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It's called infrastructural inertia. We had it first, so we have things implemented in legacy ways. Other countries get the benefit of "leapfrog development" or
by nwah1 11y ago
It's called infrastructural inertia. We had it first, so we have things implemented in legacy ways. Other countries get the benefit of "leapfrog development" or "second-mover advantage"
- emp_zealoth 11y agoBullshit. It might be true when it comes to copper lines, but not to credit card stuff. Most of the terminals must have at least a few generations of replacements already... In Europe we had pinless-magnetic-only-sign-here cards and the like and were getting rid of them ~ten years ago