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Re:Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm by kefs on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:36PM (#5290163)
https://www.affirm.com/u/

> Sign up with Facebook to buy online securely.

Really? The only signup option is via Facebook? Noooo thank you.

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Re:Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm by EScott11 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:05AM (#5290758)
The entire point is that Affirm looks at data from your social network(s) to establish an alternative metric for credibility.
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