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by lmm 1y ago
> In theory the court should give them back the actual bitcoin, not the monetary equivalent at the time. Why? Most of them didn't care about bitcoin, they bought it solely to give to the scammer.
872.
by lmm 1y ago
Well these guys apparently didn't manage that.
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by lmm 1y ago
> Smart/dynamic pricing actually benefits the consumer. No it doesn't. The customer has low risk appetite and would rather pay a premium for predictability.
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by lmm 1y ago
I mean just read the link and they're objecting to a 120m-wide trench being dug through their countryside. Which is easy enough to sympathise with.
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by lmm 1y ago
No. Only to unblock when they get blocked/flagged as fraud (tends to happen for large transactions like plane tickets or buying a bunch of furniture), and even then I currently have the option of authorizing via the web browser (and I
876.
by lmm 1y ago
The charters aren't that specific (nor should they be). But they do oblige the banks to serve their customers to a certain extent.
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by lmm 1y ago
Wow. You guys really need better banking regulation.
878.
by lmm 1y ago
> What type are transactions are you talking about? Bank transfers and I guess direct debit authorisations (if your bank requires you to confirm those) and reauthorisation/confirmation of card payments that were blocked by the bank&
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by lmm 1y ago
It's not reasonable for an employer to expect you to injure yourself. It is reasonable for an employer to expect you to follow the working patterns they've told you to (up to a point) even if you personally think they're unpr
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by lmm 1y ago
While it's fashionable to pretend otherwise, the best available evidence is that inheritance is highly heritable.
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by lmm 1y ago
> The banks - who are generally on the hook if something goes wrong, or at least have to pay a lot of lawyers to get off the hook - are not interested in moral arguments, they want a risk-reduced environment or no app for you - as is the
882.
by lmm 1y ago
> you typically can't transfer between different banks WTF? What kind of shitty banking system are you using?
883.
by lmm 1y ago
Depends on the bank's policies. Currently it tends to be when you transfer to a new destination and/or above a certain amount. I could certainly imagine a bank requiring it for every PC-initiated transaction as and when they reach
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by lmm 1y ago
> There’s simply no such thing as a free market. Why we single out subsidy as non free is arbitrary. What activities constitute legitimate free market behavior? There’s no actual logically sound distinction. Sounds like a nirvana fallacy
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by lmm 1y ago
> US employers cannot discriminate against a deaf person and must make reasonable accommodations to make it safe for them to do their job. > US employers are not legally required to make accommodations for people who simply want to li
886.
by lmm 1y ago
Java users largely didn't bother with containers IME, largely for the same reasons that most Java users didn't bother with application servers. Those who did want that functionality already had it available, making the move from
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by lmm 1y ago
> Containers (meaning Docker) happened because CGroups and namespaces were arcane and required lots of specialized knowledge to create what most of us can intuitively understand as a "sandbox". That might be why Docker was orig
888.
by lmm 1y ago
Or the damage is diffuse whereas the costs of preventing the breach would be concentrated. Or the connection between the damage and the breach is difficult to prove.
889.
by lmm 1y ago
Many developers have strong opinions that certain parts of a process are valuable and others aren't, and will try quite hard to align your process with their opinions as quickly as possible. For an organisation that doesn't know w
890.
by lmm 1y ago
Corporate internal markets are well-known as non-free, and when a sufficiently large company is picking and choosing winners in a national economy that's also not a free market.
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by lmm 1y ago
> The British, French and Israelis literally went to war against Egypt over the Suez. > They only backed up when the US told the Brits and France they would tank their economies still on US life support. But they did back off. The U
892.
by lmm 1y ago
"We need to stop being divided. For perspective, here's a political talking point framed in the most partisan way possible. Edit: why am I being downvoted?"
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by lmm 1y ago
> JSON also has a few warts that aren't going away exactly due to backwards compatibility. So I think that's actually a pretty good illustration of the point. How? All nontrivial software has warts, you're never choosing b
894.
by lmm 1y ago
The program may work fine on its original OS, and the OS may work fine on its original hardware, but for someone trying to actually run their business or what have you on the software these facts are often not particularly helpful.
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by lmm 1y ago
Yes. I guess the main station is considered obvious from context?
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by lmm 1y ago
The classification is probably right, but this post feels half-baked. There are some valuable points in here (never suppress exceptions that indicate programming errors!) but it's missing guidance on how to handle cases like bad user i
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by lmm 1y ago
Maybe it's worth it, but currently it's very hard for those people to distinguish it from a game that's not worth it to them.
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by lmm 1y ago
I'm in the process of changing my name to one that fits the country I live in, for similar reasons. It's just easier for everyone. Names are a tool for communicating with other people, they're not who you are.
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by lmm 1y ago
If you restrict yourself to programs that don't need an OS or hardware, you're going to be looking at a pretty small set of programs.
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by lmm 1y ago
> Including the US right? And I don't mean in a conspiratorial sense. Just in the sense that they wouldn't deny it because it's their home country (Say Windows certs or Google certs), and at the very least they can issue w

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