In most cases, businesses are forced into the status quo. You can't run a hotel business and hope to not accept guests through such middlemen. That's how the consumers shop.
The problem is the legal lockdown and network effects that force businesses into otherwise undesired contractural obligations on their pricing.
In most places, one must offer Visa or MC or go out of business. And if I accept Visa or MC, I must also accept that Visa or MC has some say over how I price my goods. I cannot pass on the cost to the appropriate customer. I must instead pass it on to all my customers.
So, your theory of consumer behavior breaks down in the face of economic and legislative reality.
The problem with debit cards for the consumer is the P.O.S. fees. With credit cards, the fees are socialized so they essentially trick people into paying more. With debit cards, it's straight up, so many people buy into the credit card points game.
And yes, many places charge fees for using a debit card. I challenge you to find a SoCal gas station or convenience store that does not.
As a responsible libertarian capitalist, what if I don't think it's fair that consumers are being systematically forced to pay higher fees for goods because of the captive market you choose to be part of?
Well, if you count install base as success, I'd say systemd has been pretty successful already. It certainly has its issues, but it's largely the expected issues you see with any new system, especially once that system has been foisted onto large numbers of unprepared admins.
That's mostly meaningless meaningless, though. Credit card transactions can't be made offline either. But you can still take a card imprint or write the number on paper and rely on pre-existing trust networks when submitting the transaction later.
Bitcoin is the same, with the significant distinction that the trust networks are primitive and underdeveloped.
It seems to me this is not encrypted for the purposes of hiding the message. The message is public. What is encrypted is the verification. Anyone can read the message and know that it sends X BTC from address A to address B.
To claim it has no merits is ignorant. Setting up daemons on Linux is traditionally so difficult that many programming languages started just providing their own rather than try to get developers to understand initd well enough to write properly secured and managed daemons.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen Amazon Linux go down because no one sets up log rotation properly in the standard system packages. With initd, this is a bespoke per package hunt for how the logs get handled. With systemd, it's trivial and consistent.
This is just one minor example. There are countless others.
You prefer it when some professional support rep lies to you about future releases just to keep you strung on as a customer? Cause THAT's what professional software looks like.
I'll take passionate hobbyist over professional software house any day with most types of software.
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In most cases, businesses are forced into the status quo. You can't run a hotel business and hope to not accept guests through such middlemen. That's how the consumers shop.
The problem is the legal lockdown and network effects that force businesses into otherwise undesired contractural obligations on their pricing.
In most places, one must offer Visa or MC or go out of business. And if I accept Visa or MC, I must also accept that Visa or MC has some say over how I price my goods. I cannot pass on the cost to the appropriate customer. I must instead pass it on to all my customers.
So, your theory of consumer behavior breaks down in the face of economic and legislative reality.
With inflation, we've already seen this. Between the 2008 meltdown and now, that's been the norm.
The problem with debit cards for the consumer is the P.O.S. fees. With credit cards, the fees are socialized so they essentially trick people into paying more. With debit cards, it's straight up, so many people buy into the credit card points game.
And yes, many places charge fees for using a debit card. I challenge you to find a SoCal gas station or convenience store that does not.
As a responsible libertarian capitalist, what if I don't think it's fair that consumers are being systematically forced to pay higher fees for goods because of the captive market you choose to be part of?
If you can't tie the use of the card to a specific account, you probably can't be in compliance with Know Your Customer laws for money exchange.
It definitely seems to be related to laws in some states. It happens all the time here in SoCal. Never seen it in my home state of MI.
You actually seem to be closer to what I see as the millinnial view. We may be headed to cashless, but it won't involve credit cards.
Well, if you count install base as success, I'd say systemd has been pretty successful already. It certainly has its issues, but it's largely the expected issues you see with any new system, especially once that system has been foisted onto large numbers of unprepared admins.
Since no meaningful public discussion happens on Facebook, it should be an easy balance.
Not to mention, SI who manages the metric standards most definitely says your understanding of kilo- is mistaken.
What you call a "convention", the IEC calls an "international standard for trade".
That's mostly meaningless meaningless, though. Credit card transactions can't be made offline either. But you can still take a card imprint or write the number on paper and rely on pre-existing trust networks when submitting the transaction later.
Bitcoin is the same, with the significant distinction that the trust networks are primitive and underdeveloped.
No, you don't. Bitcoin transactions are public. They are not encrypted.
Bitcoin transactions are not encrypted. Coding is permitted as long as it does not obscure the message. Look it up yourself.
Bitcoin transactions are public. They are not obscured in any way.
It seems to me this is not encrypted for the purposes of hiding the message. The message is public. What is encrypted is the verification. Anyone can read the message and know that it sends X BTC from address A to address B.
If ignorant pre-reviewers aren't relevant, why do journalists keep writing stories about them?
It seems to work for Microsoft and Apple.
Well, the traditional form is "has been laid low".
To claim it has no merits is ignorant. Setting up daemons on Linux is traditionally so difficult that many programming languages started just providing their own rather than try to get developers to understand initd well enough to write properly secured and managed daemons.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen Amazon Linux go down because no one sets up log rotation properly in the standard system packages. With initd, this is a bespoke per package hunt for how the logs get handled. With systemd, it's trivial and consistent.
This is just one minor example. There are countless others.
You prefer it when some professional support rep lies to you about future releases just to keep you strung on as a customer? Cause THAT's what professional software looks like.
I'll take passionate hobbyist over professional software house any day with most types of software.
It's all open source. There's no good reason to continue supporting the software with development and patches. Anyone can fork it.
What you're really saying is any upstart junior programmer with a patch should be able to receive the benefit of putting their code in a project whose name has decades of caché, rather than forking the project and needing to spend the next two decades doing marketing and getting their fork to take over.
Grow up.
The thing about projects like Devuan is they are almost wholly reliant on the base project. Devuan dies without Debian.
Investors are trying to cash out with some money from bigger fools. As a busiess model "streaming gaming" is right up there Cryptocurrency AI.