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Which has no relevance to how the HN community has grown.

And how do we know the logs that are emitted are trustworthy?

The one raising the point. Apparently standing alone amongst otherwise bipartisan support of spying on Americans.

Should we expect logs from a compromised system to be truthful?

So, “appointment available tomorrow” makes for amazing healthcare, even if the wrong treatment is prescribed?

“Puffery” is about the article, not the work

“… no first-rate mathematician would now work any more on it, because he would not be the first one to do it.”

That’s just a lame excuse. Once anyone does it first, no one else can. Perhaps we should ban publication, everyone can be first!

I suppose bolth of you could be correct.

Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_chock?wprov=sfti1

“Amazing healthcare” != “near future appointments readily available”

> …there’s 0 chance it’s street legal with the vertical thrusters…

Page says:

> Note: Not approved for public road use.

This problem started before AI hit the mainstream. Make the company “more efficient” (i.e. cut costs) by outsourcing to contractors in areas with lower labor costs. Then, remove escalation paths, then remove abilities from them so that can’t do crazy things like refund a customer. Finally, automate the whole thing and be certain there’s no option available that could possibly return money to the customer.

You're right. But in my anecdotal experience, there are about half as many adding the surcharge as providing the discount.

Ultimately, my point is (not even addressing the legality of Visa's compulsory pricing attempts) the cost of upfront analysis to set pricing appropriately is easily dwarfed by the cost of labor and throughput when adjusting the price by employees at the point of sale. Maybe the merchants adjusting at sale are getting a benefit in the form of customer awareness, but I have doubts.

I’m sure if we spend the requisite amount of time on this specific diagram, we will find that most large corporate structures fit with a minimum of abstraction and allegory.

For example, how often does a CxO speak publicly to the employees (whether via “town halls” or in email)? Put that in “open defecation.”

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.

HN guidelines don’t preclude the submitter from including a descriptive first comment on the story.

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