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With regards to adult content, the perception is that chargebacks would be higher, but in reality this is mostly a relic of the late 90's when credit cards were first accepted online. Porn pioneered the infinite continuity ("recurring subscriptions until you die") that is incredibly widespread nowadays.

At the moment, there are few non-merchant account ways to legally accept payments for adult content. They include such companies with terrible APIs/websites like: CCBill, Epoch and Verotel. They've successfully lobbied Visa & MasterCard to give them exemptions to provide "IPSP" services for "high-risk" adult content. In reality, working with them is probably the biggest risk. They often enforce arbitrary 30/60/90 day payment holds, require 10-20% reserves, and shut down accounts with no warning and withhold the entire amount processed indefinitely.

I'd like to see Stripe continue to do innovative things in the payments space and work with their payment partners to allow adult-content, at the very least with per-account authorization. The status-quo has been set by Ron Cadwell & CCBill: We will keep your money indefinitely, provide an awful API, and require 'hosted payment forms' (with no custom CSS; terrible UX) because no one is allowed to compete with us.

Patrick, the ball is in your court.
Yeah, everything was better ten years ago. Like this ten year old youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw (240p?).

Web pages have become bloated, but they load faster on my phone now than they did on the desktop that I had in 2005.

There are many frustrating things occuring with development now, but it is crazy to say that ten years ago was objectively better.
I just zoomed in until the left-hand panel disappeared. Annoying, but the font is too small anyway.
This is cool, but they should not offer a C corp as the default choice. An LLC should be the default for the vast majority of entrepreneurs. The only reason VC-funded companies are C corps is becaused VC LPs don't want to be hit with taxable income (which would flow through the VC to them). An LLC is much better for a variety of reasons:

- Flow through taxation = you only get taxed once. With a C corp you pay corporate income tax and then you get taxed on any distribution

- If you sell the business, you better hope you have enough leverage to get a stock sale and not an asset sale, because in an asset sale, you're again getting majorly double taxed. The vast majority of exits are asset sales though because they shield the purchaser from unknown liabilities

- From an LLC, you can easily become a C corp. From a C corp, it's majorly difficult (practically infeasible) to become an LLC; you retain optionality in one case but not the other
Fine, whatever. It's still bad analysis. He makes sweeping conclusions built on little but a smattering of incoherent facts. He's pandering to an audience.
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I hope someone from Stripe is lurking here. What if I already have a US company but just want the bank account etc? The reason is, apparently since 9/11, it's a requirement to be in person to open an account.
Thanks, being able to see the API call for a resource is a nice convenience.

But part of my point was that while you can code together something with APIs, you still need to write the diffing and converging logic to accomplish what I suggested. For example, if someone has gone through the console and added something, so that you now have a conflict, you want to be able to resolve the conflict. First by either accepting or rejecting the conflicting change, and then, if you rejected it, remove it as part of the next push.
Wait! Trump's pronouncements are prejudiced. Its not just "restricting immigration." Everyone on the Republican platform is for "restricting immigration." He specifically thinks that Mexican immigrants and Muslim immigrants in particular should be restricted. Granted people are guilty of lumping in religious prejudice with racism. But that isn't your main issue with it.

That is not a poor position, or a southern position. I don't think you can conflate criticism of that position with prejudice against republicans. Most republicans are against targeting members of a religion or race.
Placing quality and throughput are always a tradeoff. Kubernetes, now, uses a naive algorithm that goes over all its nodes and finds the best placement. This is simple and effective for most web workload, when most of your scheduled jobs will take "forever" to run. And as it states in the blog post, after some simple optimization, now the scheduler can schedule tens of jobs per second. There are other limits make it slower overall. So we stop optimizing scheduler to avoid adding unnecessary complexity in its early days.
I've worked for this company! Recently even.

We also had those wonderful quarterly AND yearly reviews that don't accomplish anything other than give management a way to fire.
Because there is a difference between being more than physical, and the physical giving rise to the subjective experience. Being more than physical means that we are physical plus some special sauce. This would mean that a robot that we build probably lacks said special sauce, because we didn't put the special sauce in. If on the other hand it's the physical that gives rise to the subjective experience, then there is no reason to think that robots couldn't have it.
I have just inherited a relatively poorly written application in a new job. I am going to take pride in optimizing it so the pages load in less than a second (some are timing out when there are other users on the system), clean up the crappy bits and make it more maintainable.

