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It's a very cool app. It would be great to tap on a plane and see its source and destination airports. My kids always ask where I think a plane is going and it would be great to have a way to easily tell them!

I don't think they're saying that at all. I think the point was, a payroll tax won't necessarily increase costs for a company because it would be offset by eliminating the current healthcare costs.

It depends on if your company capped how much you could accrue. However much you accrued should be paid out.

Nothing.

"and thats not ok; but forget that"

Why do we need to forget the trademark infringement?

If Amazon is engaging in trademark infringement, lying about their connection\collaboration with the trademark holder, and including commercially licensed technology in an open source fork of a project, they are acting very poorly. Your argument of Amazon just being able to execute better falls flat if these facts are true and it means they're cheating, and that deserves some recognition.

"And after this, we're going to walk down there, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down ... to the Capitol and we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," Trump told the crowd. "And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong."

He told people to go to the capital, "take back our country", and you can't do it with weakness, you need to do it with strength. That seems pretty straightforward to me. And he did it all while fanning the flames by repeating discredited conspiracy theories that he knows plays to the people in attendance.

You could say that about any lightning source used anywhere. In general, a piece of wood is going to outlast and electrical device.

Because COVID-19 has a higher infection/transmission rate than the seasonal flu and a higher mortality rate. The economy isn't shutting down because 68 people have died, it's shutting down because 61,000 people died from the flu and COVID-19 has a distinct potential of being significantly worse.

I'm guessing the crumple zone on this is going to be better than a vehicle with an internal combustion engine! That and the fact that semis are everywhere. This being on the road doesn't worry me in the slightest given the other vehicles already out there.

I suggest reading the book "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success". The author's TED talk is interesting: https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing...

With EVs that you can charge at home, that means that for your normal driving that you probably do 80 to 90 % of the time, you NEVER need to stop to "fill up" because you charge every night at home. The tradeoff is that when you do decide to drive more than 250 to 350 miles in one trip, you'll need to take at least one break where you charge.

If you optimize only for the long journeys, you miss out on the benefits from normal driving which you probably do a lot more often.

This seems unlikely given that the Volt has been canceled and much of the momentum is moving towards electric only platforms, even from the major manufacturers.

When people call your place of business and complain to your boss about your methods and mental state, when they lobby the government to open investigations into your research under the accusation of child abuse, and when they use every available method to discredit your life's work, I don't think that simply opting-out of Twitter is likely to make a meaningful difference unfortunately.

Why would anyone want a security camera that only worked when a property was empty? Wouldn't that defeat the point of having a security camera?

You don't know that. You have no idea what kind of health issues their families face. And yes, sometimes you are just paying for other people's care, right up until the time that you need it. That is, after all, the point of insurance.

Your total income that you would report on your personal income tax return should be your personal salary plus your business profit for a single member LLC.

Autopilot isn't even necessary. Any car with Forward-Collision Warning With Braking would likely have not gotten in an accident, or at least one not nearly as severe. Fortunately, many major manufacturers have committed to eventually making this technology standard.

A 1.1% savings account would have lost money due to inflation over 20 years. The author's methodology seems to subtract each year for inflation, so if he's comparing a post-inflation number year to year, and it's the same 20 years later, you've actually done much better than a 1.1% savings account.

In the example where you cache the todo list and use an array of the todo item ids plus the max updated time, why is that approach better than just updating the list updated_at time whenever a child record is changed? With your approach, each todo item needs to be pulled from the db which should be slower than just checking the parent's updated at time for a cache hit.

Why did it get so cold inside of Apollo 13 then?

Looks like http://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps

When Facebook opened their second data center, they basically had one be read/write and the other just read (if I remember correctly). You could do something similar and if a user causes a write or update, keep track in a cookie and use only the master for their reads and writes for a period of time equal (or longer) than the typical replication length. Then when the time expires, start using the slaves for their reads.

I'm sure there are better ways than this, it's just one that I know has been used in production with some success.

I have, and I can tell you that the speed at which they are able to search for transactions is disturbing. Regardless of if it's related to indexes or another cause, it's still a huge issue for people who have to use PayPal. That appears to be the point the parent comment was trying to make.

Your comment had the potential to be constructive and educational, but instead you took a condescending approach. That's unfortunate.

That's certainly one way to look at it. In my opinion, Stripe should be the entity responsible for fraud management and not left up to the individual implementations, but I can certainly see your point of view as well.

Thanks Ross. I can certainly understand an address typo, but a CVC typo seems like a valid reason for denying a transaction. Glad to hear that you're aware and are working on tools to help us!

Thanks for the response and follow up details. I do realize that this is possible with Stripe, but when using software that already integrates with Stripe, doing additional custom integration is less than ideal. I would also argue that it violates the principle of least astonishment to have a charge go through when the supplied data is inaccurate.

I'm a huge fan of Stripe and find the API incredibly well designed which is why I was so surprised when I came across this today. It's certainly not causing me to migrate away from Stripe, it just means that I'll have to manually keep an eye on things for now.

Thanks for the response. I use Stripe for 3 companies and absolutely love it! While giving us full control is nice, it doesn't help when we're using a pre-built integration, like an ecommerce platform that supports Stripe. In this case, we either need to re-write the Stripe integration or accept that we have no automatic fraud controls.

This is great news. While working with Stripe today, I noticed something a bit unnerving. The Stripe charge method will create a charge even if the CVC and the AVS fraud checks fail. It's then up to you to monitor this and reverse the charge if you feel it's too high risk (there's no fee reversal though). There are ways to get around this with custom development, but that doesn't help for people who are using software that's already integrated with Stripe. It would be great to see a fraud setting that would allow you to prohibit charges from going through depending on what checks fail.

  > As someone that writes HTML for a living I couldn't imagine using a WYSIWYG editor.

You can't imaging using any existing WYSIWYG editor. I would argue that using Firebug to make changes, see them in real time, and have the code auto-saved is just begging for a good WYSIWYG editor. Image if a WYSIWYG editor could create decent markup and css and provide perfect cross-browser support for all relatively modern browsers. You still couldn't imagine using it?

Selling twitter handles is against their tos. Even proposing it would probably cause twitter to confiscate the name.

Chrome 17 is a beta release. It seems to work fine in Chrome 16 on OS X.