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your mum is a troll

Not what we're talking about in the OP comment.

> Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers; rather, Visa provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products that they then use to offer credit, debit, prepaid and cash-access programs to their customers.

Will you go to jail or pay a fine if you don't use a credit card? No?

Then it's nothing like taxation and it is optional.

That's not true at all. It's certainly not common to require credit cards for car rentals in Europe. Must be an American thing.

Everyone in Europe uses debit cards. You don't have debit cards in the US?

It's a plastic card, it is issued by your bank, it's still using the visa/mastercard network, but instead of credit, it is tied to actual funds in your bank account.

It's not though. No one is forcing you or anyone else to sign up for credit cards - it's a choice, unlike taxation.

Anecdotally, yes. I almost never saw internal error pages before, now I've been seeing them every week for a few weeks. Some people need to be fired.

Yes, if done perfectly. Then I don't need to second guess it and potentially waste time if the thing removed something important by mistake.

But that's equivalent to solving the halting problem, which is impossible. So, no.

Your first mistake would be using those platforms. You're just going to get spammed by Indian devs that didn't even read your post.

Another thing that calls out macOS 11? The WWDC event a few hours prior to your post announcing macOS 11.

> given that in construction, a client would expect the contractors to bring their own construction tools.

In construction, the contractor does not have to leave his drill to you so your house continues functioning.

Many software licenses are billed per project/per site. You can't expect the contractor to cover these for you for free.

bnc

You live in an extremely rich country, surely you can afford to install an AC unit if it impacts you as much as you're saying.

Seems like that has a much better shot at solving your problem than waiting for the world to address global climate change.

> At this point it is the alarmists arguing against evidence and actual data, now that we have some. It is rather amusing to behold.

You were also the one claiming US deaths will be under 60K per your imaginary CDC projections, but these are 56K right now and there are still 1K deaths per day.

And, no, 99% of deaths in Italy are not over 65. That's also imaginary.

So, your ability to make up data and then "reason" with it seems strong.

absolutely, it'd be incredibly dumb not to

It's because SPAs are a fad and server-side rendering is both faster and better for the client.

that's a job. go pay someone for their work.

The dead people do not give a fuck about the economy.

That's cool, but I'd rather Signal first did 2 other things:

- Make it so notifications go through consistently, for both messages and calls. Right now, about 1/3rd of the time, I find out about new messages when I open the app. Doesn't matter if it's desktop or mobile.

- On Desktop, please, please find a way to make it not feel extremely laggy. I'm typing and I'm getting like 10 fps, it's horrible. And it uses so much RAM. Jesus christ, it's 5GB and I've only got 2 contacts.

I'd use Ubuntu LTS and might also dual boot Windows for Photoshop.

not sure if you're a fucking idiot. oh, wait, I am sure. you are a fucking idiot.

So, you found a phone released in 2017. From Huawei. Super cheap. That isn't even sold in the US. Where all the reviews read:

"Honor 7X has the distinction of being one of the last phones to feature a micro USB port for charging instead of USB-C. Blame the price if you must..."

Well done.

And iPhone sales a drop in the bucket compared to Android phone sales. And they all have USB-C.

It's not quite an apt comparison because the vast majority of people already own USB-C chargers and accessories, whereas lightning was a brand new thing.

Also if Apple were that bothered by complaining, it would not have taken them 5 years and 3+ years of service programs to replace their laptops' butterfly keyboards with regular scissors switch keyboards.

I do somewhat agree that it is govt overreach.

I think a more appropriate tool would be launching an investigation into why they've stuck with lightning when everyone else (including their other products!) use USB-C. That should essentially prove there is no good reason, other than making money off licensing, without regard to damaging the environment or exploiting the consumer. So they should get a giant fine for it and stop doing it.

But I don't believe there is the legal framework for the EU to do that, so they're trying to get the outcome they want using the tools that they have.

Every time you are buying a charger, wired headphones or any other iPhone accessory, Apple collects a hefty license fee and you, indirectly, are paying it.

Originally, the lightning port was a big improvement over existing tech. Currently though, the only reason the lightning port still exists is because it is a good way for Apple to use their market dominant position to milk consumers. It is not good for consumers, it is also not good for the environment. It is good just for Apple.

It is generally the job of the govt to prevent these types of abuses. Is this particular law worded the right way for that? Maybe, maybe not, but it will do the job for this particular case.

CakePHP is awesome for that.

> Friends from college that kept drinking 4-5 times a week (2-7 drinks per outing), especially women, appear to have aged years more than me.

I have observed this too. Not sure why but this and also smoking seems to hit women's age appearance a lot more than men's.

> Drinking is like everything else: if you do it with moderation it is not that harmful

No it's not.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641618937/no-amount-of-alcoho...