I'm sorry, you think mobile payments will give the Chinese Government full control? They already use physical force to do that. Like, maybe an actress disappearing for months, and then coming back and saying how tax evasion is horrible. Or the head of INTERPOL just disappearing. Or US citizens getting detained to encourage their parents to return to China.
Look, China is a totalitarian state. Mobile payments aren't really an effective "stand up to the man" thing.
And if they were, the old people remember what happens if you stand up to the man, say in Tienanmen Square.
:PINs are socially unacceptable on credit cards,because they are associated with (low-class) debit cards. With an excellent chargeback system and no liability, no one really cared about magnetic strip (and still doesn't care about signature), because the penalty for fraud is not ont he customer or the credit card company (it's on the poor merchant). In fact, the CC company charges the merchant a fine, so they love chargebacks. The change only happened when the retailers started losing CC numbers by the millions.
TL;DR More secure =/= more desirable
Also, frankly, I don't get the passion for cashless. Like, at all. Cash is great. I can take it outside in the rain and let it get soaked. I can take it to the beach and swimming with me. I can use it to buy things without leaving a paper trail. I can use US currency in any vacation spot I happen to be at (except the EU). It's wonderful.
An open records group (Public.Resources.Org) bought a copy of the annotated code of Georgia and published it online (think SciHub, but for law.) They got sued by the group that claimed to own the copyright. They took it to court, and, last month, won their court case The Supreme Court may overrule the Appeals Court, but it's now at that level (and doesn't seem likely).
From my understanding, the case hinges on the fact that the judges and lawmakers are actually doing work for hire on behalf of the people, who would be the ones to own the copyright. Quotes in the articles are more elegantly phrased.
The founder of an outside company had the documents because of discovery in a lawsuit he filed against Facebook. A California court said he wasn't allowed to share them. Is it a coincidence he brought them to the UK (where Parliament could force them over) and became known that they were in his possession?
His lawsuit seems to be that he lost $250k because of the Cambridge Analytica security holes, so he's probably upset about that.
. Example: Venezuela could sell oil at fixed price in bitcoin. Iran could do the same. Both countries have strong incentives to do this (if they were not blind to the reasons why).
There's zero reason for them to do so. Venezuela launched it's own petro-based cryptocurrency. They can take all the value of a cryptocurrency backed by oil, and all the value of generating the genesis blocks.
it is possible that all dollar denominated investments could become nearly worthless.
You never say if what happens, but pretty much all investments are dollar denominated. If you're worried about massive inflation, you can just buy stock, gold or real estate. Any of those are better options.
This reminds me of Chris Rock, when the news about Marion Berry smoking crack came out. âoeWhat are mothers going to say, âDonâ(TM)t smoke crack, you wonâ(TM)t be anything?â(TM) The kid will be like, âI could be mayorâ(TM).â DHS is like âoeDonâ(TM)t be a deadbeat, you cannot be a trustworthy person.â The deadbeat is like âoeI could be presidentâ
Does a tenth of a percent of the population moving away really affect real-estate prices? Heck, do an extra 25k people in NYC (if they were all transplants) really effect prices in a city with 8ish million?
People say that's the case, but I just don't get how.
If they bought single family houses that were owner-occupided, I would be pissed. They would be screwing the little guy. But they bought new condos. So, my heart bleeds so very little for the real estate developers.
Now that I think about it, it probably would have been smart (if you had the cash) to buy property in all the finalist cities. I doubt the value went down when Amazon declined to go to Austin.
Republican waves are higher than Democratic ones as far as seats go. It's a structural imbalance (gerrymandering + rural states having more representatives per person). But, yes, the blue wave beat 2010 on the popular vote.
Yeah, radical transparency may work. But it'll be a generational thing. Maybe in 40-50 years it won't matter. Meanwhile, I'll also not post stupid shit online. My grandkids can benefit from radical transparency as free-riders.
I'd like to be able to pay a fixed amont of money to the bank on my mortgage each month. The bank takes what it's due for interest and the rest goes to amortization.
Isn't this what a mortgage payment is? At least in the US. It's why most people are underwater on their mortgage until like year 5 or 10... cause at the beginning 90% of your payment is interest, and it slowly decreases.
That said, 1.2% is pretty darn good. Heck, you can probably find a safe investment that pays more than that.
You save easily ten percent in taxes of what you pay in mortgage interest
While that's true, you do pay 100% of the mortgage interest. To my mind, that's 900% more.
