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by nulbyte 3y ago
I suspect Square accepts the chargeback and passes it back to the merchant without dispute. Sadly, some processors find the cost of helping their merchants to be too high. I know Facebook does this.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> And no one should be swiping anymore, so I do not know what “swiping it as visa or Mastercard” means. It either says Visa or MC on the card, and that’s the PCN it’s going to use. Debit cards are multi-branded. STAR is a popular debit
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Nothing prevented merchants from offering a cash discount. Terms used to prevent merchants from adding a surcharge solely because they were paying with a credit card. A class action lawsuit was filed, and the networks settled by allowing me
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by nulbyte 3y ago
They were changed in settling a class action lawsuit. But nothing was stopping merchants from offering a cash discount which would have served the same purpose.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Google's business model seems to be the gold standard when it comes to killing products.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> You could sign your emails, but then the whole point of publishing the private keys is negated anyway... Not really. The point is to deliver emails. Once it's delivered, it doesn't matter as much.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> Other people being able to verify that an email really was sent by me does serve my interests, because such verification establishes trust. DKIM, the technology considered by the article, does not prove this. The D stands for domain; i
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> The publication date of the DKIM record will be _after_ the email has been sent. Was that email even sent? Maybe it was forged after the key was leaked. This is what the author of the article is pointing out: The old private key being
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by nulbyte 3y ago
It may seem less wasteful for someone who is rather limber, but it is not practical when some people have difficulty getting down onto or up off of the floor, particularly as we age.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
It's not. From the article: > They want to see more information, a wide selection of browsers and the option to select their default browser while setting up their devices . Emphasis mine.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> It used to be that to get a SSL certificate you had to provide a Dun & Bradstreet ID, and go through a minor audit. What kind of audit? And was it conducted by DNB? If so, some audit it must have been. I can't speak to the tim
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> I don't blame them for objecting to this. These aren't Comcast's fees; they're municipal taxes. I do. If they are obligated to collect it, they ought to be obligated to inform the customer at the time of purchase. I
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> From the screenshots, I think it is only a fake wet signature. I'm not sure how valid that is. This seems perfectly acceptable in my jurisdiction. Then again, Kentucky is pretty laid back. By statute, an electronic signature is ju
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I hate class action suits. Seems I missed the deadline to opt out. How is this supposed to apply to me when I didn't even know about the settlement?
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> It's not trivial to setup a bouncer for the new guy who's just worked out how to connect to IRC. As I recall, newbies often figured out how to do this pretty quickly, even before the recent trend of IaaS and free tiers. Shell
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I did, in the first two words: For debt. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_tender Various laws may exist elsewhere enforcing a requirement to accept cash (or not, depending on the jurisdiction). But an appeal to &q
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by nulbyte 3y ago
>Like, legal tender anyone?? For debts. Steal it, get caught, be ordered to pay restitution. Then your legal tender argument will make sense.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> I imagine bank websites will adopt this technology immediately, ... I don't see banks adopting it at all for consumer banking. I work for a bank; I can tell you a bank isn't interested in adopting any technology that introduc
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by nulbyte 3y ago
If RIAA is against it, I'm probably for it, and this is definitely one of those cases. I have several domains, including a .US domain. Back in the day, WHOIS was cool. But today, it is outdated. With the rise of WHOIS privacy products,
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by nulbyte 3y ago
No, of course not. An advertiser should conduct do actual diligence, experiment, and find what works. I am reminded of a story of a retailer who adódnak l accidently stopped advertising online and so no adverse change in sales. While I can&
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I think you'd be surprised what normies do when it comes to technology. They are more intelligent than you give credit. https://increditools.com/ad-blockers/ I think survey results showing 40% using ad-blockers is
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Also as a slight but important aside, the article mentions end-to-end encryption technology that existed prior to Signal in its opening sentence. It may be that Signal pioneered E2EE chat, but it didn't pioneer E2EE itself. It built up
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I think this is largely do to having a progressive and conplicated tax system. If work one job, earn salary, don't receive a variable bonus, and work the whole year at the same rate, it's easy enough to calculate. But, get a raise
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> ...such as maintaining detailed phone records. Having read the proposed amendments outlined in the notice, I don't see any mention of this. Outside the proposed amendments, the only mention of this is commentary that several state
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by nulbyte 3y ago
It's possible. Easy even. Google and Microsoft both were easy to deal with for me, and I even have a domain with a newer TLD (bar). DKIM+SPF is all it seems to take. My host was also on Spamhaus' blacklist, but no one else's.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Where do you find tonic water that doesn't have quinine in it?
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by nulbyte 3y ago
That numbering would be confusing. No one says "zeroth." The first of a set is always "first." The first century is the first 100 years counting from the first day of the first year of the common era.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Never mind modern usage, OED traces it back to medieval English. https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I don't think it's so cut and dry. A woman once washed his feet with expensive perfume. He then derided the man who scolded her for not selling it and giving the money to the poor.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I think organizations like the BBB are smoke and mirrors. Despite calling themselves a "bureau," suggesting they are official in some way, it is not a government organization. And despite their claims of neutrality, they are a 501

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