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by reviseddamage 10y ago
it's not sad, it's cautionary. It's impressive to me, but it's also incredibly difficult to keep hacking and doing cool stuff from inside prison.
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by reviseddamage 10y ago
committing felony. it's a github pun meta isn't it.
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Bitcoin’s meta problem: governance (part II)(randomoracle.wordpress.com)
2 points by reviseddamage 10y ago|0 comments
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by reviseddamage 10y ago
pretty convinced from what data? source please? thanks!
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by reviseddamage 10y ago
What I get from BH signal: Well I don't have to worry and put AAPL into retirement portfolio, although probably means no longer salacious enough for shorts or immediate growth investors.
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Looking back on the Google Wallet plastic card(randomoracle.wordpress.com)
1 points by reviseddamage 10y ago|0 comments
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by reviseddamage 10y ago
I can't imagine the stress that Holmes goes through on a constant basis. There is the usual startup founder stress, but this feels like another level.
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by reviseddamage 10y ago
wot?
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by reviseddamage 10y ago
it's not in the least bit funny and the author is not implying that a 28 year old can't be a good manager. The author is comparing 1980's, 1990's tech work and now, and is making a point that amongst other observations,
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
take a break.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
Visa and MC are responsible for that, and Visa and MC will say that the regulatory frameworks in these countries dictate that level of pricing.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
I have to also assume this has already been considered in the game theory. So something else unexpected, unpredictable perhaps. Edit: The more I think about it, doing nothing would be most optimal. Doing nothing is so much more cost effecti
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
there is evidence some "code" but it's not very good.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
I have never understood that argument, I've heard it many times though. You would freely give out the private key of your credit card (credit card number/expiry date/cvv) to any online merchant, but hesitate on authing your b
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
Not bank account, prepaid card account; which carries almost the same legal requirements of opening a bank account. Prepaid program managers are not required to credit check to establish the account.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
The mitigation they are referring to is the deceptive recurring billing fraud.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
>No card issuer is going to verify a transaction of any significant value without AVS irl, Card acquirers do verify transactions without AVS, but they charge higher provided the merchant can demonstrate pre-transaction fraud mitigation &
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Elliot Gant, Marketer of the Button-Down Shirt, Dies at 89(nytimes.com)
2 points by reviseddamage 11y ago|1 comments
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
^ the hero we deserve
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
nah
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
viral is the real good one.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
we're used to a lot, a few more is ok. Burn rate, churn, runway, incubator, cottage, organic, stale, etc
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
From 1950: "What concerns me, as somebody who has absolutely zero interest in computers or electronics or whatever, is that as electronic devices become more and more ubiquitous, I'll probably still end up with some kind of quasi-
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
That is also not what I was implying. Banking shell companies is a very high risk activity frowned upon by the OCC as most of the time they are mismanaged. Only larger banks have the flexibility and the bandwidth, and the contingency to man
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
No one said that Atlas was directed at fintech.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
That's anecdotal testimony really isn't it? and it's not true for fintech startups, SVB doesn't even bank Stripe's core payfac business. Other than the namesake, most fintech payment companies use WF, Fifth Third, C
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
Why SVB and not WF? Seems odd that the sponsor bank for your payfac distribution, that has more resources than SVB, won't equally house the account for this new vertical. Any particular reason?
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
oh ok. good.
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
tbh, vc's apply the same rationale before investing. no?
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by reviseddamage 11y ago
you're not suggesting that China is Uber's Battle of Waterloo, are you?

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