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>I’d say a lot more jobs currently tied to NOT needing a college degree will be automated out of existence

True, but I was making commentary on a large number of college education required positions. They are mutually exclusive assertions.

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Next they should ban the clothes during the summer time. One thing less to worry about. I would totally sign up for that!
Which “specs” are worse on iPhones - definitely not performance seeing that the iPhone is usually two years ahead of Android phones performance wise.
» We recommend that web developers avoid UA sniffing as much as possible; modern web platform features are nearly all detectable in easy ways. Over the past year, we’ve seen some UA-sniffing sites that have been updated to detect Microsoft Edge… only to provide it with a legacy IE11 code path. This is not the best approach, as Microsoft Edge matches ‘WebKit’ behaviors, not IE11 behaviors (any Edge-WebKit differences are bugs that we’re interested in fixing). In our experience Microsoft Edge runs best on the ‘WebKit’ code paths in these sites. Also, with the internet becoming available on a wider variety of devices, please assume unknown browsers are good – please don’t limit your site to working only on a small set of current known browsers. If you do this, your site will almost certainly break in the future.

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It's ok. They can be the guinea pig.
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"during the four-decade period spanning 1970 to 2010."
Legally speaking, cash is, and will remain, valid tender for settling debts, and creditors in general may not refuse it for an outstanding debt.

However a seller is generally allowed to refrain from selling (bar certain specific protections), and thus the seller is allowed to not create the debt in the first place. This is why, while cash remains legal tender, one could legally end up in situation where it's virtually impossible to buy certain goods or services for cash.

Nb., I support the general idea of this legislation, specifically for reasons of privacy and practicality.
Thank you, that's really interesting!
Ahhhh, intersectionalists and libertarians make strange bed fellows. What's even stranger is most of these politicians fighting for the rights of the "unbanked" embrace the surveillance state win that comes from cashless.
The person you’re responding to is clearly
motivated by ideology rather than truth. They just happen to be good at generating paragraphs of text which, if you don’t look too closely, resemble a logical argument.
I've been having the same breakfast (muesli, natural yoghurt and fruit with a gallon or so of black coffee) for over 30 years.

My lunches tend to be fairly similar - though they do vary.

Dinner varies a lot depending on season and what I fancy cooking and eating - I do like a lot of variety in evening meals, maybe as I am awake by then!
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That was the original plan, but NASA asked SpaceX to do splashdowns instead as it's viewed as a less risky landing method for a crewed vehicle.
This article (like so many others) inappropriately conflates believing that meritocracy is ideal with believing that meritocracy exists today. Given that, it’s hard to interpret its conclusions.
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I was ready to be annoyed at government blocking popular progressive changes, but this changed my mind:

>In New York City, the majority of the nearly 12 percent of unbanked and 25 percent underbanked residents are people of color. Close to 17 percent of black New Yorkers and 14 percent of Latinx New Yorkers are unbanked, compared to just 3 percent of white New Yorkers.

I had no idea that many people didn't use banking services, which probably says more about me than anything.

Not to get too political, but this reminds me a lot of the coal vs renewables debate. I'm 100% on the side of transitioning away from coal, towards renewables, the same as I am in favor of ditching cash. But people who still depend on the coal industry, and using cash, can't just be forgotten about because "cashless is better".

Places should be forced to accept cash until everyone can go cashless (within reason obviously, there needs to be some sort of line drawn here, but those percentages show we're not there yet), and the government should support/retrain coal miners who lose their jobs due to energy transitions.
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you are only required to accept legal tender for the purpose of settling a debt - if you’re buying something, you’re actually making an offer for trade. indeed, many places in the UK are cashless only establishments.
Certainly it's a privilege.

But I'd say if you HAVE that privilege and squander it, it's a massive waste.

Some people seem to be showing the sentiment "people who are worse off are unable to travel, hence there can be no value or meaning in travel", and that doesn't compute to me.
For reference, I was hired as a senior engineer at Apple and have no degree. Work experience counts for a lot more than any degree. You can get work experience at many places without a degree if you're capable of showing the quality of your skillset
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NYC is playing follow-the-leader here: we just banned this here in Philadelphia.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/philadelphia-is-first-u-s-city-...
Considering there is currently a salary gap, however we explain it, and from the law structure the lower paid spouse benefits from being paid less, isn't it a logical move for women to adjust/be adjusted from the start for that situation ?

