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601.
by BlackFly 10y ago
You may be interested to know that it is in fact a democratic union. The treaty of Maastricht outlines this in detail.
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by BlackFly 10y ago
The biggest problem with virtual card numbers at the moment is when you show up at the hotel and cannot provide the card you reserved the room with. Notwithstanding that, they are quite successful in some parts of the world.
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by BlackFly 10y ago
The tax is not clear in both cases, but it is present in both cases. The difference is in one case (Nova Scotia, in this example) you walk up to the counter with $37.64 and pay 15% tax on the $27.65 portion because the $9.99 feminine hygien
604.
by BlackFly 10y ago
This is more an issue with your bank being too lazy to do 2-factor authentication properly than the network itself, which supports authentication mode for almost all channels. My company provides tools for testing payment terminals/net
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by BlackFly 10y ago
In many other countries with domestic card schemes, EMV cards are often co-branded with other domestic schemes to allow the same card to be used internationally. Domestically, low fees are maintained, but internationally the card would stil
606.
by BlackFly 10y ago
Banking regulations in Europe require electronic transfers within Europe* to be processed for free within one business day. I've ordered computer hardware, international flights, and paid lawyer fees this way. *Specifically, I believe
607.
by BlackFly 11y ago
Call centers are in general quite atrocious as far as authentication goes. Here is one particular egregious example http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/2016-reality-lazy-authent... I cannot remember where I read it
608.
by BlackFly 11y ago
To be clear, you can do this in any browser. I also am in the habit of editing EULA's before agreeing to anything.
609.
by BlackFly 11y ago
I would say this highlights a different problem of democracy: Everyone is aware of the fact that even if their candidate wins, someone else will have the final say in the matter. Therefore, no one takes the election seriously. I myself feel
610.
by BlackFly 11y ago
Publish or Perish is a highly accurate description of the career. Improving the publishing experience is not the same as publishing, so while you and a couple of your colleagues band together to improve the process, another colleague contin
611.
by BlackFly 11y ago
Depends what you mean by confirm. The settlement doesn't happen for about 5 days although your bigger acquirers may settle daily, and chargebacks are possible up to a month after that. The difference between credit card networks and th
612.
by BlackFly 11y ago
I'm not sure if you are being disingenuous with me or you just haven't thought out your argument. You are essentially claiming that a person's rights aren't violated because they still have a choice between expressing a
613.
by BlackFly 11y ago
The first amendment argument can be made notwithstanding that corporations are not people. Forcing developers to implement and sign code goes against their first amendment rights.
614.
by BlackFly 11y ago
And their localized search is the epitome of what localization should be. A small always present toggle takes me immediately from globally most popular results to results local to my area, which truth be told I only ever want when I look up
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by BlackFly 11y ago
The interesting thing from that thread is that it appears it has been patched years ago. Then again, maybe they only changed the "password" in the newer versions.
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by BlackFly 11y ago
I myself moved to the Netherlands from Canada and now hire people at salaries greater than my own at our branch in the US. I myself have no motivation to move to the USA. The increase in salary would be accompanied by a personal (stress on
617.
by BlackFly 11y ago
The problem isn't advertisements per se, the problem is advertisement networks that track users and sell their profiles. The only thing I have installed that counts as an ad blocker is Ghostery. I still get served advertisements at con
618.
by BlackFly 11y ago
I feel this makes forbes.com a fantastic website for calibrating how well the ghostery blocking is working. I have a whole bunch of new tracker networks blocked now.
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by BlackFly 11y ago
So what you are saying is that this article is worthless because it doesn't contain anecdotal opinions of the people who would be served? Going back in history, there were plenty of woman during the suffrage who stood up and proclaimed
620.
by BlackFly 11y ago
Measure your shadow at solar noon, fly south and measure your shadow at solar noon there. (Solar noon may differ from 1200.) Essentially, just repeat this ancient experiment: http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eratosthe
621.
by BlackFly 11y ago
The loans are easy to come by because the fractional reserve requirements allow the banks to create money which they use to provide loans. When the government creates the same amount of money and directly spends it on infrastructure as oppo
622.
by BlackFly 11y ago
Actually that 1% normally will go to paying the electricity bills for the bank back end systems and the fraud analysis algorithms. On top of that they need to pay for fraud insurance. The power spent on bitcoin is not analogous to these cos
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by BlackFly 11y ago
I edit the HTML on most end user agreements I sign to read, "I disagree and waive no rights," then I click that button. I wonder in what sense these agreements are enforceable when they cannot prove that people actually agreed wit
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by BlackFly 11y ago
These points seem rational but seem more and more superficial as I think about them. - A 5% return on an investment coupled with 5% deflation is equivalent to about a 10.5% return. Economically ideal rational actors will continue to invest.
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by BlackFly 11y ago
The White House is pressuring companies to not implement end to end encryption (see, for example, iMessage). Anything short of end to end encryption is considered broken by many people for communications between two parties. The only way th
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by BlackFly 11y ago
The fact that gravitational waves must exist follows from the idea that information must travel at a finite speed. Whatever theory you come up with, if it has a causal structure, it will have a wave structure.
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by BlackFly 11y ago
Where is your law degree from? The vast majority of EU coutries follow civil law (as opposed to common law) and courts are supposed to interpret law, not interpret precedents. Basically the only holdout to this is the UK, which leads to civ
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by BlackFly 11y ago
The normal notion of a patent is that the patent covers the creation of something, but not its use. A patent is supposed to be instructions or the specifications for the creation of some object. If you are not creating the object, you are n
629.
by BlackFly 11y ago
I think the sentence is actually making a reference back to the loyalists which it mentions near the beginning of the article as well. It is talking about Canadians and not Canada. The loyalists did indeed leave what was then known as the 1
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by BlackFly 11y ago
Yeah, I had a passing comment in that grain as well. At one point the head of the NCBE (Moeser) is pointing out that the average of the 25th percentile of LSAT scores was decreasing at the school of her biggest critic. To me, that screams d

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