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Comment Re:That will do away with the backup (Score 1) 125

The chip is the backup. Primary usage of a card contactless payment. Recently I see more and more people importing their cards to Google Pay, they don't even carry a plastic anymore.
For past decade I can remember only one situation when I had to use magnetic stripe - to buy train tickets in Israel. I was really shocked, I had to get open app on my phone to enable processing magnetic stripe information for my card.

Comment Re:Cue the Gender Swaps (Score 2, Interesting) 198

I've read the entire series last year. The experience was jarring. "Foundation" is set in the future, but many themes were so backwards it was painful. Completely unrealistic treating of women and such. Unfortunately, this was quite plausible when the books were written. But it's not fitting future society from our current vantage point. Unless we expect to recess greatly.
I'm all for modernisation and bringing more women and nonbinary characters. just to make it a bit more realistic.
Oh, and I'm middle aged white male, as it matters for some people.

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