Your points are all correct in general, but I don't see how it goes against the argument of the article.
It seems you are detailing the behaviours women end up taking facing the current situation, while the author argues about ways to affect the root cause.
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What does this have to do with the parent comment? That is, besides the word "deep" which gets used in an entirely different context.
"Cashless" does not mean "moneyless".

Cashless means that it doesn't accept physical money, paper bills and metal coins. It only accepts credit or debit cards. Or any other kind of electronic medium.
I'll be honest, before I started working at Plotly I had the same reaction to Dash at first glance, but as I worked with it/on it, I realized that most of the time, this client-server chattiness is not much of a problem from a user perspective, and is a great developer-productivity tradeoff.

More to your point, though, this is something we're trying to address in collaboration with the Dash community, in this PR for example if you want to follow along: https://github.com/plotly/dash-core-components/pull/461
The article is talking about making purchases you make in person, not online purchases.
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I try to use cash as much as I possibly can. It is no ones business to track what I buy, when I buy it, how often I buy it, etc. In the event of an emergency (environmental, energy, etc), how do you propose using a credit card to purchase anything?

The biggest problem I face is tellers that can no longer do simple math and have problems counting.
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OK. Let's say this is true. How would financial nonpersons be serviced in a cashless society? (i.e. homeless or home insecure persons, bad credit, and other judges of financial risk on humans established by non-governmental authority)
They did the work of getting there incrementally. Small, then big. Expendable, then landable. Cargo, then crew.
I've found that my tastes usually don't line up with mainstream popularity. This tends to be very convenient. Just let me walk around some interesting architecture and find some interesting restaurants, I don't really care if it's popular or not.
I find that interesting simply because NYC is home to the financial industry which is the largest beneficiary of cashless transactions.

On a personal note, I prefer cash and appreciate the places that give me a discount for using it.
I can see NYC's point on this one.

The problem with credit cards isn't the concept (which I like) it is that they're rent-seekers that seem to want an ever increasing slice of the pie. We currently pay 2.5% of most purchases to these companies, with plans to increase that further.

The problem is that their costs should be falling, since their volumes have increased massively but instead of passing on those cost reductions they're trying to leverage their duopoly harder.

Cash is the only leverage society has to keep credit card processing fees low. If it disappears and there remains an uncompetitive market, we'll all suffer as a result.
If Cook really cares so much, why doesn’t he invest in internal training and mentorship programs? Where are all the entry-level new grad positions where a junior is paired with a senior? Where is the performance evaluation category for mentoring as a developer? These have all but disappeared in the modern job market.

It used to be the company’s prerogative to train hires for their job. Now that is being outsourced to colleges, with the media and politicians helping them broadcast their cost-saving strategy. It’s sickening.
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I would like to see a study that indicates that dropouts working in a professional environment are less "well-rounded" overall. I don't dispute that something exists, but I haven't seen one.

I'm obviously biased, but I have a lot of interest in linguistics, history, political theory, moral philosophy, and a lot of other non-coding fields, for which I have purchased and read many of the college textbooks. I also do not have a degree, as I dropped out after two years towards a math degree, and work as a "senior" software engineer (I think titles are kind of stupid but it works for my point).

I typically did well on the tests, but for various reasons too elaborate to get into in a post, I had trouble focusing on and completing a lot of the homework, leading to poor grades, and then me dropping out.

Of course a lot of dropouts don't have much curiosity, but once they get to a professional level, it's basically impossible to avoid learning a fairly diverse set of skills.

I think most people who want to work in a professional field should probably go to college and get their degree, but college is not for everyone who joins. Autodidacticism can lead to new perspectives on projects, and allows people to focus on things that are important, but not emphasized in most colleges.

For example, I greatly dislike how concurrency is taught in the undergrad level. It seems like with many curriculums, the students learn a bit of some locking glue, what a semaphore is, and then they promptly forget any of the safety mechanisms that follow, at least in the people I've interviewed.
Racism?

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya,
It's the same for LinkedIn and it really sucks.
> We would live better without [cash]

While I love the ease of use of electronic payments of all stripes, your assertion runs counter to my general knowledge and judgement. Can you support the assertion somehow?

In my understanding the ease and safety of use of either cash or electronic payments is pretty much ensured by the easy and safety of the other alternative. Competition FTW.
Philadelphia just did this as well. With a higher percentage in poverty there. I see this as beneficial. There are a number of areas where people for various reasons can't get a checking/bank account.

I find it partially annoying that some of the cash only stores I go into. Gouge with a 5$ ATM fee, then I have to hold change. But again not everyone has access to a bank.

