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"When the merchant swipes your card, it will most likely be on a First Data point-of-sale terminal (or a Square terminal, particularly if you’re in a hipster coffee shop). Swiping or inserting a card (or tapping a smartphone or smartwatch) at this terminal kicks off the transaction process. Many online systems use payment gateways, such as Stripe or Braintree, which provide a set of tools for interacting with the network, conducting analytics and detecting fraud." -

Deep Dive: Payments

In one paragraph, I FINALLY understand the difference between Square and Stripe.

(Source: tech.affirm.com)
# tech# finance# credit cards
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I am smart and that intimidates people. And I’m okay.

I speak my mind and get very animated when I speak and sometimes I talk over people. And I’m okay.

Heavy conversation changes the world. So do rebellious women. I’m okay.

There is no easy way to be a woman who defies cultural limits. And it can be very lonely to be a woman who isn’t doing what most of the women in our culture are encouraged to do. And that’s okay.

" - Contemplating Being “Too Much” | Grok Nation

(Source: groknation.com)
# recovery# confidence# self-expression# too much
Of Course Congress Is Clueless About Tech—It Killed Its Tutor →

(Source: Wired)
# technology# tech# congress# OTA# government# lawmaking# law# legislators# legislation# united states# america# research# information
"All exercise is fundamentally bad. No one lifts weights because they love struggling awkwardly in weird positions, or feeling like they could be crushed at any moment, or sweating, or making their veins pop out of their neck and forehead. No one runs because they love putting one foot in front of the other for mile after mile or breathing really hard. It’s always hard; if it’s not hard you’re not exercising. People exercise because in the seconds, minutes, days, weeks following, you feel a different kind of good for each of those time increments. You feel accomplished, the good kind of tired, stronger, more coordinated, more agile, more flexible, even day to day, just picking stuff up or going up stairs. What you do in the long term matters — you can’t make excuses every day — but just for today, showing up and doing the thing will be enough." - Ask A Swole Woman: All Exercise is Bad

(Source: thehairpin.com)
# exercise# self care# recovery
"while we get fires that are up to 300,000 acres, they’re never that large in Mexico. How can it be that it’s global warming when on one side of the border they’re large, and on the other side of the border they’re small? Climate change doesn’t respect international boundaries; fire management is what makes the difference." - Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try. | Grist

(Source: grist.org)
# wildfires# fire management# climate change
Myers Briggs by Things Women In Literature Have Died From

readingontheroof:

from this post

INFJ: The Unpleasantness 
ESTP: Flirting headaches
INTJ: Night brain 
ESFP: Going outside at night in italy
INFP: Drawing-room anguish 
ESTJ: Sherry served too cold
INTP: Too many novels
ESFJ: Shawl insufficiency 
ISFJ: Spent more than a month in London after growing up in Yorkshire
ENTP: Parents too happy
ISTJ: General bummers
ENFP: Haven’t seen the sea in a long time
ISFP: Garden troubles
ENTJ: Spinal degeneration as a result of pride
ISTP: Not enough pillows
ENFJ: Someone said “No” very loudly while they were in the room

this is how I know I’m actually an ENFJ and not an ENTJ

(via nowfailingoutofschool)

# me# myers-briggs
"Apple has taken away the option to assign one’s own interpretation to the glyph by changing its design specifically" - Emojis Are Becoming Hyper-Realistic And That Is A Bad Thing - BuzzFeed News

(Source: BuzzFeed)
# emoji# design# interpretation# skeumorphism# expression# self-expression# communication
"Disney World in general has taught me how I had learned to use cynicism as a shield and how pessimism had covered up weakness rather than expressed strength, and how sometimes nice things are just nice. This lesson gets a little more complex when it comes to thinking about Epcot, when you’re invited to then think about the world as a whole, its past and its present and its future. It’s not always nice out there. How much can we really learn from a microcosm that only presents the nice to us? Fantasy lands are one thing. It’s another to make fantasy from reality, to take what fantasy wants without regard for what reality requires. Have we passed the time when we could believe without irony in a cohesive, peaceful world?" - “Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”

(Source: tinyletter.com)
# disney# reality# disney world# epcot# fantasy
"Iniquity is always coercive and insidious and intimidating, and lived reality is always a muddle, and the kind of clarity that leads to action comes not from without but from within. The great virtue of a figurative railroad is that, when someone needs it—and someone always needs it—we don’t have to build it. We are it, if we choose." - The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad - The New Yorker

(Source: newyorker.com)
# iniquity# equity# inequality# underground railroad# history# fiction# white savior complex# racism# race
"Instead of requiring users to customize their environment, ask if the environment can customize itself implicitly based on the user’s usage patterns." - UX for Engineers – Medium

(Source: medium.com)
# ux# product design# engineering# system design# customizations
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