Seeing after a few (three-ish) years of anti-trust coming back of recent we seem to be heading back this year to what the last 40+ years have been like. We just allowed the parent company by some measures to become the Biggest (even bigger the Chase) credit card issuer, that is Capital One buying out Discover.

Also seeing they all have the same "PCI" playbook that is Payment Card Industry standards such as what a purchase will code as makes it a cartel.

p.s. not sure why I am commenting on this type of story on /. (that is the article) however I do take interest in payments and appreciate the comments in here. This is in part why a book like "The Power of Cash" that I say is so great read / listen.

You just have to round the grand total. You do not have to change individual item prices. Look at gasoline; that is priced at 9/10 of one cent. We only had a half penny that got discounted in 1857. I think inflation calls for the change to the penny of today.

Also I personally could not care less on the cost of producing the one cent piece a.k.a. penny. That could or could not be considered an investment. Though it is wasteful for one such low value and two; The issue is the cost of transactions. Paying someone $9+ an hour it cost more to time handle a few cents then your paying in wages, as $9 an hour is a penny ever four seconds. $12 is a penny every three seconds. And that is before benefits which cost the employer even more such as Social Security and Medicare employee portion (which is half - the other half is in your paystub) which together adds say to $12 an hour adds almost a dollar to employer costs ($0.918 an hour) plus add workers compensation insurance and unemployment which puts a $12 an hour worker costs over $13 an hour. A majority of states pay $10+ an hour for minimum wage.

Third and lastly I think this should be done in conjunction with other changes such as reintroduction of the $500 note (and $1,000 note when inflation from 1969 when the $100 note (a.k.a. bill) was made the highest common when in 1969 that is when the $500 notes got recalled when put into a bank – that is pulled form circulation, so we are not introducing new higher bills then $100 when adjusting from inflation when we A.S.A.P. start back up the $500 and eventually the $1,000 note when inflation from 1969 to today calls for it). Look at how in 2017 the $100 note overtook the $1 note as the most common produced. That is another call for higher notes (again a.k.a. bills). While at changes the one cent penny if you cannot tell by my earlier paragraphs should be discontinued. The fifty cent half dollar should go out with a big run for the 250 year design of the country, a grand finale. Dollar coins should ramp up. Also the dollar note should be discontinued and the typical cash (and coin) drawer make room for the two ($2) note and production of the two note be ramped up. The ten dollar ($10) note should be discontinued. The idea being in a typical drawer instead of having in this current typical order, extra full rolls, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies on the bottom coin side there would be extra full rolls, dollar coins, quarters, dimes, and nickels in my proposed idea. On the notes (a.k.a bills) instead of the current typical order of hundred and fifties in the same slot then, twenties, tens, fives and dollar notes in my idea there would be $500 notes in the same slot as hundred dollar notes (or drop the $500 below the drawer or put it elsewhere), a place for in spot / slot two for fifty dollar notes, then twenties, fives and the lastly on the right in the fifth spot for two dollar notes. That would be the least amount of changes while catching up to inflation.

Matt Stoller also covers the aspect of the court's case in his BIG (email) newsletter which appears also to be on the web. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Exactly on your title of the post ebunga. It also reminds me of this article: https://pluralistic.net/2025/0...

Find it very ironic a technology that records like this with its CEO born in 1984.

Aren't tariffs based on wholesale costs [see link source]? I.E. the cost your retailer pays (say $20) when it is brought to a warehosue and sells to a consumer (say for $150 for example)? If so are they saying they are going to show their costs by showing the tariffs on their costs thus revealing the price they paid? https://www.thebignewsletter.c...

There is a whole book that just came out a out on such called "The Power of Cash". The quote / power outage is one reason; national security (need secure computing et cetera) is another reason to name just a few.

The problem is a rotten apple spoils the bunch. Some toxins are bad at any level. And lots of food that people consume is a mixture of ingredients due to being processed. Even if say eating raw spinach; eating a well balanced meal is important to health so there is a good chance you will come across one of these foods. Essentially that would be saying just keep 85 percent of the crops (which is even less after pests, droughts or even too much rain at the wrong time of the crop et cetera to wrap up failed crops make it less than 85 percent).

Though on the unknown side of things there is the "Extremely randomized trees" machine learning model that I do not know much at all about so the report be more or less than 14 to 17% (95% confidence interval) that the report lays out. Lastly it would be good if you have a good news story that you could submit on this site.

You can at FAT Brands Inc. d.b.a. Fazoli's. Unlimited breadsticks has been going on for decades. Although the salt level goes very quickly from healthy to having just a few excessive amount of salt is poisonous. The latter could be said on using up resources such building out data centers on the resources that go into the physical computer and ongoing uses such water used and electricity.

Umm. Last year half way though the year a model says a book sounds futuristic. Asked why. "This book was written in 2024 which is the future. [remember this was asked half way though 2024]. Knowing the year is the definition of a sanity check question if you get in a wreck et cetera. About a year ago I would say in not a "many-year old impressions of LLMs". As far a any reasoning model can tell in raspberry to the r's in raspberry that is an issue even at this moment. I'll quote a very popular reasoning model that does not.

It also lists books that don't exist as far as I can tell abet a bit less often that happens but I tend to use traditional search engines as the daily driver for the vast majority of searches as "chat" or LLM's are the next evolution in GIGO.

According to the page it says you can email in blurb (going on a limb that they don't want a long multi-page write-up) on why you want to join and it the administrators will make that call. Seems like the userid numbers are going up on occasion with new users, though it is fewer than before for a give time frame
Speaking of such the dying breed just based on discussions there is less discussions on here these days. I would say it sites like this should call anti-trust investigation by not raking good on Alphabet (d.b.a. Google) by critiquing said company.

Plus Amazon started their business (books) with media mail rates which were delivered by USPS. Now they con USPS into doing the routes / areas they do not want to deliver to, seven days a week at that, which prior to today was a major city type of thing (historical / media mail in The Death and Life of American Journalism / McChesney) on a Sunday.

Was the data solely, if at all, based on facial recognition? Or was it identified via payments data, i.e. (credit) card purchase data that was correlated to the making of T-shirts to the same profile? The article is breaking the news but a follow up would be welcome as it doesn't have details such as how Miller paid, if it was online for the tickets with all the legalise et cetera. such as if this ban is shared with other data brokers and if this will cascade into other places being "un-personed". (if that happens I there is a good chance they would become cash use advocates, if this alone did not bring awareness to the situation as the last quote in the article seem like Miller is aware) The following document doesn't appear that this type of purchase applies to the prohibition of cashless establishments document: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dca... but someone who keeps up on NYC laws may have better insights. Facial recognition does misidentify people.

Looks like a good time to quote Woody Guthrie in another context "Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen." Still can get robbed by venues (at this point he did not get refunded according to to the article) and banks, digital thieves et cetera robbed by as well with a stroke (or more likely keyed in modern day) fountain pen.

I thought the "music pioneer" was Thomas Edison.
Peer to peer also was around much prior to that as well though Napster was popular for its time due to the bandwidth of nearly maxing up POTS dial-up internet speeds or if your lucky for the times had DSL and / or cable (side note: still the case in many areas today) and internet adoption or to use tough business speak the penetration* of users on the internet increased greatly for the U.S.A. during that time (footnote: * The degree to which a commodity, for example, is sold or recognized in a particular market. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition).