Readit NewsRight now TV is in its "golden age" but there are no good sci-fi tv shows (hell even the word "scifi" is dirty somehow now, see > SyFy-lis).
Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Outer Limits all gone replaced by Vampires and all sorts of supernatural rubbish.
Dr Who is the only interesting scifi show now worth watching, for the most part...
When it reality it seems like this is a last ditch attempt to save the wreck that google+ has become.
They'll "drop" you, and suddenly your "drop in" SDK is completely worthless and you're forced to write your billing system from the ground up.
From a risk perspective, using a solution like Chargebee, that integrates with multiple merchant accounts (including Braintree), is a much better choice. If for whatever reason your merchant drops you (it does happen!), you don't need to make any code changes. You only need to swap out the backend merchant account in your Chargee dashboard.
These "batteries included" payment solutions are nice for getting up and running quickly, but if you have any semblance of long term planning, it's a bad idea to build your entire billing infrastructure around the API of a single merchant account provider.
2. Google offers 0 support
3. Google rolls over to quickly to copyright requests, whats to stop them from pulling the domain from under you
No thanks
I cant get ipv6 to work with this router, tho if i connect laptop directly to the wan cable i get an ipv6 address without issues and can use google via ipv6 etc
If a slightly unshaven geek like me cant get ipv6 to work easily what hope is there for rest of the world :(
While we can only support U.S. Visa and MasterCard debit cards at the moment, we’re actively working to bring our transfers API to our users in other countries."
.... uhm or just use bitcoin ...
Same can be accomplished with Bitpay, who take 0% in fees with a 30$/month package (1% otherwise), they also pay into the bank the next business day unlike Stripe. And they are also alot more open as to the types of businesses they accept.
Or hell one could directly accept bitcoin with bitcoind running locally or using the blockchain.info api and then converting bitcoins with Bitstamp (or just using the bitcoins to buy things, every day more and more places accept them!)
It is great seeing Stripe actually embracing new technologies but imho their current bitcoin "offering" is not great and they are picky as to who they do business with.
edit: ah typical HN fanboyism, vote down anything negative said about Stripe instead of addressing the points raised.