moyta

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by moyta 10y ago
Independent Sales Organization [1], Shopify for example is partnered with Stripe who is an ISO. Neither push big volume so their platform costs are much higher than their competitors. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by moyta 10y ago
So, to put this all in context, a small ISO will do at least a billion in payment processing a month, and there are more than a few hundred small ISOs. If Stripe really isn't hitting anywhere near $1 billion a month, I'm not sure
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by moyta 10y ago
0_o Why so many employees? In the context of the volume you do I don't see how you'd turn a profit with that many employees unless you get the tax credits other francophone software groups like Logivision get and more.
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by moyta 10y ago
No clue, hopefully xal will comment on this seeing as he works for them.
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by moyta 10y ago
That is really low, for context a teeny tiny ISO does $1 billion in processing volume a month, so your comparable to one of the hundreds of 2 to 4 employee ISOs out there.
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by moyta 10y ago
You'd think it'd perform better, on my i5 with 16GB of ram its laggy as can be. Edit: Keep the downvotes up, but having this site eat a full core is a bit ridiculous. Similar sites are much more performant.
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by moyta 10y ago
Yeah, given a sizable power budget and the right benchmarks, Nvidia can outperform Radeon cards, but Apple has an exisistung relationship with AMD and there is not a compelling performance case to switch to Nvidia. Plus with Supercomputing
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by moyta 10y ago
I think so, iirc Caviar is losing money as they compete with the dozen other food delivery services. The payment processing industry itself is currently very overcrowded too, with a million ISOs like Stripe, Square, Braintree, etc.
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by moyta 10y ago
1. You can boot and use virtually all the hardware, H.265 hardware video decoding included with a fully libre stack. The Raspberry Pi is unlikely to ever be able to do that. Never tried the Allwinner Android builds, mainly cause they are un
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by moyta 10y ago
I mean, if I could just get a nice Maemo Phone I'd be happy, like throw that on a Lumia 920 and I'd be content. There is definitely room for innovation in the mobile space, and both MS and Nokia have the hardware side of it down,
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by moyta 10y ago
Windows Phone is a burning platform at this point, Microsoft canned most of the people working on it and left a few dozen interns working on it, hence why the Windows 10 images for the Lumia as of late have been very unstable. Sadly, its ti
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by moyta 10y ago
It is. Commenter doesn't understand that Microsoft is just trying to regain lost ground & mindshare at this point, hence why you can get Office on your Android device for free, and it works better than it does on Windows.
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by moyta 10y ago
Los Angeles could also recycle its water for a much lower cost than desalination, but due to campaigns that claim it is unsanitary (ass to glass, etc) it is not an option politically. Another angle on this is why are we scrutinizing only wh
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by moyta 10y ago
I take issue with quite a bit of what you are saying, as; 1. The Allwinner chipset is 100% libre at this point [1], and they chose a cheap chip (the R8) so they could not have to subsidize their board unlike the Rpi Zero. If you want a mor
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by moyta 10y ago
And a problem with workers rights, our citizens are not fighting for a better working environment.
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by moyta 10y ago
I've personally met with quite a few AMD employees over the past few years (hell, they bought me quite a bit of alcohol at times :P). They are not trying to compete in the high performance desktop or server arena anymore, they view it
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by moyta 10y ago
If there is demand Xunlong will build a board (or if they think there is demand), the only sunk costs they seem to have are the minimal inventory they have on hand. Board design is all in house, they're the original designer of quite a
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by moyta 10y ago
He doesn't, hence why he did not link to an article where AMD, Intel or VIA's lawyers say their cross licensing agreement allows them to be bought by another company.
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by moyta 10y ago
> At the big 3 the unions practically took al firing capabilites away from the company. Unless the union agreed, the employee stayed. That is 100% on the employer, if they can't be bothered to follow the firing process they have neg
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by moyta 10y ago
I heard about this way back in 2014, why hasn't neo900 progressed much? It seems like Xunlong is able to turn out new boards based on the A20, H3 and H5 in a matter of weeks at a price point of $7 to $35, with the Linux sunxi community
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by moyta 10y ago
That is on the employer, they need to be written up if they do not perform their duties, then fired after repeated failures, just like any well run business would do. The employee could easily sue and retain their job if there was no union
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by moyta 10y ago
Uhh, have fun with that belief, AMD's lawyers say otherwise: http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/amd-clari...
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by moyta 10y ago
Sure, I'm not saying its something with huge margins, just like how Allwinner isn't getting rich with their dirt cheap SOCs. That being said, they have a few markets like that, and that is what sustains a company. I highly doubt M
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by moyta 10y ago
You have obviously never had to work in a unionized environment, here in Seattle Seattle Public Utilities will show union protected employees the door in a heartbeat if they cannot perform their duties or if management doesn't like t
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by moyta 10y ago
Its disingenuous and in other countries would get the labor board on their ass, they are using FUD to stop their employees from organizing. Here in the US we have very weak labor law enforcement, thus Trump can have managers dodge a certifi
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by moyta 10y ago
Nvidia has taken over a newer segment, cars, and they have a stronghold in the HPC market due to the sheer number of academic compute clusters that have based their setups on Nvidia hardware. Intel has forced Nvidia out of the mobile and lo
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by moyta 10y ago
Huh? AMD is too important to Intel to let them fail, if AMD ever went broke, Intel would give them money just so they didn't have to deal with every country going at them for anti-trust law violations.
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by moyta 10y ago
Eh, AMD has been doing that and custom cores as their bread and butter, seeing as they design the chips that power all the >$100 consoles from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, they have a good market niche that provides them with a decent m
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by moyta 10y ago
That and getting mindshare in the academic compute space. Where Supermicro is cleaning out all of Nvidia's higher end SKUs to build these academic compute clusters, Intel needs to insert itself and try to take the market. Currently the
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by moyta 10y ago
Above 32 gigs, 16gb has been limiting on my current thinkpad.

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