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That sucks, I only have a Google Voice number.
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Many ppl in Scotland and Ireland view it as a gateway to independence they've long sought after.
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I work at a Bay Area tech company with over 10k employees and we are asked to log our ethnic and gender identity in Workday.
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peanuty1
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In tech, Indians and East Asians are also not considered a minority.
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Almost all new jobs created in Canada during the pandemic were in public sector
(thestar.com)
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Because Apple is willing to pay a premium that it easily passes on to its loyal customers.
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Pakistan to Tax Graphics Cards Based on Onboard Memory
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Robinhood cutting about 23% of jobs
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The worker shortage is at least partly bc of people leaving the workforce, not just bc of creation of new jobs (compared to pre-Covid 2020).
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> What's the OP/your alternative? Square is one. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
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peanuty1
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Have you tried Square? https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
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> I ended up moving back to Stripe because the alternatives suck even more, or at least the one I picked. Did you try Square? https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
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Square is one option. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
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Square is one option. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
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> What are some good Stripe alternatives? Square is one. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
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I recommend Square, it works great for my mom's business. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
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The article says the new valuation is $74b. Block (Square) did over $17.6B revenue last year, an 85.95% increase from 2020. Their current market cap is below $40b and their stock is down around 70% from when Stripe raised their last round o
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Internal val is the val decided by Stripe. External vals are the vals decided by external 3rd parties like Fidelity.
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Fidelity has its own valuation for Stripe.
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> Square, while they don't have a strong B2C product Huh? Block (formerly Square) has an incredibly strong B2C product (the #1 finance app on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store in the US) called Cash App (formerly Square Cash).
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Stripe has an incentive to cut its valuation to a much higher than fair price to avoid the terrible optics of a big valuation reduction.
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> You won’t know until a year after it starts. 7 months in the US to be precise (if a recession started Jan 1, 2022, we find out on Jul 28, 2022).
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So are Adyen and to a lesser extent, Block (Square).
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The market caps of other Silicon Valley payments companies like Block (formerly Square) and PayPal peaked in Q1-Q3 2021 before declining in Q4. So if Stripe went public before Q2 2021 (to account for 6 month lockup period), their stock-hold
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The restriction of not being able to liquidate their shares on the public market because of Stripe staying private for an unusually long time (Block (formerly Square), the other double-digit billion-dollar Silicon Valley payments company fo
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Would it be such a bad thing if those artists move to, say, St. Louis and create the next big thriving art hub there?
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It was ridiculously hot but I would compare it to brakes being slammed with so many companies instating hiring freezes or slow downs like Meta, Snap, Salesforce, Microsoft, Uber, Robinhood, and Stripe.
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> * Job markets are still extremely strong Less so in Silicon Valley (which should be relevant to the HN crowd), as far as I can tell working at one of the relatively few Silicon Valley tech companies that hasn't slowed hiring yet.
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Yet 80% of Waterloo computer science grads move to the US after graduating to enjoy a higher quality of life.
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Wow, Elizabeth Warren loses more of my respect every day.
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