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Try to send some big amount of money internationally and you will see why crypto is the future. With regular banks it takes days, weeks and many times months due to intermediate banks, AML questions, reviews, etc and have very high costs associated for simple transfers of money hardly earned.

With cryptocurrencies it takes seconds or minutes and no questions asked with very low fees

They didn’t mention that in Spain most people use xD which is the emoticon of laughing in its written version. It can be used in different capitalizations: xD XD xd

Why bank websites remove the ability to paste? You have already copied the text when you realize you cannot paste. So what is the point? Writing things by hand are prone to errors and if your clipboard is poisoned you have already copied the stuff by the time you realize you cannot paste…

I've been thinking about this idea for years, both audio and/or video. But no company seems to be interested on this. All small recorders I can find have short duration batteries and store the contents on the device so you have to keep manually offloading the files every X hours.

My idea was not from a legal aspect, but more from a memory aspect where you can easily recover things you have said, heard or seen from the past

You are lucky. I haven’t been able to use Ticketmaster for 2 years because all IPs from my ISP are blocked as bots. Contacted their support on Twitter and they told me the only way to use their site is to change my ISP as even the VPNs I tried are blocked. Looks like they have enough money to have the luxury to block one of the biggest ISP where I live

Been in product hunt since it was invite only beta. Things have changed a lot. In the beginning it was a community about hunting great products and nice discoveries.

Nowadays is about paying hunters with a lot of followers to post your products and asking all your network to upvote your product to brag about how you made it to top X of Product Hunt.

The posting about nice products of the internet and discovering them is now gone. If you try to publish something because you found it online and want to share it with the community, but you don’t have a network of people to “fakely” upvote it, the product will be hidden at the bottom and nobody will see it.

Discovery and community are gone.

We had the same problem some months ago with Mailgun. They blocked our account after many years using them without apparent reason or prior notice and took them 2 days to unblock it, leaving our thousands of clients stranded without receiving any of our transactional emails.

Lesson learnt, always keep a backup for crucial services and move away from Mailgun

it's pretty easy to click on competitors ads with bots to run out competitors credit and then run your ads for the rest of the day for cheap prices. But the same happens with Google adwords. I guess they don't have any way to prevent it

Telegram works great. Free, privacy friendly, you can create channels (groups), supports bots, super fast with native apps, unlimited cloud storage, unlimited search history and more.

We've been using it for years in our company with excellent results

thanks for the clear explanation. It's strange to me as a newbie in ruby that this can happen and I think that can lead to errors if you don't take that into account when doing calculations with numbers... Good to know

Show HN: Mapipedia 7 years ago

Hello David,

Very interesting project. If you improve the design to something more modern it will attract many people. But still, I found it very interesting and learned some new things by checking the average life expectancy :)

I’m crawling around 80-120M per month and the price for me fits my needs. But I suggest that you contact them if you have special needs or requirements.

Also you have to consider the amount of work, time and money that you will save by not maintaining your own system to avoid blocks and bans from the websites you are trying to crawl. With them you just call an API endpoint and you don't have to care about all that

I've been using it for around 3-4 months with different sites. For linkedin it's been a bit more than 2 months. They are a good startup and they've been improving a lot their services. They only count successful requests so you don't have to worry about fails. If you get a bigger package they will raise your limits I guess. But I suggest that you contact them directly