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by objclxt 11y ago
I do always appreciate your willingness to comment here on stories about Stripe, so first of all thanks for taking the time to reply. I know so many people who have great experiences using Stripe and love the services you provide - I'v
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by objclxt 11y ago
> VISA provides a valuable service Do they? Consider Brazil or the Netherlands, countries where the dominant way to pay for things online is by direct bank transfer. In the case of the Netherlands, iDEAL represents 54% of online transa
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by objclxt 11y ago
In the US Stripe charges 2.9%. That's 66% more than in Australia. Do you think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US? No, it clearly does not. Whilst I'll happily congratulate Stripe for the investment, I
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by objclxt 11y ago
I used to freelance at one of the big two major IFE manufacturers. Their systems are a bit of a hodgepodge of platforms. Currently, the dominant platform is Linux, running either a) a QT based GUI or b) a HTML based GUI. But most new planes
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by objclxt 11y ago
Nearly all of the ways we detect exoplanets involve indirect observation. Most of them are based on observing the star(s) in the system of the planet. The two main ways we detect exoplanets are: * Radial Velocity - just as the gravity of a
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Of the big emerging business lines at Google - Android/Play, GFiber/Loon, YouTube, self-driving cars, Nest & home automation, enterprise Google Docs, and AppEngine/Cloud - YouTube is the only one where the money com
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by objclxt 11y ago
> whether Pao actually had anything (or everything) to do with it? Reddit only has around 70 employees, I would find it extremely unlikely a CEO at a company of that size wouldn't have been aware or involved in the decision (if on
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Try for yourself next time you order something online. Makes me wonder why they even collect the data in the first place... You're right, you don't need the billing address to process a payment, although it's not true
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by objclxt 11y ago
On Android the Google Wallet app is being replaced by Android Pay, so it is more of a re-brand.
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by objclxt 11y ago
A couple of million users doesn't mean it's profitable by any means.
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by objclxt 11y ago
That's not what Aral is saying, though. He's saying "unsustainable systemic inequality" poses an existential threat, and that welfare cuts contribute to that. He is clearly not talking about welfare cuts alone.
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by objclxt 11y ago
Certainly the judge thought it had nothing to do with it, which is why it couldn't be introduced as evidence.
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by objclxt 11y ago
Sales taxes are also a regressive tax. Low income households and those living paycheck to paycheck end up paying as a proportion of their income far more than high income households, since they consume more relative to the money coming in (
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by objclxt 11y ago
That's a mountweazel (better known as a fictitious entry) - reference books used to do it to trap people copying the text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by objclxt 12y ago
The argument against reclaiming is that is serves little point at this stage in the game. It really buys you no significant time, and really we should be doing all we can to move everyone over to IPv6.
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by objclxt 12y ago
I don't think that makes you a philistine. There are definitely some people who value art primarily on its technical merits, and there's nothing wrong with that. Some of my friends subscribe to a "if I could do it, it's
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by objclxt 12y ago
That's true, Viagra is actually proven to work, whereas Meerkat isn't. There isn't a difference. Spam is spam.
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by objclxt 12y ago
Although that 6% figure is completely unsourced, unverified, and comes from someone employed by a competitor. So...
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by objclxt 12y ago
The problem with "artisanal" is it's not a protected word, whereas "handmade" is. By which I mean you can't slap a "handmade" sticker on any old product - you need to be able to demonstrate that it is
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by objclxt 12y ago
> What percentage of people who go to law school are non-US citizens? Significantly fewer than engineering schools, because engineering degrees are applicable worldwide, and law degrees are applicable only to the jurisdiction you wish
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by objclxt 12y ago
Personally, if overheating was a major flaw I probably wouldn't consider the laptop well crafted. Thermal management seems part of the overall design to me. I don't dispute it's a nice looking machine though!
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by objclxt 12y ago
Walmart do say on their hiring page that they require a drug test unless prohibited by state law[1]. I would assume it applies to their subsidiaries as well. It seems rather unnecessary. I can sort of understand it for jobs that require s
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by objclxt 12y ago
> Huh? They're competing just fine by keeping prices down, which is what most consumers look for first I dispute that. If consumers looked to price first everyone reading this would be using a ChromeBook, but I imagine a sizable n
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by objclxt 12y ago
Agreed. You need to recognize that there are some of the best engineers in the world work at companies where they aren't able to put code on GitHub, or it isn't worth it for them. You're working on something secretive, you ha
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by objclxt 12y ago
I like that, it's a good question. Nobody's actually asked me that, which is odd because one question I like to ask all candidates I interview is the inverse ("If you could change one thing about $our_product, etc"). You
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by objclxt 12y ago
I can think of quite a few examples of people who had "done it before" and went on to have a very disappointing experience. Often, the people who have done it before will fail because they assume the same strategy will result in t
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by objclxt 12y ago
> Why does Anthem know your income? It doesn't seem relevant to offer you health insurance products. Your income is strongly correlated with your health. The lower your income the more likely you are to suffer from conditions such
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by objclxt 12y ago
Nobody takes net points. Plenty of people take points on the gross, which is fine. Studios know that talent has wised up to net points, but that doesn't stop creative accounting from screwing you over in other ways. For example, one of
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by objclxt 12y ago
> since 1970s, cigarette industry has been in a steady volume decline In the US - not globally. The tobacco market is growing and sales are increasing on a worldwide basis. As developed countries stop smoking, developing countries star
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by objclxt 12y ago
You are assuming acquirers are based exclusively in the US, which very much isn't the case. B2B software product that makes it easier to develop apps? I can think of a lot of large EU corporations that would be just as interested as US

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