Johnie

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   by Johnie 10y ago

   In other words, this spec is on the easy part of micropayments. The hard part is undefined.
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   by Johnie 10y ago

   There's also the W3C Web Payments Interest Group [1] and the defunct Micropayments Interest Group [2]. Micropayments for web content is notoriously hard. Some existing players are: * Flattr - https://flattr.com/about *
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   by Johnie 10y ago

   There's too many projects named Kraken: * http://krakenjs.com/ - Javascript framework * https://www.kraken.com/ - BTC exchange * https://kraken.io/ - Image Optimizer
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   by Johnie 11y ago

   Imgur has more traffic than Reddit: http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/26/imgur-traffic-milestone-10...
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   by Johnie 11y ago

   This was on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11472612
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   by Johnie 11y ago

   If you look at some of the successful startups that started on a platform, this is what they did. Example: Instagram - used Facebook for viral distribution and eventually eclipsed Facebook Imgur - built image hosting for Reddit and now h
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   by Johnie 11y ago

   These were some of the drones and surveillance flights over South Bay during the Super Bowl: https://twitter.com/Johnie/status/696475657375625216
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   by Johnie 11y ago

   The article is talking about prices and vacancy leveling out due to developers building more units. This is the market functioning the way it should be. Nowhere does the article attribute the leveling out to people leaving the city. In fac
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   by Johnie 11y ago

   My guess is telemedicine insurance coverage arbitrage. Insurance companies reimburse doctors for consulting and prescribing the medication to the patients. For low risk/low effort consultation, like birth control, the doctor can go th
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    "Loss-making Uber would make drastic savings on its biggest cost -- drivers -- if it were able to incorporate self-driving cars into its fleet." Umm, don't they get the cars for free now? How many rides will the cars need dr
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    What happens when the drivers don't have a mobile phone or app installed? Is the kiosk available?
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    This coincides with Google's plans to phase out DoD contracts at BD: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-...
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    I meant that Reddit is another Excel-esque competitor to your startup. Or another way to look at it is that Reddit is your early validation for demand.
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    Reddit is likewise another competitor. I've always looked at many of the subreddits as a potential for different products or a channel to access customers of that interest. For example: * r/RedditGetsDrawn -- Marketplace for a
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    This was what I was thinking when they first bought Boston Dynamic. Boston Dynamic was a huge DoD contractor. When Google bought Boston Dynamic, they explicitly said that they do not intend to be a military contractor and was expecting th
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    NYC recently changed regulations around apartments to allow for Micro Apartments. It reflects the changing demand from millennials (ownership vs rent, suburb vs urban) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/reales
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    I'm curious about how large of a team/organization and size of the codebase the framework vs anti-framework camps fall on.
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    It also reduces the learning curve when a new employee joins the team. If it is a widely used framework, they may have used it previously. If not, there will be ample information and resources to learn it. As you've said, every large
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    You'd be surprised how broken/misallocated the consumer deposit market is. Because of current market conditions, it is costing the large banks money to hold your money. There is excess deposits beyond what they are able/want
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    Based on the comments here that HN is not the right audience for Digit. It's also worth noting that HN is not representative of the majority of the population in the country. CFSI has quite a bit of research on the financial health i
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    Digit takes advantage of FDIC pass through insurance. Your money is separate from Digit's money. If Digit goes bankrupt, your money still belongs to you, not to Digit's investors. Disclaimer: I don't work for Digit, but have
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    I don't understand why there are so many of these Resume generator sites. It seems like college students finally having to put together a resume and figured a resume generator would make a good product without figuring out what they a
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    Much of the value of the MBA is the network. I would even go as far as to say most of the value of the MBA is the network. If the network from your MBA program abroad isn't that strong in the industry that you work in or in your geogr
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    Same Day ACH has been in talks in the US for years. It may actually come this year. https://www.nacha.org/rules/same-day-ach-moving-payments-fas...
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    UK and Europe is a lot more advanced than we are in the States. Some even provide APIs: * https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/ * https://openbankproject.com/ * https://developer.fidor.de/
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    This is the CRAZIEST part of the banking system. The information to withdraw money from your account is on the bottom of the paper checks that you freely give out. Anyone with the routing number and account number can drain the entire acc
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    OAuth (Google Sign In / Facebook Login) is a pretty good technology in order to manage and share your information. What's nice about OAuth is that it allows the end user to control access to information and revoke access as neede
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    This post completely resonated with me as a former Googler making the leap into startup founder. It's been drinking from a firehose learning what it takes to get a product off the ground. What I've found is that the entrepreneur
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    I wonder how this actually works. It seems like for Gmail to provide this functionality, it needs to copy your external email to Google's servers and do server side processing. I can't imagine that it does spam protection, Google
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    by Johnie 11y ago

    Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary, recommends that the US eliminate any denomination over $20 to reduce illicit activities. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-larry-summers-wants-to-...