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Re:Shopify accepts Bitcoin on Saturday November 09, 2013 @12:53PM (#6702387)

I am starting to see services like this http://www.freesafeip.com/bitcoin

which is a more generic version of another similar service http://pizzaforcoins.com/

It may be a matter of time before any site can accept bitcoins indirectly if people started using these services.

Re:Translation Marketplace idea, does this exist? on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @10:04AM (#6675387)

I checked textmaster, and they seem to have fixed translation pricing. 1000 translated words is about $40. gengo is even more expensive. I can get 1000 translated words on some sites like Fiverr for $5, but its kind of a pain to search, buy a gig, send the content, get it back... and do that for 20 or so different languages, but it is the cheapest way I have found.

Translation Marketplace idea, does this exist?

Posted by kmook on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @06:09AM
from the self-post dept.

I recently had an idea for a translation service, perhaps this idea exists or something similar. If not, I may be interested to create it.Many website owners would like their site content localized into another language but do not have the means to do it themselves and may be too cheap to pay for expensive translations services.What if there was a translation marketplace where site owners...

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Re:Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen ... on Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:02AM (#5427428)

I recently read a book about this very concept, the author went over hundreds of studies like the one you just read and has some interesting conclusions, in the book titled "An Epidemic of Absence"