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Originally Posted by Xist
Gold standard?! Clearly you think he is more modern than I do!
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He's an interesting combination of being ahead of the times and behind. I mean, paying in Bitcoin isn't exactly mainstream, but perfectly congruent with freebeard's libertarian sensibilities.
We're of the age of having been trained by companies to exchange privacy for convenience. Supplying my email address seamed a good deal to be able to map my travel route back in the day, for instance.
Now look what every app you put on your phone requests. Access location, access contacts, access camera...
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Originally Posted by JSH
Oregon doesn't charge a fee for using a credit card.
Online transactions have to be much cheaper than paying employees to do what people can do themselves online. I
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It wasn't that long ago Oregon didn't even accept debit. They required cash and had an ATM in the office that charged a huge convenience fee. I always suspected the DMV manager had a brother in the ATM business. I was accepting credit card as a highschooler in 1999 for occasional Ebay transactions, meanwhile every single encounter the DMV has with someone involves a monetary transaction.