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by rococode 6y ago
We've been looking at this recently as well and have been considering switching to Paddle. It seems to solve all of our sales tax issues (and other challenges like selling in India or the EU in general) in exchange for about double the
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by rococode 6y ago
I've only played around with it a bit and haven't used it extensively before, but PptxGenJS may be what you need to build this yourself. https://github.com/gitbrent/PptxGenJS https://gitbrent.githu
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by rococode 6y ago
I've actually reposted this a couple times since I thought it was interesting and it never gained traction, so at this point I don't remember for sure how I originally came across it. A quick search shows this page has the same li
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Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches (2007) [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
94 points by rococode 6y ago|40 comments
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How anti-cheats detect system emulation(secret.club)
2 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
"Their" is defined as a "his or her" singular pronoun in most modern dictionaries, perhaps in part "to be PC" but probably much more because "his or her" is an incredibly clunky phrase to say. Conside
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by rococode 6y ago
Seconded! We do micropayments in the $2-3 range and $0.30/transaction is a huge cut of our already slim margins. We're also in the process of migrating the bulk of our transactions to Paypal, but would love to switch back to prima
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Athletes completing bans get unexpected chance at Olympics(apnews.com)
1 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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Lichess.org/costs (monthly expense spreadsheet)(lichess.org)
1 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
Interesting idea, thanks! I tried my cell phone's hotspot the other day and it was actually a little better although still unstable. I imagine a one of those hotspots specifically designed to provide internet would be better, I forgot
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Ask HN: How do you deal with bad internet while WFH?
1 points by rococode 7y ago|3 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
Quite late to this thread so idk if anyone will see this haha, but with regards to > The worst calls I ever have been on are ones with tons of background noise, video and audio lag The current situation also means internet is unfortunate
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by rococode 7y ago
That sounds a lot like Uber Eats though. It might even be more efficient than Uber Eats, actually, since instead of going to restaurants all over the city, the drivers can just pick up from a couple specific places.
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Robinhood accused of offering snafu credits to squelch suit(bloomberg.com)
70 points by rococode 7y ago|23 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
> (which is likely [1]) Why do you think it's likely? If you haven't left in 10 days and continue to stay home you're probably safe - safer than if you decided to leave the city now. Is there something preventing you from
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by rococode 7y ago
If you have a Facebook account and are curious what other apps and websites are sending data about you to Facebook, check out this link: https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list (click the area with
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by rococode 7y ago
Might be pretty fun for the code golf stack exchange too!
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Summary of Phase III Stimulus (upcoming US coronavirus bill)(twitter.com)
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Waffle House Index(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by rococode 7y ago|5 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
2019-nCoV was the provisional name, SARS-CoV-2 is the current official name of the virus.
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by rococode 7y ago
Meta: This thread is fun to read, it's cool to skim through such a large variety of ideas and projects. I wouldn't mind seeing it as a monthly thing like the "Who is hiring?" posts. There'd probably be some overlap
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Who made the Minecraft paintings? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rococode 7y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
I've been having major internet issues lately (Seattle area), have had 4 techs come try to figure it out. Yesterday's tech finally correctly diagnosed the problem as happening before the connection reaches our home but was unsure
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by rococode 7y ago
It's actually not bad nowadays if you use APIs (e.g. Amazon Transcribe, Google speech to text, etc.). I worked with speech-to-text APIs for an AR app and they performed quite well. For a desktop app you could probably toss in something
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by rococode 7y ago
> We had issues with a lot of payments failing with "no not honor". It was the same with other providers and did turn out to be the banks Useful info, thanks for sharing! We've also been getting some "do not honors&qu
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by rococode 7y ago
Right now we're WFH until mid-April but planning for it to last as late as July or even longer. China started quarantines much earlier than we did, so our infection curve will get much higher. When public transport was shutdown in Wu
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by rococode 7y ago
Someone on Reddit largely debunked this as a (possibly intentionally) bad translation, leading to the 32k upvote thread on /r/worldnews being removed: Original comment, copy pasted below: https://old.reddit.com/r&#
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by rococode 7y ago
I feel bad for the Fed folks because they were stuck in a terrible position. Their options were basically: Don't do anything - "Fed won't save us!" Do something as scheduled (March 18) - "wow, we already priced this
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S&P 500 drops 9%, extending losses after 15-minute trading halt(cnbc.com)
111 points by rococode 7y ago|157 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
Wow, that's an interesting hypothesis! I just pulled up a random wordlist on GitHub (370k words) [1]. Searching it in a text editor, "ght" appears 1621 times and "gth" only appears 77 times! So perhaps habitual mist

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