thesimon

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by thesimon 11y ago
> The fiscally-conservative Germans love cash and love to pay for things with cash. Yeah, sadly. It seems like a lot of Germans associate card payments with having no spending control and going in debt. At least credit card acceptance ha
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by thesimon 11y ago
>At food stores almost everyone was paying with cash though there was some sort of card reader (debit I assume ...?) that I saw people using occasionally. There is a popular domestic EFTPOS scheme used in Germany. A lot of small shops (e
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by thesimon 11y ago
But when ordering something, you are entering a contract. By placing a sign saying "We don't accept cash" they are placing a condition under which they'll enter a contract with you. By ordering, you are implicitly agreei
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by thesimon 11y ago
Bitcoins? Dummy companies?
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by thesimon 11y ago
They usually have signs at the pump saying "No $100" notes. Edit: At least in Europe you usually pump before paying by card/cash in the store. I guess it differs from the US because of the high crime rate there.
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by thesimon 11y ago
>A restaurant doesn't have the same freedom, since they generally accept payment after the service is completed and you already owe them the debt for the meal. They can however place signs visible in their store or write it on their
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by thesimon 11y ago
Grace Dent writes for the Independent how "for the average person, marrying into property will be your best shot at 'owning it'" http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-housing-crisis-is-cr... Crazy
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by thesimon 11y ago
Well, it's also using your money to pay for roads you don't use. That's like the concept of taxes. But it also allows "normal" people to buy houses apposed to just rich foreign people.
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by thesimon 11y ago
>Automating this simply means that if someone hacks your machine, they also have full access to generate any certs they like. Well, they can generate certs for your domain. But what exactly is the big difference between generating a new
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by thesimon 11y ago
And 4chan (?) already started trolling people with "blast to the past images". At least a bit more clever than waterproofing or microwaving. https://twitter.com/Chubzey422/status/698210841078984706 http
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by thesimon 11y ago
>Despite seizure of the websites as ordered by a New York district court on October 28, 2015, the site is still accessible through alternative domains as of December 2015. So a court in the United States could seize a site just because t
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by thesimon 11y ago
>You should show more respect towards them instead of painting them as stupid. Maybe you didn't see the /s
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by thesimon 11y ago
>what are they doing in EU [...] instead of fighting for their own country for better tomorrow (what all young men did in their age around the world since dawn of time) Yeah, same as the people being persecuted by the Nazis in WW2. They
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by thesimon 11y ago
>Dropbox is much cheaper [citation needed] Office: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-Personal-Year-Card/dp... $57 for 1 year of Office + 1 TB of storage Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/plans?tr
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by thesimon 11y ago
Dustin Curtis tweeted ( https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/694607605436588032 ) that it is "meant to look like a plug, connecting the digital and physical worlds." It is kind of missing the transport aspec
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by thesimon 11y ago
So what about going to non-Elite College for Bachelors and going to a Elite College for Masters? Seems like a better cost/benefit ratio, considering Masters is only 1 or 2 years and thus doesn't cost as much.
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My uni makes this extra fun with different sites on http and https.
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At my High School, everyone had to take a Computer Science class for at least 1 year. My year had 60 students and I'm the only one studying CS/working in the industry. I'm pretty sure your, mine and everyone's wage will
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by thesimon 11y ago
Yeah, so that there is no cheap option to process the card.
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by thesimon 11y ago
>Consider that, if taxi companies offered competitive phone-based reservations And instead, they are suing apps like MyTaxi in Germany. [1] The app allowed you to call cabs and pay via the app. But because MyTaxi promoted their app with
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by thesimon 11y ago
>In short, this solution from Stripe fills a niche, but it's a very narrow one. Not too sure about that. Klarna in Europe has a similar system called SOFORT in a lot of countries processing millions of transactions [0]. According to
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by thesimon 11y ago
Can't edit anymore :/ But to provide some more context to my comment: The summer work time obviously make up for it and 30+ days actually seem quite high for an US company. (No legally mandated minimum vacation time). And in case
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by thesimon 11y ago
Great benefits, especially the 4-day summer week, salary level and the opportunity to work everywhere. Great benefits for sure increase the happiness of everyone. How do 15 vacation days compare to other companies though? Coming from a coun
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by thesimon 11y ago
Depends on the country where the card is issued. Most of the shitty German banks issue a German domestic card with a Maestro cobranding, but don't allow Card-not-present transactions so they can upsell credit cards. I agree though that
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by thesimon 11y ago
>Netflix lets something like this exist It's not like they can ban Chrome or VPNs
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Their return policy is really great during the holidays, which might contribute to it. As a (late) holiday shopper and Prime member, their shipping guarantees are top notch though. No praying that it arrives in time. (Whereas Amazon says, o
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by thesimon 11y ago
VW has Greenwheels (not really that common or popular though) and Quicar (only in Hannover)
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Most providers activate the cards and send out a welcome letter via snail mail. If it bounces, the card get's deactivated. Doubt there are any providers who allow fake details forever.
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The shop might've activated the card with their details for you. There are also a lot of preactivated cards for sale on ebay. But some details were given to the provider, just not yours.
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by thesimon 11y ago
https://www.alditalk.de/surfen/ Aldi Talk. Coverage is good, speed is okay. 4G is supported in the main cities. Delivery is only possible within Germany, but you can grab the SIM card at any Aldi for 12.99€ including 1

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