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deskpro | 3 years ago | on: Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April

In the UK at least, you can get Paypal to add a US domiciled bank account (on ACH) and pay out that way to avoid this problem; we had to go via support to get that setup. We already had a US bank account (with HSBC) to avoid Stripe's forex charges but it was complicated to setup. A decent alternative is Wise's option; although HSBC have something called HSBC Global Wallet now which would have simplified things a lot.

deskpro | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)

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deskpro | 11 years ago | on: Reversible USB Type C connector and 10 gigabit USB 3.1 are here

What I'm excited about here is monitor hubs. You plug your monitor into a power socket, and peripherals into the monitor's USB ports.

You arrive at work, and only need to plug your laptop into the monitor. The monitor hub sends power and data from peripherals to your laptop. Your laptop sends video to the monitor all through the same cable.

deskpro | 12 years ago | on: Password hack of vBulletin.com

if my memory is correct this is because they don't have access to $password; they get md5($password) from the client and to store that in the database with a salt need to run md5() again.

deskpro | 12 years ago | on: T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts

Check out EE roaming; it's competitive with Vodafone (one of the reasons I moved to them). £5/month for unlimited roaming minutes/texts in EU, US and others. Data is reasonable value @ £25/GB and lasts a month. Importantly includes places like the US, Australia, Russia, China, India etc ....

deskpro | 12 years ago | on: Stripe launches German beta

Not really; they only send USD via ACH currently (don't support wire transfer) so as a UK merchant there is no way to actually get paid $USD even if you have a $USD bank account.

deskpro | 12 years ago | on: Stripe launches German beta

Nice calculator; but it misses the currency conversion costs. You can't get $9.46 as a UK merchant - you get paid in £GBP and they add another 2% from mid-market rate - so $9.27 would be more accurate.

deskpro | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Stripe UK

You don't happen to have a contact there do you? Can't find much online about it. So long I don't have to move other accounts that would work fine.

deskpro | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Stripe UK

We'd love to move to Stripe; the one issue is that you can't send us $USD to our UK based $USD account via a wire transfer (like Amex does for example). Instead, it seems the only option is for you to send us £GBP after charging another 2% on top. This is both expensive currency conversion; but we also spend $USD so have to pay to turn our £GBP back into $USD!

Fix this, and we'd move in a heartbeat.

deskpro | 13 years ago | on: Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft

Why are ATMs not 100% flat with 3 holes - for a keypad, note delivery and a hole for the bank card to go in. A skimming device can then not be added without making it very obvious the ATM has been altered.

An ATM could also have a video camera installed that monitors the area where the card is entered - if something changes the ATM does not work and a warning message is displayed.

deskpro | 13 years ago | on: Stripe launches beta in Ireland

Personally I want them to send $USD to a UK bank in $US. I set one of these up with barclays; it was trivial and low fees. Can then use transferwise to get $USD into £GBP and avoid the 2.5% forex tax our lovely banks charge.
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