BonesJustice

As a user, I am generally in favor of Apple requiring the option to purchase items and subscriptions through the App Store. I would never subscribe to, for example, HBO NOW if I thought I’d have to go through HBO (owned by AT&T) in order to unsubscribe. I want the guarantee of easy cancellation.

I am also fine with Apple collecting a modest fee for providing that service. That fee should probably be somewhere in the 2-3% range. Demanding what amounts to a 30% “introducer fee” is beyond absurd.

I also do not approve of how inconsistently Apple enforces their own rules.

They actually must be sent electronically now in NY, or at least that’s how my doctor explained it to me.

I’d assumed that was for all prescriptions, but it could just be controlled substances.

As someone who worked at investment bank for years, and would have had to go to the trouble of getting preapproval for any individual trades, it was far less troublesome just to rely on managed accounts.

So, yeah, just make them use managed accounts.

Why put in hard breaks when pretty much any email client should support soft/flexible line wrapping?

Seems more like an issue with the linked site to me.

If I were asked to impart one piece of advice to prospective CS students, it would be to take advantage of your school’s coop work program or, if there isn’t one, to try and find a recurring internship.

Nothing beats real world experience, and the sooner you can put theory into practice, the better.

Additional learning on your own is, of course, also a great idea. Pick a project you’d like to do, and then do it. Or find an interesting open source project, explore the code base, and try tackling a bug report or two.

Just an annoyance in the Consolas font metrics. It would look correct in the bitmapped old console font.

Unless your software can walk itself down to the courthouse, probably not. Courts are, to be generous, a bit behind the times.

Can you even imagine what an Oracle-built IDE would be like? Perish the thought. (shudder)

Good luck suing a call center in Bangalore when you live in the U.S.

More accurately, an entire bird colony > a single cat.

Indeed. Raise the cap to $300,000/day per facility, and this might actually have an effect. For most hospitals, a fine of $300 a day isn’t a fine at all, and I assume that’s by design.

If the scope of potential damage were limited to the assets owned by said corporation, perhaps.

In reality, a corporation so isolated would have no reason to exist.

I suppose it depends on whether expected future debt is considered ‘debt’.

If you have no savings, then it’s very likely you’ll still go into crippling debt eventually; at best, you’re staving it off until retirement. At that point, cheap credit is probably not going to be as readily available.

But I get your meaning. Yes, there is definitely an in-between where people can spend their entire income without accumulating immediate debt (social debt and future debt not withstanding).

As with many things in life, habits play a huge role.

People with low incomes have little choice but to budget responsibly or go into crippling debt. Once you get into the habit of spending responsibly, it’s easy to continue that habit even as your income rises. You’re used to making what you earn go a long way.

On the other hand, if your attitude is, “yeah, maybe I’m not making much now, but I should totally be making fat stacks in a couple years,” then your poor spending habits are likely to continue. You’ll go into debt with the expectation that you’ll be able to pull yourself out of it as your income rises. But living beyond your means is a very hard habit to break. You start to rationalize: “hey, I should have a much better lifestyle making $100k than I did at $50k.” Except, well, you weren’t really living off $50k; you were living off $50k plus a lot of high-interest credit.

I consider this a serious accessibility problem. Rather than complain to customer service, maybe we should be going straight to their corporate counsel. Frame it as a potential ADA violation. It's actively hostile to anyone who suffers from heightened anxiety, ADHD, etc.

If there's anyone who can push back against the marketing department, it's the legal department.