I dunno. I've heard that LCUs are better, but looking at their fees and services, etc. it seems that they are on par with the big commcercial banks. Sometimes even worse. Maybe my LCU sucks. Care to put forth some numbers?
I'm not listening to anything from Washington Post that isn't pure and incontrovertible fact, Opinion pieces of any kind from such a biased and corrupted outlet are very close to propaganda.
First, the WP seems to have a lot of voices from both the liberal and conservative side (e..g. George Will.) Second, you think the fact that Zuckerburg doesn't care about privacy is in dispute??? I have a large amount of beachfront property in Arizona to sell you.
True. And, they may be right!! See also, "I want to invest in the housing market in 2008". If enough people do a dumb thing, the government sometimes makes it not dumb retroactively.
If NYC will subsidize housing (Section 8), Food (EBT), Health (Medicare), Utilities (don't know the name), why isn't there a monthly pass for poorer residents? Which could be defined as "a monthly pass at $X or 1% of your take home pay, whichever is less" Or simply "$X, unless you make less than $Y/hr then $Z".
Wow, did you read that? First, the range given was 1:1500 to 1:2000. Second, that's only to the degree a specialist had to be called in at birth. The article says how hard it is to get a firm number and the high estimate is 1:59 (the 1.7% number from the next paragraph). I maintain my 4.5 million people just on biology as being "pretty damn close".
Not according to polls. And not according to history. I mean, you have to go back to Nixon's impeachment^W resignation to get a similar bump.
the Republicans put carefully considered and middle of the road SC candidates forward
They're just drawing them from the Heritage Foundation list. That's all that's going to happen. And, I'm not sure who you think sits to the far-right compared to these people.
Now, maybe Trump tries to put his sister on the court, if he thinks he can push that through.
The Democrats just have to be complete idiots... They appear to have zero sense of what effective long term tactics would be.
If the government forced them to hand over all the data, everyone's maps will improve. If they put a lag of a year, then they have the incentive to keep gathering that data. And frankly, the cost of generating that data is falling rapidly every year, since so much of it is crowdsourced or acquired by ever improving drones..
Also, last I checked, The First Lady, unlike the Secretary of State,
Although Trump often acts like he wants to sleep with her, Ivanka is his daughter, not wife. Also, she's an official government employee, member of the staff, etc.
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I'm sorry, you think mobile payments will give the Chinese Government full control? They already use physical force to do that. Like, maybe an actress disappearing for months, and then coming back and saying how tax evasion is horrible. Or the head of INTERPOL just disappearing. Or US citizens getting detained to encourage their parents to return to China.
Look, China is a totalitarian state. Mobile payments aren't really an effective "stand up to the man" thing.
And if they were, the old people remember what happens if you stand up to the man, say in Tienanmen Square.
:PINs are socially unacceptable on credit cards,because they are associated with (low-class) debit cards. With an excellent chargeback system and no liability, no one really cared about magnetic strip (and still doesn't care about signature), because the penalty for fraud is not ont he customer or the credit card company (it's on the poor merchant). In fact, the CC company charges the merchant a fine, so they love chargebacks. The change only happened when the retailers started losing CC numbers by the millions.
TL;DR More secure =/= more desirable
Also, frankly, I don't get the passion for cashless. Like, at all. Cash is great. I can take it outside in the rain and let it get soaked. I can take it to the beach and swimming with me. I can use it to buy things without leaving a paper trail. I can use US currency in any vacation spot I happen to be at (except the EU). It's wonderful.
An open records group (Public.Resources.Org) bought a copy of the annotated code of Georgia and published it online (think SciHub, but for law.) They got sued by the group that claimed to own the copyright. They took it to court, and, last month, won their court case The Supreme Court may overrule the Appeals Court, but it's now at that level (and doesn't seem likely).
From my understanding, the case hinges on the fact that the judges and lawmakers are actually doing work for hire on behalf of the people, who would be the ones to own the copyright. Quotes in the articles are more elegantly phrased.
I don't know where this "it's from the Daily Mail" nonsense came from. The links are to the Guardian and CNet. The quotes are from the BBC.
Look, if a bad newspaper rips something off a good news source, that doesn't make it false. It means you should check a good news source.
The founder of an outside company had the documents because of discovery in a lawsuit he filed against Facebook. A California court said he wasn't allowed to share them. Is it a coincidence he brought them to the UK (where Parliament could force them over) and became known that they were in his possession?
His lawsuit seems to be that he lost $250k because of the Cambridge Analytica security holes, so he's probably upset about that.
