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Thoughts on Casper IPO Filing
Re:Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed
on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:46PM (#19588636)
Interesting case.
Exec team got a bit of $$$.
I think however, knowing that story how many people would like have any of that 10 people as their bosses?
Say they decide to build another start-up, who of sound sense will join them?
What is the future of Magento as a brand? Will Adobe keep or kill it?
Re:Adobe to Acquire Magento
on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @06:48AM (#17124989)
3000 of their Shopify Plus merchants brings almost as much revenue as 600,000 of other merchants (on other Shopify plans).
Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
on Sunday May 13, 2018 @08:04PM (#17061757)
I had very similar experience with Facebook when tried to check my profile.
Out of 20 interests only 4 were correct
I think it is an intentional stretching the interests way to far to look better for advertisers.
In more details: https://levashov.biz/can-trust-facebook-audience-interests/
Re:Google Maps Platform
on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:03AM (#16985147)
For those who are not in 98% that Google believe will not be affected, I combined a list of alternative to Google Maps API, with focus on geocoding - https://goo.gl/5GUVNd
Not affiliated with any of the providers listed and mainly based on this thread, just added there pricing information, free tier limits and reference.
Re:Is blockchain really cheaper than centralised payment systems?
on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:56AM (#15138643)
A lot of people claim that blockchain will be cheaper.
For example this is from Deloitte: By eliminating third party intermediaries and overhead costs for exchanging assets, blockchains have the potential to greatly reduce transaction fees.
Is blockchain really cheaper than centralised payment systems?
I've recently did a bit of calculations comparing Bitcoin and Paypal.One of the most interesting thing that I found that Bitcoin transaction in average is much more expensive than Paypal transaction, 7 to 20 times now.I think that it is very interesting, taking into account that cheap transaction is very often cited as a big benefit of blockchain technology.To make it clear, the cost per...