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Cash is already going away in some countries. Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.
Are you sure that applies generally, and not just to you and people like you?
Granted, I haven't been there in six months because of the virus, but I watch current British television every couple of days, and I still see people using cash.
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Valve invested a lot in proton & Linux graphic stack last years.
So it's better than both Wondows and Mac experience now?
on the other hand i just updated Windows 10 to v2004 and my microsft xbox controllers no longer work in Windows and they f'd up my resolution/scaling so i think i'm gonna go download Pop
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> on your own network connection ISPs can ban users just as capriciously as any other company. And they do. Decentralized internet alternatives are both harder to use (and "host your own infrastructure" is already impossibly hard for the vast majority of people) and too limited to be useful. It's time to accept that and emergent behavior of the internet is to become more centralized, not less.
Change ISP, then. Use a mobile ISP. Use Starlink for all I care. Just laying down to accept that and emergent behavior of the internet is to become more centralized is not an option if you want to retain a semblance of 'data freedom'.
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i generally agree (and the same goes for amazon). But let's not mix everything, otherwise we'll get no result. I believe there is a real momentum at the moment on the "app store" issue, and we should focus 100% on that until we get some result (then we'll move to the next one). I hope it's not going to be a talk about which commission rate is fair, because it completely misses the point. If apple wants to charge 30%…
> let my customers .. install my software .. the way want to I generally agree with the sentiment as a developer. As I user I never want to side load an app though. I’m afraid this will e.g. allow my bank to develop a shitty app bypassing the permission model and ask / force me to install it. I prefer to know even “strong” entities need to play by the sandbox rules.
And as an aside: you can sideload apps on Android. Have you seen any banks try to convince users to sideload their app? I sure haven’t.
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Supermarkets already exist that don't accept cash (in NL at least)
Isn't that the case for the Amazon stores?
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About 10 years ago HSBC got caught helping drug cartels launder money and they got massively fined for it. In the subsequent years they made it really difficult to open an account, but they wouldn't tell people what the hold up was because it's illegal for UK banks to tell customers that they are performing an anti money laundering investigation. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-probe/hsbc-to-pay-1-...
This explains so much about my experience... Couldn't they have asked me for materials though? If they had been up front and said "we need payslips in A4 printed format" I would have provided them..
Ironically HSBC at the time had adverts plastered at airports all over the world bragging at how good they are for international businesses...
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I have this horrible feeling that you'll soon buy the government you want; Amazon or Facebook Gov is a terrifying idea: "do you want to add on the international development budget for £14.99 per month". I wonder if it would be better than what we currently have?
Representative democracy doesn't really represent me. I want to go online and fill out a long, myers briggs like personality test that judges my political leanings, and then have that data fed to a script that votes on all the issues for me directly, skipping the middlemen. Collectively those scripts would be a far better representation than any human. Replace all politicians with tiny shell scripts.
And Apple is not even an isolated case. Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim. Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10. Pay…
>Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. That is why I am absolutely against abolishing paper cash. Edit: I know there are countries where you have a democratically elected representatives and every part of the government and even companies is held ( more or less ) accountable to the people and does not need to worry ( much ) about big b…
Ah, took me a second. You don't mean paper cash in reference to fiat money vs the gold standard. You mean hard cash being replaced by plastic account balances in a sort of cyberpunk vein. Totally agree, great point.
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I have this horrible feeling that you'll soon buy the government you want; Amazon or Facebook Gov is a terrifying idea: "do you want to add on the international development budget for £14.99 per month". I wonder if it would be better than what we currently have?
A functioning government more or less is a negotiation and arbitration platform between large economic players - the state being one of these, of course. So I'm not sure what 'buying the government' actually would mean or how it would be different...