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The other option is to make everyone gamblers, either speculate on properties or stocks. Pick your poison.

probably gas price

No, that would be implementation defined.

losing the gold standard 1971?

What if a piece of software isn't packaged, like for example the ARM GCC toolchain. In a Dockerfile I just need to curl and unpack it. How do I solve that with guix?

Only if your system/browser is set to dark mode

Found an error immediately "Any lowercase character" doesn't match all Swedish lowercase characters.

It would be semver compatible if they used 0.DATE.0 or 0.0.DATE instead.

from semver spec:

4) Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

Does the data support the "general rule" then? I think 65 year olds today are much more able than 65 year olds 50 years ago.

Please read the article. His produces 200x intermediary values. Clickbait title, since it wasn't a leak.

You can have different standards for different use cases. So you mean that iMessage and rcs are so different that Android can't use iMessage or apple couldn't use rcs? We don't need to find one standard to rule them all. But we need to stop anti-competition behavior like allowing these protocols to be exclusive.

The reason gsm, 3g, 4g, sms and so on succeeded was because everyone could implement them. I guess you had to pay license or patent fees, but they are not walled gardens. Phones from different manufacturers and/or different operators can communicate. I'm surprised that "chat"-protocols are allowed to be monopolies by the regulators. The regulators probably don't understand tech.

The roundtrip time is never consistent. Light travels with different speed in fiber depending on the temperature. This is why you calibrate every second.

The SEK used to be locked. That lead to another kind of crisis in the nineties. You are right that we should've adopted the euro though.

Tax, if your country has capital gain tax you need to declare every single trade to real USD. When you are trading between crypto pairs you are not realizing any gain, thus you don't need to declare it. Until you eventually sell of course.

I'm also a proponent of nuclear, but modern nuclear power plants seem to take 15-20 years to construct and typically go 10s of billions of EUR over budget. So one does not simply "build a reactor".. look at Olkiluoto 3 in Finland, Flamanville 3 in France and Hinkley Point C in UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

Also most of the wind power is in northern Sweden.

This is only half the story. What is actually happening is that Sweden is importing expensive electricity from the baltics and exporting it to Germany. So even though the electricity is only in "transit" through Sweden, the prices go up in southern Sweden. Obviously everything is working as designed, but it does feel a bit unfair.

To lower the prices in southern Sweden either southern Sweden or northern Germany must increase "plannable" electricity production to avoid expensive imports from the baltics.

It mentions ACID compliant databases for one.

You avoid use after free for example

For those use cases you typically have specialised hardware or an FPGA.

I would never own a car. But I suppose I don't want to drive a car that is older than 3 years and I don't enjoy selling used cars. I prefer the freedom I get to just hand the car back after 3 years and don't have to think about it anymore. Also no unexpected service costs and so on.

You can also argue that it is impossible to update dynamic libraries because they are used by multiple applications and you can't afford that any application breaks. So instead of being able to patch that one application where the security is needed, you now have to patch all of them.

It might be slow, but it is deterministic which is more important in systems programs.

Yes, don't use the std lib (or more specifically the alloc crate) and don't use types like floats and u128.

If bitcoin would be fully powered by renewables, do you still think its energy consumption would be a problem?

What if you live in an apartment and only use your car for weekend activities?

That is all public data. You can get that through open channels like birthday.se as well. I've been at BankID and I know for a fact exactly what information they store. They store only what is necessary from a regulatory standpoint.

I guess I only shop with stores that use Kivra.

BankID doesn't store any information, and I have no problem that the stores I'm a member in store my shipping history.

I think you are overstating the scale of the surveillance. I don't think the different entities share data with each other.

Edit: try live in a country like Switzerland once you have gotten use to all interaction being online. It's horrible.

Edit2: actually other stores provide digital receipts without Kivra. You just have to be a member.

Edit3: This has nothing to do with patriotism, there are many things that I don't like about Sweden. But the fact that we have taken digitalisation seriously since the 90s is something I think is great.

In Sweden we have a company running the ID system and that works fine. The company is coowned by all the large banks afaik. I was really surprised at how far behind Switzerland is compared to Scandinavia when it comes to digitalisation. Being able to handle my life hassle free online instead of going to physical places (like post office, banks, gov office) is liberating. I also get all my bills digitally and all my receipts (even physical stores)