There's zero reason for them to do so. Venezuela launched it's own petro-based cryptocurrency. They can take all the value of a cryptocurrency backed by oil, and all the value of generating the genesis blocks.
You never say if what happens, but pretty much all investments are dollar denominated. If you're worried about massive inflation, you can just buy stock, gold or real estate. Any of those are better options.
This reminds me of Chris Rock, when the news about Marion Berry smoking crack came out. âoeWhat are mothers going to say, âDonâ(TM)t smoke crack, you wonâ(TM)t be anything?â(TM) The kid will be like, âI could be mayorâ(TM).â DHS is like âoeDonâ(TM)t be a deadbeat, you cannot be a trustworthy person.â The deadbeat is like âoeI could be presidentâ
They could just advertise what they really offer worst case, instead of best case. We could force them to do it by law.
I wondered why all those managers took pay cuts to $149,999 a year. Then I read:
TFS says power to thrust is similar to other planes, so its as feasible as any electronic plane. Maybe with a hydrogen fuel cell?
Does a tenth of a percent of the population moving away really affect real-estate prices? Heck, do an extra 25k people in NYC (if they were all transplants) really effect prices in a city with 8ish million?
People say that's the case, but I just don't get how.
If they bought single family houses that were owner-occupided, I would be pissed. They would be screwing the little guy. But they bought new condos. So, my heart bleeds so very little for the real estate developers.
Now that I think about it, it probably would have been smart (if you had the cash) to buy property in all the finalist cities. I doubt the value went down when Amazon declined to go to Austin.
Republican waves are higher than Democratic ones as far as seats go. It's a structural imbalance (gerrymandering + rural states having more representatives per person). But, yes, the blue wave beat 2010 on the popular vote.
Yeah, radical transparency may work. But it'll be a generational thing. Maybe in 40-50 years it won't matter. Meanwhile, I'll also not post stupid shit online. My grandkids can benefit from radical transparency as free-riders.
Isn't this what a mortgage payment is? At least in the US. It's why most people are underwater on their mortgage until like year 5 or 10... cause at the beginning 90% of your payment is interest, and it slowly decreases.
That said, 1.2% is pretty darn good. Heck, you can probably find a safe investment that pays more than that.
While that's true, you do pay 100% of the mortgage interest. To my mind, that's 900% more.
I dunno. I've heard that LCUs are better, but looking at their fees and services, etc. it seems that they are on par with the big commcercial banks. Sometimes even worse. Maybe my LCU sucks. Care to put forth some numbers?
First, the WP seems to have a lot of voices from both the liberal and conservative side (e..g. George Will.) Second, you think the fact that Zuckerburg doesn't care about privacy is in dispute??? I have a large amount of beachfront property in Arizona to sell you.
True. And, they may be right!! See also, "I want to invest in the housing market in 2008". If enough people do a dumb thing, the government sometimes makes it not dumb retroactively.
If NYC will subsidize housing (Section 8), Food (EBT), Health (Medicare), Utilities (don't know the name), why isn't there a monthly pass for poorer residents? Which could be defined as "a monthly pass at $X or 1% of your take home pay, whichever is less" Or simply "$X, unless you make less than $Y/hr then $Z".
If the CEO is smoking up in public, it tells his workers that it's okay. So, they want to make sure it's not allowed at work.
Wow, did you read that? First, the range given was 1:1500 to 1:2000. Second, that's only to the degree a specialist had to be called in at birth. The article says how hard it is to get a firm number and the high estimate is 1:59 (the 1.7% number from the next paragraph). I maintain my 4.5 million people just on biology as being "pretty damn close".
Not according to polls. And not according to history. I mean, you have to go back to Nixon's impeachment^W resignation to get a similar bump.
They're just drawing them from the Heritage Foundation list. That's all that's going to happen. And, I'm not sure who you think sits to the far-right compared to these people.
Now, maybe Trump tries to put his sister on the court, if he thinks he can push that through.
Well, we can definitely agree on this.
If the government forced them to hand over all the data, everyone's maps will improve. If they put a lag of a year, then they have the incentive to keep gathering that data. And frankly, the cost of generating that data is falling rapidly every year, since so much of it is crowdsourced or acquired by ever improving drones..
And? Forcing people to part with data via eminent domain is going to be something that happens. They can forestall that by giving data away.
Or, to put it another way "data wants to be free"
Although Trump often acts like he wants to sleep with her, Ivanka is his daughter, not wife. Also, she's an official government employee, member of the staff, etc.