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by elric 1y ago
In the case of fraud (like the article's example of a thieving storefront), banks can simply reverse the transfer. This is not an all-or-nothing deal where CCs are always safe because of theoretical chargebacks, and bank transfers are
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by elric 1y ago
American hate for wire transfers will never sound anything other than irrational to me. Why don't you have an equivalent of Europe's Instant Payments? The author mentions the storefront pocketing the money, that seems implausible?
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by elric 1y ago
European petrochemical industry is actively expanding its plastic production.
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by elric 1y ago
Are there any plans for significant investments in the US grid(s)? IIRC the entire US doesn't even have a single interconnected grid, with Texas having their own for some reason. European grids aren't that much better either, load
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by elric 1y ago
Requiring up to date authentication in order to access a bank account makes sense though. Do you get annoyed at having to enter your PIN when using an ATM?
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by elric 1y ago
I most certainly am not. But there's certainly fraud in those places too. There is all kinds of frauds within banking, from insider trading to cleverly hidden rounding errors being pocketed by software engineers, and everything in betw
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by elric 1y ago
> This has the potential to become a rapid, intravenous antidote for carbon monoxide So intravenously, presumably.
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by elric 1y ago
> I have no clue how we have not yet collapsed the financial system via some hack or basic data loss. Banks are pretty good at not losing data. They're also pretty good at layered security. I mean there's fraud and theft on all
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by elric 1y ago
> allowed to wall in their data with no API access There's PSD2 in the EU (or Eurozone? Not sure actually). Basically forces banks to open common APIs to encourage interopability and competition. However, it's not aimed at user
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by elric 1y ago
They've been doing this for years at protests, using "Forward Intelligence Teams". Even back in 2010 [1] there was an action group trying to protest this growing police-state (Fitwatch). The UK has had an insane number of CCT
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by elric 1y ago
No way to change keyboard layouts?
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by elric 1y ago
So what you're saying is: countries elect politicians in national elections, some of these politicians (typically the prime ministers) form the European Council, they propose a President of the Commission, the ruling government of each
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by elric 1y ago
I wasn't talking about the council, but the commission. The acronym confusion is unfortunate. Point is that these people are very far removed from elections and political consequences. They also seem to be the types who have no idea wh
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by elric 1y ago
IMO this kind of pedantry detracts from the message. We know that the EC is pushing it, but the EC does not represent the people, that's the job of MEPs. Thus a list of MEPs from countries, colour coded by whether or not the country is
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by elric 1y ago
Is this intentional ragebait? Calling IMs "actual communication" is .... odd. Email all but guarantees more thoughtful replies than IM. I'll agree that the example of simply tagging someone in a long quoted thread is not the
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by elric 1y ago
Would they? Their products depends on the work of thousands of FOSS contributions. And historically, the vast majority of companies haven't contributed or paid. All they've done is take. There have been numerous cases of GPL viola
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by elric 1y ago
When I was younger, I would have been annoyed at this remark because it detracts from the ideological purity of FOSS. Now that I'm older, I laugh at its naïveté. $megacorp wouldn't pay you. The junior engineer at $megacorp who pul
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by elric 1y ago
The opposite. I regret not pushing harder to be allowed to release more things as open source. Built lots of useful tools at a previous job that would have benefited "the community", and while management initially seemed happy to
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by elric 1y ago
Their new chord chart is easily the clearest chord chart I've seen. Tooltips with directional arrows, clear gradients.
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by elric 1y ago
Makes for a fun programming paradigm, similar to Java's streams-with-lambdas. Great for readability. Not too fond of the |> operator though, requires 4 different keypresses on my keyboard layout, not terribly ergonomic. But I unders
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by elric 1y ago
Does the article not consider those to be serious side effects then? What is considered serious?
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by elric 1y ago
> There’s also the formal/legal aspect that the work-related topics can count as work time whereas the private ones doesn’t. So when you're at the office, you never have a chat about a non-work topic at the coffee maker?
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by elric 1y ago
Damn that's a crazy system. Over here colleges have maths prep courses for those whose maths skills are insufficient (or, like, older folks getting back into learning), and there are typically no admission requirements beyond having gr
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by elric 1y ago
Depends on your definition of both of those terms. Being able to solve a simple equation is generally useful. You probably don't need much more than that to understand Set Theory or much of Logic. You can learn to write proofs without
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by elric 1y ago
> This analysis revealed a systematic failure affecting tens of thousands of children across North Carolina alone, wasting human potential on a massive scale. What? How is this a waste of human potential? Presumably the kids that didn&#x
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by elric 1y ago
I think optimising for thinness is a stupid goal. I get wanting to reduce weight , but volume and mass are two different metrics. Thicker laptops can have better cooling, bigger batteries, easier maintenance, a bloody ethernet port, and pr
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by elric 1y ago
More money for militarization, 5% NATO tax, money towards buying fossil fuels from the US. More moves towards surveillance of its own people. Europe is starting to look pretty unappealing. I've been fighting for our right to online pri
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by elric 1y ago
Oh come on. You know exactly where this is going. Porn and social media will require age verification before you can say "who voted for this?".
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by elric 1y ago
I wish we would install beg buttons for drivers instead. Pedestrians keep drawing the short end of the stick in Flanders.
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by elric 1y ago
Flemish person here: no one here understands it either. Probably CV-driven development for someone...

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