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by gst 6y ago
Venmo only works in the United States as US resident and with a US bank account. Swish only works in Sweden if you have a Swedish bank account, Bluecode only works in Germany and Austria. That fragmentation doesn't matter too much if y
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by gst 6y ago
> So by late 2016 we've got two different branches of the central bank, one controlled by the rebels and the other by the internationally-recognized government. This sounds a lot like the Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash hardfork. The pre-f
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by gst 6y ago
> I'm confused, because I use termux on android-10 (on a pixel2) without any problem. It's only an issue if applications target Android 10 APIs. Termux still targets an older API version and is thus not yet affected by this iss
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by gst 6y ago
The numbers that are quoted for Austria (which has the listed IFR of 1.66% in the document) weren't obtained via antibody tests, but via PCR tests. Here's a better source than the one linked in the document: https://www
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by gst 7y ago
> FEMA projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big... > For 2016 specifically
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by gst 7y ago
Doesn't the GDPR currently require companies to notify users about such attacks (does "personal data breach" also apply to client-side stored data)? > When the personal data breach is likely to result in a high risk to the
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by gst 7y ago
> Given those things, what are the remaining biggest reasons I might prefer Firefox? Iridium seems to be quite outdated - the latest release that's listed on the website is from April. Given that there have been multiple critical se
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by gst 7y ago
> Institutions don't have that luxury - the government doesn't insure large amounts of cash. If they keep it in a bank and the bank goes under, they lose their money. So they keep their money in national governments, which are
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by gst 7y ago
> Compare that to retail banks which charge upwards of $35 for a "next-day ACH". Is that still common? None of my banks / credit unions charges for incoming or outgoing ACH transfers.
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by gst 7y ago
Both companies already offer real-time payment services: Visa: https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/visa_direct Mastercard: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/issuers/products-and-solutio...
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by gst 7y ago
> Transactions equal to, or in excess of this amount would need to be made using the electronic payment system or by cheque. Does Australia have a law that guarantees access to a bank account? Or would this proposed limitation imply that
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by gst 7y ago
PayPal is not available in a lot of countries (Turkey would be one example). Western Union might work, but the fees are high and there's much more friction. In case you're based in the United States: Would you use Western Union ov
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by gst 7y ago
Direct peer-to-peer payments: Those are currently a nightmare when you regularly travel. US: Venmo, Europe: SEPA, China: Wechat, etc. If Facebook manages to sign up enough stakeholders from different countries (that provide gateways between
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by gst 7y ago
Does privacy.com still require users to provide the username and password that they use for their bank account? That's an absolute no-go for me.
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by gst 8y ago
For a no AF 2% card the PenFed card not on the list ( https://www.penfed.org/credit-cards/power-cash-rewards ) looks better than Double Cash as it doesn't have foreign transaction fees. To receive the full 2% cashba
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by gst 8y ago
> The logic is sound - unbanked people exist, including in San Francisco, and without a bank account these stores are inaccessible. Wouldn't it be better to solve the root cause instead of the symptoms? Give residents a legal right
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by gst 8y ago
> Google just recently abandoned Android and pushed ChromeOS for tablets. Now this, there is just no continuity with Google. It's GTalk/Hangouts/Allo/etc. all over again, just this time with Android and ChromeOS. I wo
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by gst 8y ago
Almost all of the US banks allow you to add other ACH accounts that you control. Just confirm the two trial deposits and you can push or pull money from that account. A few banks also allow to send ACH transfers to third-party accounts that
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by gst 8y ago
An ACH transaction between two North American banks usually arrives on the next business day (if you place it before the cut-off time). In fact, ACH supports multiple settlements per day now so if that feature is supported by your bank ACH
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by gst 8y ago
On iOS macOS the kernel version isn't an issue as Apple ships OS updates with the latest version of Darwin. On Chromebooks the kernel version doesn't matter if you only use basic features. But for more advanced features the kernel
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by gst 8y ago
> What's the situation like if you have two chunks of data (perhaps at two separate locations on the blockchain) and only if you XOR them you get the illegal image? That's an interesting legal question and there's also alr
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by gst 8y ago
Lenovo even has official videos on YouTube that describe how to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7FI_y4FXdA
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by gst 8y ago
There are already lots of non-Oracle distributions of OpenJDK: Azul's Zulu, AdoptOpenJDK, Amazon's Corretto and I'm not aware of any aggression towards those projects. The lawsuit against Google targets an implementation that
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by gst 8y ago
> Oracle has also demonstrated in court that the Java API is their intellectual property, and that they are willing to go after people for reimplementing them. OpenJDK might be blessed, but I'd still be afraid of having anything to
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by gst 8y ago
I actually think that is the best long-term approach for all of the parties involved: In the past OpenJDK was missing critical features so that companies often used the commercial closed-source Oracle JDK. At the same time even then Oracle
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by gst 8y ago
I would really love to buy a Pixelbook (or another Chromebook) because I really like the software stack. But the fact that Google never updates the kernel on those things (you're stuck with whatever kernel version was on it when you in
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by gst 8y ago
And even if the keyboard breaks at some point on a Thinkpad it's easy to replace it. A new replacement keyboard for the T480s currently costs $50 on eBay and it doesn't take longer than a few minutes to install it.
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by gst 8y ago
https://apievangelist.com/2012/01/12/the-secret-to-amazons-s...
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by gst 8y ago
On my Pixel 3: Settings / Apps & Notifications / Advanced / Special app access. From there you can whitelist, e.g., Chrome to allow the installation of 3rd party apps. IIRC Chrome even asks you if you want to enable that
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by gst 8y ago
Is it in maintenance mode? Chris Mason (the main btrfs developer) works for Facebook now and Facebook uses btrfs on "millions of servers" (source: https://code.fb.com/open-source/linux/ ).

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