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There are retailers in other countries and payment terminals that have implemented the self-checkout to be very close to "just walk out".

- no item weight confirmation - no steps in-between trying to sell me things - no annoying voice overs - decent UX (navigation) for the 99% case

Here is how I pay in those stores: - scan my item(s) placing them directly in my bag: taking ~1s per item - navigate through 3 screens by hammering the [Next] button that is in the same spot on all these screens: takes less than 1s - pay contactless with my creditcard: takes less than 1s

The US screwed up each of those 3 steps.


https://sectionhiker.com/why-does-dwr-suck/ mentions

- Nikwax (all products) - Sciessent Curb


I pay $40/mo for Hulu Live TV alone.


There are also reminders that string along as long as you don't check them off.


I wasn't able to get my country changed after I somewhat accidently opened a merchant account years ago. I have never used that merchant account. It also didn't tell me that I won't be able to change my country if I open one.

I've now been living in the UK for six months and three months ago I had a 3hr phone call with a very lovely support lady that tried to help but we didn't manage to change it. She told me that maybe I could just open a new account but then I said that my whole life is on this account and that is not an option. If I have to start over I'd rather make sure this won't happen again.


I cannot scroll on Chrome Android


I recently booked on airbnb in SF for a few days. The actual nightly price I paid was 40% higher than the list price (service fee, airbnb fee, sf occupancy taxes) which was towards the top of my price range filter. I still booked, so I guess it worked in favor of airbnb his time. But left a stale taste for future endeavors.


Why not use that intel to catch the person instead of telling him? He can now just use as different airline?


Differences between GSS and CSE: https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4541888?hl=en

As someone who just finished moving a custom search result site implementation from GSA (discontinued) to GSS this is highly outrageous. No access to the XML/JSON API is a showstopper.


If you look at the code they are all oneliners so you could just add aliases


Certainly, and this project could take on a structure which enables that sort of usage. A really great project with similar utility is https://github.com/tj/git-extras, which I think could provide a good model for refactoring git-quick-stats.


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