States existed before modern democracy, and the nation-state as we know it evolved from European kingdoms and aristocracies. States exist today for a convoluted variety of historical reasons; certainly not exclusively "the interests of its native people"
This is funny because when I moved from the USA to UK I was caught off guard by "Sunday trading laws"[0] and even where not legally prohibited, it seems like most retailers other than vape stores or corner shops close at 5:30 or 6 pm, Since covid, we have to book an appointment in advance to go to the tip.
I think things have improved a little bit over the past few years – one large retail park near us advertises "late opening" (7 pm! ha!) on Thursdays — but it's still difficult to run errands during the week. I don't understand why it makes sense economically to only have your store open when no one with a 9-5 job can shop there.
> any more than they have access to the bank info of people who use Android or Gmail.
...but they do? Google pay gives them your credit card and transaction details; any time your bank sends a statement to your gmail account, Google has that, too.
> Here is a startling fact: in 2014 there were 142,417 housing starts in the city of Tokyo (population 13.3m, no empty land), more than the 83,657 housing permits issued in the state of California (population 38.7m), or the 137,010 houses started in the entire country of England (population 54.3m).
Companies have never secured their stuff and it's not because they didn't have access to Mythos. No one cares and breaches don't cost them money or customers. If I sound cynical it's because I am.
There's no functional difference between
"Hey npm says this is vulnerable, we need to fix it!" /
"Nah, later."
and
"Hey Mythos says this is vulnerable, we need to fix it!" /
"Nah, later."
I suppose it depends what you're optimizing for, but this Bank Python looks like it would be great for enabling productivity in a consistent shared environment with minimal setup required for devs. This looks far better than setting up jupyter notebooks, installing all kinds of pypi dependencies, etc. whatever the equivalent on the outside would be.