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How does this deal with damage deposits? Why would I pay with bitcoin when many rewards cards pay out extra when you use them for travel-related use?

Honestly, the cynic in me says the use case for spending bitcoin is a quick way for speculators to "cash out" in a way that makes it easier to hide earnings from the tax-man.

Since it has such low liquidity, it is also manipulated to hell and back by various bots, exchanges, scammers, etc. There was an article floating around that showed most of the last price rise was beside of a bot operating on MtGox: http://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-report...

Nothing is stopping another exchange or malicious person from doing the same thing.

This is something you can test once you get enough traffic. You can do A/B testing and see if you get a higher conversion with or without the models faces. Until you do the A/B test, you'll never know...

Don't worry about your prices and don't every try to compete on prices. Don't worry about phone hooks, overcompressed images, logos, or anything about the site. It seems to me that you need to really focus on who your market is. "Outside of India" or "ages 16-45" is a very, very broad market for somebody as small as you. Are you after hip urban 20 somethings? Are you after rich NYC moms? Be very specific here. Age, gender, living arrangements, where they work, how educated they are, what is their income, how many pets (and what type) do they have, what is their favorite TV shows, favorite musicians, what type of coffee do they get at starbucks, etc... Give this person a name, even find a picture that matches who they are... Why would this person buy from you instead of your competition? What unique thing do you give this person that they can't get anywhere else?

It is also great for web development. Have one user profile that has all the password managers, adblocks, etc not installed.

Interesting story! I have to say I'm curious what the deal is with the restraining order?

The ISE is clever, but honestly, nothing beats a PuTTY-like terminal.

To this day, I don't understand why don't didn't have an intern or somebody fix that. They push powershell so hard, yet provide a horrible, horrible terminal to work in. Make it like putty. In fact, go find one of these makers of terminal software and just buy they out... Do something. Nobody takes their command line stuff seriously simply because the terminal is so god-awful.

Lets say you just had a stroke or something. I honestly can't imagine how hard it would be to dial 911 on a modern touch screen phone if you are mentally or physically incapacitated.

Seriously, it it kind of scares the crap out of me visualizing how I'd dial for an emergency if shit hit the fan and for whatever reason I wasn't my normal self.

You can pull from eachother, but since you know github will be up in a few hours and it would take more than that to really coordinate any workflow change, most of the time people just goof off until github is back.

Plus you are forgetting that lot of automated jobs get triggered on github changes. Many shops kick off all kinds of tests, deployments, and other things based on changes to the github repo.

It is the same thing I've wondered. What has github done to anybody? Is it for the L0lZ? Is it because they happen to host somebody's gaming code, or IRC code that they feel should be taken offline?

Though when you think about it, taking out github is a very effective way to basically kill the productivity of many dev shops. At the place I'm working now, we are basically dead in the water while github is down (can't do deployments, can't merge pull requests, can't run automated testing, etc).

I may be talking out of my ass, but if I recall correctly back when I had a merchant account I may have been required to add that drop-down even if it was meaningless.

I have to wonder if they photoshopped that not to make things look symmetrical but to hide some kind of trade secret.

If you look at the picture below, there are blue blankets covering some of the racks. Gotta wonder if under those blankets are something they don't want other companies to know about: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/2