If you cant do the sarcasm yourself (and be witty enough), it's just not fun or improved in any way. Use of corporate speak is sarcasms on its own right, of course - but it only makes sense if it's something your are exposed to (and people can relate), instead of being fake.

Also, if you have to mark the sarcasm, then it's proper bad.

Easier to read is mostly related with predictability of the text. Any time the brain mispredicts the next word, you'd have to go back and re-read.

Unless you are purposely train on that specific way to expression, it ain't easier to read.

I don't know why this is confusing. If I forget to put the "not" qualifier in a sentence, do we agree that it can confuse (or worse, mislead) the reader?

I never said - confusing. Just not easier to read as in relative term.

The edited version is an example of a sterile/canned response. No one talks like that.

While I do edit my comments to fix typos, certain spelling oddities and other peculiarities would be present.

8 points in 3 hours, that has to be some boost to reach the front page indeed.

In these case our only solution is to flag, right? Or is there any other way to report it?

run y-cruncher if you'd like to test memory and overall stability. It's decent test and a lot better than memtest (in my experience)

while true that month being 1st making little sense, the good format usually features leading zeros, so '22/07'

>lower the bar

the classic: "aim low, avoid disappointment"

The scan phase is proof of liveness. Photo is a still image.

for visa, multiple pictires.

for visa, at least when I did it, multiple pictures and full sets of all fingerprints.

It's a quite straightforward use - few minutes, it uses NFC to the passport, it's very organized and well guided... except

you can use only one bank card per person - the payment would be rejected w/o any reason given, so going through the process few times to no avail. Getting visas for the family would require multiple bank cards.

This is a common problem. I have it everywhere I go when I take my kids on holiday. Particularly ticket machines where you have to buy multiple tickets and can't add more than one to a transaction (Maltese buses are a good one).

I don't get the problem with my credit card. Might just be switching cards until you find one that isn't crap.

I encountered this on the NYC subway trying to buy 4 metrocards with one credit card. No bueno.

Indeed, it could be a common issues. Some places transposition systems even allow use of bank cards as 'ticket'

Yeah I'm in London so that's what we use here. But a lot of the European transport systems just chuck it through as a single transaction so if you buy three tickets it looks like repeated attempts to transact and is blocked.

Athens is another one that got me last year.

Funny - both London and Athens were in my mind when I wrote the comment.

I'm guessing this is your card bouncing a repeat purchase from the same vendor with the same value

That I'd not know, although it'd be very uncommon and has not happened. In the EU 3ds is a very standard process, the the payments require an explicit approval (national id cards/smartid, etc.)

Yeah weird, I've seen some vendors reject the purchase even after a successful 3ds validation, looks like something in the vendor/payment processor (rather than the bank) side

3DS also requires a smartphone app, at least at my bank

I guess you could create a few virtual cards and use those.