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As the article points out, there are laws that say people who pay via SNAP debit cards "cannot be charged more than others".

If cash payments are rounded down, but debit card payments aren't, they are in violation of state law.

The article also points out that rollback of pennies in Canada and other places were planned, addressing these kinds of issues. USA is doing it with no such planning.

So everyday people don't want to fight climate change? I know some do.

> Honestly, I wish PGP was widely accepted.

I wish the opposite. I wish PGP would go away.

Web of trust model of keys simply doesn't work. One key forever doesn't work.

SSH keys work great without "all of this key management and rotation by hand" if you just use ssh certificates.

I love this concept!

Because that would be illegal market manipulation.

Any institute, including GameStop themselves, would be committing a crime if they knowingly triggered a short squeeze. The SEC rules on this is quite clear.

What's interesting to me is that the official SEC report on GameStop "squeeze" specifically called out that the rise in price WAS NOT due to short covering, but rather a large increase in retail buying and market makers balancing options. So the reported % short went from more than 100% to less than %20 with zero short covering and prices falling? Yeah, sure.

It doesn't even have to be average human.

Let's say AI only gets to 10% (or 20% or 30% or whatever, it doesn't really matter), that's a huge number of jobs being lost.

Imagine having a machine write all the "simple/boring" code for you. Your productivity will go through the roof. The smartest programmer who can most effectively leverage the machine could replace many hundreds of programmers.

I should brush up on my plumbing and apply for a plumbing license soon. (I think plumbing is safer than electricians, because many CS people have good EE foundations).

My 10 year old self couldn't imagine having these massive artificial brains scattered throughout the world connected by high speed fiber network being a real thing.

just put "steam" in the url?

On iOS, opening up saved passwords just uses firefox's password manager. On the desktop, I just open up firefox's password page. It's always running anyway.

It works just like another password app.

> I wish there were a good solution

The answer is right there in the article: Use the browser's password manager.

I find Firefox's password manager + Sync a good solution, and I don't understand why people don't advocate it more. It's free and open source. Mozilla is a reputable software house with a good security team. Their revenue stream does not depend on you paying for the password manager. It doesn't even depends on monetizing your personal information.

Yesterday I found it even works as a password store for all of iOS.

Self hosting sucks for an average user, and terrible for a mobile user. It is possible to have hosted password solution that is secure, so why not use it?

This is basically the same "cloud" vs "on-prem" debate. Cloud won, I think.

My grief (and grieving) is not with this.

If you had an advanced degree in math or physics, hedge funds in NYC was always an option to maximize your talent in exchange for money. But one also had an option to choose something different and still make an upper middle class living.

It seems these days, only the finance/tech offer such living. NOT choosing tech is choosing barely middle class living, and everyone else is delegated to hand-to-mouth living.

I disagree with everything you've said.

The only difference between myself and my other friends (who also have advanced degrees from top universities in the bay area) is that I abandoned my field of study and jumped into tech.

After 10 years, we have vastly different financial outcomes now.

A lot of hard working, well educated, dedicated people struggle financially around here, because they happened to not choose tech.

Add in the teachers and other under-appreciated careers, I do feel guilty that I should have so much, and they so little.