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by ebspelman 11y ago
1-2% chargeback rate is the exact opposite of 'no risk.' This is why people will eventually end up hating Stripe just as much as PayPal. There is a huge disconnect between consumer expectations and the realities that a 3rd-party
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by ebspelman 11y ago
Where do you think the refund for a chargeback comes from? With a 3rd-party aggregator like Stripe, it comes directly out of the merchant's Stripe account (i.e. Stripe's aggregated account with Chase Paymentech). If the merchant h
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by ebspelman 11y ago
I really appreciate this comment, even though I personally don't agree with it. You can't take drugs 100% safely, but their safety level does vary, and it definitely varies with wealth. Amphetamines, for example. Rich Americans ge
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by ebspelman 12y ago
This is straight out of House of Leaves.
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by ebspelman 12y ago
Amazing write-up! Those animations are fantastic. Did you really make all of them using Keynote? And the portfolio site in general is really something else. You should definitely be more than an intern!
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by ebspelman 12y ago
Really enjoyed the relationship between this paper's title and the graph of its citation frequency: http://i.imgur.com/RO6BVRx.png
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by ebspelman 12y ago
Agreed - Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe deserve their own category.
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by ebspelman 12y ago
Go Priceonomics! I really enjoy their approach to journalism.
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by ebspelman 12y ago
If you have an hour and this topic really interests you, I'd recommend David Foster Wallace's essay "Authority and American Usage" - http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsag... .
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by ebspelman 12y ago
For those interested in a longer analysis of what Amazon's relationship with publishers looks like, I'd recommend George Packer's article from the New Yorker earlier this year: http://www.newyorker.com/reporti
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by ebspelman 12y ago
I haven't seen the Google/YouTube comparison on here yet. SoundCloud seems like the default place for audio uploads, similar (but not perfectly analogous) to YouTube for video circa 2006. Youtube has maintained a huge amount of in
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by ebspelman 13y ago
Google Glass shows you an augmented view of reality. Facebook Glass shows you a reflected vision of yourself.
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by ebspelman 13y ago
This is really beautiful. It's an amazing amount of information to be borne (almost) purely visually. My favorite is 117. They are the Devon Sawa in Final Destination of Bitcoin.
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by ebspelman 13y ago
Same exact thing here.
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by ebspelman 13y ago
As someone who took (and really benefited from) Srinivasan's MOOC course, I definitely enjoy his written style. I like the links-as-evidence, and I think he does a great job of weaving a narrative out of seemingly disconnected parts. T
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by ebspelman 13y ago
Personally, I'm not super hot on the phrase 'necessary credentials.' As a pretty early, non-technical YC hire I think the idea of a required background is intimidating for a lot of people who could really add value. Sometimes
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China Arrests Big V's - Popular Verified Weibo Accounts(nytimes.com)
4 points by ebspelman 13y ago|0 comments
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by ebspelman 13y ago
And listen to it (while reading the transcript) here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1227012...
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by ebspelman 13y ago
The actual map is an amazing piece of work, but let's give credit where credit is due! Bill Rankin posted maps in this exact visual style back in 2009. You can see them (and many other amazing maps he's done) at his blog -- http:
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by ebspelman 13y ago
These guys did an amazing job with the interactive element, but a lot of this is borrowed work! Let's give credit where credit is due: Bill Rankin posted maps in this exact visual style back in 2009. You can see them (and many other am
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by ebspelman 13y ago
Elliott from WePay here - don't mean to turn these comments into a corporate stick-measuring contest, but our API has been able to support this use case since August of 2011.
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by ebspelman 14y ago
It's interesting that the article never compares explicit reviews with the implicit reviews that Quora already generates. Consensus (upvotes/point scores) can review things the same way that a starring system can. I can scroll through compa