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by nerdawson 3y ago
In one scenario, the waitstaff disappear with your credit card for an extended period of time. In the other, the card never leaves your sight.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
When you pay with a credit card, your bank is jointly liable for the goods or services delivered. It’s easy enough to get your money back when something goes wrong while being less open to abuse.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
The EU have effectively implemented 2FA for credit card payments online. I pointed out a handful of ways the US are lagging far behind in banking. How can they possibly be leading the way? They’re stuck with a horribly outdated system that
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by nerdawson 3y ago
I recognise that for the likes of McDonalds, the friction probably isn’t a benefit. With that said, I can’t remember the last time I saw a POS terminal that wasn’t contactless. More often than not I’ll go out with nothing more than my phone
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by nerdawson 3y ago
I’d be annoyed if I ended up in a restaurant that didn’t have a card machine. They’re almost universal at this point to the extent that not to have one would be unusual.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Why does the US seem so far behind when it comes to banking? - Chip and PIN has been in the UK since 2004 and mandatory since 2006. It wasn't until a decade later that the US caught up. - Faster Payments allow for instant bank transfer
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Last year Mastodon went through a hype cycle. Everyone was declaring Twitter over. You had people stating they were leaving for good, dual-posting, etc. Funnily enough many of those same people are back on Twitter today with little mention
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by nerdawson 3y ago
> It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. First, Mastodon was going to be the new place. It
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by nerdawson 3y ago
If you use solar to generate electricity then the cost of that electricity is whatever you’re missing out on by not selling it to the grid.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
The YouTuber is a video game developer who sells a premium tool and courses for other video game developers. The videos are an excellent form of content marketing.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
You spend up to 60 hours per month reading the news? Almost 4 days worth of waking hours dedicated to it? Is being “well informed” on current affairs worth that much?
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Gay marriage became legal in all states in 2015. You’re presenting emotion as fact which is precisely what a lot of the news does too.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
The news is meaningless distraction designed to trigger an emotional response in an effort to maximise engagement. Big events travel by word of mouth. I don’t need to actively be reading the news to find out about them. I’ll take blissful i
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Given the shortage of land available for new housing, there are very few areas developers wouldn't choose to build. As a homeowner, I'd be opposed to most new housing developments in my area. New developments aren't backed by
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by nerdawson 3y ago
> current home owners - their ageing voting base - are NIMBYs who don't want the wrong sort of people living near them and any reduction in demand that would reduce their value of their homes New housing is directly against the inte
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by nerdawson 3y ago
What leads you to believe it didn't go well? I rarely watch it since the move away from YouTube but as far as I'm aware they haven't released numbers.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
People aren’t going to give up travel and it’s unrealistic to expect them to do so. If we rule that out, what alternatives remain? I assume the answer is going to come in the form of reducing emissions from a typical flight and extracting C
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by nerdawson 3y ago
If your solution involves expecting a significant portion of the population to forego the things they enjoy, it’s doomed to failure. No matter how much you’re willing to sacrifice personally, most others won’t and even if they did, the prob
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by nerdawson 4y ago
It's been chaotic at Manchester Airport ever since they re-opened after COVID. I'm pretty sure I read there's a lack of staff and they're struggling to hire enough new people. The last few times I've been I bought f
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Had the new employee been operating in good faith, surely they’d have mentioned this limitation during the interview stage. Given the sensitive nature of the topic, I wonder how deeply HR can actually question the request.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
I'd question whether the potential blowback of doing the right thing is actually worth it. Some organisations will be grateful for your help and you get that warm feeling that comes with knowing you've helped to protect peoples da
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Realistically it should be around half that. The average driver needs 45 hours worth of lessons. Add to that the cost of a provisional license, the theory test, and the driving test and it’s around £1,300.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Mandatory Software Update?
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by nerdawson 4y ago
The Thick of It is one of my favourite shows. It perfectly satirised the government of the time. The spin doctor is one of the most powerful government figures, unelected like the civil service, and operating at the whims of the press.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Nothing is stopping you from building those components yourself. Or, you can pay the author who’s already done the work for you. I think it’s a great way to monetise an open source project.
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by nerdawson 4y ago
> The general counter-point is, why would you want someone who doesn't understand the work done by the company to run that company. That reminds me of a great quote and one of the most important takeaways (running the opposite direc
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Property prices are based on whatever the local market will support. Homebuilders may argue that it’ll increase costs that’ll need to be passed on when they’re lobbying against these sorts of measures but once passed, it’s done. It wouldn’t
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by nerdawson 4y ago
Already done. New building regulations, Part O, which came into effect in June last year, set out rules on overheating. Those regs impact the minimum amount of insulation required in new homes while ensuring they're designed to prevent
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by nerdawson 4y ago
If it works and is capable of cooking your food better and faster than a standard oven, who cares what’s inside?
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by nerdawson 4y ago
That's why marketing works. If they called it a micro-oven, it would be too similar in consumers' minds to appliances they already own.

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