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Re:DigitalRiver/MyCommerce stopped paying vendors since July on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:08AM (#41856365)
what we can do:

1 Ask customers if they agree to get refund&repay you to different merchant. Subtract 180 days from now for paypal orders (there is no deadline for CC? i could refund 1 year 2 months while testing) and start refunding orders after this date. We are losing ability to do this everyday, but we increase our refund rate by doing this so no hurry

2 Ask users w/ lawyers to fill class action lawsuit or at least to share their contacts/lawsuit+claim interest rate for unpaid amount https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8979590#p8979...

3 subrogation: sell our accounts to lawyers

Re:Ask HN: Why do so few people work on important problems? on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:58AM (#38582413)
what solutions do you mean?
It is not Russian but 'Soviets math'. Ironically, Russia introduced analogy of USA's standardized right after Itina emigrated from Russia and now Russian's math is also optimized for memorizing but not for 'emphasizing reasoning and deeper understanding'
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:56PM (#26837700)
>I might be homeless soon

Where is your family? Why can't you return to your parents?

Do you know any projects that try to solve this problem?
Your (grand-)children can’t guarantee you to preserve your values. Only policy maker can.
I can confirm that they are extremely unreliable compared with other hardware. There is also no support from vendors.
This is not true at least in my experience. Price doesn’t tell you about reliability. I have 10% of broken cartridges and 66% of broken tape drives. These devices have mechanical parts and are sensitive to magnetic fields so they could be damaged easily. If you don't believe me then I can send you all this garbage to you
Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:39PM (#20954162)
What I mean is to fight back with your brain but not with your body. Someone getting assaulted should be “smarter” to not fight back physically with much bigger opponent. You should look how Edward Snowden or Julian Assange fight back.

“world wide consensus” means to create big enough entity who is ready to act when law is violated anywhere in the world so that its actions can hurt violator. Imagine the world where open-source is replaced by such entity.

Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:48AM (#20911227)
My answer to violence is to be smarter. It is global problem here that we still haven’t developed tools to force countries to comply with their own laws to stop violence. We need worldwide consensus here what everyone should do in this case before he hits the same problem.
Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:45AM (#20911212)
They should grow first as much as possible before considering to fight with much bigger enemy so that the winner would be unknown. To do so they should define a problem as time-space independent one. It is global problem here that we still haven’t developed tools to force countries to comply with their own laws to stop violence. We need worldwide consensus here what everyone should do in this case before he hits the same problem.
Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:45AM (#20911207)
I agree violence is justified when someone violates rules. China did violate ‘Article 5 of the Basic Law’ before 2047. So it is global problem that we still haven’t developed tools to force countries to comply with their own laws to stop violence. Or is USA trade war kind of punishment for China?
Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong on Saturday September 07, 2019 @06:34PM (#20907089)
Is there a list of companies who make money on violence? I'd like to ban them on using my products. I could find only this https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/31778
Re:An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong on Saturday September 07, 2019 @06:31PM (#20907064)
The best is not to use and provoke violence at all.
Re:The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:32PM (#20855080)
Earth's resources are decreasing over a given timespan because we both spent exhaustible resources and produce wastes for future generations. It can’t be sustainable system.

There is no evidence that overpopulation is not long-term concern. Look at Africa, India, China

New technologies are not guaranteed. You can’t simultaneously give less and less time and resources to your children and ask them to be better than you. They will choose to continue your tactic until civilization collapse as future generations can't vote

Re:The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever on Sunday September 01, 2019 @01:41PM (#20853522)
You can "print" unlimited amount of money but Earth resources are limited, moreover its usage is overshot (Earth Overshoot Day is 29 July 2019). So the problem is how the money is spent. We should tax money that spent to decrease Overshoot Day.
Re:How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:32PM (#20520674)
You shouldn’t teach anyone how to make a "weapon" if you can’t be sure that it won’t be used against other intellectuals. See also my reply above.
Re:How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:18PM (#20520546)
I don’t think it is right. They harm their selves much more than its country. Dictator will easily buy their replacement from free world when needed. The problem is that intellectuals could be bought and sold because there are no contract commitments on how to use the knowledge. You are even free to use your knowledge against your teacher to make him to leave the country.
Re:How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @02:50PM (#20518362)
Intellectuals should stop sharing their knowledge/skills with obscurantists. They should allow obscurantists to fail or at least to make obscurantists to depend on intellectuals. The motto should be "first control then money gaining or sharing"
Re:Sex censorship killed the internet we love on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:25AM (#19062860)
Mad world: It is ok for the US president to pay prostitutes, restrict sex-redistributing websites and it is ok for the first lady to sell body. What is not ok is to do web search for this kind of activities that they did. They just don’t want us to have the same rights.
Just curious if someone can build nuclear station without Congress. Can Bill Gates buy a ship or island with nuclear station somewhere and “power Microsoft servers” from it?
Re:Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know? on Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:50AM (#18931117)
Ok, I found Hanson’s view on “sex redistribution” in his blog http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/two-types-of-envy.html

Mad world: It is ok for the US president to pay prostitutes, restrict sex-redistributing websites and it is ok for the first lady to sell body. What is not ok is to advocate more liberal sex policies for scientists.

Re:Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know? on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:54PM (#18923085)
i'm not sure what you are talking about. You should try to google him. I like his views about the future and it is good to talk about futarchy now as topic starter mentioned TurboVote
Re:Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know? on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:53AM (#18922426)
Robin Hanson
Re:Ways the world improved in 2018 on Monday December 31, 2018 @06:41PM (#18797839)
It was kind of joke, but why would congressman’s sex affect his decisions if he is professional? What are these important questions which are so affected by Y-chromosome?
Re:Ways the world improved in 2018 on Monday December 31, 2018 @01:07PM (#18795923)
> isn't Congress made up of 50% women + 50% men?

it is true if Congress would be engaged in sex related questions only

Re:An Apology and an Update on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:50AM (#18745452)
Nobody forced people of "Crime" to go to vote for occupation. Formally, no one asked Russians if they want this occupation.
Re:An Apology and an Update on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:12PM (#18743031)
Why do you think so? Visa and MasterCard are banned in Crimea. Visa and MasterCard can't track its holder location.
Re:Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much? on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:28AM (#18607618)
As for me, the worst factor is urine catheter. I couldn't sleep with it at all. I advise everyone to buy non-invasive one before it happens with you.
Re:First gene-edited babies claimed in China on Monday November 26, 2018 @07:13AM (#18532746)
1. Do they grow HIV-resistant people for sex-work industry?

2. Why does China outlaw cloning if it has the same risks?

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