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Comment Re:$500 (Score 4, Interesting) 175

We are moving to an economy where if you aren't in the 1%, then everything will be a few months wage. This is definitely a case where a US administration was doing everything to increase prices, intended or not. Its what happens when you let a monkey and his buffoons run a system that requires understanding of consenquences.

Comment Don't believe you (Score 1) 327

This is pure passive aggressive grey beard Linux snobbery masquerading as thoughtful commentary

Apple is bsd Unix and has a complete set of Unix tools. Apple knows there customers needs probably better than any maker and you never were going to be one.

The whole point of this is it's inexpensive. Ic you desire more power it's not for you

Comment Re:LOL! Good! (Score 3, Insightful) 39

100%

Kevin Rose killed digg. He took what was good and ruined it.

Reddit embodied what was good about Digg and ran away with the market share.

As long as Reddit doesn't fuck with their algo, and try to pull a "Kevin Rose" (not unlike what Tik Tok just did) it will be ok.

Fuck digg, and fuck Kevin. Go back to making videos where you pretend you're "edgy" because you have a 40oz in a brown paper bag.

Comment Re:Take away dependency on third party (Score 1) 76

There's a transaction fee for cash as well. It's baked into the cost of doing business and passed on to you in the sticker price. There's a reason some businesses strive to go cashless, it is a not insignificant cost and time effort to manage cash, balance registers, manage float, and perform deposits and withdrawals at the bank. It literally adds hours to the operational time of a business (Just because the sign says closed doesn't mean someone isn't on the clock and the business isn't incurring expenses).

That's before you consider the risk involved in managing a float. Some insurances even charge a higher premium if a business keeps more than a certain amount of cash in the float on any given day.

For businesses that go cashless the transaction fee of debit / credit cards is often a saving.

Its complicated. For some its a saving and for some is lost business. For smaller "mom and pop" style businesses or those who prefer I'll go with cash.

One thing I forgot is that in a number of cases using plastic means dealing with a business tied to another country, making your ability to buy stuff dependent on them politically. Then the other risk is choosing a purely national system that cuts out travellers. For this reason mixed options are the way to go, though my pecking order would be cash -> national entity -> foreign entity.

Comment Take away dependency on third party (Score 3, Insightful) 76

Most everything that involved a plastic card, or a proxy for one, involves some third-party to make a transaction, and those third-parties are also typically wanting a transaction fee. They also sometime decide their "morals" are law onto themselves.

Ensuring money exists in a physical form ensure that the ability to do a transaction does not depend on the access to a device, so helps keep the ability to spend money democratic.

Comment Re: This probably ignores most installation... (Score 1) 26

Which isnâ(TM)t necessarily a bad thing. Consider systems still using software written in COBOL that are still running today with minimum interference.

With node.js if you sneeze you are out of date. There is a balance between keeping things up to date, and not creating new breakages and risks while doing so.

Comment Re:I thought the housing crisis was about greed (Score 1, Informative) 120

That's not how it works. You can't just buy a tract of land. You have to buy the land, jump through hoops to get permits to build, defeat NIMBY lawsuits, get the local municipality to run services, defeat more NIMBY lawsuits, get new permits from a new municipality administration, then finally break ground on construction.

NIMBYs of all stripes throw up roadblocks during the permitting process and will then sue to get an injunction. If you defeat those lawsuits they'll go after the municipalities suing that permits were approved illegally (which they sometimes are).

After several rounds of legal wrangling you can finally start construction. This ends up with only huge developers being able to build because they can absorb all the pre-construction costs until they sell all the homes. They can also afford the scale to benefit from bulk orders and contracts.

The cost of expanding housing is mostly in the project development rather than labor costs of construction. Even if you had construction robots the construction companies would only offer marginal savings as their bids would just be human contractor - 1%. There would be no reason for them to leave money on the table offering a huge discount off human labor.

Comment If only it was treated as spam (Score 1) 52

We've run into this misery and had to spend vast amount of hours trying to find solutions. Heck, even legitimate SendGrid emails end up being blocked.

The main issue is Microsoft doesn't even treat these emails as spam, for the user to decide, but instead just sends them into the void.

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