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by falcon620 8y ago
Hopefully it's just a negotiation tactic to get Google to buy them for more than their first offer.
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by falcon620 8y ago
More like "gah, we're going to have to self-host git, aren't we"?
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by falcon620 8y ago
> I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, [...] And for perfectly rational reasons, I would add.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Well, that's a scary thought.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Yeah, that's not helpful, I'm afraid. Also demonstrably incorrect. Amex is still operating in the UK, for example.
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by falcon620 8y ago
"it's all mastercard/visa now" shows us he/she likely doesn't understand the vast difference between debit and credit cards. If anyone from the UK who does understand that difference would chime in, that would
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by falcon620 8y ago
Sure. (I've been carrying around 20 * 20 Euro bills. Larger denominations seem to be scary to people who aren't used to them.)
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by falcon620 8y ago
So it's actually quite hard to use your data as a proxy of understanding how badly Visa Europe credit cards are doing.
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by falcon620 8y ago
https://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/1387/know-best-days-... That random site happens to agree with my kind of thinking, so I copied that content in here: "Fire on Mondays. This lets dismissed workers start loo
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by falcon620 8y ago
Maybe someone forgot the golden rule: fire people on Monday mornings. Never on Fridays.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Here in Sweden many former Visa outfits have gone to Mastercard, so now it's sort of hard to find a Visa CC here. I've gone out of my way to have one Visa and one MC though.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Okay, so to clarify: are you're seeing 10% failure rates on Visa Debit+Credit, or 10% on everything (including Mastercard, Amex, etc)?
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by falcon620 8y ago
When you say you're seeing 10% decline rates, is that out of your total transactional volume (which I suspect is the case), or just out of the subset of your customer who actually have bona fide Visa credit cards?
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by falcon620 8y ago
This is one of the reasons why every frequent traveller should carry credit cards from at least two different banks and two different credit card companies (like Mastercard and Visa).
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by falcon620 8y ago
This is one of IBM's flagship customers, isn't it? They're supposed to never go down.
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by falcon620 8y ago
I think you'd like working in Scandinavia.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Is this where some nasty european posts that escalator-to-a-fitness center photo from the 2000s?
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by falcon620 8y ago
Generall that's the case, but not for reddit though, right?
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by falcon620 8y ago
Surprise: You don't need to be in the Bay Area to build/run world class companies/products. Maybe sometimes to build, but definitely not to run.
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by falcon620 8y ago
The inevitable conclusion I come to: Something like reddit2 should be run by a minimalist apolitical company. They should work on building some kind of democracy in each sub-reddit, based on some factors (where "participation quality&q
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by falcon620 8y ago
I haven't seen an official statement for this yet. If he's planning to do that, great! Until then.. I'm thinking we're probably all migrating to a facebook-like experience soon.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Cause every Unix-like OS is exactly the same? At the end of the 90s they had spent like 15+ years diverging from each other. Some more gracefully than others.
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by falcon620 8y ago
There's also been a few accusations of r/tesla moderators being on payroll (can be read at r/realtesla).
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by falcon620 8y ago
I don't get the impression they are spending a whole lot on community management. In a way, that's a big part of what I see as their largest problem - they are relying on the zeal of the subreddit moderators to work for free. (The
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by falcon620 8y ago
Surely it should be possible to run something like Reddit at a profit? Run it with like 50 people. And not necessarily in SF. I think that's doable if you're happy with where the site is, product-wise. Just googled quickly and fou
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by falcon620 8y ago
And us foreigners will be asked for our Reddit usernames when we enter the US.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Reddit is getting so much usage because it hasn't been monetized yet. At the moment it's quite good free user forum/board/discussion/community-style site. The new design will drive the users who liked that away. The
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by falcon620 8y ago
Huh. I honestly thought AIX was dead by now. I remember porting something to AIX 20 years ago, it wasn't fun. I guess IBM stuff doesn't die, it just gets more expensive.
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by falcon620 8y ago
Perhaps if you delete or edit this comment right now it will keep them off for at least days/weeks/months?
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by falcon620 8y ago
Let's hope the shark fishing boats don't find this spot. There's still a sizeable market for shark fins in China, even after Yao Ming's brilliant campaign there.

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