Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
waytogo
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
8 ms
·
31.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> There are tons of membership management plugins and platforms out there, pretty much all integrate with Stripe, and most of them will keep a mailchimp list in sync Which membership management would you recommend?
32.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
Second this. While I love Stripe's API, Braintree/Paypal driven checkouts have higher conversions just because of Paypal.
33.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
Anyone knows the rates in the US or European countries?
34.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
Good point and thus, trust only coins traded minimum on two exchanges and have similar curves.
35.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
Obivious sign that chatsbots are dead (which was also stated in the article's original title): FB's Messenger doesn't show featured chatbots on the home tab anymore.
36.
▲
Shorter sleep related to difficulty disengaging f. repetitive negative thoughts
(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points
by
waytogo
9y ago
|
0 comments
37.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
Looked into both Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) and invested more into Stellar because of... - the much better scaling than traditional coins (semi-central structure) - the track record of the founder Jed - the fuller feature set including
38.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
https://imgur.com/
39.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> But I will point out that, at the end (almost the very end) of 2017, it's not even 20,000 -- BTC is at 13,000. BTC just hit 10K a month ago and the mainstream end-of-2017-forecast through summer and fall 2017 was ~5k. Then 13K is
40.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_liquidity
41.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
You gave the answer yourself. Brand and popularity might change over time. But at the moment it is BTC. Just go to Google Trends and no other coin is that mainstream. The search volume for Bitcoin is 50% of 'iphone' which is massi
42.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
I mean technically reliable. (Really) everybody knows that you should not keep your money on an exchange. Gold can also crash and btw is a volatile asset as well.
43.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> destroys Bitcoin being usable as digital cash. So what? I value the use as store of value much higher than a cash system and I don't care if this was the initial use case. Go and find a better store of value (won't be easy) b
44.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
Some of those whale addresses are exchanges themselves.
45.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> It's not going to exist for decades, let alone for centuries, because of the nature of technology How do you know, did you found a time machine?? > It isn't backed and guaranteed by a government Even better. So many countr
46.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> I said Bitcoin's usefulness is diminishing by becoming less useful due to the high transaction time and price. If I want to store my assets I don't care about high transaction prices. > It's more a greater fools game
47.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> It is becoming exponentially more difficult to mine them, and there is only a finite number of bitcoins in that can be mined. This was planned and one of the greatest features (for a store of value): Limited supply. With limited supply
48.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> Bitcoin's usefulness diminish No, you mentioned it yourself: Bitcoin is a store of value. Moreover, it's one with a high liquidity, strong brand, limited supply, available in 180 countries, without banks involved and super re
49.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
(1) Having a town house with some wall socket at the entry or a garage and (2) not trying to get into a big city centre might be a use case, yes. Thanks for elaborating your example but I don't think that this use case is strong or ubi
50.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
How often was Bitcoin called a Ponzi scheme? When it was at 50, at 100 or at 1,000? Always. If I look at my stock portfolio there are so many strange stocks and funds I once invested in. They feel much more like Ponzi schemes or pump and du
51.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
Then again what is the living situation ('use case') where an e-bike works? I also made the example with a house and garage. I don't see any killer use case but are happy to learn relevant use cases.
52.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> i'd be happy to take some photographs for you. Yes please! You could put them on Imgur. Thanks!
53.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
I don't grok e-bikes. I like them and I'd like to get one but I just don't know how I will manage the charging. I am livinig in a big city and have no garage and no wall socket in front of my street door. And 100% of all dest
54.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
The grandparent post was about FB and MySpace, not Twitter. However, Twitter is a different beast. They got better over time because Twitter evolved from a friends network to kind of a interest-driven network. At the beginning people were f
55.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> they did exactly what you were asking for No, MySpace and Facebook didn't what I was asking for because they didn't have any feed then. With MySpace and Facebook in its early days, I could just stalk profiles and both didn&#x
56.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
OT: I don't get social networks. Till today, I don't see any value in real name social networks like Facebook. They should present content I want but they don't, they show upvoted content from my connections which is wrong fr
57.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
> higher resolution) screens Is the new Kindle Oasis 2017 with a 7" 300ppi screen 'high resolution' enough? Re fast screens, I think it's good that they are slow, otherwise I'd use those readers like my smartphon
58.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
OT: Just wondering why so many people are using password managers. When you use a password manager you have one single point of attack and failure. I wouldn't like to give all my credentials to one single entity.
59.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
tl;dr security questions are insecure because most questions are flawed (like what's your mother’s maiden name)
60.
▲
by
waytogo
9y ago
I think every two weeks of buying an iPad Pro as my daily driver and then I think, nah I'll miss the Inspector. Otherwise the iPad should have all I need.
More ›