perviouslyiner

"Good enough is perfect"

Credit cards for anything over £100 online, for the built-in fraud protection - https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/guide-to-credit-card-protection/

That's how cities work - a 300-home apartment building isn't going to have 300 generators on the balconies and expect each family to maintain one - it has a single grid connection with specialists to maintain the electric.

Knew that he wouldn't persevere with it - very forward-thinking!

If it was Ender's Game, you might be better off starting with book two...

that's what Stern said? They didn't get that opportunity.

It's definitely possible to have a hardware token which allows confirming the transfer details - https://www.manua.ls/nationwide/card-reader-security-for-internet-banking/manual

They can’t book 75 people for a train which can only seat 50

The official statistics lists how frequently that occurs.

+1. "oh you'll surely be good if you are early, the train can't possibly already be overcrowded when it arrives"

I suspect the sales website can't actually reserve seats itself, but just passes along the request to some other system, which enters "LOL, NO!" in that field for a train that was long-since fully booked.