SpaceScotsman

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[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 41 points 9 months ago (22 children)

There's something I'm really struggling to understand when talking about things like Taler, and the "Digital euro" idea which has come up recently as well: What is it actually doing that's new?

Money is distributed digitally already. When you get a paycheck, no-one is actually moving physical paper and metal cash from a business account bank vault to a customer account bank vault, it's just numbers in a spreadsheet. So what's actually new when we're talking about digital currency like this post?

There must be something I'm missing here.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago

For a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as 'Palantir says it has given up on AI'. Then I read the article and was left dejected.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It's an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago

Users need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications

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