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Credit Karma to offer free US tax return service(creditkarma.com)
4 points by emilyfm 10y ago|0 comments
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by emilyfm 10y ago
For affinity cards from this company (UMB/Cardpartner) it's typically 0.3%. Source: https://www.owasp.org/images/0/08/CardPartner_Kit.pdf
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by emilyfm 10y ago
How do you wash stuff? This list seems to include everything except ... the kitchen sink.
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Victoria is much more affordable than Vancouver (although rentals are currently tight), and has less summer rain (rain shadow from the Olympic mountains). See https://github.com/sendwithus/vic-startup-jobs for local s
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by emilyfm 10y ago
The one factor: meet a need. If you're selling something, make it something that people want at the right price and make it easy for them to buy. If you're selling advertising (you're a decade late on that one...), give peopl
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by emilyfm 10y ago
From the title, I was expecting this story to be about the con-trick use of the work "mark" (sucker, target).
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by emilyfm 10y ago
TLDR; Gas (petrol) stations pumping less than you paid for is a problem in some parts of Mexico (they're mostly full service). These guys are trying to market a device to measure the amount actually pumped into your vehicle.
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Meter and app to tell if a gas station has pumped less than you paid for(mexiconewsdaily.com)
8 points by emilyfm 10y ago|2 comments
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Very nice. As somebody else mentioned, the length of the day would be nice (it could be a third column of times). The time zone borders map is a bit low resolution so in some places it gets it wrong (for example the northern sides of Roche
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Germaine Greer's archive: digging up digital treasure from the floppy disks(theguardian.com)
2 points by emilyfm 10y ago|0 comments
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by emilyfm 10y ago
That's more of a dustbowl caused by deforestation - doesn't have the arid (or semi-arid) climate of a true desert. The Osoyoos "desert" isn't really arid enough, either. Deserts don't have to look like sand dun
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Germaine Greer's archive: digging up digital treasure from the floppy disks(theguardian.com)
1 points by emilyfm 10y ago|0 comments
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by emilyfm 10y ago
The ranks for the main search terms are similar. Although my site is in English, over 50% of visitors are from outside the US. Bing doesn't really have the global reach of Google. For example I get 250 times as much traffic from India
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by emilyfm 10y ago
One of my sites yesterday had about 64,000 referrals from Google, and just over a thousand each from Bing and Yahoo (and just under a thousand from Baidu). Google has indexed more than 50 times as many pages as Bing on that site, and crawls
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Why bother tearing it down? They just fall apart naturally after a few months (or weeks) or use.
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Odd that this article doesn't mention a key reason that US workers are staying working into their "retirement" years: access to health insurance. (also, B&Q is a British company, not based in New York like the article sta
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Although I appreciate this list is aimed at a narrow case (incorporation in Delaware with operations in California), I'd still pay a little more attention to the "choose a name for your business" stage to avoid surprises. At
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by emilyfm 10y ago
Note the SLA compensation (clause V) says it only applies if the data is stored in more than one C14 datacentre, which is currently not possible.
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by emilyfm 10y ago
There's also Victoria BC. A smaller city, but that makes the tech and startup scene more important locally: by some measures, tech is now the biggest "industry" in the area, beating tourism. Plus, it's got the best wea
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by emilyfm 11y ago
Go with what sounds more like the interesting work (plus, it shows you keep your word). Yes, the company name can have an effect. I worked early on for a major bank (global name), which made other banks more likely to look at and hire me, w
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by emilyfm 11y ago
You have to separate work (and studying) from hobbies. It's great if your work is what you enjoy doing, but that won't always be the case. So focus your studying on what appear to be long-term saleable skills that will lead to a j
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Poetica acquired by Condé Nast, closing down(blog.poetica.com)
3 points by emilyfm 11y ago|0 comments
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by emilyfm 11y ago
Tinyletter is also a Mailchimp product. So I'll have to avoid using that now, in case they decide to fold it in with a paid Mailchimp sub later. Fool me once ...
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by emilyfm 11y ago
It's the same in most countries. Opencorporates.com is the first place to look. Some countries, like New Zealand, have images of corporate documents online for free, which gives you a copy of the signature as well. Like domain names,
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by emilyfm 11y ago
Buying the property through a Revocable Living Trust can make this harder (providing the name of your living trust doesn't contain your name, like most do!). Can cost only a couple of dollars to record the living trust, plus it helps
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by emilyfm 11y ago
One penny in 1840 would be around 20p today ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/ ). First class post in the UK is 62p, so in real terms around 3 times as expensive as in 1840. (and the service in the 1840'
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by emilyfm 11y ago
The normally used term is "creative hobbies".
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by emilyfm 11y ago
Realistically, most of your domains are likely to be worthless (to others). They may be great names, but are they names that have a resale market? NewYorkBagels.com for example would be something a real business would want to buy. Somethi