I like the idea. Unfortunately, could not get it to work on Linux. Making a note caused a crash. Searching notes crashed. LLM chat would cause crash. Hope to see it work some time.
All I had to do was read the title of this article and the first sentence to understand that this is an example of what's wrong with the software development industry. I would rather work with people that act like good people and are human, than to work for the idiots measuring your every breath looking for a reason to fire you.
It won't take long before all banks are using it. Once the banks are using it, employers will begin making payments using it. Once employees are receiving digital currency payments from employers, cash will end soon after.
Maybe a long time ago, but I get my pay which is supposed to be on the 1st and 15th on like the 13th and 29th or something. Getting paid "two days early" is a pretty common feature with Direct Deposit these days. It is always credited to my account before my actual paycheck technically gets posed.
> maybe charging a transaction fee
I imagine someone would be paying for the transaction of physically handling all the cash, no? Its not like having all the logistics of handling cash to potentially thousands of employees is a zero dollar cost. I imagine its massively cheaper for everyone to pay whatever marginal cost my employer is paying for ACH/DirectDeposit through their payroll app than paying a ton of people to handle and keep track of the cash.
Getting paid early is essentially an automatic "Payday loan" provided by whoever you bank with (whatever institution receives your payhecks) as a perk of banking with them. I personally decline this service, because I don't like adding a paycheck-sized liability to my accounting books for two days.
My bank seems to trust my paycheck deposits, though, and they "clear" (update my balance and become spendable) under 24hrs after they show up as "pending."
They're based on notification from they payroll company about the incoming paycheck. They're not just assumed by the bank to be there, and I'm not charged any interest on it, so I wouldn't necessarily lump them into the same category as "payday loans" which usually carry extremely high interest rates and often don't actually have any basis on truly knowing if the paycheck is incoming or not. Getting paid early is not similar to going to a payday loan vendor and getting a loan.
So when my bank is crediting my account with my paycheck early, its because my work told them I'm getting paid that amount. Otherwise they wouldn't necessarily know of the amount. Sure, its like some kind of loan in a way, but its essentially paperovering the slowness of the ACH to actually clear in a decent timeframe.
Direct Deposit. The banks can see the incoming transaction before the amounts clear. Payroll often starts the process two days early anyways since they try and get it to land on the 1st and 15th or whatever the dates are, so when the bank sees the incoming transaction it'll just automatically give me the funds while the clearing happens in the background.
Its honestly the same kind of logic they're using when you deposit your paycheck and it seems to clear turbo fast.
Huh? Employers pay employees via direct deposit in many (most?) cases. This isn’t any different… Either way it’s money moving from one bank account to another digitally.
I would never eat processed manufactured meat. This is just another food category being converted to processed foods. Processed foods make you sick, weak and takes your life. Want a short unhealthy life? Eat processed foods. Pharma will be there for you to speed up your own efforts.
It is a terrible thing for individuals to face imprisonment due to their unwillingness to accept pharmaceuticals being administered to them without their consent. This situation represents a significant abuse of power by both the government and the medical community. This abuse of power will certainly spill into many areas of peoples lives, one of which, consequently, people will develop a profound fear of seeking medical assistance, akin to the fear experienced during World War 1/2.
She's not in custody because she refused treatment. She's in custody because she was not willing to stay away from other people despite carrying tuberculosis.
Despite being aware she had tuberculosis, and being told that she had to isolate she was seen using public transport, going to casinos, traveling in cars with others, etc.
We know about the last one because she got in a car wreck, and then she failed to tell the first responders she had tuberculosis, and then she was taken to an ER, where she didn't tell the doctors there she had TB either. They were trying to work out why her lungs were F'd despite her knowing exactly why, and intentionally putting everyone there at risk.
So don't put this down as "unwillingness to accept pharmaceuticals being administered to them without their consent". If you have a contagious disease you can either:
* Get treated
* Isolate indefinitely
Anything else means you've decided your personal freedom is more important than the life or freedom of everyone else.
When someone who has a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease (with significant sequelae if you happen to catch it and survive) refuses treatment or an order detaining them at their home, it is in the interest of the common good to either isolate them, or if that is not socially feasible, forcibly treat them.
Are you on crack? She could kill others by spreading it.
Your rights end when you start putting others at risk. It’s the same reason you can’t get hammered and go drive or build a nuclear reactor in your potting shed without a permit.
An expense chart showing how that $17B was spent would be interesting to everyone reading the article. It would also keep the government accountable to the people on how their taxes are spent.
I stopped using Google products a long time ago. Seeing articles like this and hearing what others are dealing with just encourages me to see that I made the right choice.
