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by Slartie 6y ago
Limit credit card fees by law to some amount that easily covers the actual transaction costs and then some, but does not leave endless room for crazy stuff like kickbacks that effectively eat up 80% of the fees and thus clearly expose that
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by Slartie 6y ago
> The problem isn't (always) giving a lot of change, it's being able to verify that the larger bills are genuine. That should be fixed by changing the bills' design to be more resistant to counterfeiting, not by effectivel
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by Slartie 6y ago
Exactly. If it eventually turns out you were right, but most people didn't realize that at the time you traded according to your eventually-proven theory, you will have incurred huge losses at the point in time you finally are proven r
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by Slartie 6y ago
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that a huge portion of susceptibility to groupthink even seems to be a central requirement to be a "good" trader (as in: one who outperforms the market). If you just go with the trend mo
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by Slartie 6y ago
Back in 2009-2013 or so I ran a quite popular add-on for World of Warcraft which aggregated data from about 200k active users regularly uploading it, maybe 5GB per day, into a common database of 5-10MB that was then downloaded by about 1 mi
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Unless you can eliminate fraud Which is exactly the purpose of good security measures. Bad or nonexistent measures and an insurance against fraud slapped on all prices is a local maximum. Good security measures which really push back t
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by Slartie 6y ago
Only slightly more insane than keeping the handy 4x4 format, but extending it from base 10 numbers to base 16, which I would really love to see :D
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Having two competing kings fighting over the throne isn't "dynamic" democracy. a) it is more dynamic than a situation with one king just sitting on his laurels b) this is not about democracy, this is about competition on
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by Slartie 6y ago
I am pretty sure that comparing the economics of healthcare and the economics of a hypermarket is like comparing apples to oranges. Same with comparison of healthcare and a virtual store selling smartphone apps. Comparing a hypermarket sell
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by Slartie 6y ago
> "But Android!" one might say, and once again, the analogy falls completely flat. The switching costs of going between iOS and Android are obviously not remotely comparable from the switching costs of going between Walmart and
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Convince them this will lead to more growth and you’ll get your wish. There's actually a good case to be made in that favor. Letting Apple strangle thousands of app developers and prevent business cases that would actually find cu
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by Slartie 6y ago
No, they couldn't. The whole purpose of these probe requests is to assess whether the DNS server used by a particular client is acting normally (responding with NXDOMAIN if a domain does not exist), so these must bde sent to the DNS se
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Right, and the rest of us don't want that Please stop speaking for others. I would certainly like to have the ability to install other sources for apps. Since I am part of "the rest of us", for any kind of "us"
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by Slartie 6y ago
No, you are in good company. There are those that believe technology would eventually be the solution for any problem, and those that have lived through this phase already and sobered up, eventually coming to the conclusion that technology
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Insider trading is one of those crimes where it is a bit ambiguous as to what the crime is (at least to me). That is because you appear to have a false understanding of what insider trading is. > Information travels with some speed
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by Slartie 6y ago
Yeah, sure, because if Apple was no longer able to enforce a 30% cut on all in-app purchases, that would totally destabilize the price of Apple (stock, I assume). Because they make the hugely overwhelming share of their money from...in-app
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by Slartie 6y ago
Isn't that only the case in certain metropolitan areas? It is a huge problem indeed, but the problem there is the medallion system having degraded to become a shady get-rich-quick investment scheme. This is unrelated to the way in whic
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by Slartie 6y ago
An individual taxi driver owning a cab, a license if necessary, paying for his insurance and getting the money from his passengers is an individual contractor, yes. It's just that he contracts with the individual riders, not any higher
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by Slartie 6y ago
I am pretty sure that you cannot "activate" a work contract by opening an app. What is the notion of "activating" a contract anyway, I mean legally. Does something like that exist in US law? I would doubt that, and I wou
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by Slartie 6y ago
Having some people cheat their way around it does not invalidate the law in the first place and neither does it invalidate its intention. The equivalent in Uber's system is a driver cancelling a ride after accepting it and seeing the d
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by Slartie 6y ago
But you could have refused the customer in the first place. Nobody forced you to make a contract with him. Of course, once you did, you are compelled to keep up your end of the bargain, and that probably included you doing those jira tasks
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by Slartie 6y ago
I don't know whether it's the same in the US, but here in Germany, the good old taxis have a special obligation that disallows them to decline a rider based on where he wants to go, as long as that target is within the geographic
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by Slartie 6y ago
The utility of the masking pattern becomes clear when following the next steps, which calculate "penalty points" for dot patterns in the QR code that might occur naturally, but are known to make it harder to read and more prone to
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by Slartie 6y ago
The thing is that just "approving" a vaccine doesn't actually avoid anything, especially not economic slowdowns. Actually having a vaccine widely available at scale and having it injected into a significant proportion of the
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by Slartie 6y ago
Basically, Putin just renamed what we usually consider to be a Phase 3 trial to "general availability", while knowing that availability will most likely be seriously constrained anyway in the next months, effectively limiting the
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Should the president really have this power? No.
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Also works great when going to multi-day music festivals with no power on the campground. We always buy some 20kg or so of dry ice blocks, a big styrofoam box full of it, and move a block over to the cooler containing the beer every few hou
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by Slartie 6y ago
There's also a Gboard for iOS. Can't compare it with the Android version, but it is much, much better than the Apple default keyboard for swipe typing. Has become my default keyboard after Swype was discontinued, with a short stin
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Oh and web apps of the era were slow. Like, dog slow. However bloated and crappy the reddit app is, the old Slashdot site was slower, even on broadband. Just those that attempted to realize every minuscule client side UI change by perf
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Also notice that this model can be applied to other media formats: Text, pictures, audio ... Actually, I don't think that this is as easy as you might think. The article goes into this a bit when saying that short video sequences

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