Caedarai

Debian since the year after you, but I reinstall with every new version. Mostly just cuz it’s a great excuse to ‘start fresh’ with just the applications I want and to get the ‘new computer experience’. Totally unnecessary, but nice anyways.

Okay, sorry, most people would prefer not to kill them if there’s a simple nonlethal removal. But practically speaking, to eliminate them entirely from Colombian ecosystems, there’s going to have to be some sort of cull.

Not at all. He can knock himself out capturing and taking as many as he wishes. As long as they are removed from the environment they are wrecking, it’s all the same if he pays to kill or relocate them. And obviously no one likes killing large mammals if there’s an easy alternative.

But that’s just control. A tradeoff since there has been some evidence that reaction time, attention and accident avoidance work better the other way. Like sure, I might have more control over a knife by cutting towards myself (granny cut for apples and such), but it’s still inherently more dangerous that the opposite side in any case besides ‘everything goes perfectly’.

But that’s less of a factor that just being more attentive (and primed to react) to action on your right hand side if right handed. It’s ‘sticky’ for me at least: I can switch to driving on the left relatively easily, but the reverse takes more effort, even though I have spent more time driving on the right in my lifetime.

Driving on the left you mean. It’s better since most people are right-handed.

Something attached to the main computer, but with its own firmware/controls is still far better than having no device at all, and relying on external code for verification. Would a discrete box separate from everything else be better (independent of mobile phones as well)? Sure. But a great step that would be progress compared to the current status quo is what the other poster describes, with logic and chip verification running on a device attached to the device or computer with which you wish to pay.

Though nowadays most places that accept cryptocurrency payments only do so through the most well-known stable coins. Generally, just Bitcoin, Monero, USDC (fixed to the dollar), and maybe Ether or such. Random coins like DOGE or [insert strange acronym] aren’t really accepted for payments most anywhere. And this is just as a payment option, so it’s not like you need to use it. Like paying on Amazon through Klarna or whatever. Anyone who prefers payment through a bank account or bank card would continue to be able to do so.

MC and VISA are the networks. They allow communication between banks, and the entire operation is packaged up by payment processors like Stripe, Square or PayPal. So you have processors, the banks on either end (perhaps two separate ones), the network operator, and additionally any extra companies that might offer additional services for the transaction, like for fraud prevention or financing.

That’s actually the version that’s in the AUR, since they can’t put newer (fixed) code in there from the new versions.

That’s the point. From an international relations standpoint there’s no major issue with China where humans rights violations are concerned. Since the don’t arm groups outside their borders, there doesn’t need to be an international response for that because there’s no international threat. The tensions with China are mostly with respect to Taiwan and trade.

Well, Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrosit groups, arming and financing many in region to attack neighbours. You don’t see China arming terrorists in Mongolia or Vietnam to overthrow their governments, for starters. Then there is the bit where their official policy is basically to end the state of Israel. And there’s the fact that they have used terror themselves, kidnapping and extorsion to directly confront the west before, kidnap US citizens and fought wars against the western countries and allies. And both their official internal and external policies and policy goals are frankly terrifying.