Nothing is free. UPI isn't either. Whether it is paid for with a surcharge, implemented in the product price, or funded by your taxes it is being paid for by someone.

Of course not, it's official rollout hasn't happened yet. The timeline is next year. But in the place where it came from it is universally accepted, and country wide adoption is rolling out in several countries right now (it requires bank level support, so the moment your bank has it then it's possible to use). And payment processors all over the EU support it. Heck I just used it to buy something from Aliexpress.

It's nothing like Zelle. Zelle is a person to person transfer system. Wero is a person to business system first and foremost. The thing is with Wero is that once it is implemented then a personal Zelle like system becomes as easy as having an app generate the appropriate QR codes. Most bank apps already let you do this. And some payment terminals are already starting down this path (e.g. if you're ever in Amsterdam and feed a can into a can deposit return machine it'll spit out a QR code which if you scan proceeds to close the transaction via Wero to refund you your 15c.)

Having used UPI (I regularly travel to Pune) as an end user there's no practical difference (except for the offline capability I didn't know about until just now) beyond the fact that it hasn't been adopted at a payment terminal level. But that's coming. Very few Wero transactions charge additional fees.

By the way there's renewed push back against UPI in India right now. The benefit of a government system is that it is centrally managed. The downside is that the taxman starts knocking on your door for small individual transactions. I'm not a believer in that pushback, I'm just saying that there's plenty of people the idea of the government directly looking into your transactions tickles some the wrong way.

AAA titles haven't had resale for a long time. Simply having the disc hasn't been enough to play a game for over a decade.

Physical hasn't been physical for a long time. There's virtually no major games released on disc that don't require you to download a massive update before you play on day 1 of release with all games having an online component locking you out if you don't apply that update.

For most games physical has been a complete waste of postage (or shelf space if you're old school and go buy things from shops).

Was there? Where? Best I could see a couple of projects were underway, and those projects were universally over budget and over time. While EDF purchased Areva in 2017 the latter was in financial dire straits since the mid 00s. Westinghouse also went bankrupt only a couple of years before Fukushima.

So if there was a renaissance, the industry has a strange way of financially accounting for it.

This is truly sad. Fear is a powerful motivator especially for those who understand statistics. However... the breaks and shutdown of nuclear wasn't without merit. One of the biggest problems is that it hadn't been invested in for the past 25+ years, that means old reactors operating well past design life. Design life is a thing, especially in the nuclear industry which you can't just wave away with a signature on a piece of paper. Every time a nuclear plant was extended it made a disaster more likely, especially with old facilities made before inherently safer designs was part of engineering nomenclature.

You're joking (and I laughed a bit), but yes there actually is a causal relationship... the other way from your post. Expect climate changed based mass migration to increase a lot. Europe is hot, but we ain't seen nothing yet while the middle east and North Africa runs out of water.

My own neighbour of colour...ful origins came here largely because he didn't want to live in a desert.

You don't need air-to-air for cooling. You can do air-to-water as well. One of my friends has underfloor cooling which is more than sufficient if you're not American and don't need your house 20 degrees *ahem* apologies, 68 degrees all year round. His house was a comfortable 26C today. Another of my friends has overhead water panel cooling. Sure his ceiling doesn't look like a flat plane but it does still look cool and circulates cool air via convection down from water cooled panels.

And one of my colleagues got an intriguing system a few weeks ago: Portable air-conditioning. Except without the downside of portable air-conditioning, the units are small and take waste heat and dump it into the radiator lines (there's a quick release coupling next to the radiators in the room). By dumping heat into his water heating circuit his air-water heatpump can pipe it outdoors. Keeps his rooms at 21C without any condensation buildup on the the radiator circuit.

Now why do something weird like that? Well this system can be retrofitted into traditional European heating systems, where as an air-to-air heatpump is an insane non-starter due to requiring major construction changes int he house for the air circulation system. Virtually everyone who has looked at air-to-air heatpump heating/cooling system has instead just gone and slapped a split system airco on every wall of the house instead.

Yeah we can solve global warming today, just let all the nukes fly and fill the sky with clouds and dust. Global warming solved, among other things.

Indeed but I do give them credit for one part of the story, they acknowledged that they won't start construction until 2030. That's at least more realistic than those idiots who think the construction period is the actual full project timeline for a nuclear reactor.

As I posted earlier..sounds like a great money making endeavor .....AC units that fit UK and EU style windows!!!

Will someone over there innovate and cash in, or will it be someone external to your countries?

Sounds like the market in the UK and possibly the EU is ripe for some AC innovation....new window units that will work with whatever window styles are popular over there...?

Ah.....don't be a pussy.

We've been living with that all our lives in New Orleans.....just buy a few AC units for the windows if you don't have central air....

It's not the end of the world....

Hell, I'm doubting you have the humidity to go with the heat they way we do....?

Why not just get a fucking air conditioner like most other modern civilizations do in the 21st century.

I've been hearing about all the EU folks over here for the soccer games raving about the great AC we have here everywhere in the US.

If you can't afford central air...just toss up a few window units. It doesn't cost a ton and makes summer's survivable....especially if humidity is there in the mix.

Hell I live in New Orleans...the capital of heat and humidity in the summer....get some AC and you can do just fine....we do.

Perhaps this was the reason behind Randy Newman's composition....?

"...short people got...no reason to live...."

Yet another person doesn't know what Socialism is. May I suggest reading the Wikipedia entry instead of Fox News?

We don't need to pay someone for insurance, we have consumer protection laws instead.

Yes I've had my debit card ripped off, and fraudulent transactions made on debit, and yes I got my money back.