It seems to be pretty common among European low-cost carriers. Not sure why it hasn’t taken off in the US, perhaps some reluctance to make passengers walk on the tarmac?
It’s possible to process transactions without a CVV, but it often costs slightly more due to the increased fraud risk. In the case of Uber Eats, they’ve presumably decided the increase in purchases from removing that friction makes up for the higher fee.
Unlike a lot of countries, the UK has free and near-instant bank transfers which seem to be a de facto standard for things like splitting bills with friends.
Incidentally I tried to use Venmo while in the US, but the app was geo-blocked so I couldn’t install it with a Google Play account set to the UK.
I get the weirdest language bugs with Google:
- The info box on the right hand side of the search results intermittently shows up in German
- A suggested event (a football match) in the UK (where I am) had both team's names transliterated into Cyrillic
- An airport on Maps consistently shows up in either French or Finnish (or both!)
It's worth noting that ETOPS only applies to 2-engine aircraft; a 4-engine aircraft can travel outside the ETOPS-permitted areas as long as it has enough fuel.
It's illegal to set off fireworks after 11pm except on 4 dates, Bonfire Night being one of them (the others are Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve and Diwali).
Somebody was asking about this on Reddit (/r/flying I think) a few months back. Short answer is that the FAA does not take kindly to receiving payment if you don't have a commercial license, and if you do then there's better work out there than Uber-for-cessnas.
Agreed. Working on a large Python codebase, I find myself greatly missing Java's improved static analysis, even for simple things like "find the definition of this function".
You'll be pleased to know he's still lecturing Foundations of Computer Science (aside from a sabbatical this year). It hasn't changed much at all, but the beauty of that course is that it doesn't have to.