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by Cushman 16y ago
I'm not sure I agree that calculated evil is preferable to well-intentioned ignorance. "Life is hard for me, too" is a lot easier to sympathize with (even if it's complete bullshit) than "I don't care if life is hard for you."
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by Cushman 16y ago
I get skeptical every time someone brings out a list of "chemicals" that are supposedly all around us— without mentioning their concentrations, of course, or the threshold dose for observable effects in humans. But maybe I shouldn't be expe
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by Cushman 16y ago
Plus it's easier than going after ethanol.
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by Cushman 16y ago
The industry trying to rebrand corn syrup as something that sounds healthier is pretty slimy. But the real problem here is that consumers think sugar is healthier than corn syrup in the first place. I think it's great that people are turnin
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by Cushman 16y ago
Does anyone else see the irony implicit in "regular random acts of kindness"?
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by Cushman 16y ago
"When you pay with a debit card, your bank is informed that you have authorized a fixed amount to be withdrawn." See that passive voice hiding the problem: The bank is informed by the payee that I've authorized the transaction. I think it
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by Cushman 16y ago
I'm not talking about a web password. (And I obviously know more about what I'm talking about than that— come on.) When I pay with a credit card, every piece of information used for the transaction (Name, card number, whatever else) is stor
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by Cushman 16y ago
Really? You can't see the practical difference between these two flows? The Way It Obviously Should Work: Me -> my bank: I want to pay this store $10. Here's my password. My bank -> the store: Here's $10 from Cushman. The store -&#6
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by Cushman 16y ago
Assuming for the moment that by some bizarre turn of events my system were implemented... 1. Why is this a problem? Obviously legacy systems will have to stay in place until smartphone adoption is as ubiquitous as credit cards are today, an
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by Cushman 16y ago
"How else would they know whose account to debit?" I hate to pull a single sentence out of context like that, but this misunderstanding is exactly the problem with the current system. Why should the merchant be debiting my account? When y
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by Cushman 16y ago
It's a step in the right direction, but (please correct me if I'm wrong) your system still seems to be merchant-initiated. I'm using my phone as a glorified piece of paper; the merchant scans my barcode and processes the transaction on thei
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by Cushman 16y ago
Bleh. I hate to see all this new tech trying to drag the credit card infrastructure into the 21st century. The way credit cards work is exactly wrong— to make a purchase, I have to hand over every single piece of information the merchant ne
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by Cushman 16y ago
Metonymy.