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The thing is, it always was. It is more about compliance with procedures than any real security.

So I've started carrying cash because in NYC, most places now have 3-5% "Cash Discount which is already applied to the price" which means a 5% fee for using your card.

Dividend paying stocks will be pulling from the value of the stock. The 4% you get will immediately drop the value of the stock by 4%ish. Dividend paying stocks may not be a great …

Their user hostile approach to Better Call Saul just shows why they just don't get streaming. I cancelled them almost immediately when I realized I couldn't watch Better Call Saul …

Yeah, Last.fm is really good for playing a playlist from a single scene. It's not necessarily a single genre, just bands who tour together, or guest on each other's tracks. They us…

It depends on the intent of the rules being enforced. An example given was a state wanted to spend less on low income benefits. They setup an overly complex computer system that de…

One could contend that perhaps the greater social problem solved by Zoom and the Internet was "How do we allow people to have more lucrative jobs without them paying xx% of their s…

On the one hand, this causes a deeply ingrained negative reaction in me. On the other, people have been paying hundreds (thousands?) of dollars for digital tunes to reflash their E…

You are 100% right. The book just laid out exactly what you are saying. Computers just made the enforcement easier and with less opportunities to break out of it - for example, a s…

A book called Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks touches on how for many years now, we've hid unfair policies behind computer complexity. It was really eye opening to me how…