How much do you blame our values of our society for creating corrupt businesses? Are corrupt businesses just a mirror of our own values?

Wish articles like this were not written optimized for SEO. They’re much harder to read!

It doesn’t seem like the weather data was unique - what was unique was its user focussed design.

To acquire it just to shut it down would have only made sense to me had they actually folded the design of dark sky into their weather app and put their founders in charge of the app. Doesn’t seem like that happened

When you're allowing strangers to perform financial transactions - you're taking on risk that the money that is sent needs to actually be funded. They need to conform to KYC laws like all fintech providers - so yes, they will require knowing a little bit about you to operate in the United States like all financial institutions.

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https://www.wrapbook.com/careers

One effort that has been happening is providing incentives to have diverse top of the line staff on productions so that they share their stories and angle on things.

We at wrapbook (https://www.wrapbook.com) at making it easy for productions to measure their diverse staff so that we can incentivize diversity down the line.

This fight has nothing to do with independence and only has to do with employers trying to save some 15% of an employee's wage in taxes & keep themselves off the hook if people get injured on the job.

The savings are real - somebody making $1000 a day - classified as an employee, costs an additional estimated $150.

You can pay short term workers as employees pretty easily (we facilitate it).

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You're required to withold taxes in the state that work is performed. If you're working from home, that's your work location.

You should get refunded for your CA taxes at the end of the year if they are being withheld.

For employers and project based workforces who work in media production, Wrapbook provides digital profiles that facilitate onboarding, paying and insuring workforces compliantly. Unlike traditional payroll, Wrapbook is easy to use, fast to wrap, and costs less.

Wrapbook is enabling the world's very best creative work by empowering producers, creative directors, HR teams & accountants -- and talented cast and crew -- to focus on their great work and less on complex systems and the burdens of compliance & expensive transactional costs.

Applying technology to culture means that we are accelerating the creative work that transforms our world through shared stories, events and ambitious human-centered projects that bring us all together.

To apply: https://www.wrapbook.com/careers/

Tech Stack: Ruby/Rails, Postgresql, AWS

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I used to be obsessed with SEO - now I realize that many companies, search just isn't the best way to acquire customers. I saw this - currently investing in SEO and moving up the rankings steadily because long term - it feels like a great source of brand awareness.

Fast forward a decade later and apple, google and amazon bundle a crazy amount of unrelated services into their platforms without the regulators raising an eyebrow...

When I once travelled to Ghana, I discovered that because I was in Ghana, they blocked my entire account without warning.