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benmowa
9y ago
well if crowdfunding can get OK'd ..... why not crypto? https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html
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benmowa
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wow >According to an unsubstantiated report ... citing no evidence... The firm's source.....is believed to be Equifax.
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benmowa
9y ago
how is this different than a coupon? or a store branded Gift card? .. funds available for redemption at a subset of merchants. Edit: I see now that its considered the same for tax reporting purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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benmowa
9y ago
....but philisophically... why would I put my information into a site that is already known to have a leak? obviously im just checking to see if i was affected, but by checking, if someone is snooping, would validate that i'm activel
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benmowa
9y ago
After reading Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, I think it would be silly of me to not believe everyone is doing some variation of front running.
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benmowa
9y ago
no because they can be breached leading to other transactions appearing on your card.
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benmowa
9y ago
"if there's any fraud the merchant eats all of it!" - not 100% true- see "fraud Liability Shift topics" Your card Issuer gets it if it's an EMV (ie chip was dipped) card-present transaction, merchant gets the
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benmowa
9y ago
welcome to the future :) i'm a huge fan of http://getfinal.com/ edit: for clarification, yes for in store, my card is the same card and I cant easily generate a new number to swipe at a POS, but online & via app I
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benmowa
9y ago
"These are the ones [credit card processors] we have worked with in the past that we know use a card vault. Others likely support it too" Note The more common term is credit card Tokenization, not just Vaulting, and is not require
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benmowa
9y ago
thanks done. What do you mean we? /s
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benmowa
9y ago
hmm works for me all the time... but i'm curious i wonder are you running a standard browser, locally without proxy, from within the US? Not that i'm advocating you must, but curious if you hit on any of these?
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benmowa
9y ago
I don't think they're requiring 3-5 of ETH experience per this job posting, but that's not to say the recruiter doesn't inadvertently filter it out. i see >Position Summary: Typically requires 3-5 years of applicable
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benmowa
9y ago
Family, Flying and Fixing things around the house and gardening
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benmowa
9y ago
I'm just learning but are there any real world examples of this yet? any idea what % of transactions utilize this today?
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benmowa
9y ago
I couldn't find anything but I wonder how global energy consumption changes on track with the predicted bitcoin processing growth? are we talking 1% of global power consumption in 10 years or 10%?
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benmowa
9y ago
>"Tamez said there is no easy way for prisons to protect against the use of small, unmanned aircraft, other than hiring more guards to watch the fences." Can the drone and controller radio signals be detected, recognized and tr
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benmowa
9y ago
if i had to guess, i'd guess this is 'out of' lobbying by big govt contractors who want another budget pool, and MIL insiders pushing for this. Right now airforce satellites for star-wars type initiatives and airforce refueli
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9y ago
I'd say Slack has better penetration into enterprise than all those except sykpe. if you look at Amazon's prior communication attempt, its aimed as a business communication solution. Slack has done well to penetrate that segment.