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they actually were disrupted -- craigslist
Is Craigslist still a thing? In my area, was the vice city classifieds. The hookers are gone, but so much obviously stolen stuff was posted there.
that said, general consensus at least where I am in WA and Canada is FB Marketplace is the new CL. which is a same because FB sucks
This really surprised me: from a paragraph near the end: It's one of the reasons I've stuck around Imgur so long - there's an extremely diverse, and supportive community. I had no idea that there was this kind of community on Imgur.
So Imgur made itself a social network like Reddit and which then started removing the ability to direct-link to images. The link you clicked than redirected to their own platform of image and comment discussion.
Reddit then caught on and shunned Imgur out of Reddit and Imgur expanded to it own social media thing.
Some History: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212
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A stripe account requires a legal entity of some sort behind it. This can be a "physical person" (eg a freelance activity), depending on the country, but that still requires registration -- and if it's millions per year, it's usually a terrible idea to do it as a freelancer. The money has to go somewhere. That somewhere needs to be banked. That banked entity needs to be incorporated, or treatable as a corporation.
> This can be a "physical person" (eg a freelance activity), depending on the country, but that still requires registration Not necessarily. Many countries do not require sole proprietors to be registered. > if it's millions per year, it's usually a terrible idea to do it as a freelancer. In the US with its liability lawsuit culture yes. Elsewhere operating as a sole proprietor is not always such a terrible idea. > T…
It's not even "hiring a firm like Appleby". It's "hiring an accountant". Paying $1-2k a year to save yourself hundreds of thousands in difference.
And yes if you're hoping to process payments on Stripe, you need to be banked, and the banked entity will undergo KYB. I have no idea why you're denying this. Is this some sort of gaslighting nonsense?
Perhaps I missed it, but at what point the author sets an LLC or something similar? For me, that’s the main blocker: in Europe it costs money to start a business, some paperwork and taxes is involved, even if you don’t make a single sale. Also, for selling online you kinda have to show in your website your “business id” (or tax id or similar)… otherwise how do people know you are a legit business? For example, I’m no…
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>Marketers ruin everything eventually You need to follow that chain of thought a little further. The unfortunate weak spot in a capitalist economy is that it's basically a Darwinistic system where the fittest survive, and "fit" means willing to do anything to make a dollar. Morals therefore become a weakness, and those who are guided by morals will be stomped out by those who don't really care. The guardrails are mad…
> The guardrails are made of laws, not morals damn.
This really surprised me: from a paragraph near the end: It's one of the reasons I've stuck around Imgur so long - there's an extremely diverse, and supportive community. I had no idea that there was this kind of community on Imgur.
Imgur used to be an image hosting service for reddit for many years. Without reddit, it wouldn't be. However like any image hosting service this wasn't very profitable. So Imgur made itself a social network like Reddit and which then started removing the ability to direct-link to images. The link you clicked than redirected to their own platform of image and comment discussion. Reddit then caught on and shunned Imgur…
The enshittification was inevitable. Being an image host, especially one that allows direct linking, is expensive.
Side note: RIP Gfycat. They join the ranks of ImageShack and Photobucket of causing millions of links on the Internet to suddenly become dead. Imgur did a purge of porn, which now means a whole bunch of images on the porn subreddits are now dead.
He felt terrible for the timing, but it wasn't his fault. He placed the order, and the next day I announced that my dad was in the hospital after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. A couple days later, he passed, and then a couple days after that, I got the bag of dicks.
I still appreciated it. I thought it was funny.
This really surprised me: from a paragraph near the end: It's one of the reasons I've stuck around Imgur so long - there's an extremely diverse, and supportive community. I had no idea that there was this kind of community on Imgur.
Imgur is basically an image based social media site now, similar to Instagram but with a more Reddit style lean to it.
Because of that one single rule, most of the vain attention seekers don't stay on imgur.
It's so much better without them.
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I'm banned from eBay since about 2010. Sold a cellphone which my sister shipped without requiring signature, guy just said he never received it. My sister was working at a Telco so we just confirmed that he had actually received it because he put a SIM card into it, proof and everything eBay didn't care. I withdrew the money from my PayPal account before they could claw it back. PayPal still works for me but eBay is…
Sounds like your sister got that information illegally. It’s hard to blame EBay because they can’t use that.
But when the lookup reveals that they did activate the device, now maybe you've inappropriately accessed someone else's PII and you did believe beforehand that the results would show that it was no longer registered to you.
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> This can be a "physical person" (eg a freelance activity), depending on the country, but that still requires registration Not necessarily. Many countries do not require sole proprietors to be registered. > if it's millions per year, it's usually a terrible idea to do it as a freelancer. In the US with its liability lawsuit culture yes. Elsewhere operating as a sole proprietor is not always such a terrible idea. > T…
It's a terrible idea because in most countries, it's much more expensive to pay yourself as a freelance than operate a corporation than can easily reinvest profits into itself. It's not even "hiring a firm like Appleby". It's "hiring an accountant". Paying $1-2k a year to save yourself hundreds of thousands in difference. And yes if you're hoping to process payments on Stripe, you need to be banked, and the banked en…
Maybe. I've found people in my country tend to assume a corporation has stuff to spend on and/or be doing expenses fraud, and actually if you're doing things properly the all-in tax rate is potentially worse for a corporation by the time you actually have the money in your personal account.
> if you're hoping to process payments on Stripe, you need to be banked, and the banked entity will undergo KYB.
Perhaps, but you absolutely don't need to be a corporation for that. You give them your name and (personal) tax number and maybe a one-line description of what business you're in and that's that.