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by mehhh 7y ago
Stipend and educational "choice" programs rarely work as intended, hence the charter school movement withering in the US. Most alternative schools are like TM Landry, with profit or religous indoctrination often being the 1st prio
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by mehhh 7y ago
Those types of educational accounts have been home to Apple (and later Microsoft) in the recent past, all it takes is one school administrator to flip that district to a different solution. Hence NeXT's focus on educational institution
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by mehhh 7y ago
Hosts of ActivityPub based platforms have all kinds of troubles with users and instances that are abusive and/or datamining. Thing is, the instances are generally small and good admins communicate, dropping known abusive IPs and reachi
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by mehhh 7y ago
So the police created homeless sex workers? How does this not worsen the blight in the city?
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by mehhh 7y ago
This is why its important to encourage the use of Libre alternatives including Matrix & Signal. iMessage is the new Blackberry Messenger, it will have significant staying power, but walled garden messaging platforms don't last fore
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by mehhh 7y ago
Quite the suburban hellscape, eh? Many of these 50+ mph stroads forgo sidewalks and attempt to ban pedestrians (or even bikers sometimes).
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by mehhh 7y ago
KeyPOS has quite a bit of charm, and I wish it were more extensible (eg: free software) like Core POS. The Electron app part is new, I know they were using Firefox with a few XUL extensions in 2015. There probably wasn't much choice be
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by mehhh 7y ago
Google and Amazon have both branched out much more than Apple, though Apple is trying to open a Seattle office. I'm just surprised they would choose Austin for manufacturing, as it means they have long supply lines and have to build an
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by mehhh 7y ago
Wow, Apple really likes to stick to the areas they know (Cupertino & Austin).
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by mehhh 7y ago
Core POS is another fun one to check out (it even does credit, debit & EBT) https://www.core-pos.com/
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by mehhh 7y ago
NCR seems to be able to survive, but I wonder if the non-Windows point of sale systems will finish eating the low & midrange business. My old employer is prepping for the shift with their software vendor currently, should allow for a mu
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by mehhh 7y ago
Sub-area equity and ridership analysis are used to counter this, hence Seattle building its light rail network through one of the poorest & highest transit ridership parts of town, and continuing it north through U-District (where cheap
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by mehhh 7y ago
Austin has repeatedly chosen stunted transit and no usable non-car infrastructure. When I went to visit a friend at Apple in Austin, there was no bus that could take me anywhere near Apple's campus or any of the 4+ story residental com
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by mehhh 7y ago
Was this during NCR's bad years where AT&T ran the business into the ground? I don't think NCR really recovered till the NCR 7878 came out, setting the bar for a robust scale/scanner
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by mehhh 7y ago
Edwin (with Stripe) did just re-enable our account, I don't think we will use it, but its nice to not be banned!
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by mehhh 7y ago
Here is Nitzan of Future Nine (a pure-VoIP company) stating that Stripe does not service VoIP providers: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29552956- When I asked Stripe Support about servicing VoIP companies last year
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by mehhh 7y ago
Amazon has direct integrations for payments in the US and most major countries, but farms out payment processing in certain low volume regions to Stripe. Optimize a region's payment processing as volume increases is what Amazon is doin
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by mehhh 7y ago
I'm 90% certain Stripe has had a few fly by night calling card companies sign up with them, and gotten burned when the calling card company gets a ton of chargebacks for not delivering everything promised. Thus, a blanket ban on Teleco
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by mehhh 7y ago
Twilio almost certainly has a different agreement with Stripe than is standard, and Stripe commonly bans Telecom related services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012656 The Ubiqiti forums are also littered with ISPs
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by mehhh 7y ago
Support told me that our business could not continue to use Stripe 2 years ago, we've been with Payment.ninja since (and pay a little under half what we used to pay Stripe). I took what Stripe Support told us very literally, and we cea
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by mehhh 7y ago
Stripe has a slick API, but their banned merchant categories (anything telecom or networking related) have caused trouble for many potential clients, esp. as Ubiquiti integrated them as their first payment processor. The distinction between
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by mehhh 7y ago
Wikipedia is a fairly reliable, even handed source on most subjects. A general search engine will always rank it highly...
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by mehhh 7y ago
Lemmy is a fun project that I'm sure you could make even better!
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by mehhh 7y ago
More Everything data pools get hard throttled to that speed after the data pool runs out, not deprioritized like newer plans. Still a shit thing for Verizon to do...
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by mehhh 7y ago
Verizon claims to deprioritize on busy towers rather than hard throttle you after a certain number of gigs. Same thing happens for T-Mobile, AT&T & Sprint. With a hard throttle there is no way a user could burn 200GB a month over LT
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by mehhh 7y ago
Who cares about Mastodon? Lemmy is ActivityPub compliant, just like PeerTube, write.as, Pleroma, rustodon, PixelFed and the other wonderful AP projects out there. These platforms do not fracture the Fediverse FYI, you can follow cross-platf
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by mehhh 7y ago
You might not notice 256kbps throttling, but most people will. Youtube stops working right, Bandcamp, Pandora & Spotify buffer, and browsing the web or navigating takes a bit to load. The top couple percent of T-Mobile USA users use ov
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by mehhh 7y ago
This creates echo chambers like 4chan, 8chan, pleroma.site, gab.com & /r/The_Donald where likeminded people gather and decide bashing in the heads of LGBTQ+ people like myself is perfectly acceptable, and proceed to act out th
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by mehhh 7y ago
I disagree with your false equivalency. IRC is akin to a cellphone without voicemail, as when your disconnected from the network (cellular or IRC) you just don't get communications. Scrollback and voicemail can be useful, but a good ch
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by mehhh 7y ago
Lemmy is a federated alternative to Reddit: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy Edit: Check out the dev instance of Lemmy! https://dev.lemmy.ml/

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