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Currently, the biggest issue I’ve been having is that their support group seems to be disconnected from each other and from automated processes. The platform is otherwise pretty solid, as long as nothing breaks.

From the docs (https://stripe.com/docs/tax/checkout) it looks like Apple/Google Pay is disabled when Tax is enabled. I wonder if there is a technical limitation there or if that is something that will be supported soon?

YouTube was a separate company acquired by Google in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

Thanks for pointing that out, that seems to patch up that rather large hole in the proposed legislation.

The big problem that immediately pops up to me is: a good chunk of the examples of low wage workers are in fast-food (i.e. the McDonald's example). Just about every fast food company out there is a franchise, and I'd be very surprised if there are more than a couple of franchisees which have over 500 employees.

I think it's regional. When I lived in the midwest all of the appliances came with the apartment. Now I live in Los Angeles and you have to bring your own fridge.

Hasn't everyone already learned to keep your personal and work Amazon accounts heavily separated?

That's an interesting take. Facebook is basically Television 2.0, with all of the advantages (free entertainment) that come with inherent costs (advertising), and as was pointed out in a sibling, with TV the advertisers didn't have nearly as much information as they do now.

I wonder if the same parallels would be applicable to broadcast vs cable TV? Namely: ad supported (broadcast), versus subscriber supported with additional ads (cable). More broadly I wonder if that is a direction we'll see social networks start moving into, to date, I don't believe any pay-for social network has gotten any real traction.

That's a good question. AFAIK Stripe already had their magical Dunning rules for retries, which were supposedly already optimized via machine learning. I'm curious if this is substantially different from that.

AIM = AOL Instant Messenger AOL = America OnLine

It makes sense.

Isn't that basically what an optical illusion is?

You'd think an entity as large as they are would understand the complexities around names. It always seems to prudent to re-read http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... when something like this happens.

Come look at Transplant Connect: https://transplantconnect.com/

We make software which facilitates the organ, tissue and eye donation process in partnership with a number of other organizations and non-profits. It's really rewarding work.

I hear that argument all of the time, but in reality the colleges aren't the ones giving out loans. What will probably happen is that loans will start being more difficult to get, which in turn will make getting into college even more difficult for people who already struggle to pay for it.

Many of them already are, but they aren't "sexy". I personally do a lot of .Net, and MVC 5 has relatively good defaults if you just install and go. ASP.NET Core is even better in some regards (CSRF tokens are completely transparent now). I think a lot of the problem is that people want to use a lot of new tech which hasn't had time to develop security as a convenience feature, or they just flat out don't want to use a framework.

It looks like something ate your link.

Hey, I was just looking over the GitLab product page[0] and it looks like there might be a small issue with the FAQ:

Under the "Can I add more users to my account" faq it indicates that additional users would be billed at 50% upon renewal, while the following question "The True-Up model seems complicated" indicates that additional users would be billed at full price.

I'm not in the market right now, but for people that are this might be a bit confusing.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/products/

I know exactly what you are talking about. I'm just really afraid of what the knock-on effects are going to be of starting kids out in walled gardens. I wouldn't be an engineer today if it wasn't for the fact that it was possible for me to play with various languages, or start distro hopping in high school with a 433Mhz PC. These walled gardens make it easy to keep everything working, but come at a high cost of actually learning what the device does.

Hey, sorry if this is slightly off topic, but "developpers" is spelled wrong in the community column. Thanks!

You literally just described the Stingray devices. It is very worrisome.

As a hiker I would much rather step aside for a slow moving well trained animal then dive out of the way for a mountain biker going downhill way over the posted speed limit around sharp corners.

Yep, and that code isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Big, boring, slow moving enterprise software. I work on one of these systems.

I'm guessing you just mis-typed, but I think you meant nuclear instead of chemical.

FTA, the drug wasn't any good at treating osteoporosis, although it wasn't otherwise harmful

I think contemporary parlance pretty much has TLS and SSL as synonyms, as they are effectively two means to achieving the same ends.

Nothing is wrong with hubs, but now there is yet one more thing you have to have available (at least until they become more prolific in external devices)

So we are basically back to the old days of Daisy-chaining SCSI devices?

Freaky... I had the exact same thing except it was when I was 18. I also ended up moving to another area which has helped my allergies out a lot.

I think there was an underlying theme that this post was about a progression in time. At the beginning, its all about ideas, no companies (you shouldn't need lawyers and accountants for a small project). Later on its a Sub-chapter C corp, with all of the associated lawyers and accountants.