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by bjohnson225 5y ago
“Don’t be evil” is a slightly edgier version of the typical corporate value of “Do the right thing” which I’ve seen in many companies. Sounds good, but vague enough to be meaningless.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
In the UK a market share of 40% is enough for the competition authorities to investigate a company for monopolistic practices. It's less about market share and more about if the company is using its position in one market to create an
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
That’s the same in most of Europe. Renewables have to be supplemented by gas plants which can turn their production up and down much quicker than nuclear, coal, etc. In the future the gas plants can be replaced by various forms of storage,
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Not sure how that sub-reddit looked during the Catalina days, but I can't imagine it had fewer bug reports. I don't see anything particularly serious either from scrolling quickly. Your experience certainly sounds like a shitty on
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Such as? I've been using it daily since release and honestly haven't had a single problem.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
It’s popular with young people who can’t get or don’t want credit cards (just look at the marketing for Klarna to see the target market). Customers and merchants like it for the same reason - it allows a transaction to happen that otherwise
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Alitalia went bankrupt so this is technically a new company that has purchased some Alitalia assets. The staff they hired were not all from Alitalia. I hope it’s a success and they’re able to grow because right now many Italy to Europe rout
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Their original claim was that they don’t log IPs by default, not that they don’t log them even when required by law.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
I can imagine an “all products must be adapted to the local market” type of rule leading to this situation with Fitness+. My country has been added this time around with subtitles, but I’m struggling to imagine how they are useful when the
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Google can be wrong too, of course, but it’s usually accurate in my experience while the examples I gave for Apple Maps were not selective. The places I check have the time wrong on Apple Maps in nearly all cases - even the Colosseum is wro
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Maybe. I just meant that of the iPhone users I know here, they all using Google Maps.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Yes, it’s difficult, but they’re not going to successfully compete with Google Maps until they have good business metadata. They need to find a way. I don’t personally know anyone who uses Apple Maps in Italy, and the low usage is presumabl
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Trying it in Rome. Visually it’s great, but the data quality is way behind Google. I only checked a handful of places that I know well, but nearly all have some kind of issue. I get: - A very popular local restaurant with incorrect opening
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
> Rather odd as in the UK id expect to get paid a lot more as a contractor for the same roll as a FTE As a software dev/management contractor, sure, but as a “self-employed Yodel delivery driver” or similar low skill role? (Which it
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Stripe is 2.9% + $0.30 in the US, 1.4% in Europe. Large merchants will also get a much more favourable deal than those prices.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
The BBC is there to “inform, educate and entertain”. It gets government(/licence fee) funding because only the last of these is likely to be profitable. The BBC is far from perfect, but its documentaries are great and it remains the mo
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
The article isn't about tech workers and people can decide to work from bed for reasons other than a lack of space. I've seen my partner do it for comfort reasons because her job involves reading huge amounts (on an iPad), but as
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Yeah, the data on Apple Maps is just not good enough here. The opening hours are frequently just wrong and can’t be trusted. Part of the reason for that is they use Yelp as a data source which is pretty much non-existent here. If I look at
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
I’m not quite sure what you were expecting from an arena which had its last show 1500 years ago. Learning about the past doesn’t mean we think the practices that existed back then were good. For most people it’s about curiosity and understa
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
as someone who actually lives in Rome: it's an important historical monument in one of the most important cities in western history. People go there to learn about the past and to view an incredible piece of architecture which is nearl
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
That’s definitely my experience. The ability to lookup anything you don’t understand and not needing to battle against strong accents and/or poor enunciation makes a big difference.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
That just invites the question “for who?”.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Europe presumably where interchange fees are significantly lower than the US. I see: 1,4% + 0,25 € for European cards 2,9% + 0,25 € for non-European cards
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
I never found people adding a name useful. Either the code is recent (in which case 'git blame' works better since someone changing a few characters may or may not decide to add their name to the file) or it's old and the aut
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
> more trying to find any source of revenue they can €100M would be about 0.0000125% of the revenue Italy expects in 2021. It's totally irrelevant to the national budget.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
€100M for not allowing the EnelX app (electric car charging infrastructure in Italy) with Android Auto is a significant fine. Even if €100M on its own is not much to Google, it is still an expensive precedent for similar cases in the future
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
> some VP at a fraud prevention company recommends merchants to avoid using 3DS and use a fraud detection platform, got it. Yeah, if PSD2 had an impact as dramatic as the article says then there would be a massive amount of noise from al
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Subscription payments are exempt. Only payments initiated by the customer require authentication.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
1 could be a bad implementation from the merchant. There is an exemption for low value (<€30) transactions and you can do five low value transactions before needing re-authentication.
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by bjohnson225 5y ago
Taxes are generally high in Italy, but it's actually quite friendly towards freelancers. I'm in Italy and I earn about the same as my Italian friend in the UK, but I take home more than he does after tax/social security. If y

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