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crawl_soever commented on A targeted crackdown on “junk fees” makes a lot of sense slowboring.com/p/junk-fee... · Posted by u/superb-owl

pxx · 3 years ago

I don't think you have an operating understanding of legal tender. No widely-applicable law in Canada or the US requires businesses to accept bank notes to settle a transaction. See e.g. https://globalnews.ca/news/6878824/legal-for-businesses-to-r... and https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm . Some municipalities and states have added laws requiring cash acceptance, but it's not as simple as "it's legal tender" or "you can do it in Canada."

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

There's a difference between the letter of the law and the word of the law. Having experienced both places I can say there is a difference in how things are run and regulated and if they call it legal tender or whatever it doesn't matter. As a customer it does matter because I end up paying the junk fees so please don't patronize me for saying it.

crawl_soever commented on A targeted crackdown on “junk fees” makes a lot of sense slowboring.com/p/junk-fee... · Posted by u/superb-owl

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

How about making it compulsory to accept legal tender for events /races and other things? How many times do you sign up to run a race and are forced to purchase through vendors like "Event Dog" or other where paying cash is not even an option. And these companies always tack on up to 10$ "convenience fees" that are unavoidable. In places like Canada where currency is legal tender you can avoid these scummy vendors by paying the merchant cash directly

crawl_soever commented on Ask HN: Share your favorite YouTube channels focused on mastering a skill/craft · Posted by u/hubraumhugo

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

For vintage electronics restorations Shango066 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw2SbtOH0K9AjQTbIRI6cqA

Shango does a great style of troubleshooting and funny commentary along the way. Literally restores desert find TV sets to working.

Automotive, mechanics, and tinkering with engines mustie1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSeeATlWJJbXpOZRYOfaDg

He brings you along and explains to the user in a friendly way that makes you feel like you're in the garage with

crawl_soever commented on Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor hyprland.org/... · Posted by u/falkaer

eterps · 3 years ago

Any advantages over Sway, other than look and feel?

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

It uses dynamic tiling rather than static tiling meaning more versatility how specific desktops get arranged such as bsp, tree, or even custom arrangements

crawl_soever commented on Asdf – language tool version manager asdf-vm.com/guide/introdu... · Posted by u/timhigins

drdaeman · 3 years ago

`asdf` is a great tool but I'd like to remind people that it's probably a smart idea to be agnostic to it, for the very same reasons they should've been agnostic to their previous technologies of choice that `asdf` had replaced.

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

I have an issue out to make it agnostic of keyboard layouts if that helps! https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/930

crawl_soever commented on Researchers find ‘significant rates’ of sinking ground in Houston suburbs uh.edu/news-events/storie... · Posted by u/geox

seanmcdirmid · 3 years ago

> Well, they're doing something right when a median home costs $272k compared to the $1.5m one needs to live in the Bay Area growing up here.

You can get a house for $75k (median) if you want in Gary Indiana. I'm not sure how lower housing prices can be directly correlated with "doing things more right".

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

I live in Gary and there are many factors that can factor into the economics here, mainly a single employer planning the entire city and that employer collapse. A house is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it

crawl_soever commented on Gems from the man page trenches (2016) saminiir.com/gems-from-ma... · Posted by u/LEARAX

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

My favorite is entering "extreme bounce zone"Just take a look at the stupid tricks sampler at the end of GNU man!

crawl_soever commented on Tinder turns 10: what have we learned from a decade of dating apps? theguardian.com/news/audi... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

dwighttk · 3 years ago

I used Hinge for a while and it seems to be balanced such that a free user can actually get dates. It isn’t perfect, but I actually got 4 first dates and chatted with a few other genuine people, whereas on other apps like tinder I gave up more quickly because it was clear that I was gonna need to pay to actually match with a person. (Possibly I would actually match for free if I had looks that were driving more engagement)

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I find the hinge system bleak too. I've been on there a year and somewhat rarely get people to respond after a initial "match" let alone only managing to meet 2 people in real life. I say it is bleak for sure unless you're a swimsuit model

crawl_soever commented on Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022? · Posted by u/thepoet

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

I actively use the XPS 13 from 2015 as my daily driver. I never had any issues besides a buggy broadcom wifi module that I recently swapped out for Intel which fixed all my issues. I can say I certainly got my money's worth & more from my machine!

crawl_soever commented on Launch Attempt Scrubbed blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

shkkmo · 3 years ago

Except Twitter is actively hostile to non-logged-in users which makes the Twitter link much worse when there is an actual underlying source.

crawl_soever · 3 years ago

Twitter also completely blocked its static HTML site a few years ago. They insist that we enable JS to view plain-text content that I can directly view on the blog without JS.

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