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Half the top pages on Google are now AMP links - which are hosted on Google. So no Google doesn't need to track you across websites because you never leave Google.


I'm guessing floor tiles/fake stone benchtops. Huge market that would require a lot of glitter and it's not something you initially think would contain glitter. The expensive fake stone benchtops would feel "cheaper" if you knew that it was just glitter making them look good.


I was thinking asphalt and concrete - it seems that New York uses a specific percentage of mica flakes in their sidewalks, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find that roadways would use something to aid reflectivity as well.


I looked road markings up earlier because it was also my first guess, but everything I've seen indicates they just use plain glass microspheres in reflective paint and such.

For the roads themselves, more reflective might be a bad thing anywhere that sees heavy snowfall. Less sunlight absorbed=colder roads=more snow buildup and many other related problems.

None of these uses would need to be kept secret though.


Yeah, the microspheres have the property of being very retroreflective (shine headlamp light directly back toward a driver efficiently) and so get used in lots of automotive visibility scenarios.


Why would a local government be secretive about what they put in roads?


There's really no issue. If your card is stolen and fraudulent charges made the bank will reverse them. Having used chip payments for years now, I couldn't imagine living without them.


What if the card is stolen alongside your pin? Will the charges not be reversed because the pin was stolen?


The only way for a PIN to be stolen is if you wrote it on the card, or if it was forced out of you e.g. at gunpoint.

The latter is incredibly rare. The former is your own fault. That's why generally if a PIN was provided the liability is on the card holder.


While this doesn't invalidate your point, I've seen recordings of people being coerced to give up their pin by someone acting like they are being helpful in getting an ATM to work. The guy of course has a skimmer and gets it later.


Card skimmers.


Card Skimmers will only copy track1 and track2 of the magnetic strip. In order to get the pin you need an additional piece of equipment that records the pinpad, such as a well placed camera.


Many skimming devices do both... They even capture the CCV.


Yes. The whole point of FDIC insurance is that you will be reimbursed for any sort of theft. Even pin + card.


No. And FDIC insurance has nothing to do with this. Most banks will in fact try to hold you fully liable for fraudulent transactions if your stolen card was used with its PIN. Their rationale is that if you gave your PIN to an unauthorized person, or used a weak PIN, or wrote it down and got the piece of paper stolen, then you should be liable. See for example: "If your Password or PIN is used in such a transaction, you will be liable for the full debt" http://www.scotiabank.com/ca/common/pdf/borrowing/revolving_...


No, FDIC insurance is insurance against bank insolvency not theft.


The pin is not on the card. You're responsible yourself for keeping it safe.


If you use Apple Pay there can be no fraud by hacking the retailer since Apple does not give the retailer your CC number but rather a token. Apple Pay is very quick and convenient and secure.


As a side project I've been working on http://saved.io a simple way to store bookmarks across devices


been waiting to read his book, but unfortunately its not available in australia yet (kindle format)


Yeah, that's annoying. Sorry, I'm sure you can find it somewhere....


Saved.io (http://saved.io)

It's cool because it's solves a problem I was having in a really simple and elegant way.


thanks I'll fix it.


I built this tool because I was sick of having bookmarks stored my an individual browser or having to install a plugin. This is the fastest and easiest way to save bookmarks I could come up with.


Why not get a shorter URL as well? :) (hint: svd.io is available)


You need a bookmarklet.


I'm not sure how other browsers handle this, but this will work in Chrome, create a bookmark with the URL: javascript:document.location.replace("http://saved.io/"+document.location.href);


i love workflowy too although I find myself using Trello more often. I keep my weekly schedule on workflowy.


I've been using Trello for a few weeks now. Is there a resource out there that can show me how power users are using it so I can really max it out?


thanks for the feedback - all my ideas are to solve problems that I have come across. All my apps past and present have been built because I couldn't find a solution that worked for me. And luckily other people seem to have the same problems and I've managed to attract awesome investors.

p.s - penmusic is nothing to with a pen, rather its a feature i was toying with to integrate music streaming on my pen.io product


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