"greed"? The force that pushes back on corporate greed should be competition. The problem is the modern trend of consolidation, monopolisation and lack of proper competition.
Why compete when we all own index funds? Just use proxies to communicate and sychronize about "industry and sector costs and margins" and take your share. Maybe work a little on cost reductions to look good, and don't rock the boat: So long as investors can be exposed to whole markets and industries without caring about individual winners, there's really only one owner of the publicly traded participents.
You completely miss the point. The crypto key held by the EIDAS provider is not the weak link. They are very securely attesting ONLY that the signatory controlled a given email address at the time of the signature. If I can get control of your email address then I can sign anything in your name with EIDAS. It's worthless, as the signatory can just claim that their email was hacked. You might as well just rely on emails, as we do in the UK.
Yes, a metaphor for doing it "even more". He means that they will be angry and will do more than just reverse the transaction: they will punish the merchant who fraudulently debited your account. They will levy a fine on them (any merchant who is plugged into the ACH system will have signed a contract with their bank agreeing to accept such fines and possibly put up a bond), or even perhaps ban them from making any future transactions, seriously harming their business.
I think basisword is British (as am I). I think Uber came about because taxis in the US sucked. Over here we never had the same problems with no-shows or overcharging (I'm speaking in general, of course this varied a lot).
Uber hasn't done nearly so well in the UK as in the US. Outside of London, you can't find an Uber anywhere and the same local taxi firms from before Uber are still competing, largely based on their local reputation. (Plus now they all have whitelabel apps which have all Uber's features)
What a horrible comment; totally without compassion or empathy; totally self-congratulating.
What do you propose people who find themselves unhappily addicted to smartphones do? Just feel bad about their lack of "character" and wish they were you?
That someone disagrees with where the root of the problem lies does not mean they are lacking compassion nor empathy.
> What do you propose people who find themselves unhappily addicted to smartphones do? Just feel bad about their lack of "character" and wish they were you?
How do you fix a problem by mistaking its cause? Luck?
Pretty weird "joke" or "a slightly funny hypothetical". It's a plausible but false explanation for an event people were trying to understand, posted to a programming forum. It feels more like disinformation to me. I think it was a bit unethical to not mark it as fictional.
