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Receipts as Public Lotto Tickets

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Date: 2013-09-17

I was at a developer meetup at Atlassian, Curtis Chambers talked about the scaling challenges they faced at Uber.

A very interesting business challenge mentioned as a sidenote was that the receipt as a lotto ticket is to ensure business is done above board in Taipei.

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