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Post by chrisseaton »

Silhouette wrote: post #293
chrisseaton wrote: post #281

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> 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.

Not really. It's in your hand, right now. It can't be disputed later and retrospectively yanked back out of your bank account, or not paid out to you in the first place if you use an intermediary payment service. These are not hypothetical problems. It's also a traditional sign of honesty, and a convenient way for someone who has provided very good service to be tipped without making a big deal of it ("Keep the chang…

> It's also a traditional sign of honesty

Well I accept your experience, but in my experience asking for cash is a traditional sign of dishonesty and tax evasion. Why do you think they always offer a hushed discount for cash?

A professional tradesman invoices after and then accepts a bank transfer. Asking for a wad of banknotes is grubby.

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Post by TheKarateKid »

goblin89 wrote: post #99

For someone who’s considering getting into Apple Developer program: should Apple Developer account be separate from primary Apple ID used across devices? And if not, and a single Apple ID is also used for development, (1) can it remain intentionally unassociated with any payment method in any specific country, and (2) is there a threat of losing it if Developer account is terminated for some unfathomable reason?

If your personal Apple ID is on most of your devices, absolutely.

If it’s a business ID then I’d still say you have little to lose by using a separate one for the Dev account. You can even switch IDs on iOS for using the App Store if you need to login using the dev account.

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Post by bsder »

pc86 wrote: post #280
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #208

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I'm in Denmark, I believe this is pretty much the best example of the kind of country you are talking about, unfortunately I have some personal problems along various spectrums that mean I am not good at keeping track of things that I cannot control through a computer, anyway Denmark went nearly cashless for a bit and because of my personal problems I did not have a credit card for a portion of that time. A cashless…

The is no disorder that causes you to be disorganized unless you're using a computer.

The world is a wide place. If someone has a system and it works for them, it is not my job to take that system away simply to make things a little more convenient for myself.

You never know when you, personally, become the non-mainstream person.

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Post by Silhouette »

chrisseaton wrote: post #321
Silhouette wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. It's in your hand, right now. It can't be disputed later and retrospectively yanked back out of your bank account, or not paid out to you in the first place if you use an intermediary payment service. These are not hypothetical problems. It's also a traditional sign of honesty, and a convenient way for someone who has provided very good service to be tipped without making a big deal of it ("Keep the chang…

> It's also a traditional sign of honesty Well I accept your experience, but in my experience asking for cash is a traditional sign of dishonesty and tax evasion. Why do you think they always offer a hushed discount for cash? A professional tradesman invoices after and then accepts a bank transfer. Asking for a wad of banknotes is grubby.

Why do you think they always offer a hushed discount for cash?

FWIW, I'm not sure I've ever actually encountered that in my entire life. It seems like one of those folk tales governments tell when they want to get more money out of a group who are an easy target. After all, can you prove you only charged that nice couple what you said on your accounts for fitting out their new bathroom, Mr Plumber?

A professional tradesman invoices after and then accepts a bank transfer.

Sure, and when we've had tradesmen in that's almost always what we've done too.

But again, in my entire life, I don't think I've ever received a paper invoice from a cleaner, or a gardener, or a neighbour's teenager who was childminding, or the friendly retiree around the corner who is an ace at fixing bikes. Not unless they were working through an agency and it was the agency handling the billing, anyway. Not everything is big enough and formal enough to need invoicing and professional payment tools. Normal people still pay for plenty of stuff with cash around here. Just not usually in shops (online or bricks 'n' mortar) or for big things.

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Post by Ductapemaster »

eitland wrote: post #83
noch wrote: post #33

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> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

> For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. I got Ubuntu recommended by an electrician back in 2005 or 2006. (I used to be using Red Hat/Mandrake/Mandriva back then.) Soon after I realized it had come to the point where Ubuntu was not only possible to install and use but simpler to install and use than at least OEM-loaded Windows machines. It seemed to work well for grandmother…

I've thought about this as my grandmother has had a host of computer issues, some of them resulting in fraud scares.

