Does that last bit about "any civil money penalty" mean you can pay your fines with your own meme coin at face value, without having to sell them and thereby tank the value?
Note that she left the Left Party in 1992, and instead joined the Social Democrats. So she's been a member of the national parliament as a representative of the Social Democrats.
This is relevant as the Social Democrats are pro chat control, while the Left Party is against chat control.
Note that in 2013 there weren't many streaming services available in the polled countries. Netflix first appeared in UK and Sweden by 2012, and was probably not available at all in the other polled countries. So it's more likely that TV show prices refer to cable TV, not streaming.
Improved privacy without bad UX is super simple: Have privacy by default, and don't use personal information for things which the user hasn't asked for.
But the metrics/tracking crowd - especially the ad vendors - hate that, and they are more important to most companies/websites than the users.
(It also limits what methods you can use for site improvement, so it's a bit inconvenient for you too.)
Yes and no. The main aspect is that ethereum mining is much bigger than all alternative GPU-mineable coins. When I checked it using whattomine back in January, ethereum mining was roughly 16 times bigger than all others combined.
Since the number of coins mined is fixed regardless of the effort expended, the revenue per card would tank if every ethereum miner switched to other coins.
The relevant part is this "LAS gäller för alla arbetstagare med undantag för de i företagsledande ställning. Lagen är tvingande, men kan inskränkas genom kollektivavtalsskrivelser."
The law covers all employers and employees regardless of union membership, but agreements between unions and employer organizations can limit the scope.
As you say, in practice companies will often sweeten the deal with a big severance package if they want to make changes which the law doesn't allow. I.e. get the right people to voluntarily resign instead of having the wrong people being laid off.
Turris Omnia ( https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/ ) kind of fits your bill, but it's more 2020 than 2022. The main downside is that it doesn't support WiFi6, so you're stuck with 3x3 MIMO 802.11ac.
It runs a modified OpenWrt, TurrisOS, which is open source.
They're a bit on the pricey side, so "worth buying" from that perspective will be up to you.
As others have said, those other coins will get increased competition splitting the mining returns. Unfortunately (for the miners), Ethereum is vastly bigger than all the other coins.
I checked whattomine a few days ago and compared the hash rates of each coin. To make it simpler to compare, I converted it into RTX3080 equivalents. With this measure the hash rate for Ethereum was equivalent to mining with a bit shy of 10 million RTX3080s.
Ethereum Classic, which is the second biggest coin listed on whattomine, had a hash rate equivalent to about 263000 RTX3080s. I.e. Ethereum has 37 times more miners than Classic, and if they all moved to Classic the revenue would be slashed to 1/38 of what it is now while everybody would incur the same costs as now.
Ravencoin is the second biggest mineable coin (Monero isn't profitable to mine even now, so it does not matter) and Ethereum is 83 times bigger than Ravencoin.
It turns out Ethereum is more than 16 times bigger than every other coin listed on whattomine combined.
In everything except the most exceptional circumstances knowing what to build will be a blend of written requirements and shared knowledge within the team. You can advocate for comprehensive requirements which pushes the effort towards the written spec side, or you can advocate for "working software over comprehensive documentation" which pushes the effort towards using more shared knowledge. Depending on the nature of your project, one or the other might be preferable.
For most projects, both "knowing what to build" and "working software" will never be 100% clear.
My POV from Sweden, where the adoption rate is roughly the same.
From the merchant's perspective:
- There is a law regarding cash registries, to prevent tax evasion by cash accepting businesses. The cost for getting a compliant cash register is probably at least as high as getting an online payment solution set up.
- Not handling cash decreases the risk of robbery.
- Adoption rate is high enough that not accepting cash payments won't lose you many sales, as long as you accept both card and app payments.
- Adoption rate is so high that only accepting cash payments will lose you a lot of sales. I.e. you need to get that online payment solution set up anyway.
- There are several online payment providers (for instance Klarna) which accept app payments.
From the customer's perspective:
- There's an authentication solution (BankID) which is almost used by everyone. You can use it to sign online payments, do your tax returns, and sign the payment app transactions. On your smartphone, this can be done with the fingerprint scanner. I.e. signing a payment isn't harder than unlocking your phone.
- The payment app (Swish) is supported by most Swedish banks and account transfers are instant and free. If I have your cell phone number, I can send you money instantly. This drove adoption amoung young people who already were attached to their phone 24/7.
- Contactless card payments in stores now have a reasonably high limit (400 SEK ~= $45-50), which makes it at least as fast as presenting cash and accepting change.
For me this is at a point where I can't even remember when I last payed with cash, and cash in my wallet is "gone" in the same way that those £25 in small change sitting in a drawer after the trip to the UK are.
They only mention the problem with banks not wanting to handle cash any more, which leaves people who still depend on cash with few options.
Some issues not listed i the article, but which I have noticed here in Sweden:
- Many shops are no longer accepting cash payments, which leaves you unable to transact if you don't have either a payment card (Visa/MC mostly) or the local payment app (Swish).
- Your banks systems doesn't have 100% uptime, and when their systems are being serviced you can't transact.
- Your cellphone carrier doesn't have 100% area coverage, which also makes you unable to transact. If you're a city dweller you probably won't find out until it's too late, and you might have to travel miles to get enough reception to transact.