloudflare's Abuse Policies & Approach
blog.cloudflare.com
The last few years saw a big rise and fall in the “iBuyer” business model, where companies like Opendoor Technologies Inc. and Zillow Group Inc. used their scale, data and pricing algorithms to get into the market-making business for houses. The iBuyers would offer to buy houses instantly, for cash, with not much in the way of due diligence, which was all very appealing to sellers; they would then have a big inventory of houses that they could flip to buyers. Instead of buyers and sellers meeting each other in messy imperfect markets, the sellers could all sell to the iBuyers and the buyers could all buy from the iBuyers and the iBuyers could intermediate every trade and earn a spread for providing liquidity.
iBuyers Bought High and Sold Low
bloomberg.com
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