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I believe the brain is too complex to compare to either an operating system or a CPU. We can perhaps analogize both of those artificial entities to individual functions that a huma…

>"You do realize the entire banking system is not built with the idea of ACID/transactional databases in mind?" Well, I was referring to payments/transactions, not banking. As I sp…

We were actually considering MongoDB for our system, given its scalable, high-performance, and open source qualities. However, since we are building a payments platform (specifical…

You are absolutely correct. That's one of PayPal's main weaknesses. I am not sure how Stripe is dealing with it; though they probably have to go through a similar screening process…

I think this issue is very significant these days, with the boom of outsourcing and remote freelance work. For scenarios with no down payment requirement, there's no guarantee the …

The article states: "[WePay's] ambition: to move beyond what WePay calls the “unstructured economy” to be the dominant way people make payments and buy things online. ...Since WePa…

I actually thought of a similar idea before, while I was meditating in rural Philippines attempting to figure out a viable business idea and trying to avoid a return to the rat rac…

The competition looks stiff, but I'm rooting for them. Terence Pua, Insync's co-founder, is a seasoned internet entrepreneur -- one of the guys behind Friendster (Philippines) back…