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Trolls made 2015 one of the biggest years ever for patent lawsuits(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kintamanimatt 11y ago|0 comments
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
You just take the computationally expensive work and run it elsewhere, like a worker pool. This is a standard pattern for this kind of work and what you would do with go too, except the worker pool might just be a number of goroutines.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Actually, you do need to visit Estonia if you need to open up a bank account with a bank there to go satisfy the AML and KYC requirements. I think one bank will let you use partner banks in a European-wide network, but I haven't tested
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Looks good! Just beware that you don't give away too much for free though. A free plan is a good idea, but you've got to be fiscally sustainable and people are less trusting of services' longevity now because of the recent su
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
On your pricing plans page [0], there's a misleading statement that Cloudflare's free tier doesn't provide DDoS protection, but Cloudflare's pricing and feature page [1] states that the free tier does come with basic DDo
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Interesting that the domain security tool fails my domains for not having registrar lock enabled. The most interesting part is that Gandi sets clientTransferProhibited but not clientUpdateProhibited or clientDeleteProhibited. I wonder if th
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Possibly Mandrill/MailChimp employees flagging it because it's casting a bad light on them. They've disabled comments on their blog posts too. There seems to be a lot of backlash against what they're doing and they likel
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
As an aside from the topic at hand, this article is 3 hours old and has 52 points. Why is this hidden on the 11th page?
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
This article seems to speak more to learning (or improving) new motor skills, although it's not hard to imagine that the same principles could apply to learning other skills too.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
There's some really misleading information on that site. Tax rates are misleading and just plain wrong in some cases. I'd take information on that site with a pound of salt.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Estonian e-residency isn't the same. Stripe Atlas is a nearly end-to-end service for establishing a US company with a bank account and tax number. The Estonian e-residency on the other hand is essentially a just digital ID card that ca
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
No, not directly. Briefly, your two best options probably include E-1 (treaty trader) and E-2 (treaty investor). Both come with their issues and restrictions, but they're a common path so long as you either have substantial trade betwe
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Perhaps the least talked about hidden danger with this service is the fact that by establishing a US nexus, you're putting yourself in the crosshairs of patent trolls. Software patents pretty much aren't a thing in the rest of the
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Accepting cards from most locations isn't actually difficult any longer with Stripe, Braintree, Paymill, and others. US cards aren't special in terms of being able to accept them; they're just regular Visa/MC/Amex&#
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
That's on an individual basis. A corporation is an entirely separate legal entity that is not you. (That's the whole purpose of it.) Generally, indications that a natural person may be a "US person" include[0]: * A U.S.
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European Digital City Index(digitalcityindex.eu)
1 points by kintamanimatt 11y ago|0 comments
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
> "It's awesome to be credited with single-handedly bringing down a billion-dollar industry with eight kilobytes of code. But the truth is a little more complex." Eight kilobytes?! How do you build anything meaningful, esp
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Isn't this close to the essence of NSA letters, that have in-built-in gag orders?
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Ask HN: Is Braintree as evil as PayPal?
16 points by kintamanimatt 11y ago|15 comments
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
It's an absolute egregious shame that PayPal, after more than a decade of problematic behavior, is still relevant.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
As fun as MDMA is, it's horribly and cumulatively neurotoxic. Mass weekly usage would be a short term gain at the expense of a lot of long term health issues. MDMA and alcohol intoxication don't seem to be best friends either IIRC
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Why a computer buffer is called a buffer(johndcook.com)
3 points by kintamanimatt 11y ago|1 comments
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
This is probably one of the smartest questions I've come across in a while, and emphasizes a perspective I've never really thought of before.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
I think you meant to type hypocrisy. It's definitely an example of a double standard, not a false choice.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
No problem! There are other factors too, like increase adverse yaw which would become more pronounced if the ferried engine were on the same side as the failed engine.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Simply, aircraft engines are designed to be able to produce a lot more than their "fair share" of the thrust needed for flight. In the case of a twin engine aircraft, if one engine fails the other has to be able to compensate so t
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Aren't checks an anachronism in the US yet? I'd have thought bank transfers would have been more widely adopted in the US by now. I tend to use my debit cards more than credit cards. I've occasionally had to make chargebacks
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
IIRC that's not true for in-person transactions in locations where EMV chips have been rolled out and merchants actually use the chip.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
Because of this legislation I foresee non-EU companies choosing to set up a European subsidiary to take online payments. It's good for Europe and will likely apply an interesting market force on fees outside of the EU.
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by kintamanimatt 11y ago
TV commercials work differently to ads online and have different goals, mostly driven by the fact that it's vastly harder to measure the effectiveness of a TV ad. Coke, for example, largely advertises because they want brand awareness

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