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Comment Re:How abysmally stupid do you have to be ... (Score 1) 56

I do not know what your phone app does.
But mine is for transferring money from my account to any other account.
For that I do not use a card, but my account. How else should that work?

On top of that, I top up my phone.
Do QR code payments ... and so on.

making the bank's own app unnecessary, and one less point of attack.
That is silly. The point of attack is not the app, but the backend of the bank.

Comment Re:Is this *still* a hoax? (Score 1) 381

No. Yield per acre is up a MASSIVE 20 and 28 percent respectively for corn and wheat over the last two decades.
And rice in Thailand for example is collapsing due to climate change.

Distribution is easier, as the population is more concentrated in urban areas, too. Which also has meanwhile upgraded infrastructure like cooling.

Comment configuring switches, cables, and plugboards (Score 1) 99

Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.

I am pretty sure there is a vim plugin for that!

Comment Re:What's The Average? (Score 1) 108

You might steal a trailer that is full of nickels. But now you need to somehow get rid of $50K worth of nickels.
There was a case in Germany, when silver prices exploded, and the 5 Mark (at that time a about $1.50 - the Dollar was pretty high, in our times Euro 2,50 - but by inflation perhaps only Euro 1), that count had about 65% silver.
People started to horde the coins to smelt them ... it pretty quickly lead to a replacement of those coins. I mean: a new kind of coin, mostly nickel, was introduced.

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