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on the contrary, smaller transaction amounts are prone to MORE chargebacks because they are attractive targets for card testers

"Not everybody is like me" would be the number 1, number 2 and number 3 advice I would give to anyone who's trying to start an online business. Like in a "How about you do that as …

or if you're going to ask them their age just display age appropriate content. Automatic categorizing of even user generated stuff should be a pretty much solved problem by now

Below you, everyone felt it and felt it hard, everywhere.

I'm not up to date on the science, but my dad was old - born in '43 - and worked as a teacher, so he could see several generations grow up. He was tall for his generation, but by t…

Which makes it even more interesting. One of the most head scratching pieces of this puzzle that SBF got truckloads of VC money with laughable fundraising rounds + no board seats. …

maybe this is some 4D chess narcissism of wanting to be on the big screen while you serve time?

Well, once all these go down the prices of currencies will also come down, which affects even those who had their coins in cold wallets - unless they plan to hold without making a …

Also this is a funny argument. If these things are truly making people dumber but the change is happening on a generational level, then a dumber generation would not realize that i…

The entire problem with ad fraud is that it's engineered to look good on those models.

Marketing ROI is very tricky to measure. On the other end, you would see that the more you spend the more customers you have. The question is: are those new customers due to your i…

just because we are kind of worried about the winter even with IT wages doesn't make us russian bots?

Right, engagement at all cost it is, but there is a fundamental difference. Television required professionals where even wrestling and reality TV is scripted: it requires some sort…

The anti-vaccination / bashing of anti-vaxx people was a pretty big and one sided internet niche pre-2020. In a way that you did have some tinfoil hat people, you had some whistleb…

I guess philosophy education tends to vary from region to region, but "young people into phil" tend to be insufferable in one way or another, while older people with an understandi…

the economy went tits up

you would be surprised how the world operates outside of tech it's scary excel sheets and a lot of ducttape hell I wouldn't be surprised if the next round of innovation will be bor…

it's in the tradition of "posting the wrong answer to get the good one". within this genre the comment section ends up even more terrifying than the post itself!