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by athrun 4y ago
newsflash: point of sales transactions can usually be processed offline, and settled at a later point in time. Merchant A might be unable to process while offline, while Merchant B next door will have no such issue.
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by athrun 4y ago
I personally think it's because in many ways we're not building native, snappy, keyboard-driven desktop apps any longer. Everything is moving to the web or web-like. Most of the apps I use at work are web-based and mouse-heavy. Th
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by athrun 4y ago
Stripe doesn’t rule disputes. The card issuer does.
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by athrun 4y ago
No. People in the meeting are supposed to read the document _during_ the meeting—no pre-reading required. This does not mean there weren’t a lot of back and forth between a lot of people to come up with the final memo.
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by athrun 4y ago
AFAIK there's no need to show IDs to board a train in Europe (maybe some EU countries have other rules there, I don't know). For planes it will depend on whether you're crossing a border or not. Sometimes you get ID checks on
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by athrun 4y ago
The counter-argument to this is that driving a 2-ton machine capable of killing people is not a fundamental right either. I'm not saying that this isn't a privacy overreach and I think there are other things we can do to limit spe
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by athrun 4y ago
To me, I felt this take was so disconnected from my reality as a user that I didn't even know where to start. Looking at the author bio, I can see he's very invested in the Blink project so it's difficult to shake the feeling
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by athrun 4y ago
> Dominant means a majority. My full sentence was qualifying what I meant by "becoming dominant" here: "meaning that most greenfield projects would run on Linux from day one." In 2006, Linux was not powering a majori
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by athrun 4y ago
I think it’s a question of perspective. In 2006 I think it’s fair to say that Linux was becoming dominant on the web, meaning that most greenfield projects would run on Linux from day one. Enterprise IT was another thing entirely. At the ti
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by athrun 4y ago
> The point to watch out for is when the self-driving cars are the primary users, and the needs of human drivers start to fall away as not important any more. Yeah. I'm really not looking forward to streets being all fenced off to p
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by athrun 4y ago
Would it not be in Intel's best interest to have popular compilers be able to squeeze the most performance out of its own line of CPUs? I'm wondering how the incentives play out to keep this stuff private?
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by athrun 4y ago
Asking the HN community: what are the modern options in terms of debugging native programs these days? It seems that this is an area that hasn't seen much progress over the years.
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by athrun 4y ago
+1 for Camo. They recently updated it so that it works in all apps now, including FaceTime.
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by athrun 4y ago
> Some of the SFC enforcement saw a big move / growth in MIT style licenses (no copyleft elements really) which is a big tragedy as well as a fracturing of licensing (another miss in my book). indeed. Tragedy is the right word!
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by athrun 5y ago
> The main issue I had with Mediapart (which led to cancel my subscription) was indeed the fact that on some subjects (mostly the "woke' things), they twist the facts to match their agenda. > Regarding the other subjects, I
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by athrun 5y ago
they are a feature of _liberal_ democracies. In a liberal democracy, it is understood that the will of the majority is not the only thing that matters. For example, having the majority vote to strip a minority from their religious freedoms
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by athrun 5y ago
Worldine operates the ACS on behalf of the issuer. I think wlp stands for “Worldline La Poste”.
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by athrun 5y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn’t surprise me to see this from them… Have you set up the certicode system from within their banking app though? I believe the UI you’ve seen here is some kind of crappy fallback for when you don’t have Certicode enab
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by athrun 5y ago
I agree 100%. When looking at using a bike for transportation, you'd typically want racks/mounts, lights, fenders, a bell, internal gears, upright geometry, etc. If you live in an area with a good transportation network, you'
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by athrun 5y ago
If I remember things correctly about 45,000 bridges across the US are in poor condition and the original Infrastructure Bill targeted 10,000 of them. The Bill got watered down further. There is simply too much infrastructure to maintain, an
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by athrun 5y ago
> I guess I just like my tech stack to be as open and unrestrictive as possible. Note that this is another area where you have this user vs. developer trade off. - GPL or other copyleft licenses will put the user's rights above the
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by athrun 5y ago
Developers create things users wants, of course, but they also create things they want. Things like user tracking or data harvesting. There's an inherent trade off here where adding safeguards to protect users will make the life of dev
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by athrun 5y ago
No, that would only allow them to see your name, but you still wouldn't see their names unless they add you.
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by athrun 5y ago
My understanding is that your profile username is made visible if: - the person is in your own contact list - you create a conversation with them - you accept a conversation from them see: https://support.signal.org/hc/
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by athrun 5y ago
Forced no, but that's the issue with complex regulations, they all interact in subtle ways and no one can fully predict the side effects. One can argue that public agencies created bad incentives with regulations that mandated ratings
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by athrun 5y ago
Strong Town's argument is that some of these suburbs will be successful in encouraging mixed-use development and in doing so will expand their tax bases. But most of the others will fail and decline. ST are quite explicit that they mos
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by athrun 5y ago
The newspaper-like multicolumn design is quite fun. For some reason, it's very rarely used online. I'm not sure it's an improvement over the standard 1 column, but it's also refreshing to see people doing these kinds of
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by athrun 5y ago
I know La Defense well and I don't think this is the solution. La Defense is not dense from a housing perspective. And it was built with a car-centric mindset. The Esplanade itself is public transport friendly (thank god) but the surro
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by athrun 5y ago
I think the issue is more subtle than this, and I would also not put European cities in the same bucket as North American ones. In North American cities, there's a clear low density issue at play. Most of the previously dense urban cor
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by athrun 5y ago
You can think of it as a precursor to LDAP. It was a way to provide centralized access to User/Groups/Password and hostnames information over the network. YP was a staple of most UNIX deployments for some time, before being replac

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