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Comment Re:Major potential loss for science (Score 1) 282

People don't care unless it slaps them in the face. Trump is running amok all over the constitution and people applaud. SCOTUS wants a king or dictator and the Epstein files are garnering the most attention just for the gossip. The senators and representatives are letting all this happen. They don't care because it doesn't affect them... now.

MAGA the oxymoron.

Comment Re:They are using AI to code core Windows function (Score 3, Insightful) 73

I can tell you right now that there is no alternative for Microsoft Excel when you're doing large complex spreadsheets.

If you need accuracy then you shouldn't be using Excel especially if it's complex. It's just plain unmanageable. I've wasted too many hours fixing peoples errors to even begin explaining why here...

Comment Liee, lies and more lies (Score 1, Interesting) 195

The gasoline tax was introduced to encourage the adoption of pollution free alternatives by building out the infrastructure that was required to charge these vehicles.

It has now transformed into a road building initiative and a possible tax loss. Before the gasoline tax, roads were built with the funds accumulated from income tax. Is this going to be refunded or are we going to continue funding projects that continue to have budget overruns?

Comment Nobody cares... (Score 1) 54

people are very motivated to stop them from committing their worst harms upon the vulnerable.

Seriously. Nobody cares as long as it doesn't affect them. If people cared then most scams would fail because the tools that scammers use would be shut down long ago.

Did you ever wonder why it's so easy to find your personal information and so hard to find the scammer. Because nobody cares about the vulnerable.

People are motivated to pass the problem off to others just like "think of the children" campaigns.

Comment It used to be... (Score 5, Informative) 159

Visa and Mastercard used to charge less than 1.5% when every part of the transaction was manual. Now that everything is automated we have fees surpassing 5%.

The only reason that this is possible is because there is very little choice. As a merchant, you either don't accept any cards or you apply the fees on all sales. Some here will say that this is not a monopoly but the industry acts as one.

In order to accept Visa and Mastercard you only deal with one representative which offers almost identical contracts with most cases the only difference is the name of the credit card. They even dictate the terms of every payment method that you may accept. The only reason they can do this is because there are no other options. In effect a monopoly.

With that said this will do little to change the situation since it puts the merchant in conflict with the client where the cause of the problem is the impositions of an oligopoly's terms on all payment methods.

The sad part is that people believe that they are not paying a 5% premium for that 3% reward.

Comment Why do you need cloud (Score 1) 61

In the thread, Whittaker says the number of people who didn't realize Signal uses AWS is "concerning," as it indicates they aren't aware of just how concentrated the cloud infrastructure industry is.

Why do you need cloud?

It's expensive. It puts an additional layer of potential failure. It makes you dependant and locks you in. The list just goes on and on. It might makes sense for a startup that doesn't want to commit to capital investment but even then there are less expensive options.

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