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> so i cannot use my banking app because i am on a vpn? nice

Bank's goal is to prevent access by people other than account owner. When it comes to the VPN usage, there are a few risk factors:

- Concealment of connection. Malicious actor will likely use a measure to hide the request origin.

- Accessing from another country or region, human factor (a common use case of VPNs). Instant thousand miles away teleportation is usually a sign of access attempt with stolen information. While you may be smart, a lot of people aren't and will gladly tell all the info to "bank security agent calling to ask for some information to prevent your account from being suspended".

- Accessing from another country or region, legal factor. Banks in some countries may even legally require a notice in advance before using its cards or services abroad.

- Usage of known publicly available service. Multiple users using the same address makes it harder to tell genuine and malicious users apart, so it's better to not leave it to the chance.
I've not used any third party UPIs. I've been using BHIM UPI since 2020 _almost_ without issues.
will never forget my original introduction to building bézier curves: making an aimbot look human by bezier curving the mouse path to the target!
You're looking for the universal approximation theorem. It's one of those cases where they can do anything in theory so the question is more are we chasing a turning tarpit or not, where everything is possible but nothing is easy
The best and most nostalgic in my opinion is the classic windows dragging effect https://www.stansgarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Scree...
This is exactly why banks are unhappy - they have to bear the infra cost. This is also the reason the government is trying to push UPI wallet. I suspect at some future point UPI (non-wallet) transactions will be charged a small fee and wallet transactions will not.
Well that’s the point, UPI is literally interoperable and you can use any app you want and it just works. It’s not Indian’s fault that there is no such standard worldwide.
I would be surprised if many people had an effective rate >50% that way.

I've done the calculations in the past - the effective rate of VAT as a proportion of gross income added up to around 4% for me, because most of my money does not go towards VAT rated products.

Nor does it for anyone.

Because before you spend on VAT-rated products (or alcohol, gasoline etc.), you first pay income taxes, then you pay for housing, and food which most places is zero rated or at a discounted VAT rate, and debts. The higher you earn, the lower proportion of your income tends to go towards spending, partially because you tend to put aside a larger proportion for pensions, partly because you pay a higher rate of tax, so VAT contributes less to your overall tax burden - it's a deeply regressive tax.

Most people don't have enough money to spend on highly taxed items for it to be possible for them to get to an effective tax rate of 50%+, and most of those of us who might be able to spends our money otherwise - bigger house, bigger pensions, more investments.

I earn many times the UK national average, and so pay income tax and national insurance far closer to the 50% mark than the vast majority of the UK population. Despite that I still don't cross it when other taxes are added on. Including VAT, property taxes/council tax and similar. I'm in the top 1-2% income earners in the UK - people earning less than me are certainly getting nowhere near 50%.

Even when I lived in Norway, which has wealth taxes, some of the highest gasoline and alcohol taxes in the world, and higher income tax, and high VAT (25%), did I reach 50%.

In some of the highest tax countries in Europe, like Belgium (an extreme outlier) and Germany, higher proportions will cross the 50% line, but overall for Europe this applies to a vanishingly small proportion of people. UK is "low tax" for Europe, but closer to the average than e.g. Belgium and Germany.

Which is why the "half goes to taxes" crowd almost always ends up forced to start bringing up the total tax wedge instead of other taxes. Even then most people will never hit 50%, though more do.
American here. I visited India in June of 2023. I tried using various apps to access UPI, but I was unable to figure it out. I couldn't find a way to connect a USA account (bank, credit card, PayPal, etc.) as a payment source. Hopefully it will be easier soon.
Not sure if this helps or is even especially correct but: some decades ago there was a movement towards 'inner space', meaning rather than looking outwards at actions and effects on the world, it was about introspection and what was going on inside characters. This may be what they're talking about with interiority, and probably about the convoluted psychology.

Those few books I read of this ilk tended to be very dull.

Also bear in mind that literary criticism may be prone to being done for show and self-exhibition, much less about the book itself.

This http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html (starts with a quote from Donald Norman "Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right") is a painful example of somebody discovering this. It's not funny, it shows somebody's time being wasted as they try to genuinely understand WTF it's all about, and finally 'getting it'. It's well worth a read.
> 55 GB/S Performance

That's complete bullshit. The card can do a maximum of 28GB/s.

If you want higher numbers, you can use multiple cards. For example "with just 10 cards you can do 280GB/s".

