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Agree here - That has always been one of the thorns in accepting PayPal on any decent scale. At least with chargebacks, you can fight them and win about 50% of the time with the ri…

Agreed. It's the technical knowledge and the institutional web that, until something causes it to weaken, only gets stronger and stronger each year. I lived in NYC and they said th…

Don't know how you'd quantify this, but I imagine people have a subliminal response to the smile whether they know they see it or not. Like pleasant chord construction in music. I'…

Agreed. Really wish this was more of the story.

Where can you find affiliate arbitragers like this? Totally get that he/she should be doing this, but how do you find the people doing this effectively? I'm all for paying when som…

Agreed that this should get quite a bit more elaboration to put it in perspective.

Mattermark and their rankings are going to be looked back on as just as useless as a professional blogger. There are hints of positives for you to take away (and make wide sweeping…

Who has ever gotten that? Zach Braff and Veronica Mars brought their own audiences.. Similar stories for friends that have done KS. Something like Coin however was able to implemen…

Not problem free or 'now' problem free? Would love to know if this solution works. Thanks!

What will the payout time be for it to hit the debit card? Is it instant? This is awesome by the way.

Why is this ironic?

Yeah, I've been following Crowdtilt for a while (interviewed there), and their use case has never really been about the Kickstarter type of crowdfunding. It's more of a bite-size t…

Does it provide a community effect? I know they say that, but they've never really released convincing data that it exists. Over 50% fail, and the average raised for successful cam…

This point isn't very relevant though, because the artist wasn't releasing different media for different devices. The cd release still came with a cassette release, etc.

I so want this to be the case.

Everyone be slightly careful about anything they read on history.

um, this logic is false. you can give money to whoever you want -- this is not the same as hiding a convicted criminal in your basement from the legal authorities. i can send a $1,…

$200k in revenue a month for one of the consumer services alone (estimated Lyft rev on 120,000 rides/month) suggests they're solving a big problem/providing a lot of value for cons…

I've actually tried DropBox for photos, and it's actually pretty awful on this front. Our company just switched from Box to DropBox (because of DB Teams issues), so I have little r…

This could be really cool for this post from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5141995

There's no guarantee of getting your money back if a project fails on Kickstarter though... http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/why-this-jilted-kickstarte...

Wordpress?

i agree with this ^. if you're going to launch a project that you hope builds the momentum to fund +$100,000 of your capital needs, it might be worth putting aside $5k or so for st…

Um, what?

This post can be added to the pile of why HN discussions are getting more and more pedantically lame. The post adds so little. And even in the post, it acknowledges this, yet has s…