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It seems like a good case for growing these trees for the lumber industry, both to sequester this carbon for good and to provide a faster timeline for harvesting timber which could…

I have seen no proposal for a wealth tax that is not a marginal wealth tax, in which case the math in this essay is wrong. The Warren wealth tax, for example, is for wealth over $5…

The math on this is incorrect. This is not how a marginal tax works. I have not seen any proposals for wealth taxes that are not marginal after a certain (usually very high) level …

US manufacturing output has had a boom because we include natural gas and oil as manufacturing output, not just because of automation.

Awesome song! Though I think it's more likely that Coolio got the base melody for Gangsta's Paradise from Stevie Wonder, and Amish Paradise grabbed it from Coolio since Amish Parad…

http://thesolutionsproject.org/

Having worked with a lot of Javascript frameworks aimed at creating web applications/SPAs (used Cappuccino to build a wireframing tool, Backbone.js to build a dashboard for a payme…

I used Slava's blog to learn about Lisp and went on to build a product with Weblocks, which was a continuations-based web framework that Slava created back in the day (I only recen…

Project Name: Brand New Congress Technology Project Description: Brand New Congress is an initiative to primary most of the existing incumbents in Congress with a representative gr…

Greg's not a founder of Stripe. And who asks that question?

The interface builder equivalent these days for Cappuccino is interface builder. You can actually create your Cappuccino UIs in IB.

You actually don't pay for failed auth attempts with Stripe, but you do with most other gateways.

Btw, this has since been changed to: https://github.com/isaacsanders/omniauth-stripe-connect

For anyone looking for a nice subprocess library for Ruby, my friend Greg released one earlier this week - https://github.com/gdb/rubysh

It may be worth noting (though you perhaps already know this) that our fees are all-inclusive. We don't charge extra for amex cards, international cards, qualified vs. non-qualifie…

Yeah you are right here that it is still possible for our users to mess things up. We do things to try to keep merchants from accidentally sending card numbers to their server (e.g…

To make sure there isn't confusion here, having card details go through your server, even if you aren't saving them, still can lead to certain PCI compliance burdens (e.g. you may …

For what it's worth, we don't have a PR company or marketing department currently =). We try not to post on HN unless we actually think people on HN will like the content (and we'v…

Yup, we have an API to create plans - https://stripe.com/docs/api#plans

We're working on it! We want to make sure we get it right. But I do want to mention https://stripe.com/global for anyone not in the US that wants to be notified when Stripe gets to…

> Has Stripe fixed their webhooks so that they re-POST when the endpoint is down? They can't be compared to IPN until they implement it reliably... without that you have to manuall…

I believe PayPal's chargeback fee is $20.

For what it's worth, we don't have a marketing team currently and, no, these articles are definitely not ones that we made.