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Comment Regulation (Score 3, Insightful) 160

What we need is regulations. We need to:

1. cap the maximum fee that can be charged to merchants (0.5% would seem fair, but even 1% would be a good start)
2. Forbid clauses in contracts between Visa/Mastercard and ther merchants preventing the merchants from adding a surcharge when paying with a credit card to cover the fees.

The result would be a net win for the public.

Comment Re:I would almost be on Apple's side (Score 4, Insightful) 97

You didn't get the point. Most people have USB-A chargers. Most people don't have lightning cables. Most people don't have USB-C chargers.

So, if the average joe go buy an iPhone 12, he likely can't charge it. Unless maybe from a new PC with USB-C ports (which again, most people don't have), but that's not always convenient.

Comment Re:If you're going to bring up Hydro Quebec (Score 1) 275

That is for all of Canada. Quebec's price is much lower than that, and is about 99% clean (hydro). Despite harsh winters (high demand).
Texas get relatively cheap electricity by polluting everyone's air (fossil fuels). And history has proven that Quebec's grid is more reliable than Texas's. Quebec's grid never failed because of cold/hot temperature. In 1998 it did fail (although not to the scale of the Texas failure) because of a severe ice storm. I doubt Texas would do better in similar conditions.

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