Everything that you said is right, my problem with this kind of policy is that they sell it as the solution, I think that is better to fight organized crime with intelligence instead of with raw force.
The weapons and the drugs that finance the traffic do not come from the poor communities, the crime in rio is deep within the society killing the poor that is already marginalized it’s not a soluction.
I agree with you on the other side, people with weapons should be treated as the threat that they are, but the public policy should not be just “kill theses guys and we are good”.
I agree with you. Trust me, in ordinary contexts I'd be the last person defending the PMERJ or the Military Intervention, it's all wrong and rotten and not a real public policy.
However on HN the discourse has the exact opposite bias. People have this idea of morality that's based on their conceptions and not directly on what's happening around them.
Write little CSS as possible, this was the method that i used on my own [0], and as you are at it, try to use little as possible of JS too (in my case i use none)
First, you are selling a little bit of your privacy, the bank you know all your purchase patterns and even though this seems not to be abused it creates a precedent that I do not like.
Secondly, every time that you buy things with your credit card the bank change the business a small fee, so in a way you are making the 'rich' more richer and the 'poor' more poorer.
I believe that these two thing will make me use cash forever.
> every time that you buy things with your credit card the bank change the business a small fee, so in a way you are making the 'rich' more richer and the 'poor' more poorer.
I used to work for a small "mom n pop" style computer store, and did the cash drops most days. My understanding was that the cash handling fees were roughly the same as the card fees. Arguably card processing was cheaper for us,and less error prone (card machine hooked up directly to the till means I won't accidentally give the wrong change when I'm hungover, for example. )
Most of the time you see steep charges for paying by card (e.g. taxis) theyre related to tax avoidance - if you pay cash thryll just pocket it and not log it as a trip, whereas if there's a card payment there's a paper trail.
Don't have a source on hand, but I remember when I looked into this that that extra spending on cash that you mention is dwarfed by the ~2% charged by e-payment processing.
I'm not aware of any countries where no fees at all would be levied, but to provide two examples from Europe:
- In the EU, interchange rates are limited to 0.3% [1] for credit card transactions at physical terminals ("card present transactions"). That's not free, but it's an order of magnitude below US levels. Caps for other payment methods (card not present transactions and transactions made with debit cards) range from 0.2 to 1.5%.
- Some banks, or groups of banks, operate their own schemes (i.e. payment processing networks competing with Visa and Mastercard), and generally achieve lower fees. See [2] for one example where the price per transaction starts at $0.23 and goes down for transactions below $10, and for customers processing more than 10k transactions per year.
Visa/Mastercard have a rule that you can't charge extra for using a credit card. If you find a business doing so you can report them and they will get the credit card facilities yanked.
But you can always offer a discount for cash. So some places do this to get around that rule.
If you're buying in cash you can try ask for a discount. If you're not asking you will get charged the same price they can't offer it out of the blue.
On my country at least there is a trend that only registered costumers have promotions and discounts, but what really happens is that the price of the things go up and the registered costumers pay the 'normal' price.
I'm not buying anymore on theses type of stores (markets and restaurants mostly), but this is keeping growing difficult because every other week more and more business are starting to ask for my 'credentials'.
Use fakes. In the US there's a famous song called Jenny with the phone number 867-5309 in the lyrics. Everyone over age 30 knows that number by heart, and a fair number younger too.
Simply give (your local area-code)-867-5309 and there's a very good chance that someone's already signed up with that number. If not, I'll complete the signup with that number and whatever bogus name comes to mind. Jacob Blues, 1060 W Addison 60613 works well.
Just like AdNauseam, simply chaff the system until it's futile.
I'm sure there are similar characters in the public consciousness of every country.
Thank you for the links, Pretty cool stuff i’ll Take a closer look in the weekend.
I found this when I was looking for art representation of mathematical concepts, like this one that i created (is not a really good one, and the code have a lot of space for improvement):
There are countless resources around the area of generative art. This guy has a few interesting projects although I wouldn't call him an artist :-) [1]. He created a tool to approximate pictures with vectors that produces cool results [2].
This other guy puts out lots of cool stuff, including some stuff done with shaders and webgl [3].
Another very interesting area of generative art is livecoding [4], where people write in real time music and sometimes visuals using software tools [4].
Finally, just found out github has a generative-art tag so maybe you can find some interesting things people have done there [5]. These are the main things I can think of from the top of my head w/o Googling more :-).
I think that one should know deeply about its craft.
Architecture is about design so it's fair to think that an architect should know about art and (some kind of) product design.
The analogy that I can think would be something like - A developer should know about network and how the user will use software, this concepts are important even if the programmer do not work directly with this things.
