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If you have enough cash customers, total card transaction costs are not 3-5% of revenue. If you don’t, you’re definitely putting 3-5% back into your pricing to cover the fees.

I don't know about "increasingly." I think there are two places in my area of the city that offer a cash discount. These kinds of tactics really aren't convincing customers to use cash - maybe if they turned it around to "a 3% fee will be added to card transactions" then people would care. Anyway, discounts are enough of a pain that it's not worth the accounting.

Look at your costs, including card transactions fees, and spread that across your pricing. It's no different than pricing in all other business expenses - do you complain you're paying a "toilet tissue tax" because you don't use the toilet when you stop in? Paper products in the bathroom are a cost, and those costs are put into the price everyone pays for a donut.

Now, I'll agree having a minimum plus percentage of every transaction is predatory.

I worked there in the early 90s. The number of times an old, well-worn NES came in as a return, and management authorized it, boggled my mind.

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Not so much futile (well, perhaps it is considering there’s much we still don’t know about biological neurons) as slow - simulating all that in software won’t be fast.

RSS is RSS. Does it matter to a client how it’s generated?

> Has anything ever grown that fast before?

Is it true growth, or circular dealing plus hype? I have little doubt the IPO is nothing but a wealth transfer from retail investors who'll be left holding an empty bag.

Does multi-mic recording and surround sound cover what you imagine?

But you’re getting blown to bits in the browser sandbox, right? And you’re still alive to type this message, right?

Seems like all the right versions of safe to me.

Quite the logical leap

Why does anyone ever have to say “this is, like, just my opinion, man.” Are readers so ignorant to think articles are statements of definitive fact applying to all of humanity unless told otherwise?

More like “I have placed an order for which you have saved on delivery fees. Your aitherapynow.com subscription has been renewed and I will transfer you to the therapist momentarily. Just a note: your charges have resulted in using your free overdraft protection on your Chime® by Chase® from Goldman® with Fidelity® debit account - remember interest charges start in 29 days.”

Or to otherwise coerce you into whatever funnel that makes them money

They didn’t though. No trust involved. Hormones and emotions.

Today’s version of the platform targets just the right emotions to keep users “engaged.”

> … they really don't seem to have worked out the AI thing at all.

Who has?

You probably found out before they did

An HTPS server always hands out its public key. Do you mean client secrets or something?

ISP ToS become an issue. Certainly depends on how rabidly one’s ISP enforces the rule …

Maybe they meant it wasn’t at all fun. Likely incorrect, but never assume.

Too bad the omnipotent wizard doesn't keep records himself.

GP reads to me as “when sharing your process, be fluid instead of bumbling.”

Things like “uh, where’s that file again?”, “the window disappeared”, etc shouldn’t happen during screen sharing, pairing, and demos.

In other words: be a good presenter.

But that upper limit has to indicated somewhere

> The guy's name is "nosloP" spelled backwards. Maybe spelled normally it's supposed to signify the opposite.

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Is that the case? Or is it the case that because the computer said so, the arrest was made?

I’m more interested in whether these arrests were appropriate, the suspects convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers.

Eventually.

Says nothing about affordability

Money. In the 70s, a single income family could afford to host. Who has money for that these days?

You need penalties in the regulations preventing these partnerships. Without penalties, there’s no force behind the regulations.

Might be against the contract, but that’s not illegal.