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That reminds me of:
Quote: You've painted up your lips
Rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby, are you contemplating
Going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall
Tells me the sun is going down
Oh, Ruby
Don't take your love to town
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I really don't believe that they are after me, but even if I were paranoid, they might be!
Currently (that includes 'considering the powers currently in force') I 'have nothing to hide', as the way of speech goes. Yet it bugs me that those powers are given the mechanisms to track how much beer I drink and of which make, my choice of toothpaste and at which concerts and theater shows I pay for my ticket. I can understand that East Germany STASI wanted to know those details, but I do not see why our current powers should have any such need. Or even desire. It bugs me that the authorities seem to take more and more control over information about our lives.
So I have made it a matter of principle to reduce as far as possible the information about my daily life to the forces in power. My daily shopping, whether groceries, books or home utensils, is paid in cash. I turn off both GPS, WiFi and BT on my smartphone when I do not actively need it - and I often 'forget' to put the phone in my pocket when I am away from home. I have dropped using my 'membership card's giving me a 1% discount but disclosing to the big data fellows complete details of every single item that I buy. I am not streaming movies disclosing my viewing habits; I buy hardcopy disks. Things like that.
That day when I no longer can choose my brand of toothpaste without having it registered in the files of some power in force, that will strongly affect my daily habits. I demand the right to buy my toothpaste anonymously.
So I am going to fight for the right to pay for my toothpaste using physical, anonymous money for as long as there is the slightest chance of holding on to my economic privacy.
Note that I make no assumption about 'powers in force' being the so called 'elected' politicians. I do not consider them to be 'in force' of anything but a political circus. They are just mock-ups for the real powers. But of course, the real powers may very well use the elected politicians to front their agenda. So I don't want to give my life away to them; I do not see that 'democratically elected' in any way serves as a protection of my privacy.
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I imagine there will be a new "dark currency" industry to anonymize purchases. 
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you mean something like "cash"?
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I already have that: Master Card.
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I have a bank account; so most of my fiat is already digital. As for the dollar to become a crypto currency - I highly doubt it. The money base needs to inflate at roughly 2% annually.
In both cases, it's worth the same as ingame tokens. Only silver is money 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I have a bank account; so most of my fiat is already digital.
I do too! So those who want to monitor my spending habits may be able to discover (authorization is required - but that is no problem for the authorities) that I once or twice a month make a sizable cash withdrawal. I guess that they can draw a lot of conclusions from that ...
Additionally, they may discover that I am paying for the water, electricity, garbage collecting, ... all the standard expenses that everyone has - they are automatically drawn from my bank account.
You are right that all my money has passed through digital channels at least once. Yet, the threat to my privacy is quite restricted.
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trønderen wrote: I do too!
Just a coincidence, I bet 
trønderen wrote: So those who want to monitor my spending habits may be able to discover (authorization is required
I was a temporary worker for a pharmacist once, and got full access to all records.
trønderen wrote: Additionally, they may discover that I am paying for the water, electricity, garbage collecting, ... all the standard expenses that everyone has - they are automatically drawn from my bank account.
Your average boring person. Ehr, I'm posting under my real name.. But there's some transactions that are private; so those are made with silver bars to avoid tracking.
I'm not gonna use any crypto for that 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: Maybe Alphabet or Facebook will be implementing the digital bank. Laugh |
Wonder why you left out microsoft and oracle ... select * from usa_digital_currency
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: select * from usa_digital_currency
No, the codez is
SELECT MONEYZ FROM DUAL;
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Microsoft is finally planning to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in a variety of Office apps. Feels like I've reported this many times before, but that was just Excel
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What's changed is that instead of the Mark of the Internet triggering a banner you need to click in Excel to enable them (along with all the other read only crippling), you need to clear the mark in Explorer because dismissing the read only banner doesn't enable macros from downloaded files anymore.
Since read only mode disables features as basic as sorting/filtering this is an improcement for anyone who doesn't use macros even if it's also  ly stupid.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Having a design system makes it easy for developers to onboard new team members, quickly find answers to basic questions without having to DM someone and wait for an answer, download common assets like logos and icons, and so much more. But I thought all developers were great at design?
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We have a folder containing project documents, what do we call it?
A Design System!
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Because "a folder" isn't manager-sexy!
TTFN - Kent
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Looking at microsoft and their icon fever... they are.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The grandly-named Internet Computer is, at first glance, something between a blockchain and a decentralized cloud provider. Oh, we're back on the blockchain gang
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'The cloud' is a synonym to 'someone else's computer'.
Any processing provided across the internet is the cloud.
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Cross-compilers aren't good enough if you want to encourage developers to port apps for Windows on Arm. We have no right to bear ARM?
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I always wished that ARM have termed their GPUs 'Low Energy Graphics'.
I always wanted a machine with two CPU chips and two GPUs working in tandem, having two ARMs and two LEGs.
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But how much would it cost?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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at least an arm and a leg plus a pound of flesh ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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When you’re learning computer science, you typically learn that programming languages fall into two categories. I guess it depends on how you interpret your compiler?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: how you interpret your compiler?
A magical program that emits error messages.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess it depends on how you interpret your compiler?
Wrong! It's all about how you compile your interpreter!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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