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MatthewMcDonald

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About MatthewMcDonald

Co-Founder of EquipmentShare (W15)

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    Comment #41514682

    Many (most?) dealerships have a policy of not accepting more than a few thousand dollars on a credit card, they don't want to pay the fee

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    Comment #33871465

    You can get a non-driver id card from the same department that issues driver licenses in your state

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    Comment #33167503

    Check out MySudo. It doesn't _forward_ the calls and texts, but you can have multiple numbers that you can call/text with from the app.

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    Comment #27515350

    I don't know about the bankruptcy laws, but Germany's GMBH (similar to an LLC) requires 25k in capital to get started.

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    Comment #27369360

    The real downside is if you say something that isn't negative, that then gets taken out of context and spun in a way that makes you a target.

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    Comment #24968513

    The only way to get around your dependence on OAuth connections is to migrate off of them, one at a time. My suggestion would be to get your own domain, get an email service that s…

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    Comment #24850436

    I use them for my GitLab pipelines

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    Comment #24838941

    All it does is make me think that they aren't full time, and may not be committed. I also have questions about IP concerns. These may not be serious issues, and they can be easily …

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    Comment #24802209

    It's worth mentioning that this isn't just a case of people not being able to use the patch outside of AWS; the patch is actually impeding pgbouncer from implementing a similar fea…

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    Comment #24236571

    Signal was given $50M by Brian Acton (WhatsApp co-founder), I think they will be fine for a while.

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    Comment #20040142

    not to mention filing state returns

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    Comment #19700076

    It's general purpose hardware; our rooms use an Intel NUC with USB camera/mic, and an iPad to control it. There's no lock in as long as you're switching to something else that uses…

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    Comment #19700017

    We used appear.in for a few months, and paid for a premium "room". It was nice to just give someone a URL (no client or extension required). It could be better now, but we had a lo…

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    Comment #19363129

    I wonder how much of that is related to Model 3 availability. To me, a high-end 3 seems like a better buy than a lower-end S. If you expand your date selection farther back, it loo…

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    Comment #18554450

    I'm not sure if it would have been better on a supported phone, but in the past year I've had good coverage with an iPhone SE on Fi in New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, and Austri…

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    Comment #18193923

    > I then spent ~1 year at a startup, as CTO - the experience sucked, and I consider it to simply be a big mistake. What about the experience sucked? What was the mistake?

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    Comment #18042288

    FYI this was a credit _lock_, and not a credit freeze > Unsurprisingly, the bureaus’ use of the term credit lock has confused many consumers; this was almost certainly by design. B…

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    Comment #17671431

    Perhaps I should have clarified; part of the reason that contractors can negotiate higher rates is because businesses are willing to pay more if they can avoid a long term commitme…

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    Comment #17666039

    Part of the reason that contractors have a higher hourly rate is to account for the time between contracts.

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    Comment #17652461

    Yes, depending on where you're from. I was raised to show up at the start time for events, this is pretty common in the Midwest. If the host is someone you know, you'll often ask i…