vga

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Well where do you keep your change

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, that's just dumb.

Roughly a similar move was made by the far right finance minister in Finland. When she was faced with the challenge of communicating the need for austerity, did she use empathy? No, she went for twitter posts where she laughed aloud with scissors in hand.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

He drugged and raped a 13 year old child.

I hope everyone here is sane enough to understand that that is a lot worse than what JK Rowling is doing here.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Cool flowers dude

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shouldn't the third panel just be empty?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not saying Reagan wasn't a bad president, just focusing on his effects on the economy. That doesn't excuse his other failures.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there some sort of an overview of all the components that are required for the whole system to work? Are there opportunities for new PSPs to emerge and try to topple the existing ones with better and cheaper service?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

There are couple multi-billion euro companies (all the Payment Service Processors, Visa, Mastercard, etc) that would necessarily become several million euro companies if Taler was successful though. That's a lot of concentrated power that doesn't want Taler to succeed.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

GNU Taler has been specifically designed to allow authorities to control (or at least monitor) the flow of money, though.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm over 40 and I usually stand up about half of my working day. But I wouldn't want to stand in an airplane because it's cramped.

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