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Post by chrisseaton »

Silhouette wrote: post #276
chrisseaton wrote: post #141

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Cash is already going away in some countries. Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.

Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore. I think this is an illusion. Sure, if you're going into almost any shop it will accept other payment methods and most people will use them, particularly at the moment. Similarly, ordering anything online isn't likely to be cash-on-delivery. However, there are still reasons people might need or prefer to pay or be paid in cash, only one of which is "I'm a do…

> They often like to be paid in cash, at least for the first visit or two, so everyone immediately knows it's all above board.

Paying people in cash seems like the exact opposite of an indicator of everything being above board.

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Post by pc86 »

mcv wrote: post #237
sschueller wrote: post #214

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Paying with cash also helps small restaurants and cafes. Instead of having to pay 3% and wait 3-5 days until they get the funds which might get charged back they have the money on the spot. No need for all these middle men taking a cut. Same goes for Uber eats etc. Call the restaurant directly, don't be a dick.

Or you pay the restaurant through direct bank transaction. Credit cards are needlessly expensive, but not all electronic payment systems are.

There is no means to do this in the US, debts cards have the same fees as credit cards (maybe more?).

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Post by eythian »

bauerd wrote: post #128
kabacha wrote: post #121

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At one point abolishing paper cash is even remotely plausible? maybe in 100 years? So far cash rules majority of the world and I don't see it going away any time soon.

Supermarkets already exist that don't accept cash (in NL at least)

AH also doesn't accept credit card. Not sure what non-locals are supposed to do if they don't have a maestro card. I guess there aren't many non-locals at the moment, but it must be weird for cash-accustomed Germans visiting.

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Post by lawrenceong »

here's my thought on the "raging" debate -- what if, just what if, we are free to set up "stores" where our computing devices can connect to without liability and with the same level of complexity as with the default one being offered up? walled gardens create opportunities for abuse, which, unfortunately for us hapless developers, impose yet another level of bureaucracy.

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Post by leadingthenet »

realusername wrote: post #247
leadingthenet wrote: post #206

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WebKit is clearly being actively maintained, though. And, might I add, Safari performs way better for me than Chrome, on macOS.

> WebKit is clearly being actively maintained, though. Depends what you call "actively maintained", I would call it on life support personally, it's lacking very far behind the other engines.

How can that possibly be the case if it's becoming more, not less, standards compliant and performant?!

Additionally, it even manages to outperform Blink in certain use cases / benchmarks, especially after the last major update or so.

It might not be Apple's bread and butter like Blink is for Google, but I see no obvious signs of WebKit dying, though I'm open to proof to the contrary.

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Post by mobiledev2014 »

"In the last few days, Next Anime Episode has started to receive an unusual number of 1-Star reviews and all in a quick sucession, so I am starting to think that someone is targetting me for god knows what reason"

Speculation but my money would be on some unethical competitor or even just a jerk who doesn't like Andy is spamming negative reviews and reported him to Apple for fraud. Since I've never heard of this happening, I don't know if Apple's fraud department takes a guilty-until-innocent approach or if they agreed fraud occurred. Either way the lack of transparency and communication is not right. I'll echo sentiments that I've spoken to humans about app issues but never about fraud.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

reaperducer wrote: post #273
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #31

I can only speak for myself, but I have had a number of interactions with the review team, and I have always ended up communicating with a human; although they would often paste “talking points” into their replies. Because of the nature of a couple of my apps, I’ve had them bounced for “providing commonly available services” (i.e. competing with OS tools). In each instance, I have appealed, citing some unique feature…

I’ve wondered whether or not folks might use TestFlight for “shadow release.” They are. I know a real estate company that distributes its app to its customers that way. I don't know why they do it, but it's annoying not to be able to just download it from the App Store like a normal app.

> I know a real estate company that distributes its app to its customers that way.

That's insane. Their brand must be in the toilet. This guy has a "niche" product that is probably only of interest to a few geeks. A real estate company, on the other hand, has a brand that it needs to protect and project.

Also, I'll bet they will get to interact with the account fraud department, sooner or later.

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Post by thomaslord »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #142
amelius wrote: post #79

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Exactly, this is why I vote with my wallet and don't buy Apple products. Apple's hardware is perhaps only marginally better than the competition's, which by the way is much richer in choice. Developers should look further than Apple. It is better for the profession. Remember: developers : Apple == taxi drivers : Uber

> Apple's hardware is perhaps only marginally better than the competition's Microsoft and other brands are getting better at making quality hardware faster than Apple is innovating in the space. Apple still has the lead in their os just feeling so much nicer and solid to use but again it's still stagnant while windows is slowly evolving and when it comes down to it you can't even build a mac with the power you're wor…

It definitely also helps that Apple has been churning out laptops with heaps of major issues. In recent years they've had issues with their keyboards, screens, and audio hardware. Plus they don't do any board-level repair or allow anyone else to, so if you're stuck with a dead mainboard outside of the warranty period the solution is basically "say goodbye to your data and buy a new laptop."

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Post by andy_ppp »

Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #278
andy_ppp wrote: post #271

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As opposed to politicians who take bribes in the form of campaign donations?

So instead of repealing bad legislation we should invent a whole new system from scratch using technologies the very inventors barely understand? Eesh.

Haha, I’m only playing devil’s advocate, it’s a terrible idea clearly.

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Post by thomaslord »

RNCTX wrote: post #183

The article doesn't pass the smell test to me. By his own description of what it does, I'd say the app is highly likely to be selling access to content that the author hasn't licensed, and is on sketchy copyright grounds. Also, the fact that a vote manipulation app... https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122737/iowa-democractic-... ...was distributed via a test platform with the financial backing of former Clinton and…

If you read the article, you'll find that the app itself doesn't even link to any content by default and you have to explicitly enter a data source yourself.

Also, I'd say referring to that app (however problematic it was, and I agree they did a terrible job building and deploying it) as a "vote manipulation app" is unnecessarily inflammatory.

> distributed via a test platform with the financial backing of former Clinton and Obama / recent Pete Buttigieg staffers This implies that TestFlight has financial backing from those groups. Maybe that's just unclear wording, but interpreted as written the claim is unsupported by the provided source.

Assuming you meant to say the Iowa caucus app was supported by those former staffers, it should be clarified that the company who made the app also provided services to those campaigns. I wouldn't consider Shadow Inc. to be competent as a technology company, but it doesn't surprise me that Democrats would buy political tech from a company founded by people who worked on digital outreach for the most recent Democratic presidential campaign.

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