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At Producteev, my old start-up, I implemented the payment system using Paypal, omg, it was so hard, and so painful for the following reason:
- poor documentation
- I never knew how to get an up to date documentation
- very slow api and website
- very hard to understand the meaning of the undocumented data etc.

Once, my co-founder @Ilan Abehassera sent me a link to an article about Stripe on Techcrunch:

I signed up to Stripe, within minutes I was able to charge my own credit card through a CURL bash call, everything was clear, recurring payment perfectly handled, discount, etc etc. And this was at the very beginning of Stripe. Then I had to come up with why we should quickly switch from Paypal to Stripe.

Anyway, very good memoery, you definitely set the standard for how an API should be designed and I can't thank you enough for that!
Apple removed the ability to use uBlock Origin or similar.

I tried few ad blocker from the app store, but non of them block Youtube's video ad, making it useless.

We still have Firefox for now I guess.
Not to mention they are more regulatory compliant, and so likely deal with fewer lawsuits and have to spend less on lobbying.
If the Environmental Protection Agency can hold a straight face while revoking California's ability to protect its own environment with higher standards, I'll hold off on getting excited about privacy laws until we see the FTC/FCC/etc.'s response.
Sheesh are people still quoting that post-modern gibberish? No “colonialism” didn’t cause the rigidity of the caste system except incidentally.

Social mobility in traditional India did occur but very slowly and at the group level for the most part. How it worked is an upcoming group would adopt elite behaviors e.g. vegetarianism, Sanskrit, their Gods would be equated with those of the high tradition and so on. Over time no one in the group or its neighbors would remember that they had ever behaved otherwise. Voila, upward mobility.

The printing press changed that. Now when you say I am Y, someone can point out “but it says here that a century ago you were X.” Same effect with archaeology, genetics etc.

Historically, the British brought in these technologies but in an alternative timeline where Clive lost at Plessy, the same process would eventually have occurred. It benefits both the far left and far right to find a scapegoat instead.
You're the only one who brought them up so far and you don't seem to have been downvoted.
>Was this structure designed by the founding fathers?

No, this is a primary, as in, it is how the democratic party elects its own representative to run for president.

>What percentage of Americans would you say really understand that a small group of undemocratically unelected people like this has the ability to directly block undesirable (to whom we don't really know) candidates from making it to the election?

In 2016, 20 of 716 were in category 4, i.e., those who aren't currently holding office as a result of having been voted in. The rest are currently holding an office for which they were voted in. In other words, democratically elected.

Superdelegates and how they function is common knowledge for anyone following or participating in the primary. It's heavily covered and talked about every presidential election cycle.

>How many people do you think approve of this structure.

According to a poll run by Rasmussen in 2016, likely democratic voters approved of it at a rate of 30%.

>For certain definitions of rigged, of course. If the actual nature of this system was clearly explained to the American people, do you think most people would agree with you?

Americans understand very well how the election system works. 'Rigged' implies deception or fraudulence.
> The embassies actively sprayed in offices, as well as inside and outside diplomatic residences — sometimes five times more frequently than usual. Many times, spraying operations were carried out every two weeks, according to embassy records.

Wow, that is really alarming. I would never feel comfortable with that inside my home or office.
I've heard that DHL urged VW and Mercedes for years to develop e-delivery trucks, but both manufacturers did not show any interest. It was kind of last resort to search for partner and start a joint venture to build those trucks.
Arguably, list comprehension in Python is already functional programming :).
I'm using a 6th gen with FreeBSD. Only tweaks needed that I recall were installing Intel X drivers from pkg, and loading acpi_video and acpi_ibm drivers. After that, good X performance and working suspend/resume.
I understand this to a degree, but it is in no way what is happening with my example.
So it seems like there’s an even more difficult “room temperature challenge” out there.
No nothing is the new internet explorer. We don’t have a situation even close to that. IE has over 90% share and wasn’t updated from version 6 for years and was way behind its competitors. Safari is frequently updated and at least on a par with its peers, supports standards.
They did post a healthy profit or rather shared earnings before tax with the media. But if there is no further growth potential such profits make the company worth way less than the most recent valuation even by NASDAQ standards which has inflated P/E.

Even if that profit was after tax and amortization, etc. (which it wasn't) it's a tiny fraction of what booking.com makes while Airbnb is still charging higher fees.
Yep. Exactly my point, although honestly it didn't occur to me that the weight of the Wrangler might be an outlier.
Bought by Bayer, that name will be gone soon because of the well earned negative perceptions.
Promoted content exists, where publishers accept money from companies to write articles promoting a good or service, to subsidize their revenue. Most of the time they do not disclose this.
An example of sexism causing tragedy. It was only tested on male animals because they were easier, and it was allowed.
The way I see it, that's what a developer is: a tool for translating fuzzy requirements into rigid definitions. Sometimes they're just plain lazy about that task, but even when it's done well, they discover vagueness and incompleteness in the specifications. They use their judgment to fill that in, but they're often wrong, especially when they don't really know the domain.

