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by Guvante 8y ago
It is about processing fees IIRC. No way to avoid the fraud liability but you can get a lower cost per transaction by having chip and being certified to take payments through it (including some extra auditing)
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by Guvante 8y ago
The government doesn't have to own something to tax it.
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by Guvante 8y ago
> Hence the edit restating that every single one of those is either well known or provable. But news organizations lie. All of them do and they do it on a routine basis. On the topic of your examples: 1. It appears that the article recog
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by Guvante 8y ago
I could never figure out how to parse something between evaluating inside out (strict) and outside in (lazy, well ignoring the complexity around multiple evaluations). Every informal definition I thought of seemed too weak to be useful. Thi
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by Guvante 8y ago
Because nothing you said disproves what the parent said, it simply gave an annecdote about what bad things a publisher did, unless you would categorize those as "ill-will of a single writer". Claiming systematic bias can also lead
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by Guvante 8y ago
The retailer either accepts swipes or not, ditto for your bank, the fact that there is a fall back feature if chip fails isn't a security failure unless it opens up a new avenue. (Someone could just print a magic strip unless one or bo
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by Guvante 8y ago
> But I feel like humans have enough technology under their belt that enough electricity generation isn't a dire situation. It isn't a direct situation it is just wasteful... > Side not, I wonder how much electricity gaming
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by Guvante 8y ago
If miners were doing the mining for the transactions maybe that would matter but the $100,000 lottery is all that miners care about. They have opinions on transactions because transactions fees make the lottery more lucrative is all (there
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by Guvante 8y ago
> Also, energy is a resource like any other and it's generation and price is subject to supply/demand Actually most municipalities treat electricity like they treat water, more akin to a public utility. The actual cost isn&#x27
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by Guvante 8y ago
Is disallowing ads but allowing search really that bad for businesses?
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by Guvante 8y ago
They said, as their primary point "make a C-corp (or equivalent) so you don't have to pay if you are wrong". That solves the risk problem, unless you think they have positive equity.
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by Guvante 9y ago
What narrative supports The_Donald and the numerous left leaning subreddits both being there? Honestly I hear this a lot and am curious. I believe it is because they are focused on retention numbers which thrive off focused insular communit
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by Guvante 9y ago
I hate the default experience since it is purely low effort posts. The cute gifs are entertaining but I feel I am wasting my time compared to discussions on interesting topics. By logging in you can select your subreddits which lets you fil
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by Guvante 9y ago
Private prisons lead to lobbying for harsher convictions to improve the bottom line of those prisons, that is why they often come up.
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by Guvante 9y ago
I think even if you think the accident was unavoidable it is certainly damning that the car never attempted to stop.
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by Guvante 9y ago
How do you stop someone from moving something they can pick up? Vehicles are too heavy to move without being turned on.
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by Guvante 9y ago
Backups are important whether the thing being backed up is online or not.
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by Guvante 9y ago
UBI doesn't need to cover the median cost of living in the US. In fact with just income tax that is an impossible line to hit as it would certainly trigger inflation. But that doesn't mean that X dollars won't matter. In fact
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by Guvante 9y ago
Isn't better psychological assistance the better solution to that problem? Unless you are serving food directly you cannot prevent turning assistance into drugs because you can always just sell whatever you are given.
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by Guvante 9y ago
No reason to complicate things. Everyone gets 1k/month and everyone's taxes go up. The hard part is figuring out where to take the money to cover the difference.
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by Guvante 9y ago
> Make free public housing that all citizens have a right to ask for. Median rent in the US is $934 thus this one benefit costs the US goverment as much as this proposed BI would. Unless we are talking about housing where people aren&#x2
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by Guvante 9y ago
They mentioned to not get any certificates from the old infrastructure after the new infrastructure is available as they will be untrusted earlier (to ensure that Symantec starts using the new infrastructure exclusively once it is available
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by Guvante 9y ago
No action will be taken to impact users until March 15, 2018 at the earliest and only if you got your certificate before June 1, 2016. At least when it comes to any existing certificate (they are ambiguous about when they will cut off new c
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by Guvante 9y ago
That is assuming the constant end up being in the realm of reasonable. `O(2^N)` and `O(N^1000)` are no different for any useful values of `N`.
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by Guvante 9y ago
Why? Defaults are important and the vast majority don't care (assuming correctly selected telemetry data) and the majority can't be bothered to change the default in either case. Again I am making a huge assumption about correctly
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by Guvante 10y ago
Don't conflate health insurance with real forms of insurance. Health insurance is a weird beast which has an ancillary purpose of what insurance really is. Most notably health insurance was previously used as a tax free way to provide
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by Guvante 10y ago
But they never reaped the benefits without following the license which is a different kind of problem. Also Microsoft has been embracing FOSS more and more, they certainly don't do anything copyleft but they do release their own things
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by Guvante 10y ago
Certainly there are a number of AAA games that fit that description. At this point we are conflating too many topics to really talk clearly. Simplest response would be "you should plan to spend years developing if you want to and if yo
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by Guvante 10y ago
> For instance, the lack of fidelity of the game allows any new character to be added in 2 seconds, yet Rimworld needs a considerable amount of time and effort developing each texture. This is only true for tiny developers. If you have d
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by Guvante 10y ago
They refunded his previous sale and built him a replacement but wouldn't honor the original price on the replacement. There was no where left to escalate.

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