Happily for you the government didn't write any of this. The emergency alert stuff is all standardized and the phone-end support of it is part of the Android and iPhone base OS, written by the same p… (View Post)

Plus inevitably parties of all colours are now nudging their supporters towards getting a postal vote, since it doesn't have the ID requirement and avoids the "your supporter forgets to take ID … (View Post)

It probably depends also on the business's typical transaction size -- my local greengrocer has a "minimum card spend 5 quid" policy. (View Post)

I'm fine with the 'reader asks' mode -- if you're going to do cashless tipping that seems like about the only way to do it. In my ideal world we'd work like Japan where nobody tips or expects tips an… (View Post)

There certainly has to be some group of voters out there that approve -- I assume there's no way a party puts out something like this without it getting through focus-group testing... (View Post)