Programmers want rigid requirements, because that makes their job easier. Indeed, it does their real job for them. If we had a really rigid way of writing specs, you'd just write a compiler for it. The real job of a programmer is precisely about playing intermediary between the true rigor of the computer and the pseudo-rigor of requirements.
For those wondering how to install this update in macOS 10.14 Mojave; it is distributed as a Software Update in System Preferences.
Trim the world population
Safari is the very last major browser to support WebAuthN. If anything, it is following the path. https://caniuse.com/#search=webauthn
The fact that wetland bird populations are actually growing is a strong sign that we can fix this, if we try.

Bird conservation efforts in the last few decades mainly focused on wetlands. See DDT, national wildlife refuges, and the duck stamp.

So, it's not like the decline is inexorable. But it's not going to fix itself.
Nobody has to be killed, but if a handful of people were put in jail the world would be a dramatically different place.
A significant part of the fear comes from how poorly worded it is.
The company I am referencing is a premium member with a “marked” post (5 stars) at the top of their page.

So, why does Glassdoor apparently listen to CEOs an lawyers when they claim employers cannot have reviews removed, when they appear to be doing just that?
Is that the case, though?
I’m interested in how this works in Go, which doesn’t have a built-in assert statement. Do you have somewhere I can read up on it?
So anyone that questions the government is mentally ill?
I think the quote mischaracterizes static and dynamic load.

Yes, the roof can hold 5 teslas stack one on top of the other, but this doesn't tell you much.

More practical knowledge would be at what speed the car will fall on the roof before the roof collapses? 50km/h 70km/h 100km/h?
It's a stretch to equate piracy to unjust usage of a scarce resource.
I use AdGuard on iOS and iPad OS and it works
Given that the average computer user is not very tech savvy, and is likely to succumb to malware and drive-by hacking attempts, what makes you think it's safer to encourage people to be their own custodians?

Or doesn't it matter at that point, because you're off the hook?
How does Google make money off of this?
Yes, Safari is the new Opera. Technically superior in many ways but also barely competing. Opera went on to abandon their custom technology in favor of Chrome's after losing their dominant position in mobile to Safari and Chrome. As long as the EU doesn't force Apple to accept fair competition on iOS Safari's future looks bright!
Seems if they had a warrant they could ask Tesla to provide video from any car in that area at that time.
Using your definition, we could point at all the incredibly poor policy decisions the US has with China as a huge subsidy to solar and wind. China's destructive environmental and humanitarian policies are propping up solar and wind's competitiveness. Best to just stick with comparing apples to apples, or if you bring up a banana don't be shocked when someone else brings up a watermelon and you are left wondering wtf fruit has to do with energy subsidies.
I cannot comment on the Mac replacement angle as I've been die-hard on Linux since the 1990s.

I recently got a Thinkpad T495 with AMD Ryzen and it is fantastic with Fedora. I am very impressed, comparing to my older quad-core Thinkpad T440p and its anemic NVIDIA GPU. I suspect the T495s will be almost the same software/driver experience, with a lighter package. I believe mine came with an LTE modem that does not appear in Linux. (I didn't even want it, but it was forced along with the low-power 400 nit display that I demanded.)

It is fantastically cool and quiet out of the box, unlike my prior hit-and-miss experiences with power management on recent Intel chipsets. Idle power usage is the lowest I have ever seen on an x86 computer (<3 watts screen off, 3-5 watts screen on and lightly using Firefox).

I haven't yet done anything that really pushes its limits.
"Isn't the point of a fuel tax to pay for road repairs"

Depends on the country.

In the UK it just goes into the big tax pot. That obviously doesn't stop various groups claiming they pay for the roads. Comments normally aimed at cyclists.

And in the UK, tractors are exempt from (may be just a reduced level?) fuel duty, they can still use the road though.
What sort of battery life do you get on Linux, and how fast are you expecting the battery (batteries?) to degrade?

I tend to always try and find laptops with easily replaceable batteries (I've a t440s right now that I'm looking to upgrade), but the ultraslim things like the X1 look like it's a bit of a challenge, which puts me off somewhat.
That's nice. So similar to how a regular exchange pays for your withdrawal transaction. (And of course if it's better or worse depends on how much they'll charge).
Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggest
Thats true. Reddit seems to be more infested with the pro monsanto crowd. Many of their arguments sound very legitimate as in - try feeding the human race some other way type arguments. But then we must consider this ongoing mass extinction event which seems intimately tied to the use of pesticides and herbicides that apparently, according to the experts, are not harmful to unintended insect populations.

