Serious q. Suppose demonetisation is deemed illegal also (which I highly doubt given some recent cases), whats the use? None of us have the old currency and none of our suffering can be reversed.
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North Calcutta - Basa fry
South Calcutta - artisanal beignets fried from the flesh and blood of the Mekong Delta. Amar naam tomar naam Vietnam
Jason GrigsbyEvery day the New York Times tries to convince me to read an article in their app instead of on the web because it is “better in the app.”
I downloaded the app to see why it is better. It appears to be an embedded web view showing the same article. If anything, it loads slower.
Pushing people to native apps for things that the web is great at is so stupid.
CatbusYou'll know Mastodon has 'made it' when all the Buzzfeed editors migrate over to steal people's content
Nikola Tesla would be completely forgotten if Elon Musk did not invent electric cars and name them after him
I see two possible states of my world soon.
95% subjective probability: Normalcy
5% subjective probability: Second wave-like mayhem
Polychrome 
The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
Lauren WeinsteinOK, here's another L.A. story. Many years ago, I walked into a local laundromat. While my wash was going, a pair of guys walked in with laundry. I was seated some distance away but within clear earshot. One of the guys loaded up a washer, closed it. And just stood there.
After about 10 seconds he turned to the other guy and said, "The device is not functioning."
And the other guy replied, "You have to insert terrestrial currency" and handed him some quarters.
Typical.
Covid may be back soon. China is reeling
Not looking forward to 2023