The biggest reason for me to use an OTA is the free cancellation policy, I've never found any hotel site that has the kind of flexibility I'm looking for.
> Maybe a simple set of questions would help: You don’t feel some art is better or special? Or you don’t feel a person can discern between art that is better or worse, even in the most extreme cases? Or is it something else?
Yes, but that is the point I think, subjectivity. You also feel that way for different reasons, and who's to judge which of us is objectively right?
I've been using it with a couple of other people and testing transfers between private wallets, chivo wallets, conversion between USD and BTC in small amounts, it hasn't failed on me yet.
I've also bought in a supermarket with it, again small amounts 8.00 USD to be precise (avocados and some other stuff), a lot of businesses take BTC now, some of these businesses are:
- Super Selectos (biggest supermarket chain here in ES)
- Walmart (second biggest supermarket chain here in ES)
- Siman (electronics, furniture, clothes)
- ZARA (clothing)
- Starbucks
- Mcdonald's
- Pollo Campero
these are just some examples, a bunch more are taking BTC payments from chivo wallet and really any LN compatible wallet.
you can take your money out of the government wallet by:
1. linking your existing bank account and transferring USD to your bank
2. cashing out in one of the 200 ATMs
3. transferring your BTC to a private wallet
for me personally, superficially it works, the inner workings are opaque tho, I don't expect every BTC in government wallets to actually be backed by an actual BTC for example, the government does not have enough BTC to cover the $30 USD in BTC bonus they've been giving out, and not every BTC you get in the chivo wallet is reflected somehow in the blockchain.
again my use has been pretty limited, I've day-traded with really small amounts, I've read people complaining about bank transfers taking a few days or not working at all (balance disappears from app, does not appear on bank), or ATMs being out of cash, or ATMs subtracting amounts from wallet and not giving money, I have not tried to do any of these yet though
other issue is security, the facial verification seems to be a facade so anyone with your DUI (similar to SSN, but it is public knowledge) and your birth date can claim your account and your $30 bonus if you haven't, and also potentially make financial transactions with your ID tied to them.
sounds like a beefed up unix philosophy, I think command pipes in the shell gave us something very similar to this idea way back, except that it doesn't really lend itself to complex programs like I think you're suggesting
Personally I think there's possibly an intersection of people who want a "dumb" tv and people who would do something similar to this, I for example, would love to have a "dumb" tv and just hook up one of those firestick/chromecast/other-product dongles into one of the available HDMI ports.
I really see no point in having an integrated computer in my TV that's just gonna be stop being supported a couple of years down the road, might as well have that part be detachable for when it becomes obsolete, I'd just buy a new one, the display would still be good.
I wonder if that is the ideal path though, I was an instructor for a few subjects in my university and sometimes the biggest detractor for students was the lack of familiarity with the tool set used by the language,
for example, people sometimes did not know how to freeze their dependencies and use python virtual environments when working with python projects, that lead to problems in collaboration, handing students "magic" prefabricated environments could lead them to believe that that's all there is to it, and explaining that it is not to the student in an edge case might end up being less productive than understanding this process from the get go
you could say that the _effort_ to set up a development machine should be part of the learning experience, at least that's what I think.
I remember seeing my classmates having their first freelance jobs and editing minified css/javascript directly because they did not know anything about the transpiling that goes on or the toolset surrounding javascript and web development
I'll just repost something I wrote on some other thread one time:
I've changed my laptop 4 times now in 5 years for different reasons, when I do so, there's only a couple of things to consider:
if I'm upgrading the HDD (for example when I made the jump from HDD to SSD or from my 2.5inch SSD to my M2 SSD currently) I need to clone the drive to my new storage, otherwise I only need to swap out my storage device from my old laptop to my new one.
With linux it just works I don't have to fiddle for my devices to be found, everything is just where I left it, the biggest change was when I went from an intel based PC to an AMD one, I only had to switch the display drivers after the fact (I knew because X crashed, I had to do this from tty), but it is expected since the display cards are totally different, all it took was a: sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu and a restart.
having a rolling release distro helps too, because you really don't have a reason to nuke your install and start from scratch, but even if I decided to do that for whatever reason, since most configuration is done via text files I can easily save those in a repo and just clone them to my new install and be done in a few minutes.
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 25 2016 /lost+found
^ that's when I last installed linux, I've been using the same install through 5 years in 4 different devices, it's pretty cool.
Of course I do my research before purchasing a new device, see if there's anything on the arch linux forums that's causing trouble with that particular device, but beyond that, it's all been good for quite a bit, I've never used another OS for this long without doing a hard format and performance hasn't suffered at all, I have almost every development environment available to me one command away (except for Xcode and some Windows specific stuff ofc).
but, my counterpoint is, I feel all OSs are decent enough nowadays and all provide good enough or better functionality OOTB, so for me it has become more subjective than anything, there are strengths and weaknesses to all of them, and I wouldn't be particularly bothered if I had to use one of them because of some requirement or something, but if the choice is mine, it's GNU/Linux