It’s hard to know whats true and what isnt with all the misinformation being spread around.
Great points, and some of the 20 reviews in my anecdotal sample meet this criteria. However most do not break any of these rules, and are simple, factual (as far as I can tell, I dont work there) reviews about why they do not recommend working at this company, yet they are removed - sometimes in as little as 12-24 hours.
Please charge me in your currency, not my currency.

We did that initially, but you do discover a few downsides fairly quickly.

One is that if you also price in your (the vendor’s) currency, for any sort of recurring subscription or repeat purchase, exchange rates can cause noticeable and possibly surprisingly large changes in what your customers pay from one time to another. Naturally this is viewed favourably by your customer if the rate has moved one way but less so if it went the other.

Another is that not everyone’s cards charge as little as a 1% conversion fee. If you’re charging a typical consumer subscription of say £10 per month from here in the UK, some customers could easily wind up paying several pounds more by the time you add in the percentage and flat fees that some card providers seem to be charging for foreign currency transactions.

And finally, some people have never travelled much abroad and don’t really understand how things like currencies, exchange rates and conversion fees work at all. You’ll get someone who has signed up at £10/month, with the amount and currency clearly displayed at every step of the process, who will then email you to ask why they were charged $14.63 instead of the $10 they agreed to. Sometimes there isn’t much you can do at this point, no matter how much you try to explain that $10 and £10 are not the same, and that their card company has added a hefty surcharge for the conversion, and that this would have been explained in the credit card terms (which they probably never read) and isn’t something you have any control over as the merchant.

It’s a tricky area, because there’s usually nothing in it for a merchant to push a customer who does know what they’re doing and does have good terms into paying via the less favourable currency. On the other hand, if you start to provide explicit options for this sort of thing so each customer can choose for themselves, you risk making your payment process more complicated and losing conversions due to analysis paralysis. As ever, there’s not really a single “right answer” when you’re dealing with customers with very different arrangements on their side that you can’t even detect.
This is exactly the type of answer I was looking for. Thank you sir.
“Ashlar masonry is a type of stone masonry which is formed using finely dressed stones of same size, shape, and texture laid together in cement or lime mortar of equal size joints at right angles to each other.” - in case someone was wondering.
Anything that weens users from Google is arguably a good thing. But still, Huawei is likely tight with the Party, and that is arguably a risk. Or at least, it's a risk for Chinese dissidents, and for anyone with access to technology of interest. But for your random foreigner, probably not so much.
The rates themselves show on your receipts? Are you using some sort of plug-in? Could you forward me a receipt at edwin@stripe.com?

For the conversion itself, we automatically convert from whatever currency you've accepted the payment in, then send it to your JPY bank account. The conversion rate is the average of whatever people are buying and selling the currency at that hour, but some financial institutions add a small markup on top of that along the way.
Birds aren't real! https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/the-history
Extensions for Safari are distributed through the AppStore. I currently have uBlock (not Origin) installed as an extension.
Fair.

On the other hand, what is there to subsidise? For onshore wind in particular, the remaining role of a CfD at competitive prices would be solely consistency/ predictability. I think the Private Sector would like to believe they can compete effectively in offering that.

If I were a UK government that wasn't trying to eat its own tail over Brexit (so this is pretty hypothetical) I'd be focused on storage. People are going to build on-shore wind farms because they make sense. I need to subsidise figuring out how to smooth out the system load, or else all the wind farms in the world won't help me.
Thanks for the fantastic contributions to this topic, respect.
">but it doesn't mean that they are factually the same thing.

First of all, the meaning of words and political concepts are never factual."

You're still missing the point. The point is that there is a distinction between a subsidy and an externality and that distinction is important. It's important for measurement reasons (The exact monetary amount a government spends on something is easier to measure than the indirect cost of a policy,) and for simple communication reasons. It makes no sense to talk about instituting a tax to cover a subsidy. You institute a tax to cover an externality. It also matters because there are ways of dealing with externalities other than taxes and subsidies and reducing the language makes this more confusing. It's especially confusing when the distinction is made in one discussion (about renewables) but not in the other (about fossil fuels.)

There is a term for using an unexpected definition for a word that already has a widely used definition during a discussion, that is a 'stipulative definition'. It's dishonest to do so without being clear upfront or in response to a discussion where the original definition is in use. This results in equivocation. Whether or not a subsidy is morally equivalent to an externality is a moot point if you're willing toss about with the language. My work involves financial reporting and if my employer asked for one set of numbers and I gave him another that I argued were 'morally equivalent' would pretty clearly be in the wrong, even if the point I was making about moral equivalence was correct.
They offered me capital. I'd prefer Stripe engineering in exchange for equity.
It's not insightful commentary to just repeat a meme phrase

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> The reason I'm ringing an alarm here is that survival rates began to slide back since mid naughties exactly because of the trend for more heavier cars being marketed as "safer" resulting in more violent car to car collisions, and more cars going through road barriers.

