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by shawnee_ 13y ago
What an interesting discussion. It should be noted that no matter how much evidence you can provide to your payment company about legitimate chargebacks, it's all useless if any one of the following is true: (A) the person/s figh
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
The tone of this article is pretty defensive and borders on hostile. Understandably? Yeah, it sucks when people misinterpret a sentiment or take something out of context, but if you really want an open discussion about why there aren&#x27
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
While it's true that we're approaching the deceleration of shrinking chip size, there are still plenty of ways micro and nano computing will be optimized. Some of the more interesting developments are happening in the world of gr
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If net neutrality was truly working, nobody would need to renew their contracts with Verizon or TMobile or anybody else. Contracts would be deprecated and all the telecoms would be forced to compete on something other than lock-in and &quot
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
Living small(er) in order to minimize carbon footprint makes sense. Green Metropolis by David Owen is a fantastic book that makes the case for Manhattan being a great blueprint for the ideal city of the future -- people living more densel
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
Would California's perpetual budget problems be better solved by localizing the resources of a state government to be more accessible? Probably. Clearly California is (and has been for a long time) too big for its shoes, as evidenced
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Scientists make largest ever quantum circuit board(extremetech.com)
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Yes, but not the genetics of humans. My guess would be that the genetics of the soybean plants would be a more likely culprit for any strange hormonal reactions in men: HT soybeans went from 17 percent of U.S. soybean acreage in 1997 to 6
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
Find a great property manager / cleaner -- Without one of these doing this remotely would be impossible. I managed to find a great local cleaner on craigslist. She charges a flat fee of $200 per month which covers unlimited cleanings.
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
A newer one that's not mentioned in the article: http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/donate-an-artifact/
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Note, you can chose to keep your fundraising private, which allows you do to verify accreditation the old way. However, it's now unclear if events like Demo Day, a post on Facebook or other pitch events would count as 'general so
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What the JOBS Act means for startup funding: beware the cookie lickers(ink.hackeress.com)
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GoDaddy is now the biggest player in the domain name sales channels both for new registrations and selling in the secondary market. With the upcoming release of new gTLDs, they couldn't be better positioned to sell more domain names a
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Over the years we'll build up the island, doing most of the work ourselves. We'll build a communal building with a shower, kitchen, lounge, and bathrooms. Each owner of the island gets to pick a spot on which to build their own l
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According to the CFPB, The banking industry charged a total of $32 billion in overdraft fees to consumers in 2012, an increase of more than 60% from $19.9B in 1990. Part of this increase is that banks have been turning the screws on consum
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One of the interesting things about this map is that it shows not just distribution , but also density . Non-Caucasian ethnicities are not only concentrated in certain "neighborhoods", they also tend to live in households with
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
This is a great list. Another one to add: (8) Don't underestimate the power of audience participation. Being attuned to opportunities for questions as they come up makes for a much more interesting experience (both for the speaker a
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It's time for a Price War in Payments(intuitiveink.tumblr.com)
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This is why I was fired from Balanced Payments: I understood exactly what the Federal judge eventually concluded -- that payments processing is becoming like a commodity (think web hosting), and that interchange fees have been unnecessarily
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"Capped" debit card swipe fees are too high rules Federal judge(washingtonpost.com)
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Swartz' father says MIT failed "moral obligation" to advocate on Aaron's behalf(business.time.com)
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Whistleblowing, Bank Fraud & Bad Faith at Balanced (YC W11)(intuitiveink.tumblr.com)
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The Lesson of the Monkeys(jason.wells.me)
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
GitHub's keyboard navigation / shortcuts are snazzy, but this is great -- very well done and useful. Only bug I see is that the tree navigation vertical scrollbar on the right side of the "tree" view is hidden by the row numbers. [Firefox
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Whistleblowing, Bank Fraud and Bad Faith at Balanced Payments(intuitiveink.tumblr.com)
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Retainers are a great way to add security to what is ( or can be ) a pretty uncertain financial path, however they don’t come without risks. You have to make sure any retainer you agree to works for both you and the client. If the client i
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Mission: Allow anyone [or anything] connected to the internet to move money quickly, safely & at the lowest cost possible. Fantastic mission statement: clear, concise and it sounds almost impossible to do. Although they didn't like
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Temp agencies taking immigrants for a ride in Chicago(motherjones.com)
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http://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1291 Rationale according to the authors of the bill: This state has previously recognized the importance of providing Californians with transparency about how their personal information has been shared by bu
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the average commission paid to the buying and selling brokers was 5.4 percent of the price of a home in 2011, up from 5 percent in 2008. (The seller’s agent collects the commission from the seller and then splits it evenly with the buyer’s

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