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by quartz 7y ago
I’ve started using the BPme app which, while clunky, avoids having my physical card interact with the pump. Contactless can’t come soon enough!
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by quartz 7y ago
You're being irrational with that fear. Cyclists are basically never killed by other cyclists or pedestrians. In fact, 5 of the last 8 years had zero pedestrian deaths due to collisions with cyclists. [1] [1] https://www1.n
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by quartz 7y ago
I see this question come up all the time and the answer is that on average, fewer than one person per year dies due to a collision with a bicycle in NYC. In fact 5 of the last 8 years had zero pedestrian deaths due to collisions with cyclis
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by quartz 7y ago
Maybe today when every company would love you to do a series of coding exams to vet you for their thousands of competing positions, but in 2007/2008 a fun brain teaser to chew on and solve in your spare time was novel, fun, and a good
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by quartz 7y ago
I remember reading these on the T on my way to and from my first job in Boston back in maybe 2009. Back then it felt like you had to have a PhD to work at google and it was cool to know there were companies that just wanted curious people
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by quartz 7y ago
> Since taxes are normally assessed on profits, that means they pay little or no tax in the countries where sales are made. Curious why this wouldn't be easily addressed via a local sales tax. Why is a revenue tax necessary as well
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by quartz 7y ago
I feel like this post mistakes advice for directive. Most of the great founders I've encountered are excellent pattern-matching engines who can absorb large quantities of advice and then re-apply it within their personal contexts rathe
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by quartz 7y ago
Since the company is never going to actually conduct business in California I wonder if you could register in another state like Massachusetts and skip the foreign qualification in CA?
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by quartz 7y ago
This could actually be a really fun project to do with your child. It's a pretty inexpensive way to teach them about how companies work, the basics of organization, and even introduce them to the idea of taxes. Registering a simple co
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by quartz 7y ago
Starting a business should be something anyone in the US can do without hiring lawyers and wading through complex paperwork. In Massachusetts you can even download a fill-in-the-blank articles of organization and look up the filed articles
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New York proposes cap on cruising for Uber and other ride sharing services(nydailynews.com)
1 points by quartz 7y ago|0 comments
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by quartz 7y ago
Pretty sure you can remove sms from the 2fac process by going to: My Account > Security & Privacy > Additional Security Verification > Update Your Phone Numbers Used for Account Security And then setting the preferred method to
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by quartz 7y ago
It doesn't write individual orders to the chain. It could if we funded a wallet to pay the gas to write those records but right now it just does authentication of NFT ownership to grant access, which is conveniently free. The history
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by quartz 7y ago
It's a Nespresso Lattissima-- the old version where the buttons were physical push-to-press. We pulled the buttons off and soldered wires to the board inside via a 4-channel relay.
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by quartz 7y ago
If an EU user tries to make coffee we redirect them to a "this content is unavailable in your region" page so I think we're 100% good to go with GDPR compliance.
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by quartz 7y ago
The coffee machine in our office is controlled by blockchain NFTs and a Raspberry Pi: Once authenticated, an owner of the NFT can select their coffee type on their phone which then signals the Raspberry Pi to make whatever coffee type was s
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Art meets blockchain on this social network for collecting photos, designs(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by quartz 7y ago|0 comments
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by quartz 8y ago
My understanding was that Amazon was intending to use existing city programs to fund $1.3B of the $3B in incentives, most of that tied to the number of employees they hire to work in specific zones including LIC [1]. Why do they have to inv
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by quartz 8y ago
It's a bit buried in the article, but here's the link to the complete and searchable digital archives: http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet
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by quartz 9y ago
User personal data, account information and relationships, financial data, and the PR impact of having these hacks made public in the wrong light during an ugly news cycle carry value far beyond the half-life of the vulnerability itself.
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by quartz 9y ago
Skyscanner also recently made it tougher to get at live airfare data through their API[1]. Sad to see providers disappear for this. Not sure what the alternatives are now. [1] https://support.business.skyscanner.net/hc&#x2F
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by quartz 10y ago
Varies by device but it's basically just repairing Bluetooth. I have a pair of Marshall wireless headphones and double-clicking the button on the right earphone puts them into pairing mode. From there it's two clicks on a MacBoo
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by quartz 10y ago
If your arm is hanging outside the window and the vehicle is actively rolling, you're likely going to lose that arm. Otherwise, based on all the other logic described, the decision to roll the windows up probably takes into account if
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by quartz 11y ago
Very cool! We built something similar using flash and RTMFP back in 2010 and actually got into YC W11 with the project (with dreams of building something like airdrop until Apple went and actually built airdrop causing us to pivot into hig
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by quartz 13y ago
That logic can be applied to just about anything ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation ) and when used in the context I linked only serves to belittle the work of others while distracting from the
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by quartz 13y ago
Missing my (least) favorite one: the "world priorities hater." Hates anything built by intelligent people that doesn't directly solve the problems they perceive to be important. Most often seen when small startups execute u
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by quartz 15y ago
Kudos on the site! In an earlier version of Sendoid, we were doing exactly this to handle the "larger than reasonable" in-browser sharing issue. We had some privacy concerns at the time with still requiring what was essentially a data prox
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by quartz 15y ago
Surprised to see no mention of Woot in the article. They've been using editorialized humor to sell a single heavily discounted product each day since 2006.
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by quartz 16y ago
Nope, you're just describing two different use cases (real time transfer vs. delayed transfer). Currently you can use the installable app and files will resume/restart whenever either disconnected machine comes back online to combat the oft
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by quartz 16y ago
Sure, I can give you some info: We're still discovering this space, but we've learned that there are a huge number of use-cases in commercial sectors for secured, fast file transfer-- especially out-of-network transfers that don't require t

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