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by matnewton85 4y ago
The Australian government does the same thing; and also permits BNPL. BNPL has been thoroughly, thoroughly investigated by the Australian government because people have the same conclusion as the HNers here - 'they must be doing someth
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by matnewton85 4y ago
I'll quote my comment elsewhere: "BNPL providers are held to far higher standards than Credit Card, Personal Loan, or Payday Loan companies. I'm not sure I understand the HN addiction to attacking them. Unlike all the example
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by matnewton85 4y ago
BNPL providers are held to far higher standards than Credit Card, Personal Loan, or Payday Loan companies. I'm not sure I understand the HN addiction to attacking them. Unlike all the examples above, Afterpay doesn't charge intere
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by matnewton85 7y ago
I’m down nearly 30lbs in 3 months through intermittent fasting. Here’s my M-F routine : 7am: weigh myself, text results to my father Breakfast: Nothing, but I drink a flat white just because I want to. Midday: large bowl of plain unsweetene
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by matnewton85 7y ago
Less powerful than you’d think. If you’re familiar with the zones of popularity of his main newspapers, you’d see that they correlate very nicely with Labor-held electorates. (Just think about your own personal experiences: in a typical Lib
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by matnewton85 12y ago
correction, I'm a whitehat SEO who fights blackhat SEOs.
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Ever tried it? Trust me, it doesn't work.
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Hey Jacques Sorry for the delay, I don't come to HN very often. I sleep quite easily at night. Google is very bad at what they do when it comes to spam. They deliberately under-resource their spam team and have maintained a fairly inco
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Go for it dude, not trying to rank it for anything.
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Why are you even arguing with this? Do you have any experience with SEO? I use negative SEO regularly to drop sites out of the top 10 in Google. I only target low quality sites that shouldn't be in there anyway, but Google in all their
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by matnewton85 12y ago
This article expresses perfectly why: a) I'm very cautious about working with American companies b) Why my contractors nearly all bitch about working with American companies (I use a lot of contractors on oDesk and they tell me the sam
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by matnewton85 12y ago
"Companies like Verizon don't casually threaten legal action, this is really getting to them." Are you sure? As someone who has dealt with more than 40 different threats of legal action from major companies, I would have gues
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Great point.
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Ok, I think this is just a perspective thing. You're (most likely) coming from a CS background, I come from a user testing background. If someone sits me down and says "use my site, have a conversation with a 13 year old Ukrainian
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by matnewton85 12y ago
I had an actual conversation with Eugene Goostman as if I was meeting a 13 year old from the Ukraine. And Eugene nailed it. He introduced himself, ask me polite questions, I asked him polite questions, and we developed a slightly broken con
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Wanna quote the second line of his post? >Yes and they get a salary for this like they would at any other company. > If they take on a below market salary and or additional risk exposure in join a startup they should negotiate a packa
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by matnewton85 12y ago
to me, it just sounds like an S. The monthly business model isn't appropriate in ALL niches...
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by matnewton85 12y ago
This is easily done with Zapier, too. Love my Zapier.
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by matnewton85 12y ago
That's Yuan very high price...
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Agreed. One of my sites is ranked 490,000 or so in Alexa. The worst month in the last year was 165,000 visits.
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by matnewton85 12y ago
+1 this was also my first reaction. One story a month though is not so bad - that's my second reaction. I much prefer the idea of the Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud series, which seems to be on indefinite hiatus. That being said, i
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Don't forget that the translator knows just as well as you or I what the Spanish means - he also understands what it means when you take a child to see something - an expression that almost without exclusion means taking a child to see
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by matnewton85 12y ago
Exactly. The sentence in English is translated perfectly in this instance - the underlying implication of 'to see ice' carries the exact same meaning as the Spanish.