Why isn’t it viable to just accept Visa, if only MasterCard has new rules? Does not seem to justify scrapping the entire business.
They expect VISA will follow suit.
Source? Or are you just assuming?
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#42https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428584131835748359.html
It would be great if people could submit tweet threads in threaderapp, or the mods could have a policy of threadifying tween threads by default the way they fix titles and so forth.
Agree. Twitter threads are pretty illegible and supposedly communicating well is in this sites objective.
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#44The world really needs an alternative to these tweet serials. They're extremely annoying to read.
Here's the entire Twitter thread in one page: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428584131835748359.html
I hate that we seem to have come full circle:
1. Write coherent, long-form articles which require sustained attention to write and read, but unfortunately can't be easily discovered or nonverbally reacted to by people sitting on toilets.
2. Write intentionally length-limited microblog posts or "tweets" as a cute experiment in brevity by design and creativity under constraints. There's no room for nuance and multi-person conversations are abysmal, but at least your stream-of-consciousness musings have the potential to be "liked" by toilet-bound readers across the world jonesing for buttery-smooth exploding-heart animations.
3. Write coherent, long-form articles, but then break them up into snippets of at most 280 characters, tweet the first one, then reply to yourself dozens of times to reconstruct the original article, forcing readers to scroll past dozens of redundant copies of your profile pic (which of course doesn't depict you) and your clever-only-the-first-two-times pseudonym, truncated over and over, only to invoke a third-party article reconstruction service by replying "@threadreaderapp unroll please."
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#45Seen this thread going around, but it seems like it skips over the important bit. > So why the rule changes? Because last December the New York Times published an opinion piece by Nick Kristof caller “The Children of Pornhub” that accused the site and its parent company of profiting off revenge porn, child porn and sex trafficking. How do you get from 'opinion piece in a newspaper' to 'gigantic transnational financia…
Rumor has it that OF is the next target of Exodus Cry
Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong
#46Seen this thread going around, but it seems like it skips over the important bit. > So why the rule changes? Because last December the New York Times published an opinion piece by Nick Kristof caller “The Children of Pornhub” that accused the site and its parent company of profiting off revenge porn, child porn and sex trafficking. How do you get from 'opinion piece in a newspaper' to 'gigantic transnational financia…
Yes, there was funded pressure; see the tweet thread.
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#47If you want to read the thread more easily: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428587369867792392.html
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#48How far away is crypto from being a viable alternative payment processor? The problems I see are the translation layer between fiat and crypto, the fluctuation of value of tokens, the long confirmation process of many tokens, the environmental impact, and the physical infrastructure (atms, etc). Each individual problems seems solvable, and it would be a significant historical event if banking was moved to these decen…
Banking is already decentralised. There is more than one bank. I think you might be thinking about "central banking", but central banks don't provide banking services.
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#49How far away is crypto from being a viable alternative payment processor? The problems I see are the translation layer between fiat and crypto, the fluctuation of value of tokens, the long confirmation process of many tokens, the environmental impact, and the physical infrastructure (atms, etc). Each individual problems seems solvable, and it would be a significant historical event if banking was moved to these decen…
Volatility and exchange with fiat are the main issues. In terms of simply effecting a payment Bitcoin has worked since launch (aside from a few times when transaction fees got pretty silly). The scaling problem can at least temporarily gotten around with multiple currencies. (Which seems to have been adopted in practice when Bitcoin hit its txn soft cap a while back.)
IMO here in Canada it's near-feasible. Most people can purchase Bitcoin near-immediately with a bank transfer. Slightly more complicated than linking your PayPal account to your bank.
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#50The concern that various kinds of legal sex work might be a de-facto haven for human trafficking is at least many decades old, does not solely or even mainly originate from people identifying as Christians, and seems to have a pretty solid factual basis - at the very least, there is a consensus on the broad argument if not the details. The Twitter thread does not even attempt to fairly acknowledge these facts. Very s…
Is it worth continuing to push sex workers into illegality, thereby putting them in danger?
Put another way, do we have a right to sacrifice one population to protect another? Allow me to doubt it.