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by sanswork 2y ago
I grew up in York Region and while I wouldn't say it was common I did see places that accepted Canadian Tire Money often. Also local one person shops, or at the markets though. Never saw it at a restaurant that I can remember.
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The answer is that your beliefs on how PE works/what they do is wrong.
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And why would banks keep giving loans to PE-controlled firms if the likelihood is high of no repayment? They're going to know the firm is PE controlled going into the deal.
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If this story is right and PE firms just plunder why would banks keep giving them loans? The author mentions red lobster but that wasn't PE that ran them into the ground it was a fishing company that bought them from PE. They also seem
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>it's removing it because the consumer doesn't have to give every merchant something that enables that (very common) form of fraud to occur to begin with. It doesn't remove anything. The consumer is accepting the risk tha
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In a lot of the world it's difficult to get the kind of credit limits people in america are used to even for businesses with good cash flow.
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Amex has advised me to do this before when asking for an increase for a specific large one off purchase that I planned to pay off again straight away.
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>No Starting like that, writing that whole paragraph and you completely misread what I said. "No, merchants have risk with credit cards". That is literally what I said in the post you are replying too. Sloppy and rude. >C
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All you're doing is moving the risk from the business to the consumer with crypto which is why it will never succeed. Consumers like all the things businesses hate about credit cards because they can get their money back if something
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Depends on why it is stuck.
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From what I read of the OP they were talking about JS frameworks so it'd be like having to go from Java to Kotlin to Flutter to react mobile every few months not just updating libraries which is annoying but has continuity.
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Yes, congrats on being the only person in the world to believe a corporations social media posts around social issues. >I'd like you to prove it now, or are you going to claim everyone you don't like isn't part of the true
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You don't have to change tech stacks every other year for app development.
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> I’m not denying I live in fear. >The American system is working fine I honestly don't see how you can say both these things in the same comment. You do understand that basically no one in other developed western countries live
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Oh of course sorry, I forgot that social media managers are required to be completely honest about their corporate positions when making social media posts latching onto social trends. I honestly think you might be the first person I'v
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You believe the worlds 4th largest military contractor is left wing because they posted a pride month tweet? Who is not being sincere.
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Sounds like a made up number. According to https://vpc.org/studies/justifiable23.pdf the FBI said there were 316 "justifiable homicides" in 2019. >why aren’t you scared of alcohol? Why do you assume I&#x27
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I didn't say in fear of guns. I said Americans live their whole lives in fear of being victims. They think guns will help but they don't they make it worse. The sad part is you can repeatedly say you live in fear in these commen
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>Foxnews et al doesn’t claim Biden is Hitler https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-speech-donald-trump-nazi-... > that if he isn’t stopped the entire free world and democracy will end. You're literally responding to
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Of course I don't think guns are the only thing that can make someone a victim, but I don't think gun culture is helping anyone from being a victim. If you live your whole life afraid of being a victim of violent crime you are a
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So living in fear.
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I just commit to technologies for long periods of time. I suspect there are very few new frameworks or technologies you've had to move too in recent years or that have provided enough of an improvement over your existing ones to make
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You think Corporations are left wing? Tech employees might lean left at least the more vocal ones but corporations are definitely not left wing for the most part. Media and Academia I can accept and I already mentioned journalism or at lea
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They also forget all those times they've gotten excited in a confrontation and started to shake. Trying to be accurate is hard. Trying to do it while pumping with adrenaline changes it to basically impossible.
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Is it wrong? Does the right not control the supreme court, senate and house? How about the media? The largest tv news channel is right, basically all popular talk radio is right, the largest newspapers? How many state governments are run
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Yeah, if stuff like that is enough to make you vote against your own interests I honestly don't know what to say except I struggle to believe those are actually your honest beliefs. I don't like a lot of people on the left in poli
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It is hard to see when you live in the culture but as someone who lives outside it but has spent a lot of time living in the US you really are constantly in fear of violence. You can even see it in the comments by people here when gun rest
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The presidency. So 1 out of 3
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That seems self defeating, nose meet knife but I guess if you're willing to give up what you actually want for the sake of annoying strangers that is your right. Doesn't seem like a recipe for happiness though.
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If you say "I bought a drill because I'm afraid one day I'll need to make a hole in the wall" then yes it is fair to say that person is living in fear of needing to make a hole in the wall. If you say I bought a gun beca

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