Where are you getting this data from?
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> For a military, "identifying" a craft is less about saying what something is, and more about saying who something is.

Except that the article says:

> And while officials said they don't know what the objects are
I've always wondered: What was Stripe's actual MVP when they started? How did they MVP in a few weeks, and start charging cards?
Well, on the one hand, "they" did spray more frequently at diplomatic residences.

On the other hand, unless things have changed considerably since my day, "they", would almost certainly be American diplomatic services. That's who would direct the spraying operations at those residences, not the Cubans.

The Cubans would have no involvement with those spraying operations, however, you would think Cubans would still spray the neighborhood just as they would any other neighborhood. That said, again, the problem was likely us spraying our diplomats' homes and offices multiple times more because, to our minds, the Cuban spraying was not enough.
I have an answer for you but I also had a question for anyone that might be knowledgable. Why are Mac mouse drivers so bad? I've used the magic mouse, logitech and Microsoft mice and they are all terrible. I did this on multiple MBPs. I even did a bunch of research and tried multiple methods of disabling acceleration and it is still choppy and unpredictable in comparison to any other pointing device I've ever used. The best I can manage is to make it tolerable, but if there's a way to make it as smooth and dependable as Windows please let me know. The touchpads are truly amazing compared to their pc counterparts, but sometimes a mouse is the right tool for the job.

A few years ago I'd say get a MBP. Now, having used a 2017 for a while, I wouldn't even consider it unless you are completely in love with Mac OS, or you don't intend to ever use the build-in keyboard. Or, you could try out one of the new keyboards because some people actually like them.

Most of the the X, T, and P series, business class laptops from Lenovo are going to be pretty nice. Depending on which model you choose, it will have options for making it more powerful than a MBP.
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Except Huawei is already the second largest phone manufacturer in the world.

And phones in China already ship without the Play Store.
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But who determines the cost? Who amongst us does not produce CO2?

YOU are the customer if each of these externalities that you are arguing against. Are you willing to shoulder the cost?
Sorry about that. Yeah I meant the old API groups that I still come across.
I don't think it's ridiculous statement considering their profits are rather fragile as that's before regulation and the size of the last years earnings equals about half the current valuation by NASDAQ's median P/E.
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These seem like half-truths which don't really apply any more. Especially in smartphones, the body makes more difference than the sensor if you consider that most advancements are in software not sensor tech.
I got one of the recent Android phones with a superwide angle lens, and being able to zoom out is a real boon for group photos, indoor photos, and occasional landscape/cityscape shots. It doesn't make my shots better but it means I can take pictures I just couldn't otherwise.
it’s not anemic in China though
Reminds me of a time MS was paying hundreds to thousands of dollars for garbage calculator/flashlight Windows Phone apps.
HDMI 2.0+?
So many NYC-based journalists who love to spit all over "Silicon Valley".

Is there room for a TechCrunch-like publication with a more Silicon Valley-influenced editorial bent? (There's already a massive surplus of sneering Brooklyn-based scolds in "tech media".)
What was your MVP that you were charging cards in a few weeks of start?
> or we die out and the planet recovers on its own.

That makes it sound like there's some kind of natural 'ideal state' for the planet to recover to. Without us, the planet would just go on changing, without anything to judge the current environment at any point as good or bad to any particular standard.

Saving the environment is simply saving ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less.
I think the main problem in iOS is that Apple requires you to use Safari engine, even if you have the resources to create a competing browser (like Google or Mozilla). So all alternative browsers in iOS are simple skins of Safari.

If Apple allowed alternative browser engines in iOS, the situation wouldn't be so bad.
What if cars are imported to a California port, for sale in other states? Do they all need to be registered as soon as they arrive?
This is the kind of Javascript work I love. All too often we see terrible, overly-engineered Javascript monstrosities that actively make the web worse for everyone, and that can make some of us anti-JS zealots. But JS can improve users' experiences as well, and the folks at Wikipedia are good at it.
It's true that this isn't ready for the average computer user. But there are projects that I do think make it safer, for example dedicated hardware devices like the Casa node.

I think that as this technology (Bitcoin and Lightning generally) matures, we'll get better tools to make it safer for average users (just as we've done on the web).
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or, you could not start a business that requires you capture every single facet of a person's life as a data point.
"Shrouded" isn't the word I would use when the footer of the article states they participate in amazon's affiliate program and make money off qualifying purchases