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atdrummond
·3 years ago·discuss
Soderbergh has shot his last few films on iPhone and they look fantastic. Lighting and framing while shooting and good editing and grading afterwards are far more important factors.
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
More issues with ISOs than PayFacs. I can speak to one platform (a PayFac) that seemed to bat 1.000 here: Tilled. Not only did they seem to have no issue with migrating low risk clients but they likewise migrated dozens of mid/high risk firms without a single rejection from Tilled themselves or refusal from Stripe to provide the requested data.

Conversely, if you’re anything but the most plain jane business, I would avoid transitioning from Stripe to Gravity like the plague. I watched them reject a candy company and a knitting goods business that were both reputable, over a decade in business each, and never had an abnormal spike in sales or questionable products on offer. Gravity either couldn’t get Stripe data transferred or properly integrated and ended up turning away both businesses (while blaming them for noncompliance).
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
I ran a medium/high risk payments firm and Stripe followed through on customers’ transfer requests perhaps 10% of the time. One cannot rely on it.
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
Except the debate on the ban (which is what I was referring to - the reply itself is pretty much indefensible) became a referendum on ideology rather than a legitimate discussion on a ban due to a harmful action.
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
I can simultaneously think that’s an abhorrent comment while also pointing out that the vast majority of the arguments (on both sides) regarding her ban were based on her beliefs, not her actions, which is counter to how these processes are supposed to unfold.
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
After reading some of the comments in the arbitration process discussed on this page (see: “Administrator desysopped after RfA comment, arb case in progress”) I would find it hard for anyone to argue, with a straight face, that the most active members of the community do not lean towards a common political ideology.

Whether that influences the quality of the articles, particularly new ones, I cannot say; I was banned as an admin and editor years ago and have zero desire to return. (Although I am wondering if I might enjoy working on some of the non-English wikis, having seen that their communities seem far less internally combatative.)
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
Let me know if there's a better place I can ask these two questions:

1. Can I reside in the Isle of Man while doing any of these positions?

2. Can you expand on what kind of networking skills you want in the Technical PM? I'm passionate about the healthtech space and improving hospital outcomes and am very interested in your roles.
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
In my haste scrolling through the headlines, I initially read this as the Velvet Underground rather than hacker underground. Given that only Cale is left standing I was very concerned what Zelensky and the Ukraine government thought a single Welsh musician could do against the might of the Russian military.
atdrummond
·4 years ago·discuss
Yup - my old LSE e-mail was via outlook.com
atdrummond
·5 years ago·discuss
Reach out to Jalopnik - this is right up their alley.
atdrummond
·5 years ago·discuss
Correct. Sorry, I had originally typed 767 and then in an edit swapped as everyone else said 747 and I thought perhaps I was having some sort of Mandela Effect going on. The size and speed differential holds true - a cruising speed extended-range 767 is much faster and larger than the equivalent, landing-approach 707 the building was “rated” for.
atdrummond
·5 years ago·discuss
The two towers were designed to sustain an accidental hit by a 707 on a descent trajectory.

They were instead purposely hit by much larger 747s and at a much higher cruising speed. This meant that the kinetic energy transfer was approximately 8x larger than expected. The 747s at the time of impact also held significantly more fuel (at least 100% more) than those utilised in the 707 attack model.
atdrummond
·7 years ago·discuss
Not that it negates your point but their share is 45% and projected to remain stable or decline over the next few years.

(http://fortune.com/2019/02/21/apple-iphone-sales-2018/ New phone sales are even weaker than overall share.)