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It’s funny you say that, because about 15 years ago I setup a fax to email gateway for a payroll department that had to receive 800 faxed timesheets every two weeks and was always losing them.

I think Fry’s is more likely to turn into a bunch of 5 story podium-style apartments and condos.

The fee is being added on the wholesale/commercial side (bulk senders), not the consumer side. See https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008372654-Co... or you can google "Verizon $0.0025" to find announcements from several other service providers.

That’s called a property management company.

It’s both liability and labor thing. When a tenant moves out, large apartment buildings change the lock. With an electronic lock any member of staff can ‘rekey’ the lock in a few seconds.

For liability, the large companies use big key control systems to try and track which staff is checking out keys to what, but it’s still possible for staff to make unauthorized copies. With an electronic lock they get a nice report that shows all the times the lock was used and when the door was opened.

And finally, many property managers are control-freaks and they love that tenants need to ask to make ‘copies’ of the electronic keys. Previously the only real option for key control was something like Medeco and most don’t want to pay for that.

Another way to look at it is that privileged people have had the ability to ruin the lives of the less privileged for a long time (see Emmett Till) and global communications has just democratized the process.

It’s not good and I truthfully don’t know how we fix this, but I hope we fix the whole problem and not just the symptom of powerful people being convicted in the court of public opinion.

It is a mess, but I hope you’re not saying that this is a new or recent phenomenon.

Innocence in a legal sense has always been far removed from public opinion. The existence of things like the police blotter in local newspapers demonstrates that pretty well.

I’m not opining on the righteousness of it, but it seems like a whole lot of people ‘got religion’ w/r/t fairness once it started impacting rich/privileged people.

It's a state-by-state thing. CA requires employers give two hours off: https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advi...

> AFAIK, Ubiquiti's products can be run standalone, only requiring management software for initial configuration.

This is correct. I only power on the controller VM when I want to make a change. I do think a few features, like the captive portal require the controller to be online.

> Medical debt is the least concerning type of debt for most lenders.

Just another data point, a large property management company I used to work for specifically exempted bankruptcies due to medical debt when calculating applicant credit scores.

Petsmart was like the before the chip change over. It would typically take a few hundred MS to get approval and print the receipt.

I have noticed that some chipotle cashiers print the receipt before the card goes through, the CFA cashiers could be doing something similar.

Furthermore, Facebook has already tried this. After the first ProPublica article (last year, I think) they added a “I’m not breaking the law” checkbox.

But to date, delivery devices like the adrenaclick have not been considered equivalent to epipen. Some states permit a substitution in these cases (a 'BX' rating instead of 'AB'), but many do not allow it without getting clarification from the prescriber.

It doesn’t seem to ... that link worked from here in Fremont.

I thought Shanghai had a pretty interesting system — they’d put about 10 people at a time in a “pen” made of Tensabarrier, swab all 10 with the same sample thingy and then test it. Once it came back clean they’d release them and take another group in. They were testing everyone but it went pretty fast.

If you’re looking for fast legislation, you have to ‘gut’ an existing bill because the CA constitution requires a 30 day wait after you introduce a bill (with an exception for budget bills).

The idea of “Enron Broadband” seemed ridiculous to me at the time.

> There is no one area that is the cause. It's death by 1,000 papercuts.

Yup. A few minutes (of unnecessary) oxygen in an ambulance cost my insurance company about $500. A single oral dose of generic Keppra while in the hospital cost more than the cash price an entire month’s supply from CVS. The room I stayed in was billed at about $7300/day, but hey, it did include unlimited room service.

In fact, the only clearly reasonably priced item from my hospital stay was the generic Tylenol, I assume because it’s common enough to generate complaints.

I really miss the System 7 Finder, the 'spatial' nature[1] really clicked with me and other file browsers still sort of bug me because of that.

[1] http://archive.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-3.htm

They at least see it near the time of travel. See https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/apis_facts...

They don’t need to do that, all they have to do is tell CBP they want a warning if “Person X” attempts travel. The Advanced Passenger Information System requires airlines send CBP passenger info for all departing and arriving flights.

I’m sort of surprised they don’t have automated flagging for activity like downloading a years worth of documents in an evening.

I did something similar when I moved to get rid of my wired phone service. I told AT&T I had signed a contract with Comcast and told Comcast I had signed a contract with AT&T.

Trading is ‘closed’ (aka halted) for individual securities relatively frequently in the US. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_halt

Only for pain, not as a part of detox/treatment. Source: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/faq/prescriptions.htm#rx-...

I think she’d be open to the idea, it’s not like she’s actively refusing business. Taking some reservations from a computer voice is a lot less change and (more importantly), it’s not change she has to initiate.

Here is an example of who I think you’d have a hard time convincing: I’ve been going to the same hair stylist for about 22 years. Her clients have followed her as she moved around salons in Cupertino. She’s busy enough that many of her clients (including me) sit down at the beginning of the year and book an entire year’s worth of appointments. She only accepts checks or cash.

She’s popular enough that she has felt no market pressure to start accepting payment cards, and certainly has not had any trouble staying busy.

I think there’s a huge chunk of small/single-person businesses that will continue to do things using paper simply because they don’t want to change and they have enough clients that they don’t need to. Once they retire/expire they may be replaced by people that are more amenable to such things.

Until it's an option for buyers, I'm going to be quite reluctant to buy from Amazon.

> But TBH they probably do it because cash advance has a higher APR.

Which seems reasonable to me — if someone is at the point they need to borrow cash from a credit card, they’re probably a higher risk of default.

Just out of curiosity, what do you find to be long running? Five minutes, five days? Depends on the volume of other transactions happening simultaneously?