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by erikrothoff 5y ago
And they charge a 5% currency conversion fee for moving money from your account. Even moving USD to another USD account they charge 3% ”fee” for doing nothing.
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
Can we make giant rolls of this and enclose large swathes of land to make giant fire cells (while a fire is ongoing)? Or more simply, could this be used to wrap currently burning areas of land to prevent spread?
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
Yes. There are quite a few services that scan Github and in realtime show leaked secrets. I once found someones Gmail password that way...
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
Be a business in Sweden. Charge customers in USD. Paypal charges a fee for the payment. Then they charge a fee for the currency conversion from the customers’ local currency conversion. Then they use the worst conversion rate for withdrawin
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
This is so ironic, because the lack of RSS in Chrome was the reason I built the RSS Feed Reader extension for Chrome back in 2010 when switching from Firefox. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-feed-read
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
No and yes. We have a couple of thousand subscription customers using Paypal, which is a pain to switch. It's forcing us to look into other payment providers (like Stripe, which so far, doesn't appear to be evil like Paypal)
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
We have Wise and used this as a workaround like you described. However, Paypal recently ”fixed” this loophole by charging 3% on USD to USD transfers. It’s insane. Have you found a way around this?
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
Are you still doing this? For us Paypal added a 3% transfer fee on USD to USD transfers. We’d really like to get this fixed, it’s killing us.
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
We have Wise and used this as a workaround like you described. However, Paypal recently ”fixed” this loophole by charging 3% on USD to USD transfers. It’s insane.
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by erikrothoff 5y ago
Servers at DigitalOcean $2500 per month. Paypal: Our last transfer to our bank account cost $1000 because PayPal takes a currency conversion fee of 3% from USD to SEK (that's in addition to the transaction fee) Intercom.io: ~$200 for t
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
The price to acquire voltswagen.com just shot through the roof.
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Why would a quarter of a million chargers be needed? Seems really excessive.
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
I’m literally a euro-peasant in my third floor apartment with street parking outside my third floor apartment window. The city has but up a bunch of charging parking stations on said street parking and it’s great. There are no gas stations
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Do you have any idea who these data center operators are? I’m looking to skip the middleman :)
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
What are they saying is wrong now that you’ve added Apple login?
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
I keep running into a weird issue where i scroll through my Linkedin timeline, don’t interact with any posts, then when I check my ”Activity log” I’ve liked a bunch of those posts. It’s been happening for months now. Anyone else seen this?
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Do you have a real world example? For example, what are you spending on a single app server? And how many RPS should it handle?
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
I don’t want to second guess technical decisions I know nothing about but: no, Rails shouldn’t be streaming video. But 2k requests per second with mostly text content being shuffled around sounds absolutely doable with Rails. The cost benef
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Really? Our frontend servers handle 50 rps and cost $20 each and are nowhere near peak utilization. If anything ever needs scaling its the database. What level of traffic are you talking about?
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Curious what part of Rails you didn’t find scalable? Our Rails frontend servers run on cheap VMs that are easily scaled horizontally.
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
It's quite a common extension use-case so I dobut it. It's also hard to abuse unlike certain tab related permissions, which is what they are mostly cracking down on.
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Are you given any monetary compensation or compensation at all for joining the trial?
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
“The programme is progressing well, (but) we’re not there yet,” Hancock said. Looking good, but still months away from rolling out.
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
We've done something similar with Feeder Dashboard. You can mix RSS feeds and Twitter feeds, with unread/read states you get a glance of what you've missed, making it hard to fall into infinite scrolling. An example is our pu
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
As an aspiring manager of engineers, do you mean that it's far from the truth of real-life counterexamples?
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Elon is not involved with OpenAI anymore: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1229546206948462597?s=21
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
They recently increased the price of on-VM-storage by a minimum of 50% for larger plans (>100GB) in a pretty sneaky way, so I agree with the above sentiment. The pricing of recent releases is more towards large enterprise deployments or
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Chrome extensions are hidden in weird menu by default now(groups.google.com)
2 points by erikrothoff 6y ago|0 comments
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
We run Metabase on a 2GB VM on DigitalOcean, costing $15/month, and using the DO's Postgres cheapest plan (still pretty expensive imo). It's a JVM app so using quite a bunch of memory, 60% atm. So total cost of Metabase is $3
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by erikrothoff 6y ago
Nobody knows. Their stated goal was release in 2020 with 1 year deprecation for MV2. Corona might have changed this. Their is no good source of information and the Chrome extension devrel team is woefully understaffed.

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