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> I cannot believe that Visa transaction overhead would be higher than Amex - there's something going on behind the scenes here.

I would be willing to bet the fees Amazon gets are vastly different from the fees a small merchant has to endure.

They obviously tried to squeeze a little bit more and now they’ll leave it to the shareholders to pressure the company to accept whatever Bezos wants.
It's funny you should talk about sleep deprivation messing with your mind... I once remember trying to program a for-loop in C# about 8 or 9 years ago (I've been programming since the 90s) when my son was a baby. He'd been up and down for a couple of days as he was unwell and my sleep-addled brain wouldn't let me create a for-loop.

No matter what I tried I could not get the code to compile.

I still laugh about it now but it definitely highlights the importance of sleep.
That's a critisim of specific frameworks, not frameworks as a whole. Many frameworks are tiny (Preact, Svelte, Solid, etc). Not sure what you mean about foreign work exactly.
> if your users don't have IPv6 (and many don't), you're basically screwed

Not quite, all you need is to make sure the proxy/CDN is dual stack, like what this IPv6-only hosting service did: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi/

Cloudflare, for example, does this for free: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/proxy-ipv4-visitors-to-ip...
This was the whole issue though. I closed my bank account and moved country, and they delayed cancelling it and then chased me up on one month's payments for years - when I had no easy way of making payments in Germany.

In the end I paid it though, it was only 20 euros!
In the past, where I had no language requirement, I used to download movies illegally, then purchasing the ones I liked/wanted to support. I can't obviously suggest this officially :)
On an individual level, it might be the difference between having dementia/stroke or not.

The decrease from coffee/tea might make you cross the line back into healthy state, perhaps?

I don't usually take conclusions from single studies like this, though. It's too easy to fool ourselves with statistics.
Bit unclear from the website if that supports formulas but yeah that's the sort of thing I was thinking!
> I have 200 full-time employees

This is not a criticism, but are you offshoring jobs? This sounds like an issue which I have experienced many times for jobs which have been off shored.
predating Gradle was a tool called gant. It was simple, intuitive and did 90% of what every project could want. Ironically it was Groovy based as well. But instead of the Gradle arcane magic based configuration it was literal, direct, a simple extension of Ant that came before it. I liked it much better, but someone decided they could make a business out of Gradle and gant got deprecated and here we are.
> and bad

What is your justification for this?
100% I pay for almost everything on AMEX to get the points and use Monzo debit for the rest. Amazon has my amex linked and I use it for 100% of purchases.

Most people in the uk chase points and credit cards have much better points and bonus' than debits.
Reddit Enhancement Suite is a sort of swiss army knife killfile. Sadly I don't think it is long for this world of New Reddit.
Yes this article should be ignored because this is wrong: “ Ember, for instance, is probably the most “frameworky” of the frameworks on this list, but it suffers from performance issues, the largest download size, the largest API footprint, and the steepest learning curve of any of the frameworks on this list.”

There are no performance issues with ember.js glimmer engine, large payload argument is also old and wrong for big apps, among other wrong claims in a single sentence.

I will not argue with anyone here below on hacker news. If you reply to my comment chances are I might not respond back. I just skimmed the article and saw this part, made me realize I shouldn’t read this article further.
This is unbelievable to me who has been emacs user for this long. What i have seen so far is people whos customize heavily and use as a way of life or people who don't like after trying for some time and move away to other editors. There is another category of people who use for a specific purpose regularly(like org mode users) without making any customization or learning elisp. But your case is special. What is your level of mastery in emacs and elisp?
Since the star HN user cannot use Google and resorts to insults here and elsewhere in the thread, let us spoonfeed him:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1257041/average-weight-g...
I guess he's trying to compartimentalize so that, if the spending account is compromised and depleted, the main-income one is untouched.

Seems like a lot of work to do what CCs do automatically. I guess the upside is that crazy spending is impossible (well, if you make sure to forbid negative balances on the spending account) and it's impossible to accrue interest.
Yes, so you trust in the scientific method in the long term and in the expert consensus in the short term.

The thing where the case you linked went off the rails for me is that there was no downside to trying his methods earlier, but ego got in the way, and ego is by definition unscientific. But people will be people, that you won't be able to fix, I'm afraid.
Consumers can also strongarm Amazon.

If everyone using Visa credit cards stop buying on Amazon starting 19th January, Amazon will probably budge.

But since everyone has a debit card Amazon must be betting that if they do stop accepting Visa credit cards then customers will just shrug and switch card because they really, really need that stuff now.
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I presume this is Amazon throwing their weight around in some negotiation with Visa?
How much does Visa charge when someone pays, say, $100 to Amazon via a credit card?

