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by tisme 14y ago
8 cds for a penny is ridiculous, so there has to be a catch. $39.95 for a pair of shoes sounds quite reasonable. Having to pay for a membership without performance is ridiculous.
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by tisme 14y ago
I see 6 month chargebacks on a regular basis (dealing with consumer fraud is fun), so these definitely happen, they're possible and if consumers can do it when they are the ones defrauding the merchants there will be a lot less trouble when
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by tisme 14y ago
Prices are already down and it definitely isn't 2014 yet. 3T is about the sweet spot right now, it's never been much cheaper than it is today. 2T is a bit more expensive than before the floodings, but a part of that is that there is simply
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by tisme 14y ago
That's nonsense. The only time a chargeback makes sense is after the payment has already gone through.
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by tisme 14y ago
> the merchant will drop you completely You mean processor/bank/merchant account, not merchant. In the parlance of the payment industry justfab is the merchant in this story. And yes, there are scammers that have processors / banks line
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by tisme 14y ago
Zero. The credit card processing chain is quite complicated, with banks, card companies, ISPSs, processors and merchants all having fairly clearly delineated roles. A merchant - no matter how big - implementing the whole chain is unheard of
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by tisme 14y ago
If you want to compare rails to something compare it to Yii. If you want to compare something to PHP compare it to Ruby. Comparing Rails and PHP is just plain dumb.
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by tisme 14y ago
VCs investing in con artists are scum.
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by tisme 14y ago
Don't ask for a refund, go to your bank or CC company and charge back the 6 months. That'll hit them where it hurts. Little known fact about chargebacks: the merchant pays an administration fee, typically $20 to $50. Per charge! That is why
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Facebook: Federal online privacy rules would violate free speech rights (thehill.com)
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by tisme 14y ago
The whole fun of the ioccc is to go through the code and figure out how it is done. Without the code this is a non-event.
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by tisme 14y ago
Grammer? Appologise? receieved? Maybe you can set your browser to use English as the default language, then words that are spelled wrong will show up with a red underline.
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by tisme 14y ago
If I were presented with the 'fizzbuzz' test on a job interview I'd walk out. I would really hate to work in a place that had such a ridiculously low bar to entry that they would consider that a valid test.
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by tisme 14y ago
By then they'd already started their slide. I remember Sony for things like TA3650, the Walkman and their (excellent) reel-to-reel recorders. By the time they got into media (and don't forget betamax) they'd already lost their spirit, even
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by tisme 14y ago
You're making the exact same mistake. Check the wikipedia article on this particular flight, under the heading 'Cause': ""The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was "the omission of all t
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Doctors Grow New Ear on Arm of Cancer Victim Sherrie Walter(abcnews.go.com)
6 points by tisme 14y ago|0 comments
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by tisme 14y ago
Not all VCs are equal, and I apologise for lumping in the good with the bad. But there are plenty of examples of venture capitalists (and angels too) taking advantage of inexperienced entrepreneurs. And in that case it helps a lot if you ge
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by tisme 14y ago
$150 or $1000 might be enough to swing the decision about where to incorporate for some instances but for most that is a rounding error. And anyway, all expenses that you are going to have should be part of your businessplan when you're at
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by tisme 14y ago
I fail to see the apple / Steve Jobs connection here.
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by tisme 14y ago
You're spot on. My basic expectation is that software that I write today will run 10 years from now, unmodified. Things like this give me 'upgrade fever', the fear that if I upgrade a machine something will break and I won't find out about
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by tisme 14y ago
Sony didn't just 'miss the boat', they did what they could to sink it and damage their brand. Before they had a fantastic reputation, their audio equipment was good to excellent for a small fraction of the price of the competition. Rootkits
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by tisme 14y ago
I gave up before this release. edit: oh my, that's a lot of downvotes for answering a question.
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by tisme 14y ago
> All three engines on the L-1011 failed due to an incorrect maintenance procedure. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the maintenance procedure. It was simply not executed properly.
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by tisme 14y ago
That's advice that is applicable only to a limited subset of the startup class, the ones without a product and without cashflow. If you're going to do b2b you'll never be forced, it's just that nobody will be doing business with you and you
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by tisme 14y ago
I've done quite a bit of python development. One of the things that really bugs me about python is how they keep breaking older stuff. Other languages have been much more careful about maintaining backwards compatibility and I think that is
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by tisme 14y ago
CUDA development on UNIX is arguably easier than on windows, I have no clue where you got your information but it definitely isn't accurate. None of it. Where did you get that you can't use a card that powers the display? That works just fi
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by tisme 14y ago
Do you read the terms every time you swipe your card to buy a pair of shoes or a bag in a regular store? Why should it be any different online? If the intention of a consumer is clearly to buy a single item once for a fixed fee then a for
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by tisme 14y ago
Upvoted, I hope you get some more upvotes because this clearly is fraud or close to it. Some porn sites use this tactic and it should at a minimum cost them their merchant account. Charge back as far as you can, most banks will do this up t
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The Gary Halbert Letter - Organized and In Order (LINKS)(trafficplusconversion.com)
1 points by tisme 14y ago|0 comments
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by tisme 14y ago
> But at the same time, I know I draw my self-worth from my education. How so? Should your self-worth not be linked to what you achieve and how you treat others?

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