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by plantain 7y ago
Ex-googler, I felt on the majority of issues, both as an entity but also as a collection of people, the intent was to do good. I was much warier of trusting Google with my data pre-Google to post-Google. It's constantly drilled into yo
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by plantain 7y ago
That's why you can't pay for a steak or a haircut with SEPA I guess.
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by plantain 7y ago
>(3), refunds aren't free for Stripe, and we were previously in a position where businesses with a lot of refunds were being subsidized by those who didn't. We want to give this margin away more sensibly. I understand they&#x27
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by plantain 7y ago
Credit card chargebacks have an appeals / dispute resolution process. SEPA does not.
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by plantain 7y ago
Credit card payments have an appeals/dispute resolution process. SEPA doesn't. You have to sue your customer if you want the money back. https://www.williamfry.com/newsandinsights/news-article/2013...
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by plantain 7y ago
>However, Stripe offers SEPA direct debit, which is usable with any European bank account and may work better for you. 1) SEPA has an 8-week no-questions no-appeal refund model, which is fundamentally incompatible with a SaaS business 2)
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by plantain 7y ago
My top issues running my business on Stripe: 1) Many countries still only allow depositing a single currency (i.e. Aus/AUD), doubling the cost of transaction due to the currency conversion, even tripling when we have to convert it back
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by plantain 7y ago
Octobat helps with that
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by plantain 7y ago
FYI Transferwise doesn't have NZD accounts currently, and they have no schedule for restoring them.
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by plantain 7y ago
SkySight | https://skysight.io | REMOTE | Part-time/Contract | React developer Small company based in Aus, myself and a few contractors, looking for React JS/Native skills for a frontend rewrite project. Should have an
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by plantain 7y ago
>has a long history of providing public services for the common good, rather than profit oriented motives. Hahaha. BOM charges extortionate, nonviable prices for <i>everything</i> above the basics. Australia is one of th
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by plantain 7y ago
Are you really pro-brexit because you're concerned about Bulgaria's healthcare?
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by plantain 7y ago
They also steal the lightning data too... https://community.windy.com/topic/6865/lightning-tracker/3
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by plantain 7y ago
>Low rates are a result of boomeres all over the world saving for retirement [citation needed] How did you come to that conclusion?
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These Lyrics Do Not Exist – Lyrics Generated Using AI(theselyricsdonotexist.com)
3 points by plantain 7y ago|0 comments
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by plantain 7y ago
Either the consumer is paying the VAT or the business. You can't say that the business pays the VAT when you are the business, but the consumer pays the VAT when you are the consumer. If you frame it as you "personally purchased&q
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by plantain 7y ago
And it's extremely dubious whether there is actually any improvement... https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/04/us-numerical-weather-...
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by plantain 7y ago
Huh? Why are you accounting for VAT twice? Either you consider that the business 'pays' the VAT or you 'pay' the VAT, you don't get it both ways.
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by plantain 7y ago
Being a big, bureaucratic leviathan of a company does not resolve you of the responsibility to protect your users. For all you know, hackers have already been exploiting this secretly, and being public, with a workaround now gives you a pla
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by plantain 7y ago
No more updates for my Huawei phone then presumably. Really feeling more secure now!
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by plantain 7y ago
Why do receipts exist? Why aren't they emailed to the address attached to my card?
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by plantain 8y ago
Glad to see "Support for iDEAL, SEPA Debit, and other European payment methods" is on the roadmap - the world is bigger than the US, and many European's don't have cards. Hopefully they don't continue requiring you
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New Compute- and Memory-Optimized VMs for Google Compute Engine(cloud.google.com)
3 points by plantain 8y ago|0 comments
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by plantain 8y ago
Stripe can certainly take USD - and my local (Australian) bank certainly accepts USD, as I have a USD bank account with them. But I'd cut them more slack if they didn't sting me for currency conversion as well.
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by plantain 8y ago
2. Stripe's currency conversion rates are also terrible. And you're forced into converting the currency rather than being able to deposit it in the currency my users pay in...
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by plantain 8y ago
It took me a long time to realise, but these people really do believe in bitcoin/blockchains.
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by plantain 8y ago
I have no idea how you are getting someone to talk to from AWS without paying. I have had 10k/mo spend with both and without a support plan you get absolutely nothing, and with they fall over themselves to help, calling you immediately
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by plantain 8y ago
>google sells your medical search history to your insurance company. [citation needed]
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by plantain 8y ago
So there's Memory Optimized, General Purpose... but there's no Compute Optimized? What gives?
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by plantain 8y ago
Dead as in, has no future.

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