And if that is a substantial amount - how will the Lightning Network not drive Visa out of business?
I was expecting a blog post from 2015, but no it's from a week ago. It makes no sense.
It's not necessarily predatory, so much as they take a couple percent of everything that flows through them. Also, they don't take the hit on chargebacks, the merchant does. Those two things cover purchase protection just fine without relying on people getting hit with high interest rates.
An obvious question would be selenium; RDA is about 50 micrograms, and the upper "safe limit" is 400 micrograms. https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/supplement-guide-seleniu...

That's an extremely trace mineral.
Check his other blog posts. He has zero idea what he’s writing about
A Ph.D means a lot for many people. It's years of work to make the science progress a tiny little bit on a topic you enjoy (supposedly). I think it's a lot harder and meaningful than writing scalable and reliable code as a team in a software company, just to give one example to compare with.
You may disregard my pseudonymous self’s statement, but one of my children had a weird disease, which I managed to figure out watching YouTube videos of similar symptoms and reading Wikipedia (at first, then pubmed etc)

Over 40 doctors, most of them MD/PhDs, from 4 of the 10 top ranked hospitals in the world for the relevant issue, told me I’m an idiot, because that disease is a 1:10,000,000 thing, it can’t be the cause. It’s probably a virus and I should just go home and wait a few weeks.

And after 3 months (10 days of which were in-patient) and 40 or so specialists, and 5 hospitals), a doctor looked at all the data and said “of course you are right, we start treatment tomorrow” and we did.

All it cost was some irreversible brain and CNS damage, a few years at home - not much, right?

And through the years and some Facebook groups, I’ve met other parents in similar situations. Some had a 5 year delay in diagnosis because it’s a rare disease, stories about the medical system incredibly similar. That’s 5 years of irreversible brain damage and general suffering. Also, it’s more likely severely under diagnosed and actually more like 1:1,000,000

It was just the beginning of a journey. An eye opening one about incompetence and incentives.

The assumption that health authorities in particular (and authorities in general) have your best interest at heart, and are competent, are severely lacking in evidence. You might not have been bitten by that, and I’m happy for you that you weren’t.

Health authorities and professionals optimize for a lot of things, that only sometimes coincide with your interests as an individual. E.g. they might prefer you stay sick than get better, if there’s a 1:10,000 chance you’ll sue them (regardless of merit). I am intimately familiar with such a case.

Of note, the pharmaceutical industry, which is intimately intertwined with regulatory agencies and health authorities, is incentivized to make you a paying regular customer (Office 365) rather than selling you a one time product. Unfortunately, that means managed chronic illness rather than cure.

Which is not to say HCQ or IVM or whatever are the cure. But the idea of “trusting the authorities” is something you only do until it bites you hard.
That's what 3dsecure is for.

in EU (well, at least in my country, France) a payment without 3dsecure is extremely easy to chargeback.
In various places in SF, the sidewalks "float" without a foundation, like the adjacent buildings, and are redone every so many years as gaps appear in the heights between sidewalks and buildings. That's considered normal.

Don't know if that's a normal thing near the MT.
Its worth remembering that Visual Studio also used to be regarded as really good right up until it... wasn't, and then with VS code is sort of was again. Except right now it kind of isn't.

The fate of VS code seems to be really closely tied to TypeScript at the moment. If it turns out that Types really are the way forward, then these will eventually be included in the JS core. What then for TypeScript? Who even decides?

The nice thing about Emacs is that it is firmly rooted in standards and consensus. It will never be the best editor for most people at any one moment in time, but it has been a _good_ editor for decades and will continue to be so for decades to come.
That's the crux of the matter. Server-side you can, and should, choose a different platform than Node.js but for the browser we're all stuck with JS. A more capable standard library, where vetting everything would be much more feasible, would do much to improve the situation.
> Then I thought about it more and I think the reason why we have accredited investor laws is because we don't actually have that strong of a social safety net. For example, I've often wondered how much risk people would be free to take if we had a UBI or government dividend or whatever ya wanna call it. If people had a guaranteed income (or guaranteed home or guaranteed other basic service), how much more risk would people be able to take? I imagine a lot.

Yes, and then what do you do when they have taken all that risk with their UBI? UBI only works if you draw the line there - you have to tell people there is no other support. Otherwise they will just gamble their UBI away and fall back on the same safety nets that currently exist.
The vaccine mandates are villifying the unvacinated and taking away the lively hood of citizens who LOCKED DOWN with you all and now are being LOCKED OUT while you all have a new normal.

No thanks, that's BAD. The vaccine stops death but not the spread of contagion. We can flatten the death curve without nessasarily flattening the spread curve.

We also have many capabilities with antivirals which help in the more severe cases.

This is our 5th endemic coronavirus, it's here to stay and natural immunity will eventually have the virus mutate to less lethality over time.

