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by saikat 5y ago
It seems like a good case for growing these trees for the lumber industry, both to sequester this carbon for good and to provide a faster timeline for harvesting timber which could decrease lumber costs. A good time for it too given the way
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by saikat 6y ago
I have seen no proposal for a wealth tax that is not a marginal wealth tax, in which case the math in this essay is wrong. The Warren wealth tax, for example, is for wealth over $50 million.
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by saikat 6y ago
The math on this is incorrect. This is not how a marginal tax works. I have not seen any proposals for wealth taxes that are not marginal after a certain (usually very high) level of wealth. For example, the Warren wealth tax only kicked in
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by saikat 9y ago
US manufacturing output has had a boom because we include natural gas and oil as manufacturing output, not just because of automation.
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by saikat 10y ago
Awesome song! Though I think it's more likely that Coolio got the base melody for Gangsta's Paradise from Stevie Wonder, and Amish Paradise grabbed it from Coolio since Amish Paradise is a parody of Gangsta's Paradise.
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by saikat 10y ago
http://thesolutionsproject.org/
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by saikat 10y ago
Having worked with a lot of Javascript frameworks aimed at creating web applications/SPAs (used Cappuccino to build a wireframing tool, Backbone.js to build a dashboard for a payments provider, React/Relay to build a phone calling
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by saikat 10y ago
I used Slava's blog to learn about Lisp and went on to build a product with Weblocks, which was a continuations-based web framework that Slava created back in the day (I only recently finally deleted a forgotten 8-year old todo about m
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by saikat 10y ago
Project Name: Brand New Congress Technology Project Description: Brand New Congress is an initiative to primary most of the existing incumbents in Congress with a representative group of progressive people who all agree to enact an aggressi
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Show HN: Just released a complete redesign of our wireframing tool, Mockingbird(gomockingbird.com)
14 points by saikat 11y ago|0 comments
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by saikat 11y ago
Greg's not a founder of Stripe. And who asks that question?
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by saikat 14y ago
The interface builder equivalent these days for Cappuccino is interface builder. You can actually create your Cappuccino UIs in IB.
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by saikat 14y ago
You actually don't pay for failed auth attempts with Stripe, but you do with most other gateways.
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by saikat 14y ago
Btw, this has since been changed to: https://github.com/isaacsanders/omniauth-stripe-connect
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by saikat 14y ago
For anyone looking for a nice subprocess library for Ruby, my friend Greg released one earlier this week - https://github.com/gdb/rubysh
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by saikat 14y ago
It may be worth noting (though you perhaps already know this) that our fees are all-inclusive. We don't charge extra for amex cards, international cards, qualified vs. non-qualified transactions, etc. These things often add up to make oth
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by saikat 14y ago
Yeah you are right here that it is still possible for our users to mess things up. We do things to try to keep merchants from accidentally sending card numbers to their server (e.g. the default example form makes this hard to do, and most
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by saikat 14y ago
To make sure there isn't confusion here, having card details go through your server, even if you aren't saving them, still can lead to certain PCI compliance burdens (e.g. you may need to get an audit from a PCI auditor verifying this). Hav
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by saikat 14y ago
For what it's worth, we don't have a PR company or marketing department currently =). We try not to post on HN unless we actually think people on HN will like the content (and we've argued internally before and decided not to post stuff to
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Stripe Blog: Track Stripe's uptime(stripe.com)
36 points by saikat 15y ago|21 comments
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by saikat 15y ago
Yup, we have an API to create plans - https://stripe.com/docs/api#plans
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by saikat 15y ago
We're working on it! We want to make sure we get it right. But I do want to mention https://stripe.com/global for anyone not in the US that wants to be notified when Stripe gets to their country.
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by saikat 15y ago
> Has Stripe fixed their webhooks so that they re-POST when the endpoint is down? They can't be compared to IPN until they implement it reliably... without that you have to manually reconcile Stripe's data with your own database to be s
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by saikat 15y ago
I believe PayPal's chargeback fee is $20.
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by saikat 15y ago
For what it's worth, we don't have a marketing team currently and, no, these articles are definitely not ones that we made.
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by saikat 15y ago
We basically are trying to abstract away all the pain of creating merchant accounts and setting up with separate payment gateways. On the backend, we are partnering with Wells Fargo and First Data to set up whatever accounts are necessary
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by saikat 15y ago
Possibly -- it's something we're still talking about internally.
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by saikat 15y ago
The amount of time it takes fro the refund to be re-credited usually depends on the issuing bank. When a refund happens, we send the refund over immediately and settle it at the end of the day. There are currently no chargeback or refund
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by saikat 15y ago
We do plan on doing volume discounts eventually.
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by saikat 15y ago
Not too hard! We're working on it right now and hope to have international support soon.

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