[-] 667@lemmy.radio 44 points 1 week ago

They make money on the penalty default rate. They know what the average rate of default is, and they know how many people they plan to sign up. On average they make money. The 0% is to draw large numbers of customers in knowing that some percentage will default and of that percentage they will be able to collect on yet another percentage. This is why the default rate is like 24.99% or something silly like that.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 30 points 3 weeks ago

Wild there’s been an all-or-none implementation all this time.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 35 points 4 weeks ago

What any reasonable person in the same situation would do. You burn the house down.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Computing without databases is like going into a grocery store and all of the items are in one great pile. Sure, given enough time (CPU) and resources (RAM) you could find what you’re looking for, but it’s horribly inefficient.

Instead, things which are similar are grouped together, like the baking aisle (tables) and if you have to get most of the items for a cake, you know it’s on a specific shelf.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 25 points 1 month ago

Inspired by DARPA, popularized by porn.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 45 points 1 month ago

Not TV/movie, but Valve’s video logo and accompanying sound was pretty startling at the time.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 31 points 2 months ago

Why properly bolt them when you can just intimidate and harass the employees?

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 29 points 3 months ago

And it will wreck absolute havoc on our current weather patterns

It already has.

Record rain and snow in some regions, record drought in others; stronger hurricanes and typhoons. Japanese blossoms coming weeks earlier despite a millennia of records indicating it should come later.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 25 points 3 months ago

What’s worse is that disabling it in settings does not survive a restart.

Drives me nuts. Always makes me say things I didn’t Nintendo.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 56 points 3 months ago

“Report as junk and delete”.

Repetitive and obnoxious, but the non-cynical part of me still believes it will reduce the messages.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 27 points 3 months ago

Okay. I’ve 100% canceled your interview.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 37 points 4 months ago

Need to add a free space for “time travel”, it’s where you look at the clock and it’s 9:13a and then minutes later when you look again it’s 2a the next morning

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