What I found interesting is the gloss over of the Septa Key (new transit card) system, during this discussion. While it was botched. It was initially positioned as a debit card for those who couldn't get a bank account. Available to load with cash at any kiosk and making it a master card debit card. It actually saved me when I had fraud on one of my cards. I switched to it as my primary payment method while awaiting a new card.

Amazon was trying something similar. Provide cash at I think CVS or somewhere else. Then it goes into your Amazon gift balance.

In the end. I think these cashless laws are good. Even if the above work perfectly. Some people don't want a strong history attached with their purchases.
> shouldn't be able to ban its use

This topic is not about banning cash... it's about banning refusal to accept cash.

Stated in another way: Do you have the right to pay in cash? Are business obligated to accept cash?
Welcome to Berlin, great ecosystem over here, would love to hear your experience in Paris sometime
Legal tender is a tricky thing. I've spent some time a while ago trying to understand how it works, here's my conclusion:

"Legal tender" must be accepted for settling the debt.
That's it.

It means a bartender may refuse to pour you beer if you intend to pay in the form he doesn't like. But once he poured you the beer you have entered the debt for settling of which a bartender must accept your cash.

Disclaimer: don't try it in the only bar in your village.
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I don't know that anyone is popular, yet respected enough, to be an equivalent today. I'd say Leo Laporte had a similar impact circa 2010. Maybe Kara Swisher? Maybe Marco Arment? Some Youtuber?

At any rate, none of those exactly fit the bill, because Cringely's two "Nerds" documentaries† hold a special place in popular tech reporting history.

† https://youtu.be/sX5g0kidk3Y
† https://youtu.be/Pk2BWphDfvc
Our young technocratic elite can be so clueless sometimes.

Aside from helping to build our future surveillance dystopia, they promote cashless retail as more 'futuristic', and make fun of cheques and cash.

I don't understand a culture that promotes volunteering your own surveillance data (social media, smartphones)[1] and surrendering your anonymity as trendy core values.

[1] https://privacysos.org/blog/nsa-calls-the-iphone-using-publi...
You're lucky. I talked to Lombard Odier some time ago and they pay their Scala devs 120-130k CHF tops.

250k for a software engineer is quite a lot in Geneva, and even Switzerland. Only Google regularly pays that much after a few years of experience.
When you mention you can't imagine a single negative aspect, I presume that you are not a low income minority without a credit/debit card? Cash is more convenient for many (especially nearly the entire demographic of Hacker News), but the point of the article as you may have noticed is about how a large percentage of low income people and minorities do not have bank accounts and thus are not able to shop at these establishments. Hopefully someday states can help solve these underlying issues and then we can live in a world where payments are more convenient for all.
Ahhh amazing, I think I remember that commercial now. I definitely also forgot about people writing checks at stores; haven't seen that since the days of going to the grocery store with my mom.
I figure it's less important to them for Mars etc, now that they plan to land the whole "second stage".
That doesn't take four years. Most of it can be learned in a year. (Source: I did.) CS degrees teach you things like computer architecture, operating system, relational database, networking, etc. which are nice to have but optional.
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Not sure about iOS. On Android I've found a mouse is helpful about 50% of the time and still resort to just poking at the screen sometimes.

Using a keyboard has been absolutely wonderful though. It's even saved me a few times when I didn't have my laptop with me and had to ssh into work servers for issues.
I wrote a quick and dirty Python script that outputs a string of guesses that will beat the guesser. It keeps track of the 5-gram counters and always opts for the less-used option. If there is no less-used option it picks a random direction.

For instance, if you input RLLRRLLLLRLLRRRLLRLLLLLLRRLRLRLLLRRRRLRRRRRRLLLRLRLRRLRRLLRRLLLRRLRRLRLLRLRRRLRLRLLLRLLRLLLLLRLRLRRR it only guesses right 34% of the time.

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The Medium article[1] mentions a couple - Google prioritizing their reviews above Yelp in search results, Amazon copying third party products that were successful on its marketplace.

[1] https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...
"Only-for-HOME" footwear needs to be stressed. Then there are "bathroom-only" slippers that is specific to 1 bathroom and will be used by all.
> I can see all the advantages from their POV

Advantages of cashless? Is the cost of handling cash really greater than the percentage paid to the payment processors? It's an honest question and I'd be interested in some real studies on this because it would seem to be a hard metric to measure.
Cash is a huge freedom we take for granted. I would back this totally.
There's no "what next". The government only has one official currency.
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“Nintendo is not interested in making a large amount of revenue from a single smartphone game,” one CyberAgent official said. “If we managed the game alone, we would have made a lot more.”

