brass_cannon

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Basketball enters the space age(espn.go.com)
1 points by brass_cannon 15y ago|0 comments
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
I'm not a developer, so I can't confidently comment on the value of specific code evaluation techniques. In other disciplines however, it can often be fairly easy to sort out the talented folks from the merely competent through a brief scre
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
You're missing my point regarding Samurai. It's main value prop is a gateway with developer friendly docs. This has nothing to do with risk. Feefighters tells their customers to go with the absolute lowest priced merchant account provider b
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
You're going to run into some degree of issues wherever you go if you're accepting pre-orders. Because your essentially taking payments for a product that doesn't exist yet (and therefore may never exist - it's a possibility), paying custom
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
PayPal is horrible at providing support, documentation and resolution channels in these type of situations. They also, at times, can appear to arbitrarily take adverse action against certain accounts. However, it's important to note that th
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
Samurai doesn't solve this problem. A merchant processing through them still needs to obtain a traditional merchant account, and therefore exposes their business to the same risk of having a reserve assessed on their account. If Feefighters
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
As another October 8th birthdate with the opposite impression of how many October kids there are, I had to look this up. 8.62% of all live births in the US during 2006 occurred during October [1]. No single month deviated significantly from
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
Valid point, but if I am rich enough to be living on an isolated island micro-country, and will fetch a healthy enough ransom for pirates to snatch me, I am also investing a fair amount of resources into my own defense. Think small arms, am
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
To your point, someone used the Hubble Effect in the other HN thread on this story to show that this observation is actually closer to 9.5 billion years old, which is significantly different than it being 12 billion years old.
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
I like the idea of using Mercury's orbit as a comparison. Some more fodder: Just over 13,583,569.4 times the volume of the Sun. [2] [2] http://www.smartconversion.com/otherInfo/Volume_of_planets_a...
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
Given that the difference between our calculations is a result of the margin of error in determining the Earth's ocean's volume, I wonder what the margin of error is for NASA's measurement.
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
1.918 * 10^35 cubic liters [1] [1] http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/SyedQadri.shtml
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
Age 7: Lemonade stand Age 9: Created a 'museum' in my bedroom comprised of all the interesting things I could collect (geodes, baseball cards, trophies, shark's teeth, etc.). I charged $.50 for admission. Age 10: I made and sold various Ori
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by brass_cannon 15y ago
It really is dependent upon your work environment, and the people you work for. When I started at my current job, we had two weeks vacation after 6 months, plus half a dozen holidays. We were a very young company, and I got the impression
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Comparing Recurring Payment Solutions(expletiveinserted.com)
1 points by brass_cannon 16y ago|0 comments
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
All good points, and I live by them when setting up meetings. The author recommends freeconferencecall.com, and I use them as well. Just be aware that your calls will be preceeded by an advertisment unless you specifically request it be rem
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
I was liking that reply in 2010, noob (technically true, living in Chicago).
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
Did anyone else immediately think of the ubiquitous blue and yellow tropical bird that uses the exact shades of blue and yellow that the ugly website example in this article uses? Just do an image search for 'blue yellow bird,' and you'll
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
To me, the fact that Visa / MasterCard are in a heavily regulated (and to some extent, subsidized) industry is a separate issue. Perhaps the government should have less influence on these card associations, but the fact remains that they ar
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
AFAIK (and I may be off here), the government has not officially requested that any entity take negative action against Wikileaks. The implied threat that action may be taken against them is there, and individual representatives have spoken
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
But you're missing a huge point here. Visa and MasterCard don't have a responsibility to allow you access to their networks. This is akin to arguing that your free speech rights are infringed upon when a moderator removes your comment on th
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
Except your assertion requires that the availability of imported tea was an essential component to the American Revolution's success. The founders didn't reduce their available resources by making people less likely to import tea. Anon has
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
That's an interesting idea. Is there any additional reading related to this?
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
The way most vaulting services work is, you pass through credit card details, and they store in their vault. They then send you back a token to reference for future transactions. In most cases, you won't have the ability to pull back the
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
It's not widely adopted yet (and it's doubtful that it will ever be adopted by Auth / Paypal), but of significance to this discussion is http://www.portabilitystandard.org/ . If the provider you're looking at is a member, then you can at l
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
How about embedding positive tweets about your business? Pretty hard to fake that kind of testimonial, and they always appear more genuine than solicited praise.
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
For someone new to the payments industry such as yourself, I can't stress enough the following points: -Get with a provider who has a good reputation for honesty, and won't aggressively sell you on deceptive rates. More often than not, the
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by brass_cannon 16y ago
"Neave and his team think head, trunk, wrist and knee movements show how healthy, vigorous and strong a man is.." So, to conclude - a man's shoulders, elbows and ankles are not sexy. There really is no material value to this article. Is it