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
Because Spanish speaking people did not come up with the concept and people that came up with the concept were maybe not that familiar with spanish pronunciation or weren't concerned about it at all, I've heard that this originated strangely enough in Portugal but was made popular by some people in the US, I might be wrong on that one though.
I would argue about that, I'm salvadoran, never been to the states and I would gladly say I'm latino, we even have an expression when we go abroad, "I miss the latino heat" which means that we miss the warm weather and friendly disposition of people in latin american countries, it's a weird phenomenon that you can't experience if you're not from a Spanish speaking country and have not gone abroad.
Generally speaking when you're in your country you'll sometimes have strong opinions about your neighbouring countries, Hondurans are this, Guatemalans are that, but when you're outside your country and you run into other latin american people, in my experience it was something really special we would greet each other as if we were long time friends, I think there's something more to it than language, I think most latin american people can relate to a certain kind of burden that comes with living in a latin american country, those burdens and the problems our societies have are pretty similar all around and I think when we meet in foreign countries we immediately relate in the way we perceive our societies and the things we've lived through.
Just as an anecdote, I went to Paris for a vacation and I went into a Five guys restaurant, usually you have to pay for a soda refill, but there was a dominican guy who was a waiter and he heard me and my SO speaking Spanish and he immediately smiled and came over and we had a nice conversation about our countries, and he let me refill our sodas for free, it's really nice and I don't know if other regions have something like this
On the hispanic comment, Spanish is a naturally gendered language, you cannot form a sentence without giving gender to at least the subject, for example "la doctora toma el café por la mañana" would translate to "the (female) doctor drinks (male) coffee by the (female) morning" because English is a mostly gender neutral language you would loose all gender information by literally translating that sentence.
Now if we take the gender out of every word in that sentence it would look something like "lx doctorx toma (we loose el, here) café por lx mañana", el wasn't necessary in the sentence to beging with, so that's fine, but the rest of the sentence becomes pretty hard to read to anyone that speaks Spanish, there's no practical way of pronouncing that unless you use the English pronunciation of the letter x.
To add more depth to this, in spanish to give a gender neutral statement, you default to the male version of the noun, for example, for a group that has boys and girls, you would just refer to them as "los niños", people feel this could be dismissive of girls, if there is at least one boy in a group of girls you'd say "los niños" and depending of the context it is implied that the group has both girls and boys, so in some latin american governments they are required by etiquette to form sentences like "las niñas y los niños" instead of just "los niños" this is called around here "inclusive language" but even then most Spanish speaking people think that is impractical and unnecessary.
That said, the latinx movement is kind of relevant in Argentina IIRC, but in most other latin american countries the idea will be met with a lot of resistance and rejection.
Is it really necessary to take your potential client out for lunch for them to buy your stuff?, If no one else did it, does it really add value to your product? Would these people stop buying what you have to offer whether from you or some other provider if there were no executive lunches or business dinners?
Are executives lounging in a luxury hotel really essential to business? Or jollies for that matter.
I think that things like repairs and technical visits are still a long way from being able to be carried out remotely, but the other items seem to be things that are non-essential.
In my country it's the same, I think it is done that way because most people jobs start at 8 or 9, there's no school bus system, only private transport for kids going to school, so this schedule gives a chance for parents to drop off their kids at school and make it to work afterwards.
Personally I hated it at the time, because getting up early is not my thing, but now I appreciate the time I got to talk with my parents on my way to school thanks to that schedule arrangement.
Also to offset this early getting up, we jus went to bed earlier, like at 9pm or 10pm max, so not sure it really made a difference on anything.
How often do you start from scratch when installing an OS?, 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, btw all it took was a: sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu.
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.
I'll be honest though I do still miss photoshop and Illustrator, I run Illustrator CS6 in wine, but it is missing a lot of features that have been added through the years, but Krita is a decent replacement for photoshop in the Illustration space, which is why I used photoshop in the first place, but nobody is stopping adobe from making a suite for linux I guess.