boysabr3

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by boysabr3 9y ago
Unfortunately, most billion dollar startups update their status pages post-hoc -- specially if the incidents last <15 mins. https://status.slack.com/2018-01/d8cf1517de9ecfa8
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I had a similar goal few years ago and decided to move countries and take up a job in a new industry. It didn't quite work out for me in that industry at the end but I certainly did meet people outside by bubble + learn about how the i
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Highly recommend this Stripe Atlas guide on incorporation: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/incorporation
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I think you have the answer already and IANAL but just to add on, in most countries this a matter of PCI compliance that is enforced by the card networks. In most countries it's not a criminal offence to be PCI non-compliant (but you c
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by boysabr3 9y ago
They should be using an issuing processor (a financial institution that works with Visa or MasterCard) to issue card numbers. Issuing processors can easily generate card numbers programmatically + on the fly.
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I think this is what https://www.wavecrest.gi/ does. But haven't heard great things about them. Shift payments is another option in the US - don't think they're in the UK either.
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Lots of friends at Amazon (US, IN, EU) who would categorically disagree on being slave driven. He is more aggressive and less favorable on "perks" than other companies in the bay area, but no where close to a slave driver (and no,
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Nope, doesn't really matter if he's the richest or not. I think lots of companies could learn a lot from how Amazon innovates. I don't think you can deny that they are categorically better than many others at their size &#x2F
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I'm always in awe of Amazon's sustained growth. Bezos has built a company that has innovated constantly (after a tumultuous start in the late 90s) and at scale: - AWS was launched in 2006 when Amazon had < 15k employees. - Kind
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Paystack, 2017 in review (YC W16)(blog.paystack.com)
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by boysabr3 9y ago
The raiblocks White paper does an excellent job explaining why it (and other DAGs) are scalable: https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper__English.pd...
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I think running a successful social enterprise is largely similar to running a successful vanilla for-profit. That said, I found the How I Built This episode with Perry Chen from Kickstarter quite insightful on the social enterprise topic:
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I use a public GitHub repo
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by boysabr3 9y ago
On a related note, accessing the site over Chrome will full site isolation can help protect against both bugs: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7622138#chrome
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Haven't read it personally but heard great things about: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp - Peter Norvig https://www.amazon.com/dp/1558601910
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I wonder why this happened. Visa is primarily a technology company - not a financial institution. It's incentivesed to keep fraud on visa cards low (so that merchants continue to accept it) and keep its ecosystem of issuers + acquirers
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Correction: Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)
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by boysabr3 9y ago
If you're starting from scratch, I'd recommend this Khan academy course (it's short and sweet): https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi... There's a lot more advanced stuff out
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I really liked: https://goo.gl/Wb8YoH When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - Goodreads https://goo.gl/gzGxAo Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor - Goodreads
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Afaik https://plaid.com/ allows you to access transaction data
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Related: https://www.recode.net/2017/5/8/15557846/stripe-peiter-mudge...
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Hyperbolic title - this has merely been suggested. Not agreed upon. As someone who has spent time working with the Ghanaian regulator on cryptocurrency education, I think they're very unlikely to do something like this (unless they&#x2
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by boysabr3 9y ago
It would be super cool if these submarines could be made completely autonomous. They could come up to the surface to recharge their solar batteries or maybe charge them using turbines rotated by the water movements. They could remotely rela
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by boysabr3 9y ago
This might sound overly simplistic but I believe we need to do more to incentivise the best talent in the world to work on socially conscious projects. I found Wendy Kopp's episode on the How I Built This podcast particularly insightfu
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by boysabr3 9y ago
The entire article can be summarized in these 3 lines: > The proposal is based on the power of discretion given to USCIS officials to decide on extensions to be given to H-1B holders waiting for Green Card. They could choose to extend f
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I've always wanted to do something like this but find it to be too disruptive to my reading process. It makes reading feel more like work and less like fun. Curious to know how you go about writing these out? D
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I think this is a fairly standard practice. This is exactly how shared links on Dropbox, Box, Mega, Imgur, etc. work. You can think of the URL as one long, and extremely hard to guess password. Completely agree that Google Photos (and the o
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by boysabr3 9y ago
Bitcoin is an asset (or a currency). Not a user experience. I think you should distinguish between the UX of a Bitcoin wallet app (which is analogous to Alipay and WeChat Pay) and the "asset" Bitcoin (which is more analogous to CN
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by boysabr3 9y ago
I don't think comparing Bitcoin to Ali/Wechat Pay is fair. One could build the same payment experiences (qr codes, ride hailing, red packets, etc.) on top of a Bitcoin wallet app. Bitcoin is a "layer" apart from the paym