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I was in a similar place, an Economist subscriber, that stopped ~5yrs ago due to a decrease in writing quality. I switched to:

Financial Times - lead newspaper into Wirecard scandal

Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German) - famed for Panama Papers investigation

I complement it with readings from:

IEEE Spectrum (Science & Tech)

The Markup (Society)


Why did you choose to use Stripe, given you wanted an anonymous publishing platform?

While the use doesn't need to enter their cardholder name, their card details, ip address and any reference numbers can be tracked in Stripe's dashboard (Payment method info, Risk Insights, Related Payments).

While scheme payments are never truely anonymous, an approach you could use would be to tokenize card holder data and charge it to various linked PSPs. Such an approach would avoid all payments to one provider and obfuscate the user's ip address (since you are doing a server-to-server integration). Such a solution would typically add ~4c to your transaction costs.


Easy and I've never really used it before so I can add that to my skillset. This was a project I wanted to finished in two weeks so I didn't put a ton of time into it.


It took you 2 weeks to put stripe library code, and wysiwyg editor library code on one page? This makes this even more funny to me with how you approach people who want an edit feature, as if its surprising and "weird" to you.


Heh, I'm sure you're one of guys that always comments how you don't understand how company X has so many employees, and that you could just write the entire app in a weekend. lol.

Note, I didn't say I spend two weeks writing it. If you read the original post you would know that I was doing it to refresh and learn new skills so research and planning went into it to.

You win the Internet today bud, thanks for playing.

edit: Holy hell, you're toxic. You comments are always negative, I feel bad for you man, I do...


Hmm, I have over 100+ non-trivial projects under my belt which have ranged anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 years each, working as only a single developer (and my business partner)... everything from an arbitrage platform with more than 8 billion outgoing requests per day, multiple payment processing platforms (actually building them, not just interfacing with them), machine learning-based high volume routing systems. I built the 50th largest site in the world at one point with only 1 other person... so I would say I'm not "one of those guys." sorry to burst your bubble. I know it's probably much less painful on your ego though to think any person that criticizes you must not know what they're talking about.


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