If you don't use the first couple of paragraphs from the linked article and instead write your own synopsis, they'll just reject your submission.

You know Google sold Motorola to Lenovo almost a decade ago, right?

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Genuinely, if I need the services, I'll happily pay pretty large amounts per incident. At the same time, I cannot imagine a world where sufficient numbers of people will actually pay for this service as a subscription, unless the prices are absurdly low. I'd hope they'll charge on a per-incident basis.

I've lived in both US and Japan, travelled to Europe and Canada. I think I can bring a reasonably global perspective to this discussion. It's also clear you have no idea what's going on in Japan.

In Japan, almost all payments above a certain amount is via wire transfers, and has been since 1990s. In contrast, the US only relatively recently moved to that model, via the much more opaque online bill pay. In Japan, the payer pushes the money, like when sending monies to your friend in Venmo. I'm not 100% sure, but in the US, the payee pulls money.

Things like rent/mortage payments, credit card payments, salaries, utility bills, etc., are almost always have been paid via electronic means. This, in contrast to the US, where checks were, and are used, especially with smaller landlords. In Japan, it's quite customary with even smaller landlords to pay them using wire transfers.

It's typically the much smaller purchases -- up to about USD 200 -- that gets paid in cash. Think of paying for meals at a restaurant, paying for a cab or buying groceries. Here, cash becomes king because a lot of the smaller merchants do not have payment processing terminals.

I left paying for public transport out of this though -- primarily train operators use their own electronic payment networks. JR East started with Suica, way back in 2002 or thereabouts, as a RFID payments system. Others quickly followed, and interop was becoming a thing sometime around 2004 or 05. They added payments as a thing too, first in the convenience stores and newsstands owned by JR East, and later, probably, others.

I believe what BoJ is trying to do is to create a unified system of these disparate systems, to unify under one umbrella. If you travelled beyond the regional reach of your home system, very frequently the other systems were incompatible.

These rules were created after the flash-crash, and are designed to prevent systemic failures from causing chaos in the market. The 15 minutes of trading halt is designed to let market participants reevaluate what their algorithms are doing and see if they're performing correctly.

I had Sierra Leone and also Lithuania numbers call me. I answered the Sierra Leone number because it continued to ring and I was curious. Nothing but static on the other side, sadly.

That's basically the retailer hopefully having done the risk analysis and saying "losing out on X sometimes because of fraud is better than slowing everything down by requiring signatures".

I've been asked to sign for a latte, and not asked to sign for $50 purchases. That's all up to the retailer.

Mod parent up. Software people need to understand this: users cannot be asked to do "deep reasearch" and "understand permissions", they do not have the time, and they paid good money for their device that should simply work.

And we can say they are "noobs" or "stoopid" all we want, and do not deserve nice things, but the reality is that examining permissions is right now really user-unfriendly, and actually not possible: I can easily make a program that requires map access and being able to send a data message for the fun little location game I am selling, and there is no way even the smartest permissions-examiner now knows I have made a remotely-activated stalking device.

Users will vote with their wallets to get phones where they can simply get their stuff done and get some fun out of them without having the feeling every step could be quicksand. So as phone ecosystem manufacturer you have the choice of don't let crap happen on the phone, or watch your consumer pay your competitor for a phone where crap can't happen. And to make crap not happen, you will have to only allow safe programs on the phone. And as parent shows, this means a closed store.

That would be awesome, but let's standardize to the 60Hz, not 50 as it's in the eastern part.

Um, no, it actually is outright hostile to people with same sex attractions. The methods that Exodus proposes to handle the negative feelings surrounding same sex attractions are methods that are scientifically proven to leave the psyche of the person worse off, sometimes suicidally so. That is incredibly hostile to Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals, and that you do not recognize selling repression, shame, guilt, peer-pressure and thus depression and possibly death as hostile really should tell you something.

If you want to help GLBTs who have a problem to lead well adjusted happy productive lives, the science on this is pretty clear: give them acceptance, love, support, and help instill a feeling of self-confidence and being whole and being fine with these fundamental and immutable romantic feelings.

Exodus is the homo-hating equivalent of treating cancer patients with homeopathy instead of chemotherapy. The way they hurt vulnerable people is downright dangerous, and in my opinion, evil.

If you are going to censor your store from evil and destructive or bigoted apps, this one fully qualifies.