Her favorite word is “passport.”

I’ve been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it?

Ask for pictures of all his other paperwork so they can finish onboarding him at his new job.

Or you use last week’s peanuts bag and contaminate the “not peanuts” hopper that the folks allergic to them use.

Where it comes to privacy and security sometimes you just have to be there. I’m aware there was a situation surrounding VeraCrypt and TrueCrypt, but I don’t know which one is the one to use going forward if either of them are.

LibreSSL and OpenSSL and how all that came to be is a good read as well.

I like the credit card for most purchases because I’m just going to pay it off later anyway. I don’t buy a lot of cups of coffee or sodas, so that’s not an issue. The fraud recovery is worth it for me even if I’m paying the fee.

When food trucks became a thing locally you had to have cash, and you had to at least know enough words to specify the number on the menu and what type of meat you wanted. Now that same business has a bunch of local locations all doing card transactions, and maybe doing a cash discount. I wouldn’t know since the food <-> money+card_fee transaction is worth it to me. I would wager for that type of business that they pick up more overall business than they lose, and they really should teach at least a little bit of this in school so you don’t get people weirded out by a minimum fee, but then again I was in line at a gas station that had a “minimum purchase for cards” sign, and a guy was like $5 short. The cashier explained, guy goes and gets a $2 drink. Cashier explains again, guy goes back again and still doesn’t come up to the limit. A tacked on “hidden” CC fee probably saves a lot of trouble in the long run.

I’d be more amenable to ACH if I had a dedicated business account. I use it for my current broker, but balked once before when I signed up for Robinhood and one of the later steps was “now we just need your bank account and routing number.” Nah guys, I’ll pass. I’m assuming most checks these days get filed electronically anyway.

the processor makes sure the floor is covered […] but there is no ceiling with any processor that I’m aware of

Nobody’s in business to lose money.

I suppose because online transactions are more likely to be fraudulent or something

I can see that. I’ve been lucky enough to only see two cases of stolen card numbers, and in both cases there was a small purchase (to verify the number), and then largish purchases I guess to see if merchandise can get delivered before the fraud is noticed. I wonder if they write off on their taxes the fees on those largish, fraudulent purchases they catch.

I guess with the costs of running all the servers to look for fraud, security on the whole works, hot backups, cold backups, etc, that 3% doesn’t look so bad for all that goes on behind the scenes, but it also doesn’t look like their stock prices are hurting (what the heck happened to Fiserv that owns Clover that they dropped 50%?).

Do you also take American Express? Is there any difference on your end between Visa/Mastercard/AMEX? I’m genuinely curious since I remember all the old commercials.

See also: merchants charging a ~3% fee if you use a credit card because similarly covering the cost of a payment processor is increasingly becoming a cost that is not absorbed. Even with medical practices!

At least this is easy to understand, though. Credit card processor charges us X% so we’re passing that on. We used to eat it or fold it into business costs, but with the economy doing it’s slow-death we can’t anymore.

What really gets me, especially with large purchases like a medical bill or a transmission replacement for example is that 3 or more % quickly becomes advantageous for the processor. On a $10,000 that 3% becomes $300, and it did not get $297 more expensive to wiggle some bits around over a $100 payment’s $3. Then, some businesses decide that the best way to offset that cost is something akin to an ACH transfer…just hand over your bank account information and don’t worry about it!

Anything that creates a reproducable build for you is fine; however, learning Ansible (or Puppet, etc.) puts you on the road to being able to do that sort of thing professionally.

Younger person looking at their own society collapse around them because having children is too expensive: at least this old generation will take their stupid dogma with them along with their institutional knowledge of machining, woodworking, trades, etc.

Older person looking at their own society collapse around them because having children is too expensive: at least we made the dogma stick!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnO3nijfYmU

He’s fucked over farmers for decades.

Someone has fucked over US farmers for decades. If you lose a chess match to someone, is it more likely to be to a pigeon who just happened to randomly knock over the pieces in such a way as to beat you in a game, or the old person carrying around a travel chess set just for fun and would also like to play for $10 just to make it interesting.

Congratulations on getting almost all the way out. It sounds like the hoarded items thing will come up at some point, but you knew that.

Your reaction is a lot like that of people who’ve been parentified when they were younger (forced to take care of younger siblings). There’s a similar reaction out of the parents when the child doesn’t carry out the portion of The Plan devised for them.

There’s more honesty in a parent/child relationship where the parents tell the children they’re out the door on their 18th birthday so the children have time to plan. At least that way the children know for sure where they stand.

Point clarification: the firefighters ended up not being necessary?

And yes, like training an LLM, you’ve taken in negative feedback to not do this, not do that, maybe some positive feedback along the way on how to do something right, and when things really mattered and someone was in danger, you engaged the LLM part of your brain to think two steps ahead…and it gets thrown back in your face.

Your breaking point is completely warranted, because you hit a point where you realized that no amount of messing with internal weights and trying to guess what they want would ever work, so why bother stressing over it anymore?

Even the arms industry we have is all US companies just using Canada for lower labor costs because no one can afford US healthcare for employees.

I didn’t know/understand that. Is that true of Bombardier as well?

If they’re ever going to bring back manufacturing there’ll never be a better time than now with GCAP or Gripen if they care about control.

I also agree they’ll never bring affordable healthcare to the US.

Religion.

Given the recent article about how a website was using a zero volume audio signal to fingerprint browsers it’s probably good to assume that “they” are trying to get you any way “they” can.

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/04/all-about-usb-c-resistors-and-emarkers/

There’s a profit motive and a possible technological path. It’s a safe assumption someone will eventually do it. That doesn’t count bluetooth and wifi that only talks to other BrandX devices looking for a path out, and once 6G cell service becomes common it can be direct-to-device unless you’re in a Faraday cage.

I haven’t seen a really good list of “hey, it looks like we might want that later” with regards to planning at the US nationstate level. I do feel like I’ve seen a lot of steps taken in the last few years that are more about Right Now and less about future concerns.

https://www.saab.com/markets/canada/gripen-for-canada

I’m not Canadian and I’m not advocating for any course of action here, but there’s a LOT of flirting with pushing Canada into a “well, if we’re going to have to go it alone anyway” posture where they might just decide to rebuild their arms industry. There’s no way they’re not thinking about it now.

You can’t even show me the right speed limit due a sign on a different road that say 5MPH, when I’m on a 30MPH road, and suddenly you start beeping at me cause I’m going too fast?

Insurance company using police report: “Sorry, your rates are going up because you were going 25MPH over the speed limit. What were you thinking?”

International airports already are.