We have been using Braintree since 2017, and no complaints so far.
As the business grew, they have contacted us a few times for risk related reviews and asked us to submit supporting documents. But they don't hold the funds first (unless you don't comply I guess) which I find a better approach on how to treat your customers and establish trust.
With a much more clearly defined set of items they measure this is fairly close to an initial version of what I was describing. With that and a standardized legend for the rating for each item (save the specifics for a mouse-over) it would be fairly easy to create a service matrix of selected services.
TOSDR isn't just a good service, it has some momentum and an excellent dataset already. If the right people were to start contributing it could gather quite a lot of steam.
It's an epidemiological observation that the socially defined "African-American" (also known as "black") racial group in the United States has higher rates of high blood pressure than other officially reported groups. Interestingly, west African people in west Africa do not appear to have higher rates of blood pressure, according to a scientist who studies comparative epidemiology.[1] That's always the trick in group comparisons: to find out if a group difference has a genetic or environmental cause.[2]
Do you know how this plays out in mixed race people? This is a question that no doctor has ever given me a straight answer for. If I have an african-american father and a european mother, do I need to worry about this?
Also, what about people who have a single grandparent who is African-American. Does this kind of thing apply to them?
This indeed is one of the problems with "race" classification. As the Census Bureau itself says, "The U.S. Census Bureau collects race data in accordance with guidelines provided by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and these data are based on self-identification. The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. In addition, it is recognized that the categories of the race item include racial and national origin or sociocultural groups. People may choose to report more than one race to indicate their racial mixture, such as 'American Indian' and 'White.' People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race."
I was a recipient of the official American Community Survey from the Census just in the last week. I filled out the survey according to questions I was asked. For race, for all of my family members, I put in "other" as the race and filled in "human" for the response below that. (For the decennial census back in 2010, we filled out the form in the expected way by the federal definitions, holding our noses while we did that.) Both times, we filled in national ancestry according to the known countries of origin of ancestors, which is quite a diverse mixture for my children.
As Henry Harpending wrote back in 2006: "On the other hand, information about the race of patients will be useless as soon as we discover and can type cheaply the underlying genes that are responsible for the associations. Can races be enumerated in any unambiguous way? Of course not, and this is well known not only to scientists but also to anyone on the street." Chapter 16: Anthropological Genetics: Present and Future in Anthropological Genetics: Theory, Methods and Applications (2006), edited by Michael Crawford.
People with dark skin can experience vitamin D deficiency in northern climates. One of the many symptoms is hypertension.
Some estimates are that you need 10 times more sun exposure to produce the same amount of vitamin D as a person with pale skin.
Agree with the part of constant stress.[0][1] Some full moons ago I took pills that among other effects also had a side effect of increasing blood pressure. Which they absolutely did to me until one day I postponed them in the last minute only to feel the side effect the same way as usual a few minutes later when they should have reached the blood stream.
From that day that side effects disappeared. Our brains plays games with us. About 30%[1] of us seems more prone to this[2] than others.
[0]: context: JulianMorrisons post was downvoted when I commented. I read it as funny, not SJW, and I agree that constant stress seems to be a big issue.)
[1]: See vixen99s explanation for what seems like the dry facts about the link between skin color and hypertension
In my experience, comparing absolute temperatures across different climate/countries does not give the full picture.
I used to live in Paris where it felt warmish when the temperature was around 10C. Now that I live in Hong Kong, 10C feels freezing cold, as you pointed out.
Maybe it's related to humidity ? Or maybe it's because there is no indoor heating at all, as seanmcdirmid noted.
Dew point. When you sweat your skin will rapidly drop toward the dew point. Where I live it varies thru the year from below 0 to about 80, always below the air temp of course. When you don't sweat your skin approaches the sometimes much warmer air temp.
30 degrees air and 30 degrees dew point right after a snowfall is sweater and pants time. This morning the dew point is only 10 degrees so I have to wear a coat although I didn't need to zip it up. No wind helps.
A highly effective way to get killed doing winter sports is to build up a massive sweat and then completely stop moving before drying out... An air temp of 10 degrees is laughable and more or less comfortable if you're not sweating, but a dew point of 10 degrees if you're all sweaty will quite effectively give you hypothermia and kill you. Or the hypothermia will make you stupid, and then everyone will wonder why the heck a smart guy was walking along the cliff edge etc. Sweating in the cold is very dangerous. I usually don't wear a coat while I snowshoe hike (although I carry it in the backpack), wearing gloves and a hat and goggles but no coat always feels weird for the first time each season but you get used to it quickly.
>I used to live in Paris where it felt warmish when the temperature was around 10C. Now that I live in Hong Kong, 10C feels freezing cold, as you pointed out.
expectations and clothes. In Russia i never wore shorts in 10C which i do in CA (even at 5C :) In Russia it would be jeans, good boots, t-shirt, sweater, good jacket. In CA - shorts, light sneakers, t-shirt, light jacket. Getting caught in SF at cable car stop summer evening without jacket - you get to freeze like it would be -25C with wind in St Petersburg :)
Also consider the constructions of the buildings. Perth, Western Australia can be a very hot place, but during nights and winters I hear from people visiting here that it feels far colder than their homelands which reach lower temperatures. All our houses are built with concrete flooring due to being built on sand - the concrete acts like chunk of ice under the house.
Your article is poorly constructed. It is called "Android is the new Windows CE". It's a very catchy and intriguing title. But it's a scam.
You start by stating your conclusion: "while iPhone and Windows Phone are revolutionary smart phones, Android is the closest thing I ever seen to an evolution of Windows CE."
However, your have only one argument in the whole article defending your conclusion. The only point of comparison with windows CE that you develop is that they "supposedly" share a desktop as a common feature. Wow! I should have stopped reading there.
Then you proceed with various complain about the system
1/ The UI design is poor, that it lacks consistency. Sure that can be a fair point. It's also a matter of taste, but I agree that iOS and Windows are an order of magnitude more consistent. However, what has this to do with Windows CE ?
2/ Google is over-emphasized on Android. Sorry? You are an iPhone user, and you complain about the fact that the company behind Android is too present on it. I would say Android, is much more detached from Google, than iOs devices from Apple or windows from Microsoft. And you are contradicting yourself at the end of your article, by stating that Android is successful because it is customizable. And I would add, that Google has a strong presence in search, maps and emails... So many non-Android users would anyway install Google Apps on their devices.
3/ You could not find the app store easily. Why because it is not called "App Store"? Would someone new to iOS intuitively go to Safari, a compass, as a web browser? If I wanted to read this kind of non-sense, I would read my Grandma's blog. Not someone from the tech industry.
4/ And then random rants. Pin number, News & Weather, Photo Album is called "Gallery" (omg) ... are you serious? And what is has to do with CE?
Also the Ratatat Remixes Vol. 1 & 2 are just genius. One of my favourites : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVHCR3W5ITo