They need to drop the "55GB/s... for two cards!" bullshit sooner rather than later.
Will you sponsor visa or work remotely from other country?
I've not read it myself, but your post leads me to think that you may enjoy The Last Ringbearer. The premise, according to Wikipedia:

Eskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a "history written by the victors". Mordor is home to an "amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic", posing a threat to the war-mongering faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude is described by Saruman as "crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem") and the Elves.
> Autonomy isn’t the only thing that matters when comparing mechanical to quartz.

says the caption beneath a photograph of a „A. Lange & Söhne with a 31-day power reserve“

So there’s the notion that —-in case your air plaine crashes and you land on a desert island—- a quartz watch‘s battery will drain in 5 years and you’re left without a watch, but the thing is: A mechanical watch needs to be serviced every five years (taken apart, lubricated).

But I agree: A mechanical watch is infinitely more appealing than a quartz. Considering how minuscule the parts are, what a Meisterleistung it is to produce something that works for decades. I also find the idea very appealing to have objects that can outlive their owners: Furniture, writing instruments, mechanical watches.
That's exactly how UPI works. The protocol and payment network is operated by a section 8 non-profit pseudo-government entity. All banks are mandated to connect to it. As a customer you can have your account with any bank and be on UPI. Then, a bunch of non-bank third-parties are licensed to build UX apps. Google Pay, PhonePe are examples of this. They tie up with a bank partner to get access to the APIs. Then they can acquire customers onto their app and facilitate transactions. The customers with any bank using any UX app can send or receive money to anyone on any bank or app. No walled gardens permitted and actively discouraged.
> They have no business defining "otherwise objectionable" elsewhere.

The principles that I have describe also apply to other countries as well.

So yes it is absolutely the case that in other countries there are judges and juries that apply the law via the process of judges and juries.

But once again, no matter what some other country thinks, on this specific topic, it is about a company getting immunity from USA enforcement. So all other countries do not matter on this topic, because this is about US law.
> However, in May 2018, the company chose to close down these corresponding gateways due to limitations inherent in those protocols.

It was a way to onboard tech people and once they were big enough they closed the door for those audience.

Which really hurt me because i live in a country with a small tech community and was happily interacting with them using irc, until slack changed into a walled garden.
I really really wish this culture of expressing simple things in ornate ways would die. All it does is make knowledge less accessible
I couldn't pay for lunch at my friend's office. They only accepted UPI as payment. It would have been nice to be able to pay for tuk-tuks and car taxis without using cash, too. If you only have "large" bills, the drivers never seem to have enough change.
we have instant bank transfers in so many countries nowadays. you press "send" and it's truly instant.
It’s similar on the console gaming market. The first initial of PC stands for Corporate.

Luckily the single point of failure is the store, so it requires one law to fix.
Nothing fancy, actually - the typical services people who self-host use. Some were found serendipitously, then rediscovered through https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted or a few "Ask HN".

Home Assistant and associated services (Zigbee2MQTT mostly), -arr suite for research purposes, HedgeDoc and some other I tried, Syncthing, Borg, file transfer, Radicale, Vaultwarden (should have started with that one), a few of my own services that I shared with the world or will share someday, Minecraft(s), ... and suddenly you are at dozens :)
I think you're missing the point.

The source code to the program is available, but the compiler with which to compile that code isn't.

To the OP I would say this is opensource.

If you received an open source recipe, despite not having a kitchen you could still modify the recipe, pass it on etc.

You still have the right to modify this code and pass it on, which is what the opensource licenses generally guarantee, opensource software for the latest supercomputer doesn't guarantee you access to that supercomputer.
I was actually confused by that for a moment when reading the article.

I think rants such as yours are good and important. Despite not being a native English speaker, I think English speakers should strive to hold to their language rules and not let globalism and less informed people like me take their rich vocabulary and correct grammar away from them.
If you look at it superficially - everything is people transport - it can look hypocritical. But the issue is with the externalities each of those apparently equivalent decisions create. Cars and trains are certainly not that similar beyond "transporting people".

A drug den isn't a hospital just because drugs are administered there. A diesel and an EV are not the same just because they only differ in fuel source. You treat them differently, you try to encourage the positive externalities and discourage the negative ones.

Some people have seen it coming a long time ago that as a society we are encouraging cars and their infrastructure too much and among other things we're giving up some (maybe too much?) individual freedom in favor of them. And wouldn't you know it, a century later we're aiming at making cities walkable again, even banning cars entirely in some areas, as proof that society is realizing those concerns weren't at all hypocritical.
there is already a standard. it's SEPA/SWIFT and works on IBANs independent of any banks.

but it's use case is tiny in most of the world. most payments aren't made to people you want to give money to. most payments actually go to sellers. as such what people use in developed countries is their credit card.
Yes, I see what you mean. To me, doing those sorts of calculations by hand is just really fun. I agree with you about the importance of applying logical rules in this way. Thanks for this suggestion, maybe I'm going to add a paragraph about the slide rule as an afterthought later on :D
Those who enjoyed this should also have a laugh at:

"Vim Exit% Speedrun [WR - 2.50:13]"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbfqZBL8t8
USB wouldn’t have worked with iPhones, so they would have needed separate hardware for android and iPhone. I’m amazed they were able to do anything with the 3.5mm port though, it seems like some clever engineering
Yes, all the usual scaling issues, of course it assumes a compiler that doesn't spend all its time contending on one big lock or sitting in cache coherency because it's doing an atomic increment of a single shared counter. But once you have the hardware it becomes reasonable to spend time fixing those issues. They're not fundamentally hard, compilers are mostly semi-functional transforms over large data structures.
> I was in India earlier this year, and found there was no way (and I spent hours trying) for a foreigner to get access to the UPI system.

never been to India. do they not support credit cards like the rest of the planet? visa/mastercard/amex? only UPI?
You should probably find someone who does know how to run a company. You learn that through a long process of increased responsibility and mentoring on the job, not from a book.

It won’t matter if the company consists of you calling yourself CEO, but it will matter if other people’s incomes and future depend on your ability to manage a company.
People have to get their PhD's somehow... ;)
I am most impressed by the documentation provided in the references. Looks like it was ahead of its time.
Python’s growth is not limited in the number of software developers, as is the case for Java or what have you. It’s used by many other professions, and it just keeps exploding.
If ordinary users don't want to learn they have the option of paying somebody to do it for them.
The war on drugs doesn’t stop people from using drugs yet many people are in prison because of drugs. If cost was a reason not to do it, most drugs would have been decriminalized and effectively made legal decades ago. Meth is not a legal currency you can use to exchange with your average store so despite that being an anonymous decentralized “transaction”, almost no one would make it. Substitute meth with bitcoin and ask yourself why would the average person in an authoritarian state not comply if making transactions in bitcoin was illegal? If the protesters of the Iranian government were using cryptocurrency would they avoid arrest?

The solution to, the government is extrajudicially spying on our transactions and without due process blocking people from their finances, is not a system that uses an immutable public ledger. It’s reforming the law to protect people’s right to privacy and due process. It’s getting rid of the authoritarian government that strips people of their rights and freedoms.
This rather heavily begs the question what do we mean by "freedom"?

We don't mean anonymity. Acting in secret is not freedom - acting openly and not being persecuted or prosecuted is freedom.

The solution is what it is in real offline life. A regulated legal framework that allows most and limits little, a open dynamic culture that accepts diversity and constant change.

If we are worried that digital freedom will be taken from us, without anyone noticing, we should be worried about all our freedoms - and the solutions are still the same - democracy, voting, making a noise, agitating our neighbours.

"
Let governments be governments"
There are 5 parties in UPI (or any payment system really):
1. bank customers, 2. bank, 3. payment network, 4. 3rdparty apps (TPAPs) 5. merchants.

UPI is free for #1. It costs #2, #3, #4 to build and operate the systems. So, #5 pays for accepting payments in UPI. But what they pay is far less than what it costs them to accept payments via other means including cash. Also, #2 pays somewhat because it is a service their customer values. Banks also like it because the network fees are far cheaper than other networks like Mastercard and Visa.

Naively someone might think paying and accepting in cash is free. But reality is cash handling can get expensive – leakages (cashier steals), counting and tallying cash, time lost in going to bank branch to deposit cash, dealing with providing exact change etc. are all expensive once you see how convenient and highly productive digital payments is.
It's the same as the kiosks to get a local SIM card which also often require ID. Also optional.

> drivers license

A driver's license is rarely accepted as a valid ID document outside of the US which rarely has anything better.
Bit of an aside, but this means we are now only 20 years from now the copyright on all his books published in his lifetime expiring, right? I wonder what effects, if any, that will have on the use of his works. Right owners of Sherlock Holmes and Conan for instance have kept fighting to control those works even after (some) copyrights expired. Otherwise will the market be flooded, for better or worse, with new movies and video games and other adaptations of Tolkien's works around January 1 2044? That is less than 21 years from now. The first of the Peter Jackson movies came out 22 years ago.
I understand the thermometer analogy but it would read much better if the post was reversed.

>2030: The market share of ARM-based Windows machines overtakes x86_64.

Yeah, they wish...
That’s because it degrades each time you use it. There’s a reason the cheapest stuff comes in black, thick, low quality plastic containers. It’s because it’s just short of being processed into either astroturf or roads.

Some stuff gets re-manufactured 5 or 6 times. The majority gets manufactured once and ends up in landfill.

Glass, metal and standardised sizes is really the only way forward.
> Just like every language that implicitly names the current value of the iterator

Oh, i didn't know that there are any.

It would be a good idea to add the naming explicitly to the Wiki entry of loops: https://jai.community/t/loops/147, I've just found it buried in the `remove` section.

Btw. in for-loops the colon `:` is used inconsistently again, this time for naming the iterator (`foo` in this example:) `for foo: VALUES { ... }`.
Rome Project Officially Discontinued
i already made a paper display using a wemos pico (has battery, charging and indicator) but this is very cool!

have to charge mine every few months but also display a lot more information
Squatters are delirious, so many times. I didn't renew my wife's last name .co domain. I regretted it and wanted to get it back. They are asking for 9000 dollars. She is non-famous, her last name is not a famous last name, and there is no one famous with that last name. Still, they want 9000 dollars. 450 times the cost.
What is annoying with errors in Zig?
I am talking about separating school and state (just like many countries separate church and state). If the school (or church) wants to be political, that's fine. As long as they don't force anyone to attend their lectures (or sermons), nor ask the taxpayer to keep them afloat.
The natives do it plenty to themselves, too. It cannot be <whatever>stated.
Why was could it only encore with a CRT and not an LCD? Could this be replicated with modern IPS LCDs?
I looked and it's hard. Had to resort to reddit recommendations.

Nice circular reasoning. But nothing will change till we're not vocal enough about ECC benefits and shady pricing. I assure you though, it's not about my happiness :)
> 2025: Google removes the ability to install Android apps from outside the Play store, citing security concerns.

Yeah no, would be a direct violation of DMA at that point[1]

[1] - https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en
And it will keep getting worse as long as the majority of the population lack proper core values to oppose it.
Some HP calculators like the HP48SX series used Kermit as the file transfer protocol.
Target's Air Conditioner, potentially the only song in history, including any future history, to incorporate the lyric "fingering chequered knits".

I feel bad for I have only a single upvote to give.

Also have to mention the out of this world genius of rhyming "I'm not the kind of person to do a thing by halves" with "track marks on my calves".

And all of the above barely scratches the surface.

Vale Baterz!

For anyone else interested:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5vqH9XmDv8aal3jfSmqEIA?si=9I5...
Comic Factory – Comic Generation using Llama 2 and Stable Diffusion
Tolkien wrote a world that functions the way a Catholic wants the real world to work, even though it doesn't.

Morality is uncomplicated, there is a clear black and white divide and nobody ever wonders if say, Sauron might be coexisted with in some way.

Morality is deontological. Good actions are good, period. Furthermore, they don't backfire. When Gandalf lets Grima go, or when people take pity on Gollum, that's not naive idealism, that's the objectively right thing to do. Such actions just don't backfire on people in this world.

On the other hand, evil is a path to ruin and misery. Grima is miserable with Saruman, Saruman doesn't like him either. Saruman dies by Grima's hand once Grima has had enough, and Grima dies too. Villains don't get happy endings.

Mercy has a magical power of sorts. Frodo only succeeds because of his mercy on Gollum.

There's also an essentialism to things. Tom Bombadil is this weird thing, and that's that. You can't convince him to take care of the Ring, it's just not in his nature to care about that sort of thing, and it's completely non-negotiable.

Evil never creates, it only spends chunks of itself to corrupt perfection.

If you read it from the standpoint of "what if Catholicism was true, and the world functioned in the way the religion says it does", it's quite interesting.
In the abstract, many people would agree that education budgets should be finite.

But concretely, it always 'sounds good' to ask for bigger education budgets. No matter the size of the existing budget.
So do you program the keybindings in Forth or lisp? Is the lisp implemented in forth? Or the forth in lisp?

Are parentheses forth words??

This hurts my brain. (And/or makes me want to implement a forth in lisp in forth, as a quine)
https://internationaldrivingpermit.org/how-to-apply/
The user consented to it by agreeing to the EULA:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/UseTerms/Retail/Windows/11/U...

"6. Updates. The software periodically checks for system and app updates, and downloads and installs them for you. You may obtain updates only from Microsoft or authorized sources, and Microsoft may need to update your system to provide you with those updates. By accepting this agreement or using the software, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice."

If you don't want this kind of thing to happen, don't use proprietary software that requires you to to agree to it.
> EDIT: also sounds like Swish charges a fee to the banks? Sounds a bit outrageous for a payment system trying to be the best in the world to charge a fee.

FWIW, NPCI charges all banks for UPI too. They’ve been eating most of those costs because the government didn’t allow them to charge (now those charges are slowly coming in). Banks haven’t been happy with the zero MDR regime for UPI.
That's how I wrote it originally, but thought an upside-down thermometer would look strange. Oh well.
Credit where credit is due; I can imagine many people here right now would want to find the "NINO ALDRIN L. SARMIENTO" credited in the changelogs and shake their hand...
I’ve recently worked on something similar that involved cloning multiple repositories and found gnu parallel to be ideal for that task. Parallel gives more control than xargs.
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