dubyakay

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Oh! No-no. Must phone purchases in NA are made by CC at either the manufacturer's store / website or a telephone provider's store or website. The CC is not tied to the phone itself. But the purchase of the item is.

If you buy something with a credit card, you can dispute a charge and claim "goods not received" with the issuer of the credit card. After a time period you usually get the money back.

I'll try to demonstrate:

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

How do you buy a second hand Puxl safely?

With iPhone there's so many horror stories. Mainly what they do is buy the phone through some means that opens up the possibility of credit card fraud, then pass the phone on. Then they do the charge back to reclaim the money. Apple then bricks the device of course due to non payment and you as the second hand owner are stuck with a decorative piece.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

You don't need a visa for Canada, Brudi.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't need to nationalize it. Turn it into a cooperative instead. Every worker owns shares within the company. Profits are shared.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

Jean-Francois Ratelle, who led the Norman Brigade under the nom de guerre Hrulf, was one of two Canadians to die within the past month fighting for Ukraine.

An international studies professor at the University of Ottawa, also called Jean-Francois Ratelle, said the Norman Brigade appears to have shifted from occupying defence roles — holding battle lines — to activities outside the front lines. Ratelle, who studies foreign fighters, is not related to the deceased soldier of the same name.

Uhh. What are the chances?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Photo development booths, printing centres and later phone repair shops (before phones regularly got encrypted) used to be the number one avenue for getting photos leaked.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

That's what they wrote, yes.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The problem with grade level crossings, even if the lights are adjusted, is always rush hour traffic.

One good example of this is line 512, St Clair W of the TTC. It's a street car on well separated tracks but with many intersections due to it crossing dense neighbourhoods in addition to dedicated left/U turn lanes for 2x1 lanes worth of cars. Despite being only 2x1 lanes, the road being on the E-W makes it a major thoroughfare. The congestion can get so bad that at certain intersections the street car can get stuck for ten minutes or more until the blockage clears.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Wait, LA had a subway system??

~60 M ridership 109 miles network length

Dayyyuum! Must be nice to always have a seat on your commute.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Subways are usually meant for within city limits to relieve congestion. Not for intercity, so it's irrelevant if Texas is big.

Unless you mean that land with rails within city limits already exists. In that case grade level crossings are a major hindrance.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Why are you getting down voted so much? You are absolutely right. Canadian milk products (including milk) are complete garbage. We can thank our milk cartels for that, plus the really stupid regulations put into place over concerns of germs that basically limits the amount of raw or non-homogenized milk on the market.

How come most of Europe can produce far superior tasting cheeses and also consume fresh milk from milk vending machines, but there's an inane control on it in North America?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I work in fintech and I had glimpses of raw API data that credit agencies, Mastercard and LexisNexis provide (among others). It's crazy detailed. Even just our query increases the query count by one and provides at least ten data points on the why and when.

I'm not surprised that the car manufacturers are selling this data to LexisNexis who in turn sell it to insurance companies.

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