In Sweden they issue regular credit cards (my friend has one).
Also, AFAIK, in Nordics they offer virtual card payments to merchants who don't integrate with them directly.
"Safe Ruthenium rain falls over Bashkortostan",
"27 police officers injured in a largely peaceful anti-racist protest"... -- how could I forget about these exceptional examples of very complicated news reporting job well done.
Klarna is a bank that is connected to the Visa network. So, inherently, it is bound by the same rules as any other bank. So, in the context of this thread, they are not a competitor to Visa/MasterCard.
You missed my point. Sure, blogs are written by "some guy on the internet", and anyone should be skeptical about anything they write. But journalists are also "some guys on the internet"! They should be kept in the same security ring. There's no difference in competence or accountability between a rando and an entitled journalist.
Looks absolutely horrible. I use a laptop as my main dev machine, and all these 16px and 30px paddings that they added everywhere create real tunnel vision experience. I guess people with huge displays don't mind... But I absolutely do.
Looks like another case when a frontend team does something to justify their existence.
But let's look at the positives: the last redesign of that sort helped me to completely migrate away from gmail.
I don't understand why traditional media still exists in modern days, when p2p communication between people is possible. In the best case, a journalist is a middleman who will misunderstand and garble information unintentionally, since they are working under deadline to get stuff published ASAP. Not only experts, but even enthusiasts spend much more time researching than journalists.
In the worst and most common case, they just push agenda or slander groups of people to attract hate clicks. I cringe every time when mainstream media article ends up on HN.
FWIW, there's a very old Russian joke that goes like "a novice doesn't know how to do it, a pro knows how to do it, and an expert knows how to avoid doing it".
> That aside, modern Russia has tons of capitalists
They are the least protected class, who live under constant threat of business extortion by corrupt government clerks. That's pretty much the opposite of "cut-throat capitalism".
I have used both Arch and Gentoo, and the only similarity between them is steep learning curve. They are based on completely different tech (pacman vs. portage, systemd vs. openrc) and philosophy, they pursue completely different goals and solve different problems (or, rather, I hesitate to give a quick answer what problem does Arch solve, unlike Gentoo that gives the ability to customize the system all the way down, for a hefty price, of course).
As a full time linux user I can't use OmniFocus anymore. But I tried it in the past, and to be honest, mastering it required no less time than I put into my unsophisticated org-mode setup.
Kinda the same situation here, but we managed to keep our dear Grafanas, by telling: "ok, give us budget to migrate all the dashboards". I can confirm that DD marketing is aggressive and full of BS and they will try to sell you missing features, since I attended a DD "workshop" (aka sales presentation) once.
Our company lets us work on opensource libraries in work time. How did this happen: we pushed management to allow opening some of internal code under premise that "someone else will do the same job, opensource it (since it's platform-level stuff that has nothing to do with business), their implementation will become a de-facto standard, and we'll have to rewrite our internal stuff to match the industry standard". That ultimately worked.
Erlang VM startup time is not great (in order of hundred milliseconds), but it has pretty unique features like hot bytecode patching in a running VM.
So, naturally, Erlang shines when you need to build a system that runs for a long time, as opposed to short-lived lambdas.