The real problem for me is that support is really hard to come by if something goes wrong. Grandma can't access the internet on her Ubuntu system — who can help her? I'm 500 miles away, my parents are equally as far in the other direction. Neither myself or my parents use Linux as a daily driver either. Her neighbors have Windows or Mac machines. Does she drive to Best Buy with her desktop? Call in external help?

If she uses Mac or Windows machines, help is just a lot closer. My dad can replicate her issues on his machine and walk her through it on the phone, or I can. Her neighbor will at least potentially be familiar with the way the OS looks, so can offer greater help.

I'm not sure how you can close that gap if you're not next door to the individuals who would benefit most from it. While it may be a great individual solution, the support burden just isn't a solved problem in my opinion.

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Post by syshum »

Aeolun wrote: post #305
syshum wrote: post #295

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Judgements are something more than just a Customer Service issue. There are ways to compel payment via the same court system once you have a judgement, and any additional fees you incur attempting to collect can be claimed as well making them pay the fee's

You still need to have the money to go through the whole thing in the first place. Because when they don’t pay your small claims court case you’re right back at the normal court trying to enforce the payment.

Yes and no

Going to a court to enforce a judgment is going to be orders of magnitudes cheaper than a tort litigation, and there are FAR FAR FAR less delay tatics the lawyer could impose

So I still do not believe that is a reason not to use the small claims process

Seems people just want to have a deafest attitude

There is almost no down side from making use of the Small Claims system, could you still end up not being paid sure... but they have ALOT better change of getting the money with a small claims judgement than with no judgment, and small claims is pretty strait forward and inexpensive

Further once you have the judgement the ability to get consignment legal services goes up substantially as well

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Post by AmericanChopper »

mcv wrote: post #244
AmericanChopper wrote: post #205

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I’m not sure I see your logic here. Do you think the payment networks will be cheaper to operate if they’re run by the government? Or would you prefer an actual tax to the fees you’re comparing to taxes? Do you expect banks would drop their transaction fees? Do you think payment gateways would drop their fees? Do you think payment terminals would become free, and their networks free to use?

Banks have already dropped their transaction fees. Simple bank transactions in the EU are free. iDeal payment is either free or costs about 25 cents.

In the EU it’s illegal for a merchant to charge a different price based on payment method (iirc), but merchants are most certainly still charged transaction fees for card payments. SEPA transfers still incur fees too. There is a huge number of service providers involved in every single card payment, and that service infrastructure only exists because people pay to use it. It absolutely wouldn’t be strange for the 2-3% fee a merchant is charged for processing a transaction to be divided up between more than 10 service providers.

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Post by RonanTheGrey »

leadingthenet wrote: post #285
realusername wrote: post #247

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> 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.

PWA anybody?

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

vetinari wrote: post #167
raverbashing wrote: post #102

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Try doing any of the following to professional level with a web app: - sound editing/musical production - video editing/special effects - CAD/CAM/EDA - Mechanical/physics/electrical simulations - interfacing with custom hardware

> - video editing/special effects Hollywood studios run on Linux (except Pixar, and granted, not with webapps), so it is possible. What's missing is the middle-ground, mass-market solution like Premiere/After Effects or FCP, though DaVinci Resolve is quite nice entry there.

It looks like we edit on windows where I work, but we're actually using proxmox. Shhhhhhhh it's a secret.

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Post by pmiller2 »

mcv wrote: post #256
rbecker wrote: post #242

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> called them That's exactly right - there was no trial or conviction. Just the word of the administration was enough for Visa and other payment providers.

It turns credit card companies into the extra-legal enforcers of the government, bypassing various laws, courts, and any reasonable appeals process. People should boycott Visa, Mastercard and Paypal over this.

Good luck boycotting the credit card companies, if you want to participate meaningfully in the modern economy.
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