I what way shape or form can settling money over several days be better than instant transfers with direct auth?

You can do that too! It's just that you can also use checks. I don't see the problem, instant money transfers are ubiquitous and were easy for me even as a visitor in the US. The fact that bank transferts take longer doesn't really matter day to day, they just don't use them for that

It's not 'a bit emotional', it's a tantrum with as much logic as saying why have a washer/dryer when you still have to hand wash some stuff.

This works both ways though, there is a reason why time and materials is so common.

I had to replace my charge 5 several times within the last couple years, it breaks fairly regularly.

How do you know its doing nothing? I have a couple VPSes I have sitting idle for my disaster recovery scenario.

Yes, it depends on the situation - the service, what the vendor knows about usage, etc. Sometimes you know, sometimes you don't.

What country would allow a documented felon to live there?

Many countries in Europe have had immigration without any control what so ever for years so I guess all of them?

I downvoted it because the tone of the response was rather annoying, more fitting to some popular subreddit than HN.

Ah, so the house part comes from warehouse. Not obvious to say the least.

> Currently all the layers in patent application process is incentivized to ignore quality.

Hasn't it always been the case? There's a ton of old patents for shit which can't work as described.