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I would have never thought this would be a big deal to me, but having just started a new job using the newest Outlook that allows you to assign retention policies or create rules for automatically assigning retentional policies, I’ve found it REALLY useful and rewarding to set emails to automatically delete after x

I know this may make me seem like a pretentious SOB, but I have sometimes decided on what book to keep based on whether or not I could ever incision myself having friends over and wanting to or needing to walk to the shelf to look around for this particular book to pull out for some reason. Like “speaking about the

Fine... but this is going to make things really difficult next time I drive to my “Uncle’s son’s” place in Manhattan and stop in “that neighborhood up by the 125th Street Metro North station” at a “small local grocery/convenience market” to buy some “root tubers” or “leafy above the ground plant parts.”

Had I read this article a few years ago I would have probably been skeptical and moved right past... but then I took advantage of my school’s free subscription to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and it didn’t take long for the obviously superior quality to shine through. In an effort to be balanced I would

Real news and legacy journalism are not synonymous with newspaper. I think that you’ll find the Wall Street Journal and New York Times just as easy to use through their app or their websites as Buzzfeed or Facebook. No sitting down with a newspaper is required to get informed. You can still be lazy as hell and ingest

No problem - happy traveling! (It might also be worth giving them a call if you’re looking at flights from different areas. We fly out of NYC but I did see one mention it was a $100 upgrade to fly out of Philly or Chicago so if you see one you’re really interested in at a great price it might be worth inquiring

I would recommend you really try one out. We were very skeptical but decided to finally do it. At the end of the day, I realized that, even if we got there and the hotel was horrible, we could say “screw this hotel,” book last minute somewhere else and the deal was still cheaper than airfare alone. I had never booked

We’ve been really taking advantage of vacation deals we’ve found on Groupon the last few years and have pretty much waited to see an awesome deal to a place we would be moderately interested in and then we book it. It’s taken us to places we wouldn’t have listed on our “top 5 places to visit next” list and we’ve had

There should be no scenario where you have to give your whole phone to someone out of sight. That’s not how it works. If we move to a situation where restaurants all start taking ApplePay that is not how it will work. If we continue in a scenario where restaurants only take credit card payments at a centralized

Apple does get money from each ApplePay transaction by the way, not much (0.15% I think) but they aren’t doing it for free.

Satire aside, I find #5 to be especially on point. As the opposite of the #7 example, I grew up in a almost elusively white area (not because two blocks away a bunch of people of color were segregated, but because for 30 miles in any direction stretched dairy farm after dairy farm with people of mostly Nordic and

Agreed! I started commuting a few months ago and the train I take just a year or so ago started accepting digital tickets and I love it!

You can CHOOSE to separate your spending, but not everyone does. Plenty of people put all their spending on one credit card, or on a credit card and debit card all issued from the bank that has their savings and checking accounts. Again, it comes down to a personal balance of risk v. convenience.

Then don’t use ApplePay at a restaurant. My original comment isn’t saying that you should stop using credit cards. It’s just pointing out that credit cards also have risks just as ApplePay has risks and to balk at using ApplePay while at the same time having no problem with using credit cards (which I argue is

They certainly don’t have to upgrade their equipment just like they certainly don’t have to take ApplePay. But the solution isn’t to give your phone to the waiter. The solution, were a restaurant to want to start taking ApplePay, would be to invest in the terminal. That’s like me advocating using a credit card instead

I think that is a valid concern. But you could likewise say you have concerns with Bank of America knowing all of my purchasing activity, or Visa. You could just use cash or you could weigh the potential risks and benefits, knowing that nothing is 100% secure and knowing your own comfort-level with privacy concerns.

You would be right to not give you “entire fucking phone unlocked” to the waiter because nobody does this. The system would be that the waiter brings a portable payment terminal to your table where you pay. This is already the norm for credit card payments for places like Canada. Every time I visit Montreal and pay

My understanding is that, as more and more retailers upgrade their card readers (because of old age or to adopt new features like the chip reader) more and more of the new readers will just come with ApplePay or other touchless payment methods built in so we’ll gradually find it accepted more and more places.

If a restaurant (in the US) doesn’t take ApplePay, I give them my credit card and they go process it. I’m fine with that, I’m just pointing out that this is less secure than using ApplePay (though I do believe it is still pretty darn secure.) In no scenario would you be expected to hand over your phone to the waiter.

Why would you hand then your phone? They bring you a portable payment terminal. This is how it works in countries where the norm is already not to give the waiter your card.