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by ErrantX 1y ago
Yes... That's much the point I was making. But there is a lot more complexity than, I think, you are glossing over. For example, you also likely have at least one technical services partner in the flows, probably two. Additionally, mon
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by ErrantX 1y ago
Mostly identical. Credit cards will probably have different risk rules though - after all it's their money not yours :)
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by ErrantX 1y ago
Yep you are completely correct; people don't realise how complex the chip is - it has what you'd legitimately recognise as an operating system! It can also be reprogrammed over the wire, if your chip and pin is taking a bit toooo
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by ErrantX 1y ago
Interesting! Did not know that offhand but just looked it up in the technical docs and this is part of the standard. Interesting to hear how other countries have adopted different approaches.
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by ErrantX 1y ago
There are a few differences for sure. All entirely technical in how the money moves or clears. The most obvious point here is debit card moves your money from your account, credit moves the issuers money from their account. But to your wide
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by ErrantX 1y ago
Your card doesn't know the balance, it doesn't work like that. Offline transactions mostly died off when the limit in the UK for contactless was raised to £100. At £20/30 (the original limits) issuers/merchants risk acce
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by ErrantX 1y ago
They use largely the same rails/network (for example Mastercard). The only meaningful difference is on how and when funds are reconciled. Some payment providers ask up front to simplify the flows as it's not totally trivial to det
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by ErrantX 1y ago
There is some parallel here with the message of 1984. In that Orwell saw political entity as the vehicle for mass misinformation. But in some ways Google AI results, with the trust they have, seem just another vehicle for "we've a
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by ErrantX 1y ago
Another option is https://forwardemail.net/en which has a really good free tier (if you don't mind managing forwarding rules in DNS)
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Another good one is; please always split any security updates from feature changes (and backport the updates per whatever versioning policy you have for those lagging the latest). After many years of being burned I always delay system level
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Fair but apart from Virgin, many of those Altnets rely on (and pay for) OR ducts & poles. Am surprised to see Gb coverage that low! Edit: that link is super interesting but I think they need to break it down a bit more. E.g. CityFibre,
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Ah the one upside to rural Lincolnshire I guess?!
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Just for a global comparison. Fibre is pretty ubiquitous in the UK but very little over 1G, and not usually symmetrical. Most top end packages are 1G and go for between $45-70 depending on the reseller. But you can get it pretty much anywhe
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by ErrantX 2y ago
> Trump is not an idealist- he will promise anything to anyone if it gets power and attention. Previously, he had attempted a political career as a leftist, and switched to the right because it was getting more traction. This is a critic
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Feels like a controls failure as much as anything else. Any decently sized company that allows unrestricted access to llms, well that's going to be the tip of the iceberg. Also, the culture of don't care comes from somewhere, not
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by ErrantX 2y ago
You might be misremembering (it's my fav DB show btw...) It's not really revealed how he does the last trick. In the last bet she believes she loses because the horse he tips doesn't win - and during the race he reveals there
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by ErrantX 2y ago
The original author looks to have been at Google till 2020. https://nicolodavis.com/
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by ErrantX 2y ago
I feel like this is a rose tinted view of media based on Hollywood movies... News media has always been biased and often had some form of agenda, sometimes even driven by the government. What you used to be able to do though was acknowledge
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by ErrantX 2y ago
LLMs have no concept of facts or lies, or right or wrong. And contrary to your rather morbid view of society, in general most WP editors try hard to get it right. And support rather than undermine each other (don't let the more content
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Correct. Corollary is that Risk Management is a specialist field. The least risky thing to do is always to close down the business (can't cause an incident if you have no customers). Engineers and product folk, in particular, I find st
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Actually writing the content is usually the easiest part. 98% of writing these articles is research. Current LLMs are nowhere near good enough.
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by ErrantX 2y ago
As always, there is an article about it :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controvers...
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by ErrantX 2y ago
As with all Wikipedia competitors, this misses two key points Firstly the most critical part of competing with WP is not the technology, it's having the critical mass of people willing to write article. Scandals aside over decades hund
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by ErrantX 2y ago
Manifest approvals has been a reality for a while. But that works because, not despite, the bottlenecks. Countries know goods must flow through certain choke points so they can essentially quality control the manifests. Remove that and pre-
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by ErrantX 2y ago
DDG has a global remote workforce so this wouldn't seem to apply in their case.
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by ErrantX 3y ago
- In the EU the main reason Rewards cards have declined is that the regulator capped interchange to a very small amount in 2015. The US will follow suit at some point (as noted debit cards have gone that way) but I guess not as low - I thin
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by ErrantX 3y ago
Tip on this though; get someone else to wear them at your preferred volume. I tend to find ~50% of folks who use bone conducting headphones have to have the volume up so loud it's basically audible to people next to you.
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by ErrantX 4y ago
The Foundation have invested a lot over the last decade in reliability. Nowadays it is in a great place, but about 10 years ago it was up and down all the time.
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I am genuinely intrigued as to why that's better? Especially as in the second part of your comment you restrict shareability/usability significantly from what the author wants to achieve (IE I can't as a free user bash out a
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I mean arguably we BS all the time; how many pub quizzes do people confidently assert an answer? So I don't think that's totally the issue. It's slightly different to the point I was talking to; but the thing about ChatGPT I

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