The reporting requirement is 10K, not 4K. So either you're lying, or you made a smart ass answer and pissed the teller off.

And if you think that PayPal etc wouldn't tell the feds everything they wanted to know, you're kidding yourself. They're even more likely to, as they don't have privacy protections written into law.

No, it's an attempt to protect against typo squatting. Like people who register amason.com instead of amazon.com to steal your credit card or login. It's a great idea, it just always needs a "No, I typed what I meant, go there" option.

Your argument is badly broken by neural nets and machine learning paradigms. They are very much NOT same inputs, same output. The output depends on what the training set was, and the order items were added to it. Take the same algorithm and train it on two different data sets, or even the same set in a different randomized order and you can get two different results. The worse part is that we would never be able to tell someone why- neural nets don't use logic, or understanding. So there can be no rational explanation for some of their decisions other than a chance correlation.

That can have extremely negative effects in the real world. An easy example is recommendation engines. Due to how they work, it's easy to get pigeon holed into certain types of content. It's a major cause in political radicalization and bubbles that we see today.

Another is inherent bias in systems. An AI is only as good as its input is. Crap input, crap output. Which is why when trained on data to try to find criminals, there have been multiple studies where it only picked black people. Why? Because they were outsized in the training set. The opposite reason is why facial recognition has trouble with them- underrepresented in that sample set.

Which all doesn't mean that we shouldn't use AI. It means we should use it carefully, keep an eye on surprise negative effects, regularly improve and adjust training sets, and decide that there are some places where we should leave humans in the loop and an AI is advisory at most. If we had an AI reading the signals from sensors in 1983 instead of Stanislav Petrov, we'd be a radioactive crater right now.

That's not the plan you use to save money. Get the Flexible plan- $20 per month for unlimited talk and text, and $10 per GB for data, with a max charge of $60 a month for data. I almost never pay more than $30 a month, because I'm always on wifi. Add in the ability to use multiple networks (Sprint or Tmobile), and the data price staying the same in 100+ countries and it's a great plan.

Once again- if they don't have that data already on the web, why do you think they'd bother putting it in a barcode, which will almost assuredly just link to a website?

If they don't care enough to put it on their website, why do you think they'd care enough to put it in a barcode? And if it's already on their website, the gains of this new system are minimal to none.

If this unlocks some special new functionality for the supply chain, that's fine let's switch. But the consumer oriented part seems gimicky and unnecessary. Or could be done by a QR code.

Exactly, your car will outlast your phone. Which is why you want all of that software on the phone instead of the car- so it continues to be updates in software and hardware, can easily be replaced with something better, and is an open platform that allows you to choose your software providers. Hell, worst case you can mount the phone on your dash and use it. Anything in car you're stuck with permanently. Not to mention who knows how long it will be around- my car is 20 years old. There is 0 chance any car company will support it that long- if anything they'd consider bricking it after 5 years a benefit as it could force you to get a new car.

The problem with that is the I- Intelligence. The right doesn't have any of that.

Umm, even without computers you can print. Which is what most people do when they write. I've read plenty of hand written notes, blackborad/whiteboard messages, etc in my life. Nobody has ever used cursive to write them. Even adults who took cursive, like me, usually don't remember how to do more than write their name. And the time savings cursive was supposed to give you, when actually studied, ended up being a myth. Not to mention print is more readable, you can almost never read anyone else's cursive.

So yeah, even without machines we'd get along just fine without cursive. It literally has no value except reading historical documents.

Because it feels a bit pointless. Hey, for your birthday I'm handing you $50. Hey, for my birthday you handed me $50. Why the fuck did we bother? By doing a gift card, there's minimum veneer that we thought about what the other might like.

Do you think the average person knows what a wallet is? Or has the technical ability to use one? Or has the technical knowledge to secure and back it up effectively, and the computer on which it resides? Especially given that a major crypto developer just proved he couldn't as he lost over 3 million USD to a compromised PC? Banks exist for a reason- to safeguard and protect money. The same reasons you don't hide your dollars in your mattress are the reasons why people would use an exchange.

That's not true at all. The fracture threshold of a human skull is 14-70 joules (source: https://www.walshmedicalmedia....). A 2 kg (5 pound) package would have energy of .5*m*v^2. It will reach that threshold at 3-8 m/s. Which if being accelerated by gravity at 9.8m/s^2, it will reach pretty quickly. And of course its worse if you get hit by a corner, concentrating the area of impact. So yes, its totally possible for a 5 pound weight dropped from 1-2 stories up to fracture your skull. And a fracture isn't the only possible injury- laceration and concussion can happen at much lower thresholds.

Bitcoin has fees on every transaction. And no government isn't a good thing. The ability to roll back transactions in the case of fraud, theft, etc at a minimum is a good thing. As for a lot faster- it can take hours for a Bitcoin transaction to settle. How long it takes depends on how much you pay in fees. Cash, credit cards, etc are far faster. Bitcoin loses on all those fronts, as do all other cryptocurrencies.

Nobody argues for the fucking purity of a headphone jack. We like headphone jacks because we prefer wired and because it's a second connector. And mildly because we already have headphones, but if they got rid of them and replaced them with a second USB connector we'd all be ok with that. It's about not liking wireless (easy to misplace, need to be charged, not liking in ear buds, easy to lose when they fall out out your ear) but not wanting the sole port on the phone to be dedicated to it.