slice_of_life

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by slice_of_life 9y ago
I stopped watching CNN as well because the bias was all too blatant and here I was all these years thinking that it was unbiased or at least tried to be balanced. Marc Andreessen (whom I consider one of the smartest people I like to learn f
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
> but please do not come away with the impression that all right-leaning people are unreasonable Nor that even MOST right leaning people are unreasonable. It's all a matter of vantage point. Edit: grammar
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
> if you are unreasonable, you're most likely on the right. Most reasonable people are clustered with the left. I hope you realize there's nothing reasonable about this statement. IMO, most times when the right has been consid
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
> In what ways do you think it could be improved if people could fork it? What follows a fork is a competing variant. From a consumer's vantage point, this is almost always good. More competition creates such a great incentive struc
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
The BTC reddit community is the worst! I no longer go there for any BTC related conversations. Zero decorum, literal insults and intolerance towards on-boarders are some of the reasons I'm personally disgruntled.
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>The "evolutionary reward" (i.e. your business thrives and moves quickly) of building on AWS far exceeds SPOF issues for small, medium, and most large players. Very well put. Couldn't agree more.
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>As long as Americans can't stomach the idea of turning away people who cannot pay for emergency care to die we have socialized medicine. Seems a tad callous even by my standards as a staunch classical liberal; may be all other medi
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>Many times it is touted as the way for minorities to get out of poverty The reason it is a good approach is that; when you think about poverty, one may go round and round in circles trying to uncover a panacea but it all comes down to p
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
Niaje Majani? I'm very big on bootstrapping so I'd say kudos to Soti's founder. Your typical tech company in the news today is far from profitability and has either taken on a lot of VC funding or has an inordinate amount of
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
> You can't properly price the service into your economic activity if it's forced onto you. Couldn't agree more. The ONLY way to price AT ALL is through willful participation. With government services, this is not the case
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
There's no reason to believe that Marissa would be right for any sort of turn around if yahoo is the reference here.
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
Disagree. I think some of these VCs are just trigger-happy when it comes to dealing with founders. I don't know why this is the case; may be they think it's easy and they know better. How often do you hear VCs talk about how much
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
Most founders. I don't think it had come to that yet. The good he has done immensely outweighs any wrongdoings. There was a degree of penance on his part and it should count for something. Travis has had to make a lot of hard decisions
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
It comes down to conviction and courage to follow through. I find it curious that just when he's out, one of the things that he'd fought against for so long has been done i.e. tipping. The reason it's courage involved in such
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>Hope everyone's paying attention to the identity of these investors Exactly. I would be wary of these specific folks. I bet you they would do the same to any founder in a heartbeat.
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
Pushing a founder out is often a bad idea. This might very well be the beginning of Uber's demise. This won't be good for the company. All CEOs make mistakes even great ones like Gates with antitrust or Zuck calling users dumb-fuc
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
> A lot of things Google does -- a lot of the things people actually like about Google -- are possible only because it's a huge monolith. Divorce the ad-making money machine, and say goodbye to all the services consumers like that a
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
May be. But it's better to be hopeful when that's all you have. Stay positive always. EDIT: Goes back to the pragmatism I alluded to earlier. We can choose to either rely on chance or hard-work/self reliance. I choose the lat
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
I'm from Kenya. I'm black. I don't think Trump is a racist. Anytime there's no valid argument to make against conservatism, it comes down to; they're all a bunch of racists. Today, more and more people are coming ou
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>If companies are allowed to get as big as they want, then it naturally constrains other smaller companies from competing. These big 4 weren't always there. There were other players before them. In fact they're relatively VERY
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>> You'll live. Millions have died from the perils of ideas such as yours so forgive me if I don't take your word for it. >> Can we start listing all the bad they've done now? You bet. List said evils and I guaran
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
Well at least we can get that out of the way; it is an affront then. These 4 companies (and more) have done more good than all the goodness of your heart will ever do. We have to be pragmatic and not just be bleeding hearts because it is en
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
I can't take it anymore! I have to speak out. >The top 1% would own maybe 99% of the wealth of the country and everyone else would earn a minuscule fraction of the total value that they produced. What is up with all this egalitarian
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
May very well be the case. All things flash are permanently disabled on my browser. If a site requires flash, I would much rather ignore the content altogether no matter how juicy it is.
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
I find myself doing the same if I'm not on WiFi. I'll tether my samsung phone to my laptop, disable JS on chrome, whitelist what I like, jump into incognito to temporarily whitelist some page that requires JS; when done in incogni
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
Well, the onboarding process in the past you've described seems like hell. May be merchants should simply accept to bite the bullet on this one and accept it as part of the cost of doing business. Now that you've mentioned stripe;
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>Most credit card companies _don't_ want you to do that because charging more to pay with a credit card makes using your credit card a less enticing idea. This is obviously good for the card companies and to a degree the digital pay
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
>They are not allowed to charge customers more for paying via credit card that for paying via cash. Now I get it. I'm not for it but I get it.
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
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by slice_of_life 9y ago
Is there a current book that you can recommend to understand this very arcane business of credit card processing?

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