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by ryanackley 7y ago
you aren't scrolling past the featured listings...
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by ryanackley 7y ago
Check out Shopify's marketplace for selling online businesses [0]. I limited the search to dropshipping. Dozen's of businesses with five figure monthly revenue and a few with more than that. Revenue data comes directly from Shopif
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by ryanackley 7y ago
Yes and no. Essentially this is already happening, except they are drop-shipping you the product for next to nothing direct from China. In fact, there is a small industry that revolves around this business model. The barrier of entry has ju
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by ryanackley 7y ago
I'm skeptical, the indigenous chief who is the subject of the article makes it very clear he wished he only had one wife but he can't get rid of the other two. One of the premises of the article is that polygamy was probably not a
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by ryanackley 7y ago
This isn't accurate at all according to the article. In this particular place and time, women outnumbered men. I'm assuming it's because men took on some dangerous role that women didn't (war, hunting, etc.) “Since I ha
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by ryanackley 7y ago
According to the prospectus, they lose so much money because they are building out new locations. Their break even point takes about a year for an individual location. So theoretically, they have a path to profitability. I just wonder where
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by ryanackley 7y ago
Again, I loved Australia but restaurant service is something USA does better. It's not the difference in attitude even though I think you're exaggerating a little. In Australia, it's getting one serving of water and never see
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by ryanackley 7y ago
i think you're a little biased. Best case the tax rate is about the same. I found it to be higher. It's all situational. For example, you can't file a joint tax return in Australia. You can't deduct mortgage interest. I
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by ryanackley 7y ago
Same experience and background as you. I worked for Atlassian in Sydney from 2008-2013. I found Australia to be a relative Utopia compared to the USA. After traveling around to other countries and living in Australia, then coming home, I re
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by ryanackley 7y ago
Here's my main beef with Plaid: a lot of times when you use it as an end user you have no idea that you're giving one of Plaid's customers full history on all of your transactions, accounts, credit cards, loans, etc. Plaid pr
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by ryanackley 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious. What type of fraud or abuse are you trying to prevent? Maybe cover that in the postmortem.
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by ryanackley 7y ago
NeXT wasn't Linux. My understanding is that it was a completely proprietary POSIX based operating system. That being said there is something to be said for POSIX based (unix, linux, os x), terminal based development tools. It's wh
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by ryanackley 7y ago
His perceived support of Trump definitely eroded his fragile asylum with the Ecuadorians. They released multiple statements that made it obvious they were getting fed up with him at the time. Personally, I think his support of Trump was a t
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by ryanackley 8y ago
I came here to say something similar but with my added first hand experience of working for a government contractor at Kennedy Space Center. Almost all of the real engineering done by "NASA" at KSC is done by government contractor
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by ryanackley 8y ago
Doesn't most advice like this lack nuance? That is what makes it easily consumed and processed. We attach our own rationalizations and perspectives to it.
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by ryanackley 8y ago
One man's conspiracy nut is another man's foreign operative trying to subvert democracy. Just my opinion, but I think there is a clear line between a politically subversive conspiracy theory (i.e. pizzagate, sandy hook was staged,
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by ryanackley 8y ago
Came here to say that I've been impressed with Azure DevOps so far. We don't have the same requirements as the Author. For example, we don't deploy artifacts to a dependency management system and we don't build on Linux.
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by ryanackley 8y ago
Maybe. One problem with listing a house for a 3% commission is the listing agent must put this in MLS. The buyer's agent's commission will be 1.5%. This could possibly put you at a disadvantage among buyers since you are competing
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by ryanackley 8y ago
Over the last two years I've bought a couple of properties and I see the value of realtors as professional negotiators and experts on real estate laws and contracts. That being said, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and their
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by ryanackley 8y ago
The entire article discusses saving money on income taxes not property taxes. According to the chart, property taxes are more expensive in Miami.
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by ryanackley 8y ago
What the article misses is that it's most likely being sold as a tax dodging scheme. In other words, buy a house in Miami, claim FL residency, avoid all of these taxes but spend most of your time in NY.
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by ryanackley 8y ago
> without creating that dogmatic culture, would his writing have become popular enough to be disseminated to a wide audience Personally, I think you have the cause and effect switched around. Would his opinions be considered dogmatic if
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by ryanackley 8y ago
This. I was part of a team that did a rewrite of a product at a large well-known company. Also, saw rewrites happen throughout my career that I wasn't directly a part of but were happening in the same company I happened to be working a
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by ryanackley 8y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. As long as you're transparent about it in a 30 page ToS then it's all good. Because when you go to checkout at a cash register, you're going to stop and hold the line for an hour or more
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by ryanackley 8y ago
Here is one discussion from a so-called whistleblower I was involved in. I will let you decide on the ethics[1]. I'm in the ACH space and I personally know a merchant who planned on using them for account verification for point of sale
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by ryanackley 8y ago
You may not sell the data but you give developer's access to bank balance, transaction history, and income streams. Essentially some of the most private aspects of a person's life. Seems legitimately useful for personal finance to
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by ryanackley 8y ago
Slightly off-topic but one thing that I've always been honestly curious about is that literally billions of dollars are donated to cancer research each year...but then the practical results of the research are sold to oncology patients
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by ryanackley 8y ago
How do you know the statistic probability of life evolving in a solar system? We don't have an observation technique to definitively observe this. Again, we've only ever observed a single solar system up close.
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by ryanackley 8y ago
My first thought is this should call into question the method(s) we are using to measure and observe planets in other solar systems. Think on this, the one solar system we can empirically confirm with multiple observation techniques, i.e. w
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by ryanackley 8y ago
Before you shell out $15k-$75k be aware that Google's record of maintaining API's is very bad. They very aggressively deprecate API's with little or no warning and provide zero alternatives. In my opinion, they have very litt

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