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by hakfoo 4y ago
They are "special" but they also aren't. There are numerous flags you can put on a transaction to hint things like "This is a recurring charge." "This is a merchant initiated charge." "This was plac
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by hakfoo 4y ago
Wouldn't changing from a "pull" payment model to a "push" one solve all these problems? Why don't we have a system where we can, by default, give out highly restricted payment credentials? Yeah, you CAN get a
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I'd think the public palatability of lead products is one aspect. People don't worry as much about tungsten. I was thinking weights to fit specific items. Model railway wagons, for example, need to be weighted and balanced to op
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by hakfoo 4y ago
Wouldn't 10 cents worth of EPROM be a suitable choice? First boot, it supports the least-common-denominator channels, and you run an application with a big clicky flag icon to specify the regulatory environment. The OEM could even ru
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I'd say it's more "We're going to teach everyone to read rather than expect everyone to put picture symbols on everything." Media literacy is hugely important. It goes beyond CPC propaganda, but that's definit
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by hakfoo 4y ago
The US government would speak from a place of greater credibility if their sabre-rattling on "security" grounds didn't line up oh-so-perfectly with commercial concerns. Huawei and ZTE were selling cheaper, good enough kit tha
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by hakfoo 4y ago
What AI needs is a "black box warning". Not a medical-style one, just an inherent mention of the fact it's an undocumented, non-transparent system. I think that's why we're enthralled by it. "Oh, it generated
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by hakfoo 4y ago
The problem is that the things that might be interesting there are always coupled to a big load of iffy speculation and regulatory evasion. We don't need to give up on stuff like regulations and insurance to demand a half-decent API.
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by hakfoo 4y ago
What we need is highly online modern banking with universal APIs. I should be able to run 50 lines of (insert preferred scripting language) that queried accounts at N banks, and then queued up transfers between them to redistribute the bala
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by hakfoo 4y ago
While they've got a lot of mindshare, I have to wonder if they have a particularly deep moat. I know the appeal of Stripe was that it was easy and attractive; using their embedded widgets allowed you to keep a low PCI compliance profil
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by hakfoo 4y ago
There were some small steam locomotives switched to electric firing, as a way to use existing infrastructure during wartime coal shortages. It's questionable if it would scale to the levels you'd want to allow a large main-line e
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by hakfoo 4y ago
Maybe it would make sense to have a "framebuffer chip", that handles things at a fairly abstract level-- commands like "set screen dimensions to 640x480x8bpp", "write buffer #12, pixel (203, 122) as colour 0xF3&quot
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by hakfoo 4y ago
Couldn't at least "icon fonts" like FontAwesome be necessary for meaningful functionality of some sites? A site that's sprinkled with [FE30] placeholders where the designers expected icons isn't necessarily readable
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by hakfoo 4y ago
There's option 3: The limit is in practice "At least 250k" and the value of "At least" varies depending on the nature of the deposit, the institution it's in, and its failure mode. There are no doubt certain b
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I think many of the S&Ls that failed were much smaller and less systemically important than the 2008 crisis players. The industry was much less concentrated back then.
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by hakfoo 4y ago
Pragmatically, the FDIC is very effective at moving things around with minimum disruption. I still have cheques that say Washington Mutual on them; literally no disruption to my life when they started floating upside down.
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by hakfoo 4y ago
In a way, it feels like lying to the customer. "Do you stock purple widgets?" "No, we're Red Widget Emporium" is not an inappropriate answer. If anything, it improves the trust angle-- you're the experts on R
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I miss old-school IM platforms. I could just see a family member online and say "Here's (link), do we want to go to this activity on the weekend", or "Here's the photo of the cat you wanted." I suppose I could
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I always figured the key was to cut the treadmill. There's very little difference in how I use a printer today versus 10, 20 years ago, so why can't they just sell me the same basic printer? I'm sure there's someone on t
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I'd argue there's still some interesting math going on there. PC hardware is still very much an industry of "I'll ask the enthusiast kid down the street what to buy"-- the sort of business where souring a small numb
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by hakfoo 4y ago
Definitely. There were other flavours of PAS26. I had one which accepted the weird Philips/LMSI interface which supported a specific 1X drive (CM 205) that didn't work on mainline Linux without a patch that didn't really ma
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by hakfoo 4y ago
The cost of dealing with a global world is that you have to work with countries that have different legal norms. Maybe that means that the local law enforcement doesn't prioritize your intellectual property. If they can't get th
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by hakfoo 4y ago
Actually, the Post Office has some very serious legal mandates about not being allowed to open and inspect mail. You're going to have to get court orders, and I'd expect a lot of courts would ask "If you know there's il
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by hakfoo 4y ago
> Jack Ma shows how dangerous it is to be truly successful, There's a conceptual gap that can and should be opened up. "Successful", even "fantastically successful" doesn't mean that you get to start throwi
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by hakfoo 4y ago
If Sony has a problem with a specific site, the appropriate approach is to find and exert legal actions on that site itself. To go back to a pre-internet model: If you know ABC Pawn Shop is fencing stolen merchandise from your warehouse,
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by hakfoo 4y ago
A counterargument: their prices make the "PCB" quality tier available for projects that would previously have been resigned to the lower "ball of bodge wires" or "breadboards/stripboards" levels of qualit
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I think crowns circulated up to the end of Victoria's reign. They're widely found in circulated conditions.
958.
by hakfoo 4y ago
We have enough housing for the number of people we have. What we have is a complete lack of top-down management to allocate it efficiently. If we combined Soviet economics and modern Big Data, we could solve this easily-- mandate that econo
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I always figured that a major source of complexity in drivers was papering over imperfections in the underlying hardware. I imagine things like video and chipset drivers are full of "if we're on stepping A0 or A1 hardware, we have
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by hakfoo 4y ago
I have a G20, and it's pretty vanilla Android stock. I'm actually excited for this. My family tends to shop in this price range, and you've got a lot of fairly interchangeable phones out there. It ends up being sort of frus

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