Sure its no as nice as getting to architect a whole application from the ground up. But the database seems well designed, so it shouldn't bee to much problem to make it faster and prettier and cleaner code.
"keep the same compensation"

Not even inflation? Sounds like you're driving the benefits down. Or at least want to.
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What percentage of species, or what percentage of individuals in a species? I don't know about the former, but in the latter case there are several species which are documented to form monogamous relationships with no extra-pair copulations (EPCs). That wikipedia page cites a couple of studies:

Anderson, D. J. and P. T. Boag. 2006. No extra-pair fertilization observed in Nazca Booby (Sula granti) broods. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118:244-247.

Moreno, J., L. Boto, J. A. Fargallo, A. de Leon, and J. Potti. 2000. Absence of extra-pair fertilisations in the Chinstrap Penguin Pygoscelis antarctica. Journal of Avian Biology 31:580-583.

Lifjeld, J. T., A. M. A. Harding, F. Mehlum, and T. Oigarden. 2005. No evidence of extra-pair paternity in the Little Auk Alle alle. Journal of Avian Biology 36:484-487.
Ask them the questions you'd want to know answers to if you were hiring them, to determine their own merits. Insist on talking with the people you'll actually be working with. You want to know their opinions on programming paradigms, and design patterns. Ask about operational details like version control, code review, and releases. Ask about the history of the code base, who wrote it, where are they now. Ask how documentation is created. There are so many things you can ask.

Good code is surrounded by good processes. Ask about the processes that lead to good code. This not only susses out what the situation is on the ground, but also demonstrates your own quality.
I don't think that's the claim. I think the claim is that what typically call homosexuality involves pair bonding and sex.
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On that basis I am sure I could find people with in any group who are, for instance, racist, bigoted etc quite easily. The question is not: are there some people who have this or that view or belief.
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Thanks @guptaneil - that's some great feedback!

You are correct, we don't have DNS mapping in place, yet - but we plan to add that in the near future. Your FAQ will currently be hosted at slimfaq.com/your-company-name - you can change your company name (and path) at any time.

We are considering a "Ask your question" feature - currently we are using Intercom for this in our own FAQ. Thanks!
John Lewis Partnership (http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/) is a worker's cooperative in the UK and is doing pretty well. There are also successful consumer cooperatives (e.g. the Co-operative Group and mutual organizations/building societies (e.g. The Nationwide).
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That doesn't look depressing. That looks unreservedly optimistic.
But if you simply own shares in a US company, surely banks will deal with you then? Or if you get paid by a US company as a foreigner? It also is probably on a bank-by-bank basis that things are handled. FATCA was introduced in 2012 but it's been 4 years, long enough that there should be one or two banks at least who will play nice...

To be clear, in Canada, my understanding is that it's very hard to get a bank account as a US person unless actually in Canada. But top banks and some credit unions are prepared to handle FATCA-required forms and reporting.

Big difference too between foreigners with US interests and actual US persons with foreign interests, I would think...
Because people pushing identity politics are grasping at straws to justify their position.

After all, rape is a normal behavior in animals, and is very important for reproduction in certain animals like ducks. Perhaps we should make rape the social norm too then. /s

Edit: would someone care to explain how animal polygamy and rape are different from animal homosexuality?
> Animals, in general, aren't at all like us. The GP is correct, sex in the animal world is typically conservative.

Please name percentage that supports your "typically" claim. It depends what you want to count.

If we count our closest relatives, they are bonobos and chimps.

Bonobos:

http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/bonobos-have-sex-...

"Bonobos Have Lots of Sex, Are Awesome, May Hold Key to Our Past"

Chimps:

http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/chimpanzee/beha...

"The majority of chimpanzee reproductive behavior is promiscuous, with females mating with multiple males opportunistically during estrus, though the majority of copulation occurs during the 10-day period of maximal tumescence (Goodall 1986)."

The observations of Goodall were disputed by some stupid male "scientist" who claimed that she "projects her values to chimpanzees." But she observed the behavior in the nature, documented it and published. He was the one who "projected."

100% of our closest relatives are provably promiscuous.

And some of them do copulate with the same sex too.
As for those arms, here's another fun fact:

Saguaros with arms are much more desirable and valuable than ones without them. So if you have a saguaro in your yard and it has no arms (or not enough), it's pretty easy to make it grow one: just get an axe and whack it really hard! It'll grow an arm where you chopped it with the axe. (However, it'll take a while to grow: these cacti are very slow growing.)

Full-grown saguaros are thousands of pounds heavy, and can exceed 10,000 pounds for really old and large ones.