We also know the children are safe, we will get herd immunity through exposure, vaccinated or not.

Test your antibodies, but don't mandate injections on others you authoritarian fools.

N95 or better, everything else is dumb especially in classrooms or offices. You don't need a mask outside.

Truth, Freedom, Love
The patients got Sunday off of course
2% sounds high, something under 1% sounds reasonable for unified network providing reasonably secure payment flow. Dealing with lot of cash isn't really free either. It gets quite complicated and less secure if sums were really to increase.
So long as passwords are unique, offline cracking isn't an issue. If they have that site's hashes presumably the site is compromised already.
People betting on Ivermectin instead of vaccines, masking, social distancing, and proven treatments is extremely dangerous.
VS code has been my standby for years but the number of times it wants to restart for updates drives me up a wall, and what do I get for allowing constant updates? A giant modal popup [0] asking if I trust a folder enough to let VSC run automated scripts. Yes it’s configurable but i value default setups so I can more easily wipe my OS without reconfiguring everything.

I watched a video on JetBrains [1] and the keyboard shortcuts and navigation look genuinely well thought out, so I’ll be giving that a try (with a vim emulation plugin, naturally)

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/126310

[1] https://youtu.be/x8y_6Gg28GI
Apparently arrow functions makes it much easier to implement browser fingerprint compared to using React Components.. w
Speak for yourself. Dont use the word 'we'.

"We" dont strive for achievement. There is a small group with certain specific biological and psychological traits that does.

Their energy and drive gets the whole chimp troupe stampeding in one direction or another.

These biological, personality traits aren't going to be stripped out of the human population any time soon.

So you just have to recognize who you are and who you choose to deal with so you dont get stuck in traps.

Learning takes Time.
We can barely simulate a rough approximation of the brain of a worm. The world is filled with many things more impressive than early examples quantum computing.
How to harness Python as a programming language when you mostly know Excel
Put a rocket behind your spreadsheet.
Nice one. Yes, an isolation transformer isn't a luxury item. Good to see you didn't hurt yourself. I still have memory flash-backs whenever I hook up a crocodile clamp to something.
I’ve had gym memberships where calling to cancel wasn’t good enough, you had to come in person to cancel.
This is great, but maybe they should focus on fixing the bugs in their existing apps? Spotify is the slowest performing and most buggy app I use.
So if someone created a document consisting of just these search terms (and nothing else) in the search order, that's always going to be the highest ranked item, right, despite a lack of any added information, right?

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, Clojure isn't a language I know at all so it was a little hard to parse the code, I couldn't figure out if there was something that indicated a minimum levenshtein distance threshold for documents, but I feel like only looking at documents which are longer than the search query would also be a reasonable optimization.
Usenet isn't threaded. That's just something constructed client side.
In the UK Amazon has had a co-branded Mastercard credit card for at least a decade.
> The risks of climate change IMO are not a question of how but when

So is the heat death of the Universe but it's a bit too early to start worrying about it.
True, but easy way to get around this is to just revoke the SEPA mandate - which you are always allowed to. You still owe the money, but after revocation they will have to send you an invoice and wait for your payment. Larger companies will not do this as they have no process for this, and rather allow termination.
Am I crazy, or does this read like an author who has never actually coded in either vanilla JS or used frameworks, but just assembled a long post based on complaints they have read without vetting any of it?

Even aside from ES6 not being new, the description of what is good and bad about each side are just... not correct. JS coders don't ebb and flow back and forth to frameworks. Frameworks are not niches of coders fighting for their usage in a wider community. The only thing this author got right is that much of ES6 is syntactic sugar.

Of course, that is the exact reason that babel was needed, but as browsers adopt support of ES6, that need diminishes. Put that together with HTTP/2 and there is an argument that our bundling habits and toolchains could be simplified, but that is orthogonal to whether or not we use frameworks.
I got a new HSBC credit card just the other day - still Visa. If they're planning to change, they're taking their sweet time about it...
Downside of this as a tourist/visitor in Denmark at least some smaller shops force you to pay with cash since they don’t accept visa/mastercard but only the national debit card. Just a minor annoyance at least as a Swede since we don’t usually carry cash these days.
It seems to be happening little by little, for example the development of Temporal is well underway.

I'd like to see more authorization/authentication baked in at some point, data tables and manipulation would be great too.
That list is missing AVM/Fritz, which has at least some old CVEs: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-435/....
I've been attempting to create my own virtual multiplayer world using similar technologies now for the last few months: https://firmament.kenny.wtf/

The tooling and communities in typescript/web land are so good now that even a complete game dev noob like me can create pretty amazing experiences (I think, I've yet to create anything amazing...). I can't wait to see how this space evolves and the toolings/communities around them mature even more
Thank you! Open source is core to what we do.
I'm not entirely sure that network owned by private banks is the worst possible thing. If properly regulated and open to everyone on same rules and fees.

