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by tipalink 4y ago
to me its a tell investors are not fully committed. they are throwing an MVP at the wall to see if it sticks
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by tipalink 4y ago
> they've allowed for a sort of emergent, leaderless cult based on collective creation of the memes that drive it. with a high entertainment appeal, might i add!
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by tipalink 4y ago
bc some "schemes" do work, like that friend or relative who got in early on a hot stock. any investment, including those granted the veil of legitimacy, can collapse at any time just as they can continue to skyrocket nonsensically
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by tipalink 4y ago
crypto has so many of its own problems i can see why people make this mistake
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by tipalink 4y ago
> The hardest thing is making sure you're not falling afoul of the money laundering laws or accidentally financing 'terrorism'. i.e. complying with compulsory government regulation enacted for those ends, which is a huge b
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by tipalink 4y ago
you dont think someone would, given the opportunity, throw some cash to an author who strongly supports their own biases? dont some people buy books just to that, never intending to even read them?
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by tipalink 4y ago
.news top level domain is enough to put me off this
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by tipalink 4y ago
bc we've been conditioned to expect everything online for free: email, news, social sharing, etc. its been subsidized by investors and access to our "data". its also bad design/marketing. i hate paywalls, too. but i&#x2
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by tipalink 4y ago
there is a market for supporting content creators. most people dont want or cant afford to pay. of those who do and can, many would prefer to do so ad-hoc (vs subscription). offer them that power and i think you'd be surprised. just li
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by tipalink 6y ago
If I were to guess, I'd say the same way adblockers work on browsers: blacklisting domains. Sendgrid was given as an example. They could also block using image size (1px) or location (end of message body). That being said, I see your p
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by tipalink 7y ago
From my link "a person who engages as a business in the transfer of funds is an MSB as a money transmitter, regardless of the amount of money transmission activity." (emphasis mine) So, YES. Did you just stop reading after you
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by tipalink 7y ago
Any business that takes even 1 cent from someone and gives it to someone else is, by the definition provided on the url I shared above, a MSB. GoFundMe certainly is. Yelp is not, but they are culpable by this business business arrangement.
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by tipalink 7y ago
Seriously, how did they get around KYC (“Know Your Customer”) and AML ("Anti-Money Laundering") regulations? GoFundMe, as a MSB ("Money Service Business") is required by law to verify their customers' identitues ( h
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Narrative – The World's Journal(about.narrative.org)
1 points by tipalink 7y ago|0 comments
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My theory: Patreon doesn’t want to be a money services business (2017)(subfictional.com)
1 points by tipalink 7y ago|0 comments
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by tipalink 7y ago
Stripe Connect's fee is 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction for all payment methods accepted; plus another fee of $2/user/mo for each active "merchant" on your platform. Adyen's MarketPay fee varies depending on paymen
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by tipalink 7y ago
Hi, I'm Derek from Tipalink. Please feel free to ask any questions, provide any feedback, and try out the service for yourself. You can also check out the faq at https://www.tipalink.com/faq . Thanks
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by tipalink 7y ago
Very cool! Is there a way to authenticate in to a site and then keep a session alive to scrape private content? Can it pass cookies or can you manually set headers?
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by tipalink 7y ago
In regards to your question about companies' concerns: if the data is made publicly available (i.e. web page is not behind authentication), then why should it matter how it's accessed?
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by tipalink 7y ago
Couldn't agree more. And it's not just customer service. So many workers are chronically underpaid in the US because wages simply haven't kept up with the cost of living. Some people are "working" and barely getting
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Show HN: A service for accepting tips on web pages(tipalink.com)
2 points by tipalink 7y ago|1 comments
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by tipalink 7y ago
I'm all for it, as long as the options are reasonable, which means the lowest option should be 10%. It's annoying when the lowest option is configured to something like 18%. Generally, I'll tip 10% on to-go orders, 15% on cou
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by tipalink 7y ago
what if you used multiple async ajax requests to load different parts of the UI in place of loading all 50MB at once? could that be what the OP meant by "promiseS"?