CaptainZapp

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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
Burden? Not really. I get a popup on my phone via the issuers app CONFIRM DENY And after clicking CONFIRM the transaction goes through. Adds maybe 3 seconds to the process. This is online only. On site payments of ca. 100$ or less ar
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
European companies are hit with fines if they misbehave: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1338745/competition-poli...
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
And Zurich to Paris or Milan or Vienna or ...
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
And... Here comes the perfect business opportunity for purveyors of Linux laptops. I know, they exist. But, If Microsoft really pulls off that shitshow (and even the mainstream press is not very kind about it) there could be a significantly
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'Natty or not?': how steroids got big(theguardian.com)
3 points by CaptainZapp 2y ago|0 comments
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
Thanks for the link. I, for one, very much agree with Belinda. I really ask myself who cooked up that shit and who allowed it into the product. It's super invasive. Nobody ever asked for it and just because they can is a rotten reason
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
> It's a really cool looking... That's really in the eye of the beholder. To me it's a ridiculous monstrosity pointing to serious insecurities inhabited by the person sitting in the driver's seat. And it's ugly a
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
"As of the date of this filing, the incident has not had, and we do not believe it is reasonably likely to have, a material impact on our overall business operations or on our financial condition or results of operations. We continue
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
There's a reason why not every two bit shyster we shit on regulations fintech enterprise can get FDIC insured. To the best of my knowledge payouts are incredibly rare.
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
There is precedent. Frito Lay wanted to use a Tom Waits song for an ad. Since Waits is violently opposed to the use of his music in ads he declined. So they hired an impersinator for the soundtrack. Waits sued Frito Lay for voice misappropr
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
> You can't ban people from voice-acting who have similar voices to other celebrities Actually, you probably can.[0] [0] https://casetext.com/case/waits-v-frito-lay-inc Edit: Added the context for the reply
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Boeing cargo plane forced to land at Istanbul without front landing gear(theguardian.com)
9 points by CaptainZapp 2y ago|2 comments
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Boeing's first astronaut launch called off due to faulty valve(theguardian.com)
3 points by CaptainZapp 2y ago|1 comments
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
Maybe Japan and the Japanese have some different values than our fast charging Western world? Let me introduce the Shokunin (translated as Artisan, when you look it up on Wikipedia, which isn't quite right). What a Shokunin produces is
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
> I'm highly skeptical of unknown numbers and they're almost always telemarketers or scam calls bu This is generally true, but... In Switzerland calls from banks (and doctors and lawyers) don't submit numbers. That's
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
I'd wager that if you have that kind of money in stocks you arrange the sale via a broker. Probably in writing.
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
Given, that modern airports are (highly profitable) shopping centers maintenance will pay for itself.
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McKinsey reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work(theguardian.com)
2 points by CaptainZapp 2y ago|0 comments
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It's the End of the Web as We Know It(theatlantic.com)
49 points by CaptainZapp 2y ago|71 comments
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
I neither had to do that with a custom email. I entered the email addy and the password and Thunderbird congigured the account automatically. Snd that was a few years ago.
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
Plus SMS, which was used instead of a pager, is not guaranteed to be delivered while this is not the case with beepers.
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by CaptainZapp 2y ago
Why wasn't this immediately flagged when the same boarding pass was used for the second time? Hereround an alarm is raised if a passenger uses a QR code, which was already used on the same flight.
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by CaptainZapp 3y ago
Uhh, Skyscanner was launched in 2003 and Momondo in 2006. Comparative search engines for flights existed long before Google trampled into the market.
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by CaptainZapp 3y ago
Wow! Apple Inc. sure learned the lesson from their Chinese masters.
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by CaptainZapp 3y ago
What's wrong with enshittification[0]? Granted, Tease and Squeeze has a nicer ring. Then again, the enshittification neologism became standard langue in no time and is understood by everybody. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by CaptainZapp 3y ago
Same issue with Alitalia flight 404[0], which crashed in Zurich. An airport not known to be significantly dangerous to approach. The first officer initiated a go around, which the captain aborted. The issue probably could have been avoided
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by CaptainZapp 3y ago
If those scum-of-the-earth add tech companies would have respected the DO NOT TRACK flag, I'd concede that you have a point.
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The Fax Is Not yet Obsolete(theatlantic.com)
2 points by CaptainZapp 3y ago|0 comments
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Dutch cargo bike firm Babboe ordered to halt sales amid safety concerns(theguardian.com)
1 points by CaptainZapp 3y ago|0 comments
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by CaptainZapp 3y ago
You can even run a conventional database if you don't trust each other. The only party requiring trust us the one managing the database. Wirks pretty well in the real world.

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