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> There is nothing more frustrating than pointing out a legitimate bug only to feel like you're talking to a brick wall.
At a bare minimum, this sentence was AI inspired. Likely generated. Which certainly casts the whole response into doubt (that it is human-written.) Reads more to me like a person gave a quick quippy response to an AI to clean up, then just took the output and replied.
Generally? Yes.
In this case? No idea.
Does this work for things that emit heat?
> … public awareness seems low that analog phone services will soon be disconnected.
What’s the level of public awareness that they’re even using the landline service? My 98yo grandmother has had the “same” phone service (with the same phone number) for decades. She’s completely unaware of the infrastructure it runs on.
I happen to know that her area was converted to all fiber digital years ago, but she wouldn’t know that. Her children (my parents’ generation) are also clueless about the infrastructure itself.
So how many people know they’ll be affected even if they have been informed of the change?
Why a link to Reddit instead of the link to Tom’s Hardware?
He’s still allowing for exactly 60s between executions. He’s saying stagger the startup by a random amount up to 60s. Then we get what we want every 60s, but they’re all just staggered a random amount.
What was his response? Did they refuse to allow it?
Welcome, future person! Please give us good news about what will transpire since many of us are currently stuck on Halloween 2026. Thanks!
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.
“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.
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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.