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by davidgh 7y ago
I’ve thought about this metric, a lot. There is no doubt that having family dinner has a lot of benefits. But I can help but ask myself - is family dinner a silver bullet, or is it that families who are holistically “doing it right” also ma
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by davidgh 7y ago
Not automatically. If a merchant does the work to support Apple Pay they don’t get Google Pay “for free”. But if you’ve done the work for Apple Pay, you’ve covered a lot of the ground necessary to support Google Pay, for example.
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by davidgh 7y ago
Yes, but ...arrgh... they are doing this of their own free will and choice, perhaps because they enjoy it, they increase their social interactions, increase their skills... etc. It seems contrary to the concept of freedom if private parties
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by davidgh 7y ago
VRBO was loooong before AirBnB. AirBnB reduced friction by handing the payments and provided social mechanisms for buyers and sellers to vet each other, among other things. In the days before AirBnB I remember booking an apartment in Paris
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by davidgh 7y ago
The USA did such a startup. It’s called healthcare.gov, AKA Obamacare. It allows you to get health insurance, without consideration for pre-existing conditions and provides you with significant tax credits to offset the premiums, based on y
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by davidgh 7y ago
16 hour fast, 8 hour “eating” window per day. 23 hour fast, 1 hour “eating” window per day.
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by davidgh 7y ago
Imagine the difference in how you’d feel as a middle-class working guy buying from them. The CEO could say: “We work hard to keep our prices low by carefully selecting affordable materials while still providing stylish, attractive and fashi
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by davidgh 7y ago
Permethrin in retail outdoor stores can be a bit expensive. In the US, stores that sell military surplus often carry the permethrin kits that are issued to soldiers and they are usually much cheaper and contain enough to cover several cloth
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by davidgh 7y ago
When electric scooters came out, I was pretty excited about them. A great last-mile option for public transport. But when I was in Paris a few weeks ago, my enthusiasm was tampered. I didn’t see a single example of a scooter being used for
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Paris clamps down on scooter startups(techcrunch.com)
3 points by davidgh 7y ago|1 comments
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Password expiration is dead, long live passwords(techcrunch.com)
586 points by davidgh 7y ago|312 comments
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by davidgh 7y ago
If you are a US-based startup and don’t sell to EU customers, then I guess it doesn’t really matter if you attempt to comply. However, most US SaaS-type startups very much want access to EU markets. Ignoring GDPR won’t matter until it does,
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by davidgh 7y ago
Having walked a similar path, I like to refer to this quote when things are down. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short
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by davidgh 7y ago
I agree that blanket warning messages tend to help very little. However, I do find that actual data does influence my behavior. I’ve been particularly surprised at how much calorie information published on restaurant menus impacts my deci
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by davidgh 7y ago
I look at this from a different angle. Doing business is always going to be associated with some regulatory overhead. Traditionally, the footprint of a small business was the owner’s local area, where the scope of rules and regulations is s
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by davidgh 7y ago
Agree. When you have a digital product or service, intended or not, you have a global customer base. Sales tax, VAT is just one of the burdens a company will face to keep on the right side of the rules. Denied party screening, export contro
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by davidgh 7y ago
How I wish iOS would allow you to mark text messages as “unread” or “flagged”. Messages come in, I read them to see if they’re urgent, most often they are not, however, I usually do want to reply later. But, I feel an obligation to reply
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by davidgh 7y ago
Things that can get tricky: Product upgrades and downgrades - if a user changes products midstream you need to calculate the prorated value and bill or refund the customer accordingly. Reporting then gets tricky - if the customer upgraded f
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by davidgh 7y ago
Here’s an interesting one: when your card is compromised and a new card number is issued, many banks will allow charges to continue using the old card number, provided the charges were occurring on an ongoing basis from that same merchant b
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by davidgh 7y ago
Do you have any plans to handle deposits in currencies other than USD? We’re US-based but receive a fair amount of payments from customers in EUR and we also have obligations in EUR so we’re looking for a way to avoid going from EUR to USD
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by davidgh 8y ago
And yet I get much more assistance in keeping my login secure from a two-bit social media site than I do from virtually every bank I’ve had an account with (speaking of banks in the USA). Two factor using something like Google Authenticator
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by davidgh 8y ago
I’m not saying physical security is easy, but it’s better understood in general, and at the very least, it’s pretty easy to insure against. Most banks offer insurance on safety deposit boxes so if your item goes missing, you are compensated
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by davidgh 8y ago
The percentage that merchants pay largely goes to the underlying (card-issuing) bank. They take some risk in chargebacks (not all chargebacks go back to the merchant). Additionally, the banks use the fees they collect to pay for their rewar
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by davidgh 8y ago
What I want is a scale on both sides of airport security. I weight myself as I enter and weigh myself as I exit and if it matches, I know I didn’t leave anything behind. Bottomless seems like a clever solution to a common problem. I don’t l
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by davidgh 8y ago
Nearly half of the space in the aircraft is unused for 99% of the flight: the space between the top of the seat and the luggage bins. I’ve seen some designs over the years that would take advantage of this space, but think it’s unlikely. Th
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by davidgh 8y ago
I think the big tech companies are just fine with increasing regulation. They are in position to manage them, and benefit from the fact that the regulatory environment makes it that much more difficult for new companies to enter the market.
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by davidgh 8y ago
Unless the contract bound you to a specific term, I don’t think they will attempt to send you to collections. What do you owe if you haven’t contractually agreed to a subscription term?
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by davidgh 8y ago
A global line solves another problem: with multiple lines, when additional cashiers are added, it tends to be the people at the back of the current lines move their way into the front positions of the newly opened lines. It happens this w
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by davidgh 8y ago
The Design of Everyday Things Is a masterpiece. The age of the book proves it. It is as relevant today as it was when written 30 years ago. The only downside to the book is it will ruin every elevator, door handle and stereo amplifier you e
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Utah man recounts fake death plot to escape the darknet(ksl.com)
1 points by davidgh 8y ago|0 comments

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