shavingspiders

Grass based livestock farming, or grass based with corn finishing, is pretty common in high rainfall areas of the world like Ireland & New Zealand. Considerably lower intensity than feedlots (better for the environment too), easier to handle, and generally a higher quality output so long as you're around area that can process that output & send it to the right market.

Have you tried reading books out loud? I found that made a surprising difference to experience of books, even just because I was devouring them much slower. Found it much easier to enjoy the 'craft' of the book too.

There is a Belgian TV show called "Into the Night" which explores a kind of similar concept, where they have to stay in the night time or else bad things happen so they fly a plane around. I won't spoil it for you, but it's subtitled & available on Netflix.

That's a really interesting idea. I'm not sure what the commercial value would be, but the artistic value (and gain in privacy) would be huge. I'm not sure what you'd do about identifying marks like tattoos, but perhaps that isn't the biggest concern when compared to faces.

Could you train a model with your own face as a start, and then run your photos through an existing consumer face-swap app? Or perhaps use a celebrities likeness? I wonder how much the visual 'likeness' of a stranger is worth.

Another view of this - if the true purchase is of a group of workflows, are they purchasing for the things they know they need or the assurance that behemoth IBM/SAP/whatever has a process for whatever they didn't think about? Purchasing to minimise some future operational risk.

Interesting, I had a similar issue with my NZ-issued TransferWise card, however it resolved itself in a few days. This was in Dubai airport & then across a few merchants in the UK, though.

I can confirm that, too. Took 2 attempts.

What? That's incorrect - I've recently had 1Password change my Outlook.com password, and it's much more than 8 characters.

I believe you're right. In .au they call it PayPass, but in .nz they call it PayWave. I believe some old Visa machines didn't support MasterCard, or the other way round. All I remember is my flatmate complaining that his new debit card kept failing contactless payments.

We don't have many - panadol & ibuprofen combos, viagra generics, branded asthma drugs. Generally they purchase ad spots outside of prime time (and likely with more regularity on channels like One & Prime, where there's a slightly older audience.

That makes me feel very good that I locked in .party for 10 years and $3/year with Gandi.

I managed to have a bit of fun with .party and .science.

firstname.party is great to have.

The followup doco is even better - the newly minted master sommeliers proceed to contradict each other, and seem to have a lot more fun than the first one.