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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Building a new network from scratch would be extremely expensive with limited chance of success. Visa can certainly remain profitable even with the fee caps but I find it hard to imagine that they would try to enter the EU market if they ha
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> any European-based credit cards Are/were there any in Europe to begin with? Eurocard made a deal with Mastercard in the 60s which made it impossible for them to enter the US market. Barclaycard, was as the name implies limited to
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Wouldn’t it be closer to SEPA? i.e. both are single currency, low cost and instant(?), effectively the opposite of SWIFT.
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Not necessarily. Not everyone uses credit cards and not everyone gets cash backs. Effectively those people are subsidizing you, so if you have a generous plan it will be significantly less than 3%.
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> Right but those countries are comparable in size and GDP to US states Yes? So in theory it should be significantly harder to implement a EU wide system when it’s much more decentralized than the US. Yet it only took a few years for SEP
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> Regulatory hurdles from incumbents aside, it's generally the case that a less developed, up-and-coming economy will have new stuff quicker SEPA is Eurozone wide and has existed for 15+ years. Instant payments were only introduced
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Similarly, let the railway board applicant sweat a little. Its a government job for life with handsome pension to boot. So just have a general aptitude, “IQ style”(of course bot directly) test? Or better yet base your questions on thin
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That seems pretty weird but at least you are expected to demonstrate that you have a genuine interest in the field outside some narrow specialization (or would talking about their actual work not count as “tidbits”? The listed Indian train
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> I wouldn't consider this gatekeeping by any means. Seems to be pretty absurd, though? Basing your hiring decisions on entirely pointless trivia? Looks like a good way to filter out candidates unwilling to demean themselves to such
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> Like stock market prices, it fluctuates rapidly based on hundreds of factors. I don’t think many brokers offer different prices to their clients based on attributes. How is this even a remotely valid comparison when you’re saying: >
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Those things are not inherently as arbitrary and are also much more transparent which makes them hardly comparable in any meaningful way.. This is like physical shops offering different prices to clients based on how they are dressed and ot
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> saving a few bucks on the average HN 300k+ salary I’m pretty sure there are plenty of Europeans/etc. here..
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Even Intel isn’t doing that bad. Their revenue is still 2x or so higher than AMDs and they are still ahead in the consumer market. Their next gen mobile chips are allegedly already more power efficient than Qualcomm’s meaning that their onl
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Why, though? What difference does it really make besides significantly reducing the cost of “porting” games? If anything, due to Wine, Proton etc. “Windows API” is almost a pseudo opensource way of developing cross-platform content. There a
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> They are only working really hard not to pay for Windows OS licences. In what way are they supposed to be paying for Windows licenses? What do you even mean by that? You aren’t required to give 30% to MS to ships Windows apps (nor macO
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> People need to learn because resources are scarce, so we can't keep up using big buildings for less than 12h/day, to move between them Are they really scarce though? In cases they are it’s usually due to self imposed scarcity
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> any way that would risk our imperial interests Entire existence rather.. Nuclear weapons made any direct conflict between major states extremely risky > southeast asian peoples would agree. I specifically excluded Japan. In theory U
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Try consuming at least 50g of iodine free sodium per day and come back after a while, tell us how you’re feeling…
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Wouldn’t you have to consume extreme amounts of iodized salt for it to become an issue? At that point excess sodium would probably be causing significantly bigger problems..
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I guess something similar could be said about America’s intervention in WW2 (in Europe specifically).
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Having no other option besides willingly working in such an extremely toxic environment seems like the bigger issue, though. Although I’m kind of curious. Presumably those other people you interact with also have jobs? Would you still feel
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> People just need to learn and stop consider Why? > of training people to something they do not already know even if they practiced it for some years You seem to be talking about something almost completely different than the comment
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> coworkers and would choose not to engage with them even in the office Which is fine and understandable. Some people actually enjoy their work and like spending time with their colleagues (due to shared interests, worldviews etc.). >
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Or they (some at least) might have a better frame of reference and “the young” people simple don’t know and can’t comprehend what they are losing. My interpretation is on no way less generous than yours.
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Or they fixed a bug/loophole that allowed this software to function?
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Twitter is just a relatively simple website, though. They aren’t doing anything particularly complex or innovative and aren’t releasing any new products. It could survive for years in maintenance mode as long as people continue using it.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> There isn't a single GPU vendor who does that currently Nvidia technically? Of course Switch/Tegra is extremely outdated but they are developing a replacement.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Why do you think switching to ARM would help? That’s just an implementation detail..
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> Apple's chip more limited in multithread tasks It would several times slower, yes
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Russia didn’t really have anything going for them besides oil, gas and other natural resources so how would that negatively affect them? will you destroy the Russian chip sector by flooding them with cheap western components (that they can

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