lukevdp

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by lukevdp 9y ago
There are a few platforms for this sort of thing. Chargify, Recurly, Chargebee. I was in the same position as you 4 months ago and was looking for a solution. I looked at a lot of solutions but typically there were two problems. 1) did not
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by lukevdp 9y ago
The burden of proof is on the one making the claim
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by lukevdp 9y ago
USA has a different system than in the U.K. Or Australia. In the US, buyers go and get a buyers agent to help them buy the house. Buyers agents get 3% and sellers agents get 3%. (Actual amounts varies wildly) In UK and Australia, 99% of peo
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by lukevdp 10y ago
Can someone from US confirm the tax treatment of interest on investment loans? Are they counted as an expense? Can losses from an investment property be deducted against other income? Also, in US is there any capital gains discount for prop
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by lukevdp 10y ago
So, they cherry pick. I don't know anything about Sharia but I'm sure there are lots of cherry pickers among its followers as well.
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by lukevdp 10y ago
Not true. Check out the Twinkie diet: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=twinkie+diet&rlz=1C9BKJA_...
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by lukevdp 10y ago
What's wrong with the chrome browser on iOS? I've never had a problem with it.
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by lukevdp 11y ago
The law and common sense only partially intersect
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by lukevdp 11y ago
Yeah that's exactly what I thought. The guys dancing at the top of the article was a 3 second clip. You don't see the lead up or hear the sound, how are you meant to judge from that
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by lukevdp 11y ago
He is saying "everyone else is already making breadboards, let's figure out how to cut bread"
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by lukevdp 11y ago
Turnbull has not cut funding. Turnbull has mostly restored the funding that Abbott cut http://www.itnews.com.au/news/turnbull-to-restore-csiro-fund... This change to CSIRO has nothing to do with Turnbull either, it&#x2
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by lukevdp 11y ago
This is part of a head count neutral reorganisation of CSIRO. The move is away from climate measurement towards "what can we do about climate change?". Here is an interview with the ceo explaining the changes http://www
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by lukevdp 11y ago
1. Turnbull has restored funding to CSIRO last year http://www.itnews.com.au/news/turnbull-to-restore-csiro-fund... 2. This is a cost neutral internal reorganisation - moving away from climate measurement and towards w
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by lukevdp 11y ago
The problem is that taxi plates were so expensive and the fees went to the government as a requirement to be able to drive a taxi. A taxi driver that spent 100k to the government for an exclusive right to drive passengers should be compensa
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by lukevdp 11y ago
So if giving away $45billion for the betterment of the human race isn't enough, what does someone have to do to impress you?
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by lukevdp 11y ago
Did you read the end of the exact same sentence as the one you posted: "but I’m a geographer and must always disagree with any and all spatial claims, by anyone. I live in the same time zone where I grew up, but the sunrise/set ti
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by lukevdp 11y ago
"memorialized" accounts are frozen and can't be logged into anymore. People can still post on their wall.
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by lukevdp 11y ago
Agreed, I think the author is saying quantity has a quality of its own
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by lukevdp 11y ago
I agree. There is a lot of emphasis put on the education systems when the real difference is the culture
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by lukevdp 11y ago
Is there any way of getting the profile photo from an email address instead of username?
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by lukevdp 11y ago
The way these studies are reported do more harm than good. The studies prove basically nothing but get reported in a way that people draw wide inferences from them and think they are based in fact. Even the discussion in this thread all jus
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by lukevdp 12y ago
Internet.org is offering a free service to people who would otherwise have no access to the Internet. Net neutrality on a free service in a developing country is an entirely different issue than net neutrality in developed countries with hi
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by lukevdp 12y ago
It doesn't need to be an evolutionary change, it could be that education, health, and societal pressure has created the change
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by lukevdp 12y ago
If everyone plays perfectly, in the long run everyone will have the same amount of money that they started with. In most games there is a rake (fee) taken by the house, so the house would slowly take everyone's money.
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by lukevdp 12y ago
If the guy actually wanted to get the price he was quoted, he would have been able to, but instead he wanted to be a jerk and make a video
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by lukevdp 12y ago
More likely, they were already being made in China, he just went on alibaba and found them there
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by lukevdp 12y ago
Say that to someone whose life has been saved! You don't need to be rich to be happy. Who are you to judge the value of someone else's life?
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by lukevdp 12y ago
The complicated lineup is probably more related to a maturing market
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by lukevdp 12y ago
There are plenty of doctors, drug companies, scientists and researches working on these issues.
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by lukevdp 12y ago
Maybe this should be marked as from 1999!

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