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ryanwatkins

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About ryanwatkins

http://www.ryanwatkins.net/

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    Comment #43890638

    > It was incontrovertibly approved as it is only installable via MDM. Only if this his standard govt issued phone. It's also been shown they are also using their own personal phone…

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    Comment #43530002

    > I don't really want to damage strangers' property. I don't own any car as I just take public transportation, so I can't really say I'm "boycotting" Tesla any more than any other …

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    Comment #24849321

    Microsoft netted about $550 million from that $150 million investment in Apple.

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    Comment #24278170

    The liability is usually with the card issuer (bank), unless the merchant fails to meet liability shift requirements - like processes a card via the manually entered numbers or mag…

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    Comment #23961801

    Its nearly 75% depending on how you count. See May 2020 report: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/ccrb/downloads/pdf/policy_pdf/mo... Of the requests made, about 26% are resolved in 30 d…

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    Comment #23960443

    You can pontificate that its one rogue complainant or you can check the data because its right there and shows race, age and gender of the complainant. The very first page of data …

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    Comment #23685443

    There are plenty of other payment methods than cash that have guards against being lost/stolen or the other problems with handling cash, but also dont have the high cost of interch…

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    Comment #23685395

    The vast majority of that fee that merchants pay goes to the bank, not Visa or Mastercard. And a vast majority of what the bank gets in that fee goes back out to the card owner in …

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    Comment #23684773

    Their leaders may not be well known, but they spend an absolutely massive amount of money promoting their brands. They are extremely recognizable. Mastercard so much so that the re…

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    Comment #23684668

    Merchants certainly "notice" and take any opportunity to use an alternative to the card networks. They only accept it because they must to avoid losing a purchase. They would rathe…

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    Comment #23462791

    Yes, it is legal in the US. Federal law allows it - P.R. 91-36 (FCC 93-410), though New York law attempts to make it illegal to do in your car: https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/vehicle…

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    Comment #22050298

    That hidden cost is subsidized by the other customers charged the same price but that pay cash, or via debit card rather than credit card, or even with a credit card with lower rew…

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    Comment #17141948

    Version in the type attribute used to be there with Mozilla. They removed it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sc... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

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    Comment #13852817

    Google Easter has a nice little easter egg when you search for for "conway’s game of life".

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    Comment #9709466

    The $2 million doesn't have to sit around for 20 years in a non-interest bearing checking account. Put $1.5million in a 5 year CD and get another ~$50k/year. Give them other mainte…

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    Comment #9360411

    The Galaxy S6 and a bunch of others, including some HTC Droids, 8X and others, LG G3, many Lumia devices, Blackberry Z30 and Classic. But yes, not the iPhone.

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    Comment #8620146

    He did appear on the Polymer dev mailing list last week to pick a bit of a fight about how web components are/are-not compatible with other frameworks: https://groups.google.com/fo…

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    Comment #8378927

    They've released preview documentation of a design centered around an unreleased OS and you are upset they don't have Google implementations in all the other non-google UI framewor…