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Re:Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard? on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:18AM (#50334643)
No, if you read the fine print, you'll find that you getting on the plane might requiring showing the credit/debit card. Whether you'll be asked, it's another question. I have only been asked once for an expensive ticket, other than that, a friend told me that it's usually a red flag when the names differ.
Re:Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:41AM (#50323986)
> The most frustrating experience I had was booking a ticket online, only to get a message after confirmation: “You’ll need the physical credit card to retrieve your ticket at the station.”

Most (all?) airlines require this. In practice, it's only checked if your name differs from the name in the credit/debit card.

Other than that, the user fails to explain why booking a train is harder in Japan? They have multiple operators/lines but that's normal for a big/dense city like Tokyo.

Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:03AM (#50316303)
Not sure why they do this, anyone has an idea? Like, the Internet is just there, I can go and watch porn whenever I like. If I am watching your show, it's because I am interested in something that is not porn. Also, if your show has a lot of these scenes, I can't watch in many places (ie: cafe, plane, with other people, etc..)
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:00AM (#50316281)
> This is why banks are regulated

I am not sure why this get thrown randomly as the solution to every problem. Bitfinex major hack was due to regulation. Banks and Crypto companies don't have the same attack surface and the one for crypto is way more complex due to permissionlessness.

Binance is run by Chinese people. I don't think the Chinese government likes what they are running though. Binance itself is not legal/available in China.
Unless they travel abroad to cooperating countries, nothing is going to happen to them.
wire fraud, credit card fraud, pig butchering (a different way to access the accounts really), etc.. The traditional system do have some safeties but it's not impenetrable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery

Most of the billion was frozen though if it was not frozen in time it would have probably evaporated just like these bitcoins getting into mixers.

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:41AM (#50270330)
Funny you say this. I had my issues with Linux during the years but last 2-3 years I have been running it with no issues whatsoever on a Dell XPS 9xxx series. I recently got an M5 Max and it had more issues than the Linux/Dell duo.
Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:58AM (#50194715)
The thing is, in order to get legitimate reviews, they have to pay money to AirBnb. The lengths scammers go through these days is astonishing.
Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:57AM (#50194708)
To be honest/fair, this is an old issue. They now penalize landlords who do that, which means if your host did, they probably have a very good reason. Not saying there aren't a host of other issues with airbnbs and that for many situations having a hotel is a better deal.
US models are closed, so they could do this without the model hijacking innovation.
Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:43PM (#50134399)
I don't think that counts as exports although they could be selling in the US and buying locally where traders move the gold (then it will be counted as exports).
My current pet-peeve with the top providers is that they all refuse a fully-airgapped solution. You have all these widgets and gadgets like it's a toy when you are planning to hold millions in there. Their apps are also a joke and polymarket-like these days.

At this point, the best is a 2-multi-sig solution where one is some hardware wallet and the second is an iPhone app wallet where the seed is stored digitally only. So even if your offline seed is compromised, you are still covered.

Conveniently, there is no KYC in acquiring a data-only eSIM. KYC is only enforced for the number which is not needed here.
Re:Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:43AM (#50083356)
It's stupidly easy to open the device. I opened mine last night with a knife and a hairdryer. I left no perceptible marks either. I watched a few videos where the device was opened without a hairdryer. Apparently, those who did the implant put more glue than Ledger itself.
Nope. Though I did leave a few hundreds just to see if it was compromised after all.
My thinking was it is safer to buy from an authorized reseller than just shipping it. Many people get to access your mail in transit. Granted the devices come in mail regardless for anyone but I thought maybe the authorized thing had some more due diligence or something.
It's the official Ledger reseller in that country.
I bought from this very reseller in the last 90 days and I just opened my Stax with a knife to find out it was implanted. It is a very good job too, if I didn't watch the Youtube video, I would think it's part of the original Ledger hardware.
I don't feel like going through the list but Uber definitively botched their IPO. If they are up 60% only since the IPO they are just matching inflation and pretty much below the index.
It is literally impossible to operate in any other way. We call them multinational but they just own the child company or the brand. If you operate at any country, your "parent" is irrelevant.
I don’t think this is possible under the latest rules, especially in the EU. But a small firm could easily get bad advice and think it’s outsmarting the system. Right now in the EU, it’s either pay or leave completely.
> How this company can proceed to exist is beyond me.

How can they not proceed. They are making money doing nothing and have no moral boundaries. And now we find out they have no legal boundaries either.

There should be a limit. You can’t expect me to keep a client’s records for two decades. For software development, I think 2 years is reasonable. Many industries already have proper (and mandatory) limits, usually somewhere in the 3-7 year range depending on the field (finance tends to be higher) and the country. Some countries, especially developing ones, have no bookkeeping rules at all.

But after 2 decades for a financial account, I'd assume any recovery as a gift rather than a right.

It's low entropy. The amount of entropy is prompt + model but now that you have seen the model various times, the entropy comes down back to the prompt only.

You'd not be amazed by seeing a 2 sentences prompt and thus you are not amazed by this work either.

Wallet/Qrcode payments in many countries are roughly free. Visa/MC/Banks charge roughly 3-5% when you account for all fees (ie: Stripe). The security angle is also BS because these costs are hidden from consumers as they are thrown on merchants who will average them out again on consumers.

They are draining/milking the cow. At some point, they had significant value in quick information transmission when the internet and smart phones weren't really a thing. But now the only advantage is chargebacks/refunds which coincidentally, the experience there is being made shittier.

Still, not worth the 3-5% premium. Glad many merchants are starting to charge for credit card use and push back.

Re:State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:14AM (#49992331)
Most people in gov./bureaucratic functions do little or nothing (though depending on country, they could be doing negative work or harming the process itself). Developers are not the worse out they represent a very small percentage of the human capital.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:49AM (#49991432)
We have no idea how much compute or man hours Open AI is burning at this. It could be thousands/millions per problem. They are doing this specifically for PR and are ready to pay billions.

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