3 ms·
Human administrators are not a feature. Chargebacks and other forms of manual intervention allow a third party to diddle with the business of two transacting p
by lorddoig 12y ago
Human administrators are not a feature. Chargebacks and other forms of manual intervention allow a third party to diddle with the business of two transacting parties on the instruction of a single one of them and some idea/law/regulation about what is 'right'. To assume that this is a good idea is hopelessly juvenile and naive.
Try to UML-ify a system with manual intervention. Now modify it accepting the ideas that a) people are imperfect; and b) people work on their own incentives which may not (probably won't) be aligned with the users of the system. The manual intervention bit is now a black hole of undefined behaviour with nothing but a wing and a prayer to say it might actually do something useful.
Try and get that past QA.
- geoffwoo 12y agoCharging back is protection for either one of the two transacting parties to protect themselves from misrepresentation from each other. The fact that it's one of the most popular features of a credit card would imply placing the naiveness on you. Laws/regulation exist because people are imperfect!
- lorddoig 12y agoEquating popularity with validity is a logical fallacy. Sticking my face in a steaming pile of human shit would be the most popular feature of forced captivity if my captors offered only one other option of molten lead. Laws and regulations exist because there is an 'elite' who make them, they affect us because the elite have an army of muscle men called the police who threaten our liberty for non-compliance. This is easily, formally provable. The intentions of the elite are murky and decidedly unprovable - how many NSAs do we need to create before people get that?