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  1. Re:cash costs money on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Stripper was mad when I swiped my card through her slot!

    Solution: Bluetooth labia piercings with CC readers built in! It's a million dollar idea.

  2. Re:Visa and Mastercard needs to be broken up on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm likely wrong on the details. My larger point stands. Unless you are costco, Visa will say: 'Get the fuck out...'

  3. Re:Visa and Mastercard needs to be broken up on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Kid, it's obvious, if you were alive in the 80's, you were still shitting green.

    7-11 etc never took checks.

  4. Re: Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If that were true (only outcome matters) banking would be illegal.

    You don't get to _make_things_up_. Just because credit rating clearly skews by race, doesn't make it illegal to give credit.

  5. Re:Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Goddamn law abider!

    Government is like a teanager. The last thing they should have is a credit card or unlimited funds. They just get into trouble, doing things they shouldn't.

    It is immoral to _not_ avoid AND evade your taxes as much as possible!

  6. Re:Cash only on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Only if you're a dirtbag. Good you know yourself though.

    It is a good idea to report the goddamn law abiders that refuse you a cash discount to the IRS.

  7. Re:Wow! on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    In Germany, everybody is required to carry health insurance. Most insurance companies are run by states, but private ones exist.

    It is a much better system than England's.

  8. Re:Interesting. on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In practice, the improved outcome from ambulances is usually lost as you can often be in the ER well BEFORE the ambulance even gets to you.

    Ambulances are for times when the injury is so bad, you can't move the victim. If the victim is mobile, get moving. Consider having an ambulance meet you on the way, if it's that bad. Do get on the phone so the ER knows you're coming, but if the choice is drive or call, drive.

    Uber drivers should be safe from liability in these cases, unless they're medically trained. Perversely: If trained, they're risking their net worth by helping (some states protect them, but not most).

    Gotta wonder how much Uber would help if your car became a biohazard.

  9. Re:Cash only on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Push hard and you can see discounts of near their marginal tax rates on income.

    Which is a rip. You know they are keeping the cost of what they sold you on the books, just forgetting they got paid.

    Protip: Only works when dealing with the owner, or at least someone who understands.

  10. Re:Visa and Mastercard needs to be broken up on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Visa/MC _doesn't_ negotiate.

    Only costco got a lower rate, they did it by buying a bank and issuing their own visa cards, only Costco pays lower fees on that card. You can bet that mostly comes out of the bank, not the CC network.

  11. Re:Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bullshit. Tips, as reported to the IRS, are higher when CCs were used (and there is a paper trail). What a surprise.

    Even when paying with a CC, I tip in cash. Assuming it's value is stretched by the servers marginal tax rate.

    It's everybody's job to 'starve the beast'. Cash is king.

  12. Re:cash costs money on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If your employing thieves in retail, they will just take inventory. It's not like the tape doesn't already tell you the till is short.

    They are morons, coming up with consistent short tills makes it easy to identify exactly who's dishonest, vs. inventory shrinkage.

  13. Re:Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Beat Up /. all you want. But don't talk like Reddit isn't a festering septic pond.

  14. TLDR

    No. He's just stupid.

  15. Re:God this is cringey on How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code (kqed.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If someone is going into CS or EE they better be able to program by the time they _start_ college. They've had about 18 years at that point.

    Schools wouldn't accept an English major that didn't already know how to write, at least a little.

    A CS freshman that doesn't code is like a music major that doesn't play an instrument. Wasting his/her time.

  16. Re:UK police scanning your screen saver images! on UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading the articles

    GET OUT!

  17. Re:A naked person in a desert kills the system ... on UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody likes a sandy vagina.

  18. Re:I guess it's down to camels now: on UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Beavis: That chick has three boobies!

    Butthead: That's her belly fartknocker.

  19. UK police scanning your screen saver images! on UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF are police doing scanning the images used for screen savers? Those aren't, generally, on a public server.

    It the UK cops have a trojan on UK computers, I think the rest of the world should get to work burying their servers in noise. Antivirus definitions need updating ASAP.

  20. Don't forget the idiot anti-vaxer and bad public speaker that the Greens and Libertarians nominated this cycle.

    It's almost as if someone was deliberately putting up terrible candidates to run against the 'worst candidate'. It was HER TURN!

  21. Re:Why retire? on Ask Slashdot: When Is the Right Time To Discuss Retirement With Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    The main benefit was getting out of social security, though that age group might have actually been able to collect, for the younger it's a pure tax.

  22. Re: Remember graphene as example on Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Once we knew to look for them, we found buckyballs in coal tar.

    Coal tar is one of the most heavily worked materials in chemistry. Source of many of the chemicals that transformed the world in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  23. Re: If these aliens are so advanced on Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The tigers ate all the south american gorillas!

  24. Re:A Right? on The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    In your life, how many friends have been up on felonies? Serious question.

    I don't know any _English_ criminals, find that story hard to believe.

    In America, if they started drafting lawyers from the phone book, the good ones would go unlisted in a second.

    Whizzkid? Here the best are typically former DAs, are bent as fuck and know every other bent person in the courthouse, which is to say 'all of the people in the courthouse'. Worked as prosecutors when 'kids'.

  25. Re:8K is coming too, and etc. on The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    We follow the laws of physics in this house!

    4k is for monitors, VR gear. If 'huge screen', 4k ever gets reasonable, I likely won't want it owning the living room. The content still mostly sucks balls. 4k phone screens are just silly, but I approve, the screens will work pretty well for VR applications.

    For every 'audiophile' pissing his money away, there are 99 people who spend money on their room's sound, but understand the laws of diminishing returns. (Speakers are all that really matter, still lust for electrostatics, but fuck that money for speakers? I digress.) Then their are about 900 other people that just listen to junk...