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vanriggs t1_j6igd36 wrote

Reply to comment by stevehockey1 in ELI5: Why are contactless payment methods faster than inserting the chip? by jimmysofat6864

>and devs back then didn't like to leave comments for some reason

Sonny those extra bytes ain't free dag'nabit. You whipper snappers these days just think bytes grow on trees or somethin'.

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formerly_gruntled t1_j6kokeg wrote

I worked for a company that made an acquisition in 1982 that required the death one of the legacy computer systems. The reason we killed the better computer system is that it only had a single digit space for production facilities, and the merged company had ten.

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