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Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by NikolaNovak »

tomca32 wrote: post #277
NikolaNovak wrote: post #139

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I'm from a developing country with humongous corruption. I now live in Canada and love it. But to certain degree corruption is just less visible. For example, apparently majority of our towing industry in Toronto is just organized crime. With murders and arson and everything - in the seemingly simple and innocuous towing industry. And when opening a restaurant in downtown, near one of the stadiums, protection money i…

Similar experience here, and from your name we’re either neighbors or from the same country originally. People from our region usually have some idealized fantasy about western countries. After I moved to the US I was shocked to find out that it is just as corrupt as the Balkans, just in a different way. My pet peeve is hearing how I don’t understand corruption because I live in a functioning country now.

To be fair, it IS different, and I think Canadians cannot fathom the concept of taking a bottle of booze / carton of cigarettes / box of chocolate with you for normal bureaucratic activities. Similarly, it took me a while to understand where Canadian corruption lies and I'm sure I only understand and am aware of tiny percentage - I happily live a straight and narrow, middle class, ignorant kind of life. As such I'm only sure there's many other types of corruption in other places I'm blissfully ignorant of :-:

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by TheRealPomax »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #315
TheRealPomax wrote: post #266

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No, that's just every single youtube ever made. It's what x2 playback exist for.

You still have to download all of 150MiB for absolutely nothing.

I have questions about where you live if 150 MB of data is an even remotely significant amount of data... Are you on a cellphone in rural Canada or something?

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by TheRealPomax »

t0mas88 wrote: post #142
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #46

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A 6 minute video weighting at about 150MiB for "explaining" what can be summarized in a couple sentences of text is another particular version of hell.

I close the YouTube app anytime it makes me watch more than a 5 seconds skippable ad. This was one of those times so I have no idea what was in the video :-) In other words: Fuck Google and their ad bullshit.

Raising the question: why do you have the Youtube app installed at all? Modern phones can play Youtube in the browser just fine, and browsers like Vivaldi come with adblock built in.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by fatnoah »

lamontcg wrote: post #147
fatnoah wrote: post #125

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Today, I literally spent 10 minutes downloading, installing, creating an account, and adding payment methods to an app so I could pay $0.40 to park for 30 minutes because the meter didn't have a coin slot and the credit card reader was broken. I was going to a local store to buy something. Amazon will probably get my business next time.

> Amazon will probably get my business next time. I see we've hopped out of the frying pan and into the fire.

While I prefer to shop local for as much as possible, if I'm given the choice between fighting this town's terrible parking regulations and implementation or buying online, the latter is going to win.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by joker_minmax »

Last time I parked in a lot that required an app to pay, I just let them put a slip on my car saying I didn't pay and wanted me to pay extra, filed a dispute with the company claiming the app didn't let me register my license plate.

The company then told me my license plate wouldn't register because there were multiple people with that plate number in the lot. They let me pay the regular price online.

Going to keep doing this.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by dang »

throwawaaarrgh wrote: post #281
dang wrote: post #198

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Ok, but please don't fulminate on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

What specifically should I have said to change it from fulminating to a declaration of the inherent problems in the technology industry that causes the concerns listed in the article (and nearly everyone else's comments) ? Should I just have said "I dislike very strongly ..." ?

I guess the best I can offer is the general principle that intellectual curiosity is the guiding value here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) , and indignant/flamey/ranty comments tend to be out of that register.

One important aspect of this is repetition. If a comment is repeating something that has been said many times before, its curiosity value approaches zero—and indignation makes that happen faster.

Conversely, the more new information or unexpected twists a comment contains, the better it is for curiosity.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by mlloyd »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #269
NikolaNovak wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm from a developing country with humongous corruption. I now live in Canada and love it. But to certain degree corruption is just less visible. For example, apparently majority of our towing industry in Toronto is just organized crime. With murders and arson and everything - in the seemingly simple and innocuous towing industry. And when opening a restaurant in downtown, near one of the stadiums, protection money i…

> majority of our towing industry in Toronto is just organized crime All industries who's generous profits depend on monopolizing a fixed pie, they need to tightly control the amount of competition in order to maintain their profits, so they eventually devolve into a maifa-like organization, regardless if they're blue collar or white collar. The only difference is the blue-collar mafia is way more visible as they sol…

"The only difference is the blue-collar mafia is way more visible as they solve their difference with valence, while the white-collar mafia doesn't need to resort to barbaric acts but simply lobbies their political friends in power to put enough laws and regulations in place to stop any newcomers entering their turf."

Ah, Brujah vs Ventrue.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by deathanatos »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #279
deathanatos wrote: post #217

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… I think partly this is that Android has lacked a decent QR code scanner (out of the box) for far too long. The hardware has been there forever … but you're forced to choose an app, and thus you have to have the nose to be able to suss crapware from not. Google Goggles grew the functionality years ago, but even recently it will still deliver Artificial Idiocy level results: I scanned a QR code this year (I think it…

Nobody (iPhone or Android) had QR code scanning built in for ages, which is why QR codes crashed and burned very rapidly like 10-13 years ago before having their random resurgence in the last few years because it was finally feasible with the built in camera/app

Agreed on the lack of any functionality for ages.

I still don't think (in Android; I can't speak for iOS) the built-in app is viable. It only detects in insanely optimal conditions, and non-optimal scans produce no errors or diagnostics to the user: you can very likely be doing everything correct, be aiming the camera in such a manner that there is adequate lighting & pixels to scan a QR code, and get bumpkiss — and further, you'd have no idea the feature even exists … whereas a dedicated app will scan it instantly with the same image, and if you don't get it, you know that the app is capable of it and you probably just need to move closer. (Also, the app I have has a decent viewfinder showing you how much it needs, and it shows visible feedback about what it is finding, even if it can't make a full match.)

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by runeks »

There should be a legal requirement on how difficult “paying” for something can be.

Installing an app, entering my name, address and email, and then manually typing in the numbers on my credit card should not be allowed to be called “paying”. That’s more like a members-only club that you must join before you can use their services.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by mrd3v0 »

ychnd wrote: post #320
mrd3v0 wrote: post #159

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Actually as a consumer I prefer self check out. I am much quicker and it is more efficient because now you can have many of these tills in the same area that only a few would have fit, resulting in much faster experience than waiting in queues. That experience aside, I don't believe there should be jobs where you simply don't think. Manual labour jobs are unfair because they don't reward the brain whatsoever, no crea…

You are much faster than a professional cashier? Congrats I guess. Also the space argument doesn't hold up. The cash register belts are not need on staffed registers if they are not needed on customer slaving ones. So they are approximately the same size minus the chair for one helpful human.

Not because of anything impressive other than the fact that most professional cashiers I have interacted with are not skilled enough to be as fast you imply because it is a high turnover job. The space argument depends on the fact that all customers are checking out simultaneously, not waiting in a queue.
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