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by joecot 4y ago
Right, the issue is that they're going to hook people who are aspirationally looking to work at a FAANG and will not by any stretch of the imagination pass their interviewing process. They picked Pay Later because they figured they cou
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If you want to convince people to get invested in using PenPot, while you've also taken VC funding, then yes that is the way to go about it. The main way that open source projects continue if a company suddenly pulls out is if there is
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by joecot 4y ago
Without a community, an open source code repository is text files you can use to run or compile an application. An open source project needs maintainers, active contributors, a roadmap, etc. Github is full of very popular open source projec
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Open source is only part of the equation. The other part is having maintainers and community. Being able to fork it is great, but if there's no community fixing bugs, if there's no security fixes, if there are no improvements, if
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by joecot 4y ago
1) We're a good company aiming to help people and make the world a better place, and we promise not to do any evil 2) We've taken Venture Capital funding in order to get ramped up much faster, so we can do all those great things 3
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They're already at sending reservists, who get around 3 days of training. Their front-line tank crews get exactly one practice shell per crew member, each year. Putin is going to run through all their reservists, and then start sending
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by joecot 4y ago
Given that crypto miners weren't willing to think ahead to the consequences of countries needing to fire coal power plants back up to meet their demand, or the problems with continuing to crypto mine during multiple worldwide energy cr
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I agree with all of this. The US and EU kept discussing inviting Ukraine to NATO or even the EU, and the US was pushing towards a military alliance with Ukraine. This would've caused tension even if Russia was a democratic country not
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> Never in history were "people of color denied from existing without harassment", etc. I would suggest reading about Jim Crow, Red Lining, the fight against school integration, New York's Stop and Frisk, and a "Black
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Americans have been so indoctrinated to the idea that every issue must have two sides who should be equally considered, that when we have issues where one side is the obvious aggressor completely in the wrong, they don't know how to co
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by joecot 4y ago
Your stripe transaction cost is probably around the advertised fee, 2.9% + 30¢ With an actual merchant account you can probably get closer to 2% or at least 2.5% + 25-30¢ At 5 million in transaction revenue, a .5% decrease would be 25k a ye
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by joecot 4y ago
Yes but it's complicated. * It's possible that you could tokenize to each provider before making a transaction. But you'd need to see if the provider has a timeout on those tokens if you don't actually make a transaction
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Yes, this is a risk. Which is why instead of putting all your subscriptions towards one company, it is a good idea to balance your subscriptions across providers. That way, you might lose some customers or have to ask them to come sign up a
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by joecot 4y ago
Mostly, just use multiple providers. There's no reason to put all your eggs with Stripe. Setting up with Paypal, Google Payments, Amazon Payments, etc, requires essentially no business overhead. Just the extra overhead of needing to se
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by joecot 4y ago
Yes, this is why my previous company never went the IPSP route (letting customers accept payments with your merchant account). They are incredibly arduous to get approved, you practically need to have a bank CEO as your godfather to get it.
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by joecot 4y ago
If someone uses WooCommerce for their store, they have 79 different payment integrations, including Stripe, Paypal, Amazon Payments, along with merchant account gateways like Authorize.net. Some of them are paid extensions but rather cheap
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by joecot 4y ago
Unfortunately I know little about the process for actually applying for a merchant account or where to get it from. That's what the ISO we partnered with handled. Also it was "high risk" accounts ( cough adult cough ), that
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by joecot 4y ago
The difference is between the company having their own merchant account with a bank (which is what most large companies do) using an online payment gateway, and not having one and leveraging the processor's instead (which is what Strip
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by joecot 4y ago
Twitter is a publicly traded company, which means it can be sued by shareholders if it makes business decisions which will harm its value. Giving up complete control of its protocol would harm its value. Giving up its algorithm which traps
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by joecot 4y ago
My company had a chrome extension they used for making twilio phone calls. V3's service worker focus made that a complete nonstarter. Ended up writing a thing to make phone calls in a background tab, use the Broadcast channel Api to co
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by joecot 4y ago
I find the easiest way to set it up is using docker. Running openvpn or wireguard in a docker container (they often have a killswitch built in), then having my transmission and other docker containers use it as its network. The docker image
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by joecot 4y ago
You get promoted at Google not for improving and maintaining great products, but for building and releasing a product. This is why you see them building seemingly competing products for the exact same sector (Duo and Allo anyone?). Someone
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No, because you see that would reduce property values. The line is only supposed to go up. You can't create affordable housing, or allow multifamily housing, or do anything that would stop the people who own homes there from having the
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I've been in 2 different class action lawsuits about vehicles: first Honda Civic Hybrids (where the battery always died like right after warranty ended), and a Nissan Versa with CVT transmissions (same but the transmission). Both end
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> Re: the first point about contribution, this is why Wikipedia doesn't let people be their own primary source — it's because, when that primary-source person eventually stops maintaining the page, who will then be able to take
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by joecot 4y ago
If they were going to have Tuxedo Mask show up and outshine all the women, did he at least throw a rose while doing it?
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Yeah the title is very misleading then. I expect that 40% refers to option 3, which is wrong, but is way less concerning than believing the entire earth was created 10k years ago.
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Those arguments are from different groups of people. I'm in the camp of wanting crypto to have way more regulation. I would also like us to not hasten a climate crisis by turning on coal power plants to mine crypto that is useless.
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There wouldn't be an endless series of unfunny comedians making "Comedy" specials called "Trigger Warning: How I'm Canceled by Snowflake Cucks" for Netflix if people weren't watching it. Our primary proble
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by joecot 4y ago
Once a company takes VC funding or a buyout, or makes an IPO, any ethical promise they've ever made is null and void. Later when choices are made outside of their control, they wash their hands and say it's not their fault. But th

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