jowea

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   by jowea 2y ago

   Thanks, maybe someday I will finally be promoted to Internet Shill First Class. But seriously, it would still be a monopoly on the UPI-like segment. Visa and Mastercard charge fees that make them less attractive to some users and make it ha
2. 212.▲
   by jowea 2y ago

   Yeah there was a big thing where the government announced some new rules relating to reporting transactions to the local IRS equivalent. I believe that's the main reason for the fall in Pix usage.
3. 213.▲
   by jowea 2y ago

   1. I'm not sure but I'm gonna guess no. Aren't Americans notoriously hard to offer banking services to due to anti-money laundering regulations? 2. Yes, it's quite easy Wasn't the Fed going to launch their own take
4. 214.▲
   by jowea 2y ago

   I think almost everywhere will still accept debit cards, at least until paying by Pix becomes faster.
5. 215.▲
   by jowea 2y ago

   Well I'm thanking the government for saving us from yet another Facebook monopoly thorough first mover advantage and network effects.
6. 216.▲
   by jowea 2y ago

   Only real afaik, although there have been some thoughts to integrating some neighbours to the system. Right afaik it works in shops popular with Brazilian tourists in the Southern Cone through some workarounds.
7. 217.▲
   by jowea 2y ago

   It's interesting, in my country if a classmate bought a textbook I would assume they bought the one because they love the subject and are going to keep using it after college. I don't think I ever actually saw someone buy a textbo
8. 218.▲
   by jowea 2y ago

   I think there should be "pull out the cord" step somewhere
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   by jowea 2y ago

   I am not sure I understand the distinction between the packaging and build process, at least in the context of nixpkgs. Packages in nixpkgs are essentially build instructions, which you can either build/compile locally (like Gentoo) b
10. 220.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    Nixpkgs package maintainers don't usually have commit rights. I assume that if one tried to include some weird patch, the reviewer would at least glance at it before committing.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I think you can have problems today if you have a power failure mid motherboard firmware/BIOS/UEFI upgrade. Some mobos I heard have some protection or some way to unbrick it but it could be dangerous. And it was a real danger befo
12. 222.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Junior_Woodchucks_Guidebook
13. 223.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    I am quite sure the people developing the current chatbots were well aware of what happened with Tay etc. I'd bet it's part of the reason for the safety stuff.
14. 224.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    Does using the internet use less battery?
15. 225.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    I think that international competition is one of the greatest guarantees that trying to stand athwart history and yelling stop never works in the long term.
16. 226.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    steam-run solves this for me at least.
17. 227.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    I don't think Microsoft is at the level of making a meme out of the marketing flagship product yet. Maybe a joke on their Twitter.
18. 228.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/28/business/nuclear-war-plan... > It will take something more than a nuclear attack to wipe out taxpayers' obligations to the Internal Revenue Service. > An add
19. 229.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    I think the ideal solution in an ideal world would be to do ranked choice voting between the main choices that could be reasonably negotiated and remain. So voters could pick between EEA, Canada-like, remain, etc all at the same time. Which
20. 230.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    I'm guessing but the problem is source phone number spoofing. If Caller ID worked correctly 100% of the time and 100% of the time you get a fraud/spam/etc call you could complain and the authorities knew who owned the phone n
21. 231.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    To who?
22. 232.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    I suspect I have run into a couple bugs because of password generators putting characters that some backend system cannot process in the password. Halfwish they just did DKWhhjwqjkwqjmHSJKHAIUHQwdmlsadkl instead.
23. 233.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    Meh, IMHO the actually important rule is that parliament has to consent to the PM. He appointed someone else that had a majority tolerating him, and then parliament changed its mind and now Macron has to pick someone else. The left only has
24. 234.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    Medium hot take: this is why closed-source social media post promotion algorithms should be banned. We should not let a foreign private company with government links influence society in a hidden way like that.
25. 235.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    Just a proxy conflict. Just need to figure out if Russia is the main power or the Chinese (or NK) proxy.
26. 236.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    Isn't a big part of the issue for the first incident that pilots didn't know MCAS even existed?
27. 237.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    What I gathered is that the answer is that nobody knows, since Yotta, Synapse and the actual bank are pointing fingers at each other and since Synapse outright collapsed they pay for an audit. I'm too lazy to check it myself, but I ass
28. 238.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    I only superficially paid attention to this news but didn't Yotta end up going from "bank with sweepstakes" to "bank with a casino" quite quickly?
29. 239.▲
    by jowea 2y ago

    Funny thing is this is just the latest issue around this CA. For a long time you had to manually add it to certificate store because it was not trusted by default but the Brazilian government insisted in using it on official websites.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    > The early RFCs were, in fact, requests for comments on ideas and proposals; the goal was to start conversations rather than to create an archival record of a standard or best practice. This goal changed over time, as the formality of t