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by naturalauction 5y ago
Just because the US has (comparatively) bad banking infrastructure doesn't mean most places do, most of Europe can do this and has been able to for years (though probably in EUR). This includes some cross-border payments. Instant payme
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by naturalauction 5y ago
This exists in the EU and Switzerland too, look at Klarna. They take 3% of a transaction from the merchant (depends on the country) and charge no interest fees at all for the end user. Even a financially responsible buyer might find it wort
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Additionally the whole charge is likely to be reversed (or it has been for me in similar situations) and the business will have to pay a pretty big ($20+) fee. Of course the employee could be a bad actor but it's in the businesses best
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I mean I'd assume it would work similar to pay as you go data, in that you just get charged in the background. Not sure how you'd deal with sites trying to bill their users a ton without the users finding out though - maybe they n
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I also don't know the theory but I'd guess part of it is that it increases loyalty? I know if I got an offer that was substantially higher than expected I'd be much more likely to think that the company valued me specifically
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I've actually taken this on existing infrastructure (Amtrak has a bus from Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe). The train to Sacramento from San Jose takes at least 3 hours and the bus takes another 3 (in winter weather). It's not ter
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by naturalauction 5y ago
But here the banks are controlled by the people committing the fraud, presumably they are defrauding the borrowers (the books were $5.5 billion short).
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by naturalauction 5y ago
FWIW this isn't necessarily indicative of the number of ones in airports. For example "Istanbul Havalimani H-42 HPS Sbarro" only says airport in Turkish and "Aeropuerto Los Cabos" is in Spanish (though maybe these a
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by naturalauction 6y ago
>It's not misleading at all. It's important to consider that a large group of human operators, using a separately large set of semi automated processes, are a large component of the current energy spend of aggregate financial a
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by naturalauction 6y ago
Also, just because India is majority Hindu doesn't mean there isn't massive diversity within those populations. India has 22 official languages (and many more which don't have the same level of representation). India will nev
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by naturalauction 6y ago
The UK “leveling off” is likely a result of vaccine availability, especially as the number of second doses are ramping up (they have decided to use a longer gap between the first and second dose). I believe 95% of over 50s are vaccinated an
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by naturalauction 6y ago
India is a supposedly secular country, it's stated in the constitution. Pakistan and Israel explicitly aren't. Also, you are totally wrong about "every single political party in Pakistan being an Islamic-nationalist party.&qu
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by naturalauction 6y ago
Maybe I'm a bit of a skeptic but I've seen this sort of behavior repeat itself over and over again with crypto. Maybe the people in your Discord group are really smarter than almost everyone else, but at the end of the day the vas
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by naturalauction 6y ago
The University of Alabama also has surprisingly good merit scholarships for students who are from out of state. I was considering going there and they offered me full tuition + 2 years of housing covered + some other grants (and I wasn&#x27
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by naturalauction 6y ago
Presumably the UK where there is lots of discussion about the government possibly making vaccine passports mandatory for certain types of businesses (I think large-scale events and nightclubs are examples).
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by naturalauction 6y ago
Total deaths pM Norway: 123.41 Total deaths pM Denmark: 414.88 Total deaths pM Sweden: 1,399 Similar cultures, but Denmark and Norway implemented more strict lockdown measures. Two can play this game
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by naturalauction 6y ago
One small thing to note is that as it says in the article, Coinbase isn't actually trying to raise any money (it's a direct listing). IMO this actually makes it worse as much of the rationale for the company going public in the fi
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by naturalauction 6y ago
You can also get censured by your state/local GOP. See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/06/liz-cheney-c...
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by naturalauction 6y ago
I hated the Prop. 22 campaign as much as anyone else (the notifications from the Uber app were especially egregious) but just because someone is an actor doesn't mean they can't drive for Uber. I remember reading that a lot of act