This is no different than chip+pin for physical purchases. There are still other major areas of fraud that has to be addressed.

It doesn’t cover credit risk-even on a debit card, there can be a “hold” period of an arbitrary amount before the final transaction clears. When you swipe a card at a gas station, they often run a $50 authorization hold on your account.

It also doesn’t cover merchant fraud—- Visa/MC covers you if the merchant doesn’t ship the product because they’re a fake company.

Then there are value-added warranty services that higher end cards offer. These are easily worth the 1%+ fee.

Did it cost more in carbon just for the construction workers to drive their pickup trucks to build this plant than what the plant will actually remove?

Does Azure’s Append Blob support (and AWS’ lack thereof) provide any inherent performance advantages for Azure vs. AWS?

fyi, SQL Server has a message broker built-in.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/config...

Tesla is just a generation ahead of other EVs. They’re an Apple iPhone and everybody else is the cheap knockoff Android phones from 2011.