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You do what Slack did and call the maker of the AWS Knob:tm:.

> Holders of bonds would be absolutely wrecked. That's a lot of institutions and wealthy individuals. Not only institutions, but those who are in power (government) who have risk-t…

Glad I don't live in this simulation.

Just to add, PayPal is also most likely a credit card processor, serving as a Payment Facilitator (PayFac), which enables others to become CC Processors. It happens that PayPal and…

CC Processors like Visa and Mastercard do refund fees on CC processing, but the interchange or % of return is smaller than the actual gross. You don't necessarily get "all" of your…

I believe you can defer commitment as a freshman.

Ahh yes, the ol' buy high, sell low strategy!

Thanks for this response. I'm a former biz analyst turned boot camp developer. After a couple of years slogging through, I started applying for jobs these past few months, with lit…

Your website is returning a 502. Edit: seems to be up now!

Gotcha! Thanks for the clarity.

Do you think the 'Who wants to be hired' post accomplishes this or are you looking for companies who are laying off workers? linked below! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2274…

Investopedia has a good definition of deflation after crises that might be helpful to you. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/03091...

I find it hilarious that solipsys is writing about recursion.

I find it disconcerting that there is a language the healthcare industry uses named MUMPS.

Sorry Dang and Wolco.

Must've been pretty hard to type `npx create-react-app my-app`

What do you feel like you need if Stripe gives you capital for your future receivables for you to go hire more engineers?

Your [0] resonates with me. Coming out of a bootcamp, I've been in the industry for 2 years. My feeling is that I'm supposed to be farther along but still feel like I don't know an…

I'm guessing it's because they are trying to maximize a 12 month window. In lending, the longer the money is out there, the less money you make on it. At 25K, even though they coul…

Would you lend money to someone who you knew was going to lose you money? Stripe is a business too. And offering capital is pretty common among many independent credit card process…

They're not not targeting higher sales volumed merchants. It just happens that more lower volume merchants use working capital advances to boost their free cash flow or invest it i…

Problem is that usually 0.5% or 50 basis points is the markup on the fee, so effectively, the processor wouldn't make money on transactions, but would only make money on complete r…

Out of curiosity, how would you have preferred to see a shard unable to accept writes? I think in both post-mortems, you would see comparable graphs - usage and then a drop in usag…