davidpoarch

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by davidpoarch 15y ago
I believe the brain is too complex to compare to either an operating system or a CPU. We can perhaps analogize both of those artificial entities to individual functions that a human brain may perform, but they would not be comprehensive of
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by davidpoarch 15y ago
>"You do realize the entire banking system is not built with the idea of ACID/transactional databases in mind?" Well, I was referring to payments/transactions, not banking. As I specifically said, we are building a third party payments
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by davidpoarch 15y ago
We were actually considering MongoDB for our system, given its scalable, high-performance, and open source qualities. However, since we are building a payments platform (specifically, a third party payments aggregator), we soon learned tha
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by davidpoarch 15y ago
You are absolutely correct. That's one of PayPal's main weaknesses. I am not sure how Stripe is dealing with it; though they probably have to go through a similar screening process, which isn't foolproof. I am a co-founder of a nascent th
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by davidpoarch 15y ago
I think this issue is very significant these days, with the boom of outsourcing and remote freelance work. For scenarios with no down payment requirement, there's no guarantee the service provider will receive payment at all (and no guaran
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by davidpoarch 15y ago
The article states: "[WePay's] ambition: to move beyond what WePay calls the “unstructured economy” to be the dominant way people make payments and buy things online. ...Since WePay can’t yet match PayPal’s brand or awareness, it aims to o
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by davidpoarch 15y ago
I actually thought of a similar idea before, while I was meditating in rural Philippines attempting to figure out a viable business idea and trying to avoid a return to the rat race in the US. Unfortunately, the idea seemed too daunting to
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by davidpoarch 15y ago
The competition looks stiff, but I'm rooting for them. Terence Pua, Insync's co-founder, is a seasoned internet entrepreneur -- one of the guys behind Friendster (Philippines) back in the day, before getting killed by Facebook. I had the o