Yes, they would have made more, at the expense of the entire industry.
This is interesting, i first thought I can use all 4 arrow keys, so i tried to make random movements with 4 keys.

The program only guessed 49% of my inputs right over 100 Iterations.

When I understood it's only two keys the program guessed correct 60% of the time.
I absolutely, passionately hate when the traders do not accept cash, but I firmly believe they must be in their full right to do so.
There are a number of restaurants I've been to where you can only make a reservation via their stupid mobile app. Like, even if I'm at the front desk of the restaurant asking me to pencil them in.
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Poor people, and especially poor non-whites, are much less likely to have a credit or debit card.

I think it's important to understand "racist" as an effect, not as an opinion. The decision to not accept cash probably wasn't made with racist intentions, but it can very well have racist outcomes.
If you did not build it, you gont get to break it. How about we split Pentagon into 5 pieces instead ?
I lived in AirBnBs for a couple of years, travelling around Europe. The way I afforded it was (1) to have a decent remote job (not a developer) and (2) to have given up my home in the UK, so no rent or bills to pay for that, and (3) to take advantage of long-term deals -- if you reserve for a month or more you can get a significant reduction on the daily or weekly rate. For example, I stayed for two months in a beach-side appartment in Crete for about £600 ($780) per month, all bills and a cleaner included, which is considerably less than I'm paying now for rent on a small house in the UK.
My family is from Gujarat. Even though neither my parents (born in Uganda) nor I (born in London) have ever lived in India, I still feel strange when I visit a home where shoes are not removed at the door.
I think they meant requiring industry-leading companies to apply freedom of speech on their platforms. That is, no censoring of comments, videos, reviews, etc. as long as they don't violate the law.
Not at all. It's to split Amazon retail and AWS. Not that I'm opposed to that or not, but it is the most obvious. If you look at templates of prior antitrust action, you'd probably see roadmaps of splitting ad presentation/platform from ad brokering/targeting in all of the companies mentioning.
How do you know that you're getting enough of all the different micronutrients? Humans can eat a deficient diet for a long time and not notice serious side effects, so I'm wondering if you have some kind of good way of figuring out whether the different micronutrient quotas are fulfilled properly.
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I meant it literally. There are corporate persons and there are human persons. When you pay with a credit card a corporate person is paying. When you pay with cash a human person is paying.
I have theories about why this is, but I dare not utter them here.
I share my apartment on Airbnb. Counter review is not a thing since (as you said) it’s not possible to see the customer’s review until you post your own (or after the 7-day review window expires, at which point you can’t review the guest anymore). I’d also add that there is not an easy way to know how a guest reviews the hosts. The guest info you see only includes past host reviews. I’m sure it’s possible, but Airbnb does make it very difficult.

I encourage anyone to post real honest, negative reviews if the experience is indeed bad. Airbnb seems to do a good job building the system, and I feel guests are protected quite well, from a host’s perspective. Honest reviews help good hosts, and I would think I’m one of them :)
Having a deeper connection requires having shared interests and enough in common to form that bond. There are plenty of people who may be perfectly social, but not share much of anything in common with you (which you can mitigate by expanding your interests).

> Are there really no people that can at least bootstrap things for me?

There are, it's whoever assembled your meetup/function/etc. Getting a bunch of people in a room together who share at least some kind of commonality is a borderline magic trick, and it's a ton of work.

Your job is to pair it down from there, because you don't have anyone who knows you well enough to do that last mile for you. You might get there - if you make good friends with organizers, you will be the person they introduce new folks to.

> How am I supposed to invite new people to the comic book shop..

There's two elements to this. One of which is just actually leaving your house to go to meetups or places on a regular basis - find your local board game shop (or other interest - hiking, old movies, food, etc) and go to that thing with some regularity.

The second element is to talk with folks. Maybe even folks with whom you don't have a connection yet, but enough to exchange your lists of interests and whatnot. If you struggle for things to talk about, use tools like FORD (Family, Occupation, Recreation, Dreams) or the interview strategy ("Oh, and what got you into hiking?").

You don't have to have a deep connection to have folks you enjoy spending time with, even if it's just playing Catan once a week - but that's at least your bootstrap.
And Windows was dependent in Internet Explorer to operate.

And that dependence was both created artificially and then abused.

Why can't YouTube switch to, say, Azure? Or Oracle Cloud? or whatever other magic exists?

Infrastructure exists outside of Google - as did the ability to decouple Internet Explorer from Windows.