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United pays up on Bug Bounty program(blog.wandr.me)
1 points by thewhizkid 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why are there no good happy hour apps?
1 points by thewhizkid 11y ago|2 comments
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Goldman Sachs moving into online consumer lending(businessinsider.com)
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What is going on with Yahoo's design?(m.fastcompany.com)
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Stanford President John L. Hennessy to Step Down in 2016(stanfordmail.stanford.edu)
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Did everyone forget Jack Dorsey is still the CEO of Square or...?
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Keep in mind Jack Dorsey the interim CEO, so it's only temporary until they find a permanent CEO.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Will Step Down on July 1. Jack Dorsey Intermin CEO(businessinsider.com)
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
You can, but given the mixed reviews from actual Zenefits customers on here and elsewhere they aren't there yet. I liken it to tech's war on banks. Everyone loves to make fun of the fact that banks still use "old" techno
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Zenefits needs a head of PR. Or a new one if they already have one.
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The Brazilian Town Where the American Confederacy Lives On(vice.com)
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Would you rather have something that looks nice or actually works? Especially when it comes to nontrivial things like benefits and payroll? Don't you think it's a bit silly for you as a user to be swayed to use one thing or anothe
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The truth about 'holistic' college admissions(latimes.com)
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Flyertalk.com has a very active manufactured spending forum. I'd start there.
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
It's more like buying cash equivalents with a credit card like Visa gift cards and then liquidating them to pay off said credit card. Your cost is the purchase fee and any costs to liquidate the card. In some cases you can actually pro
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
I don't know if you would consider it "income", but in the spirit of hacking I am an active travel hacker and have accumulated millions of miles and points over the past 3 years or so through a combination of credit card bonu
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Read "Trust me, I'm lying" by Ryan Holiday. Tracing the sources mentioned in this article is a good first exercise.
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Show HN: KnowTip app – Know how much to tip worldwide(itunes.apple.com)
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Missing my favorite! "Tori pai tan" from Kagari in Tokyo. Literally "white chicken soup." http://i.imgur.com/e4vS59N.jpg
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
As the occasional host in SF, I do get extremely paranoid about guests, and only accept requests from guests who have had an account for more than a year, who have 100% positive reviews, and has at least 2 reviews in the last 6 months. Obvi
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
They make KakaoTalk. It's the largest messaging app in Korea.
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
The company has not been acquired, just the Path and Path Talk apps. I actually do not understand that part - what exactly does the company hope to do with Kong? How is the company supporting 40+ headcount now?
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Biggest problem with payments startups (Square, Stripe) is their unwillingness to scale out their operations (i.e. call centers, live customer support) proportional to their business. So a lot of it becomes as automated as possible through
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Did LG acquire Meerkat?(tmsearch.uspto.gov)
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
I wonder if there's any correlation between the tech saviness of their reader base and use of Adblock?
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
Not speculating, but always found the public story about the beginnings of OR to be somewhat, uh, magical, given his non-technical background.
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
My account was permanently frozen a few weeks ago with no (valid) explanation. I have $2k sitting in their that I cannot retrieve for 180 days. I also bought an iPhone on Ebay using PayPal weeks before. It turned out to be stolen (i.e. it w
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
If you haven't seen the Southpark episode "Freemium isn't Free" you really should...hits the nail on the head on the addictive nature of free to play mobile games.
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Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans(wsj.com)
108 points by thewhizkid 11y ago|129 comments
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by thewhizkid 11y ago
True. Another gem in the ToS: "You are responsible for any tax implications that apply based on your country of residency and citizenship." I know miles earned from credit cards are not taxed, but I do know for a fact that Citib

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