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by Meekro 7y ago
Have you looked into 3D secure? Stripe already offers it[1], no fees, and it mitigates liability quite a bit. Lots of business owners here probably can't use it because they do recurring billing, but it sounds like it'd be perfect
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by Meekro 7y ago
The typical Uber driver will serve thousands of passengers. People like your girlfriend drag down every driver's average, but they don't explain why one driver has a 4.8 and another has a 3.5.
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by Meekro 7y ago
Just to nitpick a bit, race is one of the optional criteria. The school decides whether they want the College Board to include it. "The program aimed to measure the challenges students faced. It created an expected SAT score based on s
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by Meekro 7y ago
I don't like the deplatforming craze of the last few years, but getting banned from Coinbase is pretty mild. This isn't like getting banned from Paypal or Facebook, which permanently cuts off your options. It's more like gett
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Bitcoin is worth $6000 for the first time this year(arstechnica.com)
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A Scam Call Center(youtube.com)
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by Meekro 8y ago
New Zealand has a senior government position non-ironically named "Chief Censor." They don't even pretend to have free speech, and certainly don't get to lecture anyone on moral bankruptcy.
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The Java Way (2006)(pastebin.com)
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by Meekro 8y ago
Thanks for the data! Are you sure that the USAA card gives 2.5% cash back? Their website says it's only 1.5% [1]. [1] https://www.usaa.com/inet/wc/bank-credit-card-preferred-cash...
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by Meekro 8y ago
People donate money to universities all the time in exchange for admission. But in this case, the bribes went to university employees -- who could be bought much cheaper than the university itself. The university was the victim of a fraud
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by Meekro 8y ago
I think the only reason the government is treating it so seriously is, this time, the university is the victim .
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by Meekro 8y ago
Speaking just to crime, there are still about 10 bank robberies per day in the US[1], plus many crimes against individuals where the goal is to obtain cash. I would think that a cashless society would have much less of this? [1] https:&#x2
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by Meekro 8y ago
I want that to exist, too. Skype gets crappier with every release, and there's nothing out there like a modern-day ICQ/AIM. I worry about how hard it would be to do these days, though-- in addition to the Windows/Mac/Lin
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by Meekro 8y ago
Where should I be shopping, to ensure that my meat comes from family farms like yours?
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by Meekro 8y ago
The "pink slime" story is mostly fake news. ABC News coined the term, and later paid $177 million to settle a lawsuit over it. It was the largest defamation settlement in the history of the United States. The story took on a life
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Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI(arstechnica.com)
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by Meekro 8y ago
The Daily Stormer was kicked off Google's domain registrar following the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Microsoft's Azure cloud was the host for Gab.com, and threatened to kick them off unless Gab.com deleted several anti-semitic pos
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by Meekro 8y ago
outline.com did the trick for me! https://outline.com/abFy5N
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by Meekro 8y ago
I'm not surprised to hear this. I run a game server hosting company (primarily for Ark: Survival Evolved) and I buy lots of ads. My best sources for ads are Google and Bing, both of which have excellent conversion rates for relevant se
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by Meekro 8y ago
"Dumbing us Down" by John Taylor Gatto. The author is a decades-long schoolteacher. Throughout this book, I got to know the history of compulsory government-provided schooling as we know it and began to question whether such a sys
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by Meekro 8y ago
Just curious, how many domains do you have and what kinds of bulk management tools do you need? I've been very happy with Cloudflare's registrar myself, even though they aren't always the cheapest[1]. Cloudflare just silently
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by Meekro 8y ago
Over the last 2 years, I've watched my business go from the 4th page of results for important searches, to always ranking as #2-4 on page 1. More than anything else, what made the difference was time . In my experience, Google heavily
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by Meekro 8y ago
Those merchants don't always have clean hands, either. Lots of services where you can sign up with one click, but canceling requires a lengthy phone call during which they pressure you to stay. And the call has to be during business ho
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by Meekro 8y ago
Google is in a great position here-- if the EFF gets everything they want in terms of privacy, Google can still show ads relevant to my current search query without remembering my search history. But what would they suggest Facebook do inst
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by Meekro 8y ago
Here are a few citations for what I'm talking about[1][2]. My objection is not that some people try to game the system, but that the system was secretly rigged from the start. There is a group of curators -- VCs, startup advisers, jour
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by Meekro 8y ago
I don't necessarily agree with the author. Her suggestions for how to get early users are all good ones, and by all means, do them all if you can! Except producthunt -- that one's a rigged vote with its own secret influencers. Goo
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by Meekro 8y ago
The article doesn't show evidence that the lobbying was effective. The tax prep industry wanted the Free File Act passed to prohibit the IRS from implementing automatic tax filing. Senator Warren introduced a bill to require the IRS to
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by Meekro 8y ago
Bill Gates gave an interesting TED talk on this subject[1]. He said that in terms of the real politics, the only way to move to 100% renewable energy is to make it cheaper than fossil fuels so the naysayers have no reason to object. To that
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by Meekro 8y ago
Yes-- please give me some notion of what I'm going to get before you ask for my email.
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by Meekro 8y ago
They can't veto your transaction for very long. Remember, there are many Electrum servers and anyone can run one. An Electrum user can just transmit their transaction to other servers.

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