For the ones shipped, I imagine they got smaller, younger ones. I'm not sure how you'd ship a mature one intercontinentally without it dying.

And honestly, digging them up from Federal land isn't that bad; there was an incident a few years ago in Arizona where the government happily destroyed thousands of such cacti, simply because they were in the way of some power line. You'd think they could have sold them, and let the cactus sellers come take them and transplant them: there's a huge demand for them in the developed areas, but they're very expensive due to the limited supply since wild ones (on Federal and state land) are off-limits. But nope, they just got some machine in there and ground them all up. A lot of people were pissed about that.
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Yeah, things have changed in recent years in HK. HSBC HK has a horrible reputation now and they are very resistant to do corporate account openings and prefer your company is resident or doing business in HK.

Regarding long stay visas in Thailand - as I said, getting a long term visa or work permit is very simple you can do it through a company who will sponsor you for a modest fee. If you are interested I can provide you with links.

My BOI did take some time, you are right, but the process was relatively simple as I used an agency - but totally worth it.

Yes - much easier to incorporate somewhere else. Your experience with HK/HSBC opening a merchant account is simply not a reality anymore for the majority of people, particularly without processing history, nor is it in other countries using HK.

Anyway, this product offering from Stripe is a genuine game changer for people who want to operate from the US, want a business in a box and want to set it up remotely. I know many, many people who will jump on it.
They don't employ the developers. The development is done by companies that might pay the developers that much, but bill the client more per hour and bill the client more time. And of course you can't forget project managers, architects and other consultants that are more expensive. And have a lot of meetings. And hardware, and oracle databases/SAP licenses, and support contracts for those, and audits, and extra charges for change requests, and travel budgets, and...

Just because one team of developers could do something in 200 man hours doesn't mean you can't spend and bill 2000 for it.

And that's just development. Data migrations and user training/support are going to be massive issues if you replace or newly introduce a widely used system.
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Actually, as an employee I want a strong vision with clear, achievable goals. It makes it easy to tell what I should be doing to be successful, and that is what lets me control my career. Interestingly enough, these properties are usually enhanced with smaller decision making groups, because values are less spread across the spectrum. If I have 50 decision makers, I have 50 different value functions to attempt to meet. [0] If I have one decision maker, I only have one value function to meet.

[0] In reality, I would have to spend some time trimming down the list of 50 based on influence. Which is not always an easy signal to find.
This is good advice. Mind though that in the south the digital nomad community isn't as strong as it is in Chiang Mai.
Nothing personal, just business: when they launch a private beta, they want to select the businesses with most cash flow. I believe this is connected to the fact many things may be manually reviewed at a time. And how did you arrive at a conclusion that de Larrea are involved in Atlas? A quick search didn't show anything relevant.
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You must be a C Corp to accept VC investment.

It is expensive and time consuming to go from LLC to C Corp. Maybe you mean S Corp which has some similarities with LLC but it is easy to switch to C Corp if you need to.

I generally agree they should not offer C Corp though because the paperwork is extremely complicated and cannot be done correctly by an internet form at least in my experience.

EDIT: I should have said very unlikely to raise VC investment even though it is technically possible to raise investment with most types of businesses such as LLC. [1]

1. http://www.dividendsandpreferences.com/2009/02/why-dont-vent...
Giving employees a reasonable amount of vacation is bad? Fuck you
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Would have been much easier to create a list of projects that were completed within budget (assuming that's ever actually happened).
If you stop the growth, there will be more rat racing. Our current level of growth isn't sustainable because at best it's flat, at worst it's trending downward. This will lead to even more stress, depression, etc., even worse quality of production. Sure, people will have more time, but they will be too desperate to take the time to adapt to new paradigms. And try getting someone to worry about the environment when they are already worrying about making rent.
What are you talking about? No one is talking about banning cactus propagation. You can buy saguaro cacti all you want, you're just not allowed to steal them from government-owned land.
Your assuming competence. The surveillance state is built by the lowest bidder and is far far less useful than generally assumed.

Just look into false positives on the no fly list. Sure, it's slightly better than random chance, but odds are if you pick an name from that list they are a non threat. (It's far worse than that you can probably pick several names before finding a real issue.)
That's not always the case. Personally, I lean toward bisexual homoromantic. This kind of split attraction is probably more common than it seems, but we didn't have language or a concept for it until recently. I know several people who are asexual and have various romantic orientations.
We're exploring that possibility. Interesting potential!
Yeah, very few people are good documentation writers. After writing up a lot of maker projects I found that I like to do docs, and that makes me also more demanding regarding the quality of the docs I need to feedback on. It would be great if people would put more time in it to become better, and another reason why I like sort-of self-documenting tools (e.g. Rust, where documentation is taken seriously from the beginning of the project).

