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I just did a quick google search and everything that I found suggested that the Inuit people are LESS healthy because they only eat meat. They have a lifespan 12 years lower than the rest of Canada.

One thing that's interesting is that it actually doesn't tell you if more people are moving in or out, despite the title. The size of SF doesn't change when I click inbound/outbound.

They raised ~$8million from Benchmark and Omidyar. It's pretty interesting that Benchmark Capital invested in a corporation that "is dedicated to creating public benefit." Not at all surprising to get it from Omidyar, of course.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/24/couchsurfing-raises-7-6-m-w...

Will be interesting to see how they monetize

Seems like maybe you should make this to solve the need rather than consider getting a palm treo!

not at all... medicare is cheaper than private insurance because hospitals that receive public funds are required to accept it. In that case, private industry (and you and I) are subsidizing medicare. That doesn't equate to well run

We looked at Recurly too... You are wrong that you can just zero out the gateway numbers in the calculators. Recurly charges 1.25% + 10 cents (http://recurly.com/pricing). 1.25% is a CRAPLOAD. Using a merchant account from FeeFighters would for us end up costing something like 2.1% + 20cents for the merchant account but then we'd have to pay an additional 1.25% + 10cents to Recurly, making it a total of 3.35% + 30 cents, far more than Stripe. Plus there's a $69 minimum fee, which sucks when you are starting out

Chargify (http://chargify.com) or Spreedly (http://spreedly.com) + Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com) is going to be significantly cheaper in our case (we expect to ramp to $30k/sales/mo). I'll pretty-up and share the google spreadsheet I used shortly. Stripe is still the best option if you have low transaction size and low volume (I think it was <$6k/mo). Other than that it was either chargify+samurai or spreedly+samurai (depending on the number of transactions because of chargify's tricky pricing)

Why not include Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com)? Seems like it would be cheaper than the other ones and the api docs look breezy like stripes. It's only 2.3% + 30cents. Also look at Spreedly for recurring.

http://pistadex.com

HN Discussion of the incident a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3456819

That is a very good point re: medicare.

I was a management consultant in the healthcare industry in a previous life. One interesting study I did found a direct correlation between percent of patients on medicare/medicaid and hospital profitability...

The higher the percent of medicare and medicaid patients, the lower the profitability. The correlation was essentially a straight line.

looks fine on ios safari to me

It seems quite clear in multiple locations that Dwolla does in fact have a credit union as an investor, what is your source that it doesn't?

http://www.chubbybrain.com/companies/dwolla/investors-fundin...

https://www.veridiancu.org/

http://kb.veridiancu.org/veridiancu/consumer/kbdetail.asp?kb...

http://www.collegehumor.com/ http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/ http://www.colbertnation.com/video

A couple of relevant articles (old but good): Why it's so hard to pay attention: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124018463826033223.html?mod=...

Is LSD the geek's wonder drug? http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015

how do you calculate wait times?

http://investors.dressrush.com/

http://squareup.com

http://feefighters.com (go through the funnel to see what I mean) and their other page http://samurai.feefighters.com

http://andyet.com

In my reading of this, it's for dealers only - pawnshops and such... in which case it wouldn't really prevent the thing it's attempting to prevent.

Reminds me of this amazing story of the undocumented journalist: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-und...

http://samurai.feefighters.com Doesn't have recurring billing built in (we didnt need it) but I think they might connect to chargify. We ended up choosing Samurai for the lower fees.

Why haven't you texted? It's very convenient.

Part of the reason why I think the new entrants Stripe and Samurai will kill it.

http://samurai.feefighters.com, http://stripe.com

The gender gap argument never held much weight for me... there are a number of studies saying that if you adjust for a certain number of factors, the gap is pretty narrow (IE women who didn't take time off to have kids, etc)

While women now make up a majority of college students, there is also a factor of what they study. They make up just a third of top-tier b-schools, for one thing, and a smaller number at engineering schools.

Here's an interesting study: Women don't negotiate... http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2006/07/menstrua...

We use grasshopper but have scaled to the point where this (and many other things about grasshopper) aren't acceptable. What are some other good options? Thoughts on ringcentral?

In my experience, the education / intelligence level on OKC is MUCH higher than PoF. Much more overlap with HN crowd than PoF.