I would actually trust such one more than anything bought by government...
Yeah; I've had this "send us a letter via snail mail to cancel" recently. Saying "it's unreal" doesn't capture the absurdity.
What's IAP?
If you haven't done so already I'd also recommend looking at evil-collection (https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection). This enables Evil keybindings throughout Emacs which can certainly help.
The article is conflating EcmaScript with the browser APIs. Some browser APIs made jQuery unnecessary in some cases, like `querySelectorAll()`. The "next generation" browser APIs like ShadowDom are not even mentioned; they are effectively trying to do what jQuery => DOM APIs did but with React/Angular/etc => Shadow DOM, but failed at doing so spectacularly. THAT should have been the focus on an article titled "Does modern Javascript make frameworks obsolete?" and not whatever this is.

I expected at least a modicum of quality from an official StackOverflow post, but it's so wrong in so many levels that I can only but flag it.
I found a loophole for NYT and The Economist. Convert your payment to PayPal (they allow you to edit payments, but not remove them), and then go into PayPal to cancel the active payment agreement. Easier than cancelling the card, or calling them.
It is quite telling of the ongoing mess when Blazor steals the show, they keep talking about React Native for WinUI, and a third party (Uno) was able to deliver when Microsoft own teams can't.

Also why on earth did they decided to go with Catalist for macOS, when everyone knows it is only good for porting iOS apps?

I agree with the death expectation for MAUI.
Sometimes it's just for practical reasons. A completely unsupported fact is that it now takes longer to cross London by car than it did in an ox cart. And add on a £15 charge. That's a good reason not to drive.
I really don't get why we accept this de-facto tax on the world economy by US companies. Amex, Visa and Mastercard are all based in the US, and all charge a (nowadays) non-negotiable fee on selling anything. Cash has many problems, and clearly won't work for online purchases, but at least small business owners could pay their employees "out of the till" at the end of the week, bypassing bank transaction fees and a fairly substantial (~1%) barely-negotiable and highly regressive charge on their income.
Uk here, I use credit cards for everything. Used wisely, consumer credit is incredibly useful. Example: bought a 4k motorbike, dealer finance or savings drawdown would have cost me hundreds; slapped it all on an 18-months 0% card and am now slowly repaying it on my own schedule, at no extra cost, while happily riding the thing.
Why not? Computers are deterministic at higher temperatures.
> Another example is prostitution is legal but you can only advertise yourself.

that's an excellent rule - because pimping should be illegal.
With "hard" problems I didn't mean challenging, fun problems to solve. I meant "hard" in a way that there is no simple automation solution to it and it feels "hard".
> I'm not buying the "we didn't know people would build and drill nearby" argument. It's downtown San Francisco for God's sake.

Downtown San Francisco is NIMBY central, and it is quite surprising people were actually able to build something new there. It's a reasonable assumption that the zoning etc gridlock continues, and very little new construction happens nearby.
Yeah, the catch is "if a merchant accepts..."

I live in the Netherlands and biggest supermarket chain here, Albert Heijn, is strictly Mastro-only. This is not a problem for the locals, but you will find angry reviews left by tourists on pretty much every ah branch in Amsterdam on Google Maps.
Yeah of course, I do the same thing - when I said I use mine "very rarely" I meant that I use it for things like buying laptops or other expensive things, to use the 0% interest period. I just don't know anyone who actually uses it for day to day purchases from amazon and such, I just use my debit card for that.
The fact that you, one individual uses CCs for everything does not contradict the facts that he gave.
> I’ve also seen plenty of new editors rise and fall in the past 20 years - Komodo, TextMate, Sublime Text, Atom, etc. Emacs and vim are the only editors that stood the test of time, and I have a feeling they will be with us for decades to come. This means that an investment in them will be likely paying you dividends much longer than an investment in a newer editor or IDE.

The thing the author seems to forget is that you don't need to "invest" anything to learn VSCode. I also wouldn't call it an investment, as you can't really "forget" your Emacs skills and get part of your money back. It's more like buying a tool. VSCode was free, or almost free. Emacs seems to cost way more.
And merchant add 2% to their base price which amounts to everyone not using a credit card “subsidizing” the benefits to all credit card users.
Brains are getting 5% smaller in humans in the latest 50,000 years
He tried to reach them to cancel his subscription. In that case, he could challenge collection and then go to court to prove his case?

For the gym, it depends on your contract. Maybe you had a 1 year commitment but you paid monthly?
It's a possible explanation for older anecdotes about having to cancel by fax.