urbanjunkie

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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Oh come on - how can you possibly expect to be mentoring startups when it seems as if you don't particularly have a clue? Sorry if that's harsh, but what are you providing for your 6% beyond "your network"?
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Although the immediate parent is being downvoted, it's actually interesting to understand why Apple have allowed this without collecting a % of the transaction fees that Square receives. Or perhaps they are collecting a (lower?) percentage.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
And that's why you need a separate terminal to enter your PIN (at least here in the UK, although I'm fairly sure that also applied in Europe), and the PIN number is never transmitted to the actual POS application, just a token indicating su
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
"I don't believe that most such employees see their work as "slavery" when they have to work excessive hours. I think they see it as career development" That made me laugh. "Top executives" typically have compensation packages that, to some
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Faster than light neutrinos may just have been a bad connection(news.sciencemag.org)
3 points by urbanjunkie 15y ago|0 comments
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
I think the main extra feature is the ability to monitor multiple servers in a single place.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Because browser wait cursors tend to make me instinctively cmd-w or cmd-q (close tab or close application for you non macheads)
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Dear Elsevier Employees, With Love, From FakeElsevier.(fakeelsevier.wordpress.com)
14 points by urbanjunkie 15y ago|1 comments
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Or be prepared to concede with slightly more grace when your argument gets destroyed.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
You stated that "The sole benefit you describe, namely the ability to borrow books, is a private benefit. I borrow a book, read it and enjoy it. What benefit does this create for anyone besides me?" Do we have different definitions of "sole
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
So, there is a need for external assistance.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
> I borrow a book, read it and enjoy it. What benefit does this create for anyone besides me? That actually made me feel sorry for you. Are you really this much of an island, or do you just enjoy trolling? Is there no possible benefit
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
I think it's pretty obvious why you're being down-modded. It's what happens when you set up your own strawman and then demolish it.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
So, there's a significant (14% - 1 in 7 of your dataset) percentage of people without cable tv, playstation, big screen tv. Do they get the help?
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
And you know they can afford cable tv how, exactly? There are apparently 1.5 million homeless children in the US. Are they watching cable tv? But it's ok - you can link to the correct definition of public vs private good. I'm actually disgu
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
> If they are a great idea, why not persuade people to voluntarily pay for them? Because, in this specific case, the people who most need libraries can often barely afford to pay for food and shelter. Libraries are such an obvious publi
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Small clarification on limits - you can send a maximum of £300 a day, and receive a maximum of £5000 a day
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UK smartphone money transfer service - Barclays Pingit(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by urbanjunkie 15y ago|3 comments
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Sure, but getting to YC means you were way beyond Step 0
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
I'm assuming this is a US only service - you should probably make that clearer if so.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
It's more alarming that this is 'standard industry practice', implying all the UK mobile telcos are doing this.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Not necessarily. O2's position is clearly that they normally only share mobile numbers with these unspecified "trusted partners". However, this configuration glitch has led to the mobile number being shared with everyone. I think most peo
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
O2 have responded, admitting the issue existed, and stating they've now fixed it. http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2012/01/o2-mobile-numbers-and-web-...
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
O2 have responded http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2012/01/o2-mobile-numbers-and-web-... Selected highlights: Q: How long has this been happening? A: In between the 10th of January and 1400 Wednesday 25th of January, in addition to the usual tru
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Tested an iPhone 4S on Three (UK)'s mobile network - no phone number passed in the HTTP headers.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
I certainly intend to find and distribute pirate versions of FinalTouch. You're ok with that, right?
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
That's certainly not why I downvoted you. So, how does my downvote prove your point? PS - it may surprise you, but there are PLENTY of people on Hacker News who don't think Google is the epitome of all that is good.
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
How are downvotes proving your point?
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Bitbucket Downtime Post-Mortem(blog.bitbucket.org)
42 points by urbanjunkie 15y ago|11 comments
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WordPress has left the building(kevinjohngallagher.com)
229 points by urbanjunkie 15y ago|209 comments

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