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He is the consumer, so he doesn't, because as you pointed out, it's the store that is on the hook for CC "transaction fees", not the consumer.

Well, as a business owner, I do have some idea of who "really pays" as you put it. When I charge my customers with Credit Card, I get charged a CC fee (around 2.9%). It's not that there…

That's a mysterious response. Can you elaborate on how I'm paying?

> To pay in cash, yes. To pay digitally? You're paying high credit card fees. So, no, not really. I wonder what high credit card fees you are talking about. As a consumer , I pay none of them…

That is great thanks! I'm trying to see if there is one that lets you manage client uploads with a token, i.e. the server gives an "upload token" to the client so an "untrusted cli…

Is it possible to replace Google Cloud Storage with a CDN? (in other words, find a CDN that lets you manage files - create/delete - and give you a URL to each file with an allowed origin of * to …

Would you be willing to pay for it, and if so, how much per month?

I think the way it is meant to be interpreted as is "inflicting terror", not necessarily in the strict political sense. Basically it's sneaky, can hit anytime, you don't know how t…

"Under the new rules, Facebook has said it will create partnerships with local civil society groups to identify misinformation for removal." - how do these "civil society groups" d…

It would make sense to me: if someone causes distress on someone else through their actions, I imagine you can make a legal case for going after him/her, especially if the first person does it fo…

Did 300M people live in that village? Isn't scale one of the things at play here?

If you can buy hashing equipment with your money, doesn't it mean you've already "cleaned it"? If not, what kind of business provides you with hashing equipment from dirty money?

I am uncomfortable about it too (and haven't installed any in my home), but I'm not sure what to do about the exact same issues from smart phones that we carry with us all the time: they can…

DRBD may be a good solution to this problem, although I haven't spent the time to see what it would take to replicate over ssh, and the kind of traffic that is incurred vs changes in origin. htt…

Bad things! rsync isn't smart enough (AFAIK) to know that files have been renamed or moved: it just sees files disappearing on one side and appearing on the other side, so the daily delta can get…

Or... You put the 2 TB drive somewhere else (at a relative's) and keep it updated regularly via network. That's my set up (but with a bigger drive). At home, I have the master copy of the da…

A wrench is all you need apparently. https://xkcd.com/538/

> Outside of the coastal elites or tech junkies, Tesla is practically unknown and is a rounding error to competitors. Tesla outsells BMW, Audi and Mercedes' flagships in their home market - h…

It seemed to have worked pretty well for WhatsApp, no?

How do you know you can trust the "USB Condom"?

There's a lot of projectors that support 4K (see http://www.projectorcentral.com ) You can usually turn a smart TV into a dumb TV by not setting up the internet.…

> "Another issue is that there is no “standard” set of security questions. This means I can’t just memorize a set of 5 answers that I use for everything." That's because if a "5…

Isn't that simply called (investment) diligence, and unrelated to Theranos?