I didn't mean everyone can update the docs, rather send feedback by patch/pull request of actual changes instead of writing in email with words that "Rewrite header 1 to be X, add label Y to figure 2, and add date into footer". Currently bloody Word Docs and PDFs are sent around twice a day for "please reply with your comments", and things get lost between emails, changes that were applied before disappear because someone edited the wrong version of the Doc, or exported into PDF in the wrong way... All in all, changes shouldn't happen in email text, IMHO.

Whether anyone can edit the docs - I'd actually like to see that (even if I haven't said that originally). Currently even the people who are charged with maintaining the docs update it only when pushed, I think in most places you'd be lucky if anyone touches it. On the other hand, an empowered team where anyone can access improve on things is a very different feeling, that's what creates successful stuff, IMHO. And with version control failure is cheap and easy to fix, so there's very little downside. Think of large public projects like OpenStreetMap or the Embedded Linux Wiki at http://elinux.org It works out pretty well for them with no big trouble, and they literally let everyone change things (not just project members).
That's kind of reductive, and I wonder if you read the article. The goose example is a long-term pairing and not just a roll in the hay. Some people might find your comment a bit offensive.
How does democracy give employees "control of their own life"? In any organization of appreciable size, your vote doesn't matter.

Capitalism gives employees control; your life has changed immediately after you exercise your option to exit. Voting simply doesn't.

It's also potentially very harmful, due to the principal/agent problem. Every agent (employee) has the incentive to loot the company, build empires, and protect their job. But such things are of course very bad for organizations.

This is made worse by democracy, because not only do voters have no incentive to do what's best for the organization, they can do whatever makes them feel good (since their vote doesn't matter).

(As an example of the principal/agent problem, witness Marisa Mayer vs Starboard. She wants to keep her job and build her empire at Yahoo. Shareholders want to avoid paying taxes on Alibaba, which will destroy far more value than the Yahoo empire could ever plausibly be worth.)
Event discovery is a well known startup trope. Try pitching anything around event discovery to an investor, you will see their eyes roll. Is that fair? Probably not. I think what OP is doing is fantastic, and I second your encouraging words.
I 100% agree with you on principal, but the initial purpose of this seems to be specifically to set up companies within accelerators, which are all going to be Delaware C corps so the VCs will invest in them (as you say).

An LLC can elect to be taxed as a C corp, but that's not the same thing from an investor point of view. An LLC taxed as a C corp still has interests instead of shares and still has use an Operating Agreement under the relevant state LLC act.

Changing entity types isn't especially hard, but it's tedious. Usually you do some sort of subsidiary merger maneuver.
Nope. It's solely in my head. I don't subvocalize.
is this new? I have them for more then a month.
That's the nature of a growth-fueled economy. Everybody has to keep up, or they fall behind. The same work, the same roles, get less valuable over time.
Who will you trust to make your next car, a car company or a software company with a record of good security?
> You must be a C Corp to accept investment.

This is not true. You can sell membership interest in an LLC the same way you can sell stock in a C corp.

And in my experience it's fairly simple to go LLC to C. I didn't get confused with S corps.
IMO Skype was pretty bad before MS but only in that the messages wouldn't always synchronize or get delivered between computers so conversations were very difficult but if the client was at least okay.

When MS bought it everything went to shit. Still had the problems with messaging/sync but if you had a surface pro it'd be impossible to send files or share contacts on the preinstalled metro app which IMO is a pretty fucking basic feature. Worse yet it prevented you from being able to install the regular desktop client and the Android version couldn't start group calls so I had to use two fucking computers just to use it like before.

And the stupid notifications will pull you out of a game too because for some reason they're still clickable when you're full screen.
There's something busted with the algorithm then, unless some people are secretly stalking me. Even my friends don't know my HN handle.
We have already incorporated and has been a long and painfull process, but not as painfull as trying to open an account at Silicon Valley Bank. After some back and forth, they rejected our application saying:

I’ve just received your info from client support and my
apologies if no one replied to you sooner.
Unfortunately we won’t be an appropriate banking fit as
we don’t typically bank service providers. We maintain
a focus on venture backed companies and typically teams
that are local to our presence (based in Silicon
Valley, SF Bay Area, NYC, Boston, London).

Just signed up for the beta, pretty excited about this!
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