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by thesimon 10y ago
Context is probably http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/tesla-autopilot-crash-material... SEC statements are usually covering a lot of stuff, so I doubt it's very surprising. But I'm still not convinced b
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by thesimon 10y ago
Same on Chrome & Safari on Mac, but didn't notice it while reading, only when I read your comment :)
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by thesimon 10y ago
No, because these seem to be clearly marked with a Amazon Vine logo and disclaimer.
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by thesimon 10y ago
Liquid explosives are probably a bit more harmful than the <= 75% alcohol you can buy at the duty free. Not saying that the rules make sense, but that seems to be the reasoning behind them. Dealing with a bit of fire is easier than a hol
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by thesimon 10y ago
>Data proves it. [citation needed] Tesla press release says this is the first accident in 130 million miles, whereas other vehicles had an accident every 94 million miles. But that includes old cars, old drivers, drunk drivers etc. Doesn
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by thesimon 10y ago
On the other hand: http://www.paypalsucks.com
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by thesimon 10y ago
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but "from a legal standpoint," there has to be evidence of use in commerce before a trademark can be registered, and it's crystal clear that Comodo did not use "Let's Encrypt"
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by thesimon 10y ago
Quote overpriced and uncertain future (they recently filed for Chapter 11)
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by thesimon 10y ago
It's pretty useless if you don't buy sugar, Haribo or BBQ stuff on a daily basis.
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by thesimon 10y ago
Germany has its own shitty debit card system called "girocard". And whereas other smart countries (e.g. UK) switched to international schemes, this is still the card issued to most customers. There are a few downsides of this *
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by thesimon 10y ago
>A lot of German and Austrian small business owners see no good reason to pay the credit card companies the ~3% fee when most of their customers are perfectly happy to settle a 500 EUR bill in cash. Well, and mostly to avoid paying taxes
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by thesimon 10y ago
I assume their landing page is not up to date. https://support.number26.eu/read/000001280?locale=en Pretty sure they have customers in Ireland (some discussion about stamp duty on debit cards few months ago)
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by thesimon 10y ago
> you'll get a decent pension which will allow you to live comfortably Assuming the state pension system will still be running by then and won't be totally broken due to birth rates < 2. At least in countries such as Germany
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by thesimon 10y ago
And all other registries with prices under ICANN who can't even use the benefits of scale that much are subsidizing the domain names?
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by thesimon 10y ago
>For example in Austria only about 20% of refugees are given asylum status, the others are simply found to be illegal immigrants. [citation needed] Official stats of May [0] saying 75% of the applications for asylum are granted. [0]: ht
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by thesimon 10y ago
>60% according to some are migrants not refugees. "according to some" Wow, I was never convinced more.
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by thesimon 10y ago
>CC fees for merchants can range up to 4%, most of it goes to the CC providers. It mostly seems smaller merchants simply don't switch their acquirer to get cheaper rates and complain about "high costs". FWIW, credit cards
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by thesimon 10y ago
They are free, you just seem to need a paid account (as before)
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by thesimon 10y ago
The interchange which is what the bank gets and which they use to pay Apple. For Maestro/MasterCard Debit/VPay/Visa Debit that's 0.2% in the whole EU (UK & DE included). The girocard scheme negotiates the fees with t
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by thesimon 10y ago
Restaurants in Germany as well. When you ask them why they don't accept cards, they usually say something like "I don't like government surveillance" and you know whats up. Some countries in the EU started requiring cash
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by thesimon 10y ago
UK has the same interchange rates and they have Apple Pay. The German banks are just too greedy and invested in their own shitty Girocard scheme which doesn't even support tokenization which would be required for Apple Pay.
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by thesimon 10y ago
>I believe this was via debit cards, which had lower fees and are by far the more popular card type in the UK, possibly in the EU as a whole Indeed. The debit card charged a flat fee per transaction, so giving the customer money instead
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by thesimon 10y ago
Probably back in day the card used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(debit_card) A few years ago the pinguins took over ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x48eLs8tnJo ) and basically every card in the
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by thesimon 10y ago
So instead of helping EV companies ("industry innovators and disruptors") by making their products more attractive, they should just do nothing and hope some "disruptors" come around?
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by thesimon 10y ago
Sort of agree, but the title made me think of https://www.arqbackup.com Quite close field to be honest.
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by thesimon 10y ago
>[...] Why not subsidize workers’ wages instead? Sounds like a great idea! Companies get to save money and the tax payer effectively pays the companies profit.
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by thesimon 10y ago
>I'm not sure exactly which tables you're referring to here, These http://www.bk.com/pdfs/nutrition.pdf nutrition information tables. The Burger King one actually looks quite reasonable. Compare this to th
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by thesimon 10y ago
And apparently in the US you can be off by whatever you want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE2lna5Wxuo The video also deals with calorie count in restaurants. The NYC regulation to require calorie counts directly on the m
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by thesimon 10y ago
And Trump would solve this how? It's not like the US would be better off with cheaper housing prices but higher percentage of people without a job due to recession. Not in the US at the moment, so maybe Trump announced a plan for solvi
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by thesimon 10y ago
>meh. Government moves slowly. Looks like there is a market to disrupt Faster-Government-as-a-Service. And also a market for "Separation of power for beginners" courses :)

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