Hmm, it’s changed a bit I guess. The ones around me are almost always metal tanks, which fail the aeration and sunlight requirement. And thickness I guess, but they’re as good as any brick wall at stopping a mouse.

Okay, interesting. Apparently everywhere else in the world what I’m talking about is called a cashier’s cheque. I just meant the one that you can cash without an account because it’s guaranteed to clear.

TIL!

As many of these apps (especially banking apps) won’t work on a rooted phone, I don’t think they’d work on a compatibility layer.

TIL. That’s depressing, somebody at the bank cared enough to deliberately ruin our fun.

Yes, at the end of the day, I’m not sure any type of message packaging will be effective enough. People care abstractly about climate change, but not enough to make any of the needed personal sacrifices right now.

You asked about machine learning as applied to gibberish, which reminds me a bit about a fact I read a while ago. Someone asked why barns in the US are often red. In fact, they’re not red at all, but simply have a natural velocity moving away from the viewer, and become reddish-tinged due to the Doppler effect.

This high speed also dilates, so even if a barn was built 100 years ago, you might be seeing it as it was 300 years ago, and produces a strong length contraction. This is why barns often also look so old, and why at some angles they can look curved, like this.

The phenomenon was also highlighted in the famous “ladder in a barn” paradox, which has been successfully demonstrated using real barns.

“On the verge” is probably the exact wrong phraseology to prevent the message from getting old and tired. To an Earth scientist the next century is an instant, but most people don’t think that way.

Thanks! That actually helps a lot.

So how does one properly manage a granary?

Well, technically, the cartoonist wrote it, and intended it to be both, to prove a point.

The barbarian says “it’s clearly three”.

IIRC they can’t legally expire in Canada, at least.

If you’re giving a gift, it’s more personal than cash because it displays a knowledge of what they like, but has some of the same flexibility.

Also, the codes are used as a non-physical way to transfer money sometimes. That’s not really an intended use unless it’s a devoted prepaid credit card, though.

Hopefully a bank order, otherwise you’re right back to needing another bank. And then you still have the issue of over-the-counter services coming with a fee.

If that was a real issue, I imagine you’d start seeing a compatibility layer for Android apps offered on whatever other system. iOS might be harder because of deliberate cryptographic or hardware vendor lock-in.

The app requires SMS 2fa, so non-phone or landphone users: don’t even think about trying to use an android emulator.

There’s ways around that, if you’re really desperate. You can get paid VOIP numbers that will accept text, for example. Using an Android emulator is already a hackerway inaccessible to most people, though.

Liquid property like this can get vague in a million different ways, you’ve barely scratched the surface. Like, literally all stocks are is a legal right to the proceeds of some enterprise, nothing more.

Law isn’t just decided based on the literal text, but also on what the implications of interpreting it a certain way would be. In English law this is called the golden rule: if an interpretation would lead to chaos and absurdity, don’t do that. Since we like having a financial system, I doubt the argument that “property rights” means everything must be made convertible to cash in every situation would hold water in any court. IANAL

Also consider that cash itself is a construct. The special legal status it has in many jurisdictions might offer a different route to defending it, though. Notes being “legal tender” means that you should in theory be able to pay cash at every establishment, for example.

I’m having a bit of trouble following that. Are you anti-socialism and complaining that it’s just stealing, or pro-socialism and asking me what details I’m missing?

The third has been really big for me. Timers feel more like they just rob me of all momentum, though.

I either do this (my alarm sits on the opposite side of my bedroom) or schedule it once, if you can’t fit it right now. Procrastination becomes a slippery slope after that.

Man, Lemmy sure is good at not answering (just) “later” like Reddit would repeatedly. It’s a weird level of restraint for the internet.