A private terminal is a terminal for private flights, this ain't that.

So basically through a loophole they can get more government manpower per traveller for a small subset of their customers.

Poorfags subsidising the services for the rich.

Those are more reasons for their increased user count, not their increased usage. Which is pretty much completely caused by the removal of surcharges, otherwise the owners would only use them for foreign (online) purchase.

Of course the ball has started rolling now, even those which don't need it for foreign use are getting and using them now. Thanks to the removal of surcharges.

A completely predictable tragedy of the corrupt EU commission causing a tragedy of the commons. They delivered us into the jaws of American credit card companies, while some nitwits in the EU who can't see the forest for the trees now try to undo the damage without addressing the fundamental cause. Which is the ban on surcharges.

Why do you think I put in quotation marks? Merchants pay a lot more fees and costs from chargeback other than interchange fees, the cap is a patch on a gaping wound. We are probably already nearing a full percentage point extra expense for everyone on online purchases because of the surcharge ban. I'll pay for it any way, might as well benefit too. It's defacto free for me to harm everyone else for a small benefit, a tragedy of the commons engineered by the EU commission.

The surcharge ban was predictably idiotic and a hand out to the credit card companies. If you could track the employment of the family members of decision makers, a fair few will have gotten jobs out of in credit card company allied corporations. That's how you do corruption in the west, "networking", nudge nudge wink wink.

The vendor's only real option is to refuse.

Card use is growing now in the EU, it was kept small by surcharges.

It settled into a metastable state, but I don't think people with a stick up their ass are necessarily always the most dedicated volunteers. Just the most dangerous ones.

If the deletionists had lost and the freaks who just want to summarize every anime episode from primary sources had won, I think it could have gone differently.

Everyone else pays for the credit card users when surcharges are banned, so it's not their problem.

The EU made it illegal to charge credit card surcharges.

How is this digital Euro ever supposed to compete with credit cards which give "free" consumer protection through chargeback?

Good way to pay for porn I guess.

CANDUv2, I'm sure that will be developed at the same speedy pace as EPR2.

"Pausing" is no longer a safe option on the freeway by complete coincidence.

It deserves informative.

The outer constraint system is human coded and fragile, trying and failing to make sure the system fails safe whenever the AI finds a new corner case to fuck up in. Predictably failing especially hard on freeways where you can't be too conservative. Pulling over and phoning home for remote control is no longer an acceptable fail safe.

Sell it as coldbrew espresso, make it look and feel high quality, get one high profile Michelin chef to use it.

Make the Pacojet of coffee. It will sell, but 1000$ is probably too cheap (not for manufacturing cost, but for market positioning).

High intensity ultrasound isn't just good at blasting particles apart, but also the transducer.

The molecular cooking community has experimented with it, didn't like the metallic aftertaste.

The last ten years had mooning momentum and FOMO, that's gone now, swallowed by NVIDIA and Hynix. What will the next ten years have to drive continued purchases?

If Bitcoin can't moon any more, what is its purpose? It's not even shiny.

The exchanges very livelihood depends on the credibility of Bitcoin. So they will backstop it at the line in the sand, 60k, and can keep that up for very long.