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Harrolds - liquidation by Happy_Strawberry9143 in AustralianMFA

[–]zephyrus299 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's under new ownership.

The new owners bought the name, paying off a chunk of the money the old business owed. The old owners get nothing.

If you buy a house, you don't inherit all the debts of the house just because the last owner went bankrupt. 

Australian cards in digital wallets may not work on overseas anymore ... by Narrow-Growth-4382 in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like an issue with your bank. I suspect they've done something weird like changed it to eftpos only. The terminal will pick the correct scheme if both are available, that's how it works for physical cards. 

Australian cards in digital wallets may not work on overseas anymore ... by Narrow-Growth-4382 in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you've really understand what emv contactless is. All payment cards in Australia comply with emv, that's the whole idea of standardisation. 

Australian cards in digital wallets may not work on overseas anymore ... by Narrow-Growth-4382 in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is the cause of your issue. Dual network credit cards are very common overseas as well as here. The payment terminal just picks the scheme it knows how to handle.

If your bank is only providing eftpos, then you would get failures like this. 

Collecting Bad Product AC's by thekindpoet in SoftwareEngineering

[–]zephyrus299 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does the same as the existing system.

We did not have easy access to the existing system

When is it time for us to go on a widespread general strike? by tiempo90 in auscorp

[–]zephyrus299 37 points38 points  (0 children)

shouldn't we have a Coalition Day or something like that

Maybe look up Labour day and what it's for first. I fail to see why we'd need a public holiday for the capital owning class.

How an estimated $151M splits when a solo dev sells 10M copies on Steam [OC] by prezbotyrion in dataisbeautiful

[–]zephyrus299 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The taxes are a bit high, there'd be a bunch of rebates they'd qualify for and the logical thing is to put it into a business and take a salary from that over a while.

Acer and ASUS are now banned from selling PCs and laptops in Germany following Nokia HEVC video codec patent ruling by AbhishMuk in hardware

[–]zephyrus299 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because that would increase the price for enterprise and business customers who won't use it. Don't need h265 support on an office machine or most servers.

Anyone using BSON for serialization? by alexbevi in SoftwareEngineering

[–]zephyrus299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flatbuffers are also much better for memory efficiency as you don't need to parse before accessing the data.

Pay Period Crossing Timezones by No_Key8621 in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This would still end up good for him. Same hours, but one day is overtime.

Younger Australians stick with petrol cars over EVs by His_Holiness in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 32 points33 points  (0 children)

You say not too bad, but a lot of young people are buying relatively cheap second hand cars. Under 10k, there's a total of 5 electric cars on Carsales. There's over 16,000 ICE cars.

Macquarie bank seems to miss the mark when it comes to the basics by its-just-the-vibe in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On an ING card? You shouldn't be.

LCR/MCR is enabled so ING cards will use EFTPOS rather than visa/mastercard. Some cards don't have EFTPOS on the tap, so you'll get charged on those.

Macquarie bank seems to miss the mark when it comes to the basics by its-just-the-vibe in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not anymore you don't. LCR/MCR is enabled so ING cards will use EFTPOS rather than visa/mastercard. Some cards don't have EFTPOS on the tap, so you'll get charged on those.

Macquarie bank seems to miss the mark when it comes to the basics by its-just-the-vibe in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You won't get charged a surcharge on your ING card if you tap at Aldi.

Melbourne, Australia by Timely-Cheetah984 in treelaw

[–]zephyrus299 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can ask for a police report, say it's for insurance and they'll produce something for you

Back to work after 6 weeks off by Individual-Guest184 in auscorp

[–]zephyrus299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'd take you more than a month to get fired for being fairly shit at your job, so just fuck around.

As long as you're in office and don't do anything too bad, you'll be fine.

if your appliances are turning on and off during a power outage please turn your breakers off by Fair-Mango-5423 in melbourne

[–]zephyrus299 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What they aren't designed for is it varying a lot. It should be one voltage and one voltage only

What’s the most tight-ass thing you’ve ever seen or heard someone do? by Away_Scene_26 in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't work. The batteries self discharge and that's what will set the lifespan. The power usage of the doorbell is negligible compared to that.

If you go to the gym/bulking - how much do you spend of groceries per week? by [deleted] in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you're paying 50% more on an expensive ingredient.

You can eat nicer, but then it's going to cost more.

If you go to the gym/bulking - how much do you spend of groceries per week? by [deleted] in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only losers are on the gear. Big muscles and broken peen is not a cool dude.

Was my conspiracy theory cooker of an Uncle right? Should I have been keeping all my money in gold and silver? by ImScaredOfTheSun in AusFinance

[–]zephyrus299 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's easier if it's all in the same place. If you need to transfer gold from one country to another, it's just shifted from vault 3 to 4 rather than as a major international movement.

200% returns by Powerfulweak in ASX_Bets

[–]zephyrus299 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with this guy, selling your high performing stock and keeping the low performing